Engineering Technician Apprentice
SCORE (EUROPE) LIMITED
Norfolk (NR30 3LL)
Closes in 20 days (Friday 20 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 22 May 2025
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Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join Score Group, GT Yarmouth as an Advanced Maintenance Apprentice. You will be joining a worldwide company with branches across the U.K. and will learn qualify in various engineering programmes.
- Wage
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£15,311.40 a year
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30 days holiday in stage 1 rising by 1 day until stage 5, total 35 days entitlement. Wage is reviewed annually rising each year through 5 stages to Time Served Rates Potential for offshore or site work in later stages of apprenticeship
- Training course
- Mechatronics maintenance technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday, 08:00 - 16:30 and Friday, 08:00 - 15:30
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Assist with planned and day-to-day activities within the maintenance team
- Liaise with the engineering team, supervisors, and key personnel
- Fault-find and solve situations within the organisation’s plant
- Complete work planning activities
- Work on improvement activities
- Assist with the installation, repair and proactive maintenance of valves and associated equipment
- Carry out pressure testing of valve equipment
- Calibration of various valve controllers and positioners
- Attend City College Norwich for training
- Gain core skills in engineering
- Gain knowledge & experience in safety awareness & engagement, quality control and assurance techniques
- Develop a basic understanding of all equipment within the organisation’s environment
Where you'll work
33-36 Southgates Road
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk
NR30 3LL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CITY COLLEGE NORWICH
Your training course
Mechatronics maintenance technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Use information technology, for example to create documentation, communication and information management.
- Obtain, read and interpret task related documentation, such as work instructions, quality control documents, drawings, operation manuals, specifications and service manuals.
- Record information for example 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.
- Conduct initial assessment of equipment that requires maintenance.
- Formulate plans setting out the methodology of the maintenance activity including timescales and resources.
- Select, prepare and use material, consumables, tools and equipment.
- Comply with health and safety regulations and organisational requirements applicable in the workplace. For example, COSHH, PUWER, LOLER, PPE and applying safe systems of work.
- Apply dynamic risk assessment, hazard identification and risk mitigation principles and techniques.
- Apply isolation principles and techniques to equipment undergoing maintenance, including dissipation of stored energies as required.
- Manufacture, repair and refurbish components using hand and machine tools.
- Restore the workplace on completion of the maintenance activity. Handover resources, consumables and equipment to process owner.
- Apply the techniques and processes used in reactive maintenance and repair activities on complex engineered systems such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power and control systems.
- Produce, maintain, update, record and store documentation including electronic items such as PLC and robot programmes.
- Apply techniques and processes used in planned and preventative maintenance activities on engineered systems such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power and control systems.
- Apply functional testing and checking techniques and processes after maintenance interventions, and handover to the operational team.
- Apply techniques and processes used in condition monitoring, non-destructive or sensory testing. Record findings and take necessary actions.
- Apply calculation techniques such as, feeds, speeds, tolerances, electrical calculations using Ohms law, power calculations and cable sizing calculations.
- Select, use and confirm calibration of electrical and mechanical testing and measuring equipment.
- Produce sketches or drawings to support maintenance activities.
- Communicate in writing. Prepare communications, documents and reports on technical matters.
- Segregate, separate and dispose of waste streams and by-products.
- Apply 4S or 5S principles of housekeeping to the work environment.
- Identify opportunities and make recommendations to improve operational performance.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Communicate with others verbally. Negotiate with colleagues or stakeholders. For example, to access equipment or arrange access to equipment.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
- Apply fault finding techniques used in reactive maintenance on complex integrated systems including half split, input output, six point technique, function or performance testing, unit or component substitution and equipment diagnostics.
- Use information technology, for example to create documentation, communication and information management.
- Obtain, read and interpret task related documentation, such as work instructions, quality control documents, drawings, operation manuals, specifications and service manuals.
- Record information for example 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.
- Conduct initial assessment of equipment that requires maintenance.
- Formulate plans setting out the methodology of the maintenance activity including timescales and resources.
- Select, prepare and use material, consumables, tools and equipment.
- Comply with health and safety regulations and organisational requirements applicable in the workplace. For example, COSHH, PUWER, LOLER, PPE and applying safe systems of work.
- Apply dynamic risk assessment, hazard identification and risk mitigation principles and techniques.
- Apply isolation principles and techniques to equipment undergoing maintenance, including dissipation of stored energies as required.
- Manufacture, repair and refurbish components using hand and machine tools.
- Restore the workplace on completion of the maintenance activity. Handover resources, consumables and equipment to process owner.
- Apply the techniques and processes used in reactive maintenance and repair activities on complex engineered systems such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power and control systems.
- Produce, maintain, update, record and store documentation including electronic items such as PLC and robot programmes.
- Apply techniques and processes used in planned and preventative maintenance activities on engineered systems such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power and control systems.
- Apply functional testing and checking techniques and processes after maintenance interventions, and handover to the operational team.
- Apply techniques and processes used in condition monitoring, non-destructive or sensory testing. Record findings and take necessary actions.
- Apply calculation techniques such as, feeds, speeds, tolerances, electrical calculations using Ohms law, power calculations and cable sizing calculations.
- Select, use and confirm calibration of electrical and mechanical testing and measuring equipment.
- Produce sketches or drawings to support maintenance activities.
- Communicate in writing. Prepare communications, documents and reports on technical matters.
- Segregate, separate and dispose of waste streams and by-products.
- Apply 4S or 5S principles of housekeeping to the work environment.
- Identify opportunities and make recommendations to improve operational performance.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Communicate with others verbally. Negotiate with colleagues or stakeholders. For example, to access equipment or arrange access to equipment.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
- Apply fault finding techniques used in reactive maintenance on complex integrated systems including half split, input output, six point technique, function or performance testing, unit or component substitution and equipment diagnostics.
Your training plan
- Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Level 3
- City College Norwich, Ipswich Road Norwich NR2 2LJ
- One day per week
More training information
Content covered in Years 1 and 2 (at college):
- Hand fitting
- Milling and/ or turning
- CAD
- Fluid power
- PLCs and panels
- Mandatory work- based units
- Internal college Gateway process to check an apprentice’s suitability to progress on to Years 3 and 4
Content covered in Years 3 and 4:
- All workplace units
- All mandatory college units
- Choice of 4 optional units with agreement from the employer and apprentice, depending on the role, business needs and any barred combinations from the module list
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
Applicants who are currently undertaking or sitting GCSEs should include their predicted grades on their application. If successful for this position, you will be offered a conditional place on the apprenticeship, subject to you meeting the entry requirements listed above.
About this company
Score (Europe) Limited have a workshop facility in Great Yarmouth. Score Europe are a provider for valve services in the European market with over 30 years of experience in delivering valve solutions in the oil & gas market. Their products and services include valve supply, valve repair, actuators supply, valve actuation, valve testing, enhanced valve testing, field support.
https://score-group.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Health Care Pension Life Insurance
After this apprenticeship
- A position may be available for the right candidate following successful completion of the apprenticeship
- The business is looking for somebody who wants to develop and gain a position following their apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CITY COLLEGE NORWICH
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000322237.
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Closes in 20 days (Friday 20 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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