Manufacturing Operator Apprenticeship
POLYCORR LTD
SHEFFIELD (S9 1XS)
Closes in 28 days (Friday 6 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 7 May 2025
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Summary
This role will teach you how to set and operate machinery and follow instructions. You will be given training to become an expect in Health & Safety & Standard Safe Systems at Work Procedures. As a growing business, this role will give you the chance to join a green, eco-friendly business, helping the environment while enjoying a rewarding career.
- 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
- Lean manufacturing operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, working hours to be confirmed.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 10 June 2025
- Duration
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1 year 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
Polycorr LTD have a lifelong career on offer in their manufacturing operations team.
Protec International Ltd are Europe’s leading manufacturer, supplier and recycler of Temporary Protection Materials used to protect expensive fixtures and fittings in the construction industry. Polycorr is part of the Protec International group and has been trading 10 years.
Working for Polycorr will provide excellent learning and development opportunities as well as the necessary support to achieve a career within the manufacturing profession and beyond.
Duties will include:
- Assisting, maintaining and running an extrusion line
- Ensuring the line is efficiently changed including material blends, process condition setting and print changes
- Performing quality inspection test to ensure the suitability of the finished product to defined and certified quality standards
- Finished goods labelling, packing and preparation
- Warehousing duties including storage of finished goods and supply of raw materials
- Work within the organisation’s health and safety guidelines to keep work area and equipment safe and clean
- Learning the importance of following the specified assembly sequence and procedure at all times
- Knowing how to check the quality of the assembly against the required quality standards and what tools and equipment are used
- The procedure for positioning, aligning and securing component parts during the assembly operations
- Where to obtain the necessary job instructions, operating procedures and assembly specifications that are used and how to interpret them
- How to identify and resolve current and potential production/assembly problems within the limits of their responsibility
If you are hard-working, conscientious and aspire to achieve a career within a high-tech manufacturing environment, this is the role for you.
Where you'll work
3 EUROPA CLOSE
SHEFFIELD
S9 1XS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
RNN GROUP
Your training course
Lean manufacturing operative (level 2)
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Your training plan
- Level 2 Lean Manufacturing Operative Apprenticeship Standard qualification
- Functional Skills Level 1 in maths and English (if required)
- Day release at Rotherham College once per week
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
Maths & English (grade 3 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Highly enthusiastic
Other requirements
This is a successful business that has a very busy workload. They are looking for someone who can listen/learn and use their own initiative to quickly become a valued member of the team.
About this company
With over 30 years’ experience, Protec International Ltd are Europe’s leading manufacturer, supplier and recycler of Temporary Protection Materials used to protect expensive fixtures and fittings in the construction industry. Polycorr is part of the Protec International group and has been trading 10 years. Our customers are some of the leading construction and shipbuilding companies in the world and are at the very heart of what we do and how we continuously work. Our partnership with our customers ensures we lead the industry in new product innovation and sustainability initiatives. We offer a comprehensive range of flame retardant and standard protection solutions that cover every stage of a construction project, from site set-up to handover and completion. Our Temporary Protection products enable our customers to: • Reduce accidental damage on site • Save time and money • Deliver defect-free projects • Avoid disruption to build schedules • Prevent numerous site visits for remedial repairs We’re proud to be the only direct supplier of Temporary Protection materials with a UK-based manufacturing and recycling plant. As a manufacturer, we recognise our corporate responsibility to reduce plastic waste. We have invested significantly in our state-of-the-art manufacturing and recycling lines enabling us to launch our award winning Proplex ClosedLoop Remanufacturing Scheme.
After this apprenticeship
- Progression to industry specialist qualifications – further and higher skill development
- A lifelong career in the industry
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RNN GROUP
Lorraine
lorraine.savage@rnngroup.ac.uk
07713319356
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000319037.
Apply now
Closes in 28 days (Friday 6 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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