CNC Machining / Tool Room Apprentice
FREUDENBERG SEALING TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
North Shields (NE27 0QH)
Closes on Wednesday 18 June 2025
Posted on 7 May 2025
Contents
Summary
We have a brilliant opportunity for an apprentice to join this major employer in North Tyneside. This is an excellent opportunity to earn while you learn. Your training will be underpinned with practical experience which will prepare you for a fantastic career. Start date Spring or Summer 2025.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Machining technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 4.30pm
Thursday, 8.00am - 1.00pm.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Saturday 19 July 2025
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
We are offering a 4 year apprenticeship in which you will benefit from working closely with highly skilled engineers to learn and develop cnc machining skills and knowledge.
The Tool Room Apprentice will report to the Tool Room Manager and will be exposed to all areas of the machining tool room with a focus on learning how to use various Grinding machines to produce dies and machine parts to directly support the production areas of the business.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Programming, setting, and operating Cylindrical Grinding machines.
- Programming, setting and operating Surface Grinding machines.
- Tool repair and maintenance.
- Mnufacturing tooling for use in compression and injection moulding to high tolerances.
- Participating in continuous improvement activities in the tool room
- Maintaining and managing supply of consumables
- Working under your own initiative to interpret engineering drawings
- Solving engineering problems to deliver on production timelines
- Flexibly adapting to shifting priorities
Where you'll work
Unit A
Merlin Way
New York Industrial Park Estate
North Shields
NE27 0QH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
TDR TRAINING LIMITED
Your training course
Machining technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and procedures.
- Comply with environmental, ethical and sustainability regulations and procedures: safe disposal of waste, re-cycling or re-use of materials and efficient use of resources.
- Prepare and set up conventional or CNC machines.
- Operate and adjust conventional or CNC machines.
- Apply risk assessment and hazard identification processes and procedures in the work area.
- Monitor, obtain and check stock and supplies, and complete stock returns.
- Record information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
- Read and interpret information. For example, data and documentation used to produce machined components.
- Apply engineering, mathematical and scientific principles.
- Plan and organise own work and resources.
- Follow and apply inspection, quality assurance procedures and processes.
- Select machining process.
- Select and setup tooling and work holding devices.
- Set and adjust machine operating parameters. For example, setting feeds and speeds for roughing and finishing operations, loading, proving and validating programs when using a CNC machine tool.
- Apply machining operations and techniques to produce complex components with features. For example, parallel; stepped; angular diameters and faces; grooves; slots; recesses and undercuts; radii and chamfers; internal and external forms and profiles; reamed; bored; drilled and electro eroded holes; internal and external screw threads.
- Measure and check components.
- Select and check condition of tools and equipment. Identify issues, resolve and take action as needed.
- Identify and action issues in the manufacturing process.
- Apply fault-finding and diagnostic testing procedures to identify faults. Diagnose and resolve issues. Escalate issues.
- Maintain the work area and return any resources and consumables.
- Communicate with others verbally. For example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Follow machine shut down, safe isolation, handover, start up or warm up procedures. Escalate issues.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
- Apply ethical principles.
- Apply team working principles.
- Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and procedures.
- Comply with environmental, ethical and sustainability regulations and procedures: safe disposal of waste, re-cycling or re-use of materials and efficient use of resources.
- Prepare and set up conventional or CNC machines.
- Operate and adjust conventional or CNC machines.
- Apply risk assessment and hazard identification processes and procedures in the work area.
- Monitor, obtain and check stock and supplies, and complete stock returns.
- Record information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
- Read and interpret information. For example, data and documentation used to produce machined components.
- Apply engineering, mathematical and scientific principles.
- Plan and organise own work and resources.
- Follow and apply inspection, quality assurance procedures and processes.
- Select machining process.
- Select and setup tooling and work holding devices.
- Set and adjust machine operating parameters. For example, setting feeds and speeds for roughing and finishing operations, loading, proving and validating programs when using a CNC machine tool.
- Apply machining operations and techniques to produce complex components with features. For example, parallel; stepped; angular diameters and faces; grooves; slots; recesses and undercuts; radii and chamfers; internal and external forms and profiles; reamed; bored; drilled and electro eroded holes; internal and external screw threads.
- Measure and check components.
- Select and check condition of tools and equipment. Identify issues, resolve and take action as needed.
- Identify and action issues in the manufacturing process.
- Apply fault-finding and diagnostic testing procedures to identify faults. Diagnose and resolve issues. Escalate issues.
- Maintain the work area and return any resources and consumables.
- Communicate with others verbally. For example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Follow machine shut down, safe isolation, handover, start up or warm up procedures. Escalate issues.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
- Apply ethical principles.
- Apply team working principles.
Your training plan
Machining Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard:
- 3 x 5-week practical training modules in hand fitting, turning and milling
- Level 3 Extended Diploma in Machining
- End-point assessment
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English Language or English Literature (grade 5/C or above)
- Maths (grade 5/C or above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
About this company
FST are a leading manufacturer of sealing systems for the automobile manufacturing industry; supporting global OEMS worldwide. It is a long-standing technology expert and a world leader in demanding and innovative sealing technologies for applications in many industries, including e-mobility and renewable energies. With its long-established materials and technology expertise, the company is a proven supplier of high-quality and complex products, as well as a development and service partner for customers in the automotive industry and in general industry. The Corteco brand is a specialist for the independent automotive aftermarket. Freudenberg Sealing Technologies invests heavily in research and development in order to continuously deliver new solutions in response to industry’s increasing requirements. The company turns to sustainability and innovation to develop environmentally- friendly products designed to help reduce the CO2 footprint.
After this apprenticeship
- Full time position upon completion of apprenticeship
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TDR TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318920.
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Closes on Wednesday 18 June 2025
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Company’s application instructions
Applications will be directed to the TDR website where you shall complete a short sign-up form. It is very important that you indicate Freudenberg in the form. Failure to do this may delay your application.