Apprentice Mechatronics Maintenance Technician (Level 3)
NIVALIS-TECH LIMITED
Bristol (BS11 8AP)
Closes in 22 days (Friday 27 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 30 May 2025
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Summary
We are now offering a unique apprenticeship opportunity for aspiring engineers to join our team and grow with us, specialising in Ice Pigging – an innovative and sustainable technology used for cleaning pipework in a wide range of industries. As a small but fast-growing company, we offer a hands-on environment where your contribution truly matters.
- Wage
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£16,000 a year
- Training course
- Mechatronics maintenance technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm
2 days per week at Avonmouth Facility.
45-minutes for lunch
40 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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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
Understanding Nivalis Equipment:
- Refrigeration systems
- Shear mixers
- HMI navigation
Practical understanding of Ice Pigging:
- What Ice Pigging is and how it works
- Calculating pipe volumes
- Understanding pressure limitations
Nivalis Maintenance Service Support:
- Inspecting customer machines both in-house and on-site
- Communicating with customers (verbally and via email)
to summarise visits and findings
Ice Pigging Service Support:
- Carrying out preparatory work, such as
machine CIP - Understanding the importance of RAMS and adhering
to customer site requirements - Performing Ice Pigging operations
- Safely packing down and returning equipment
General Housekeeping and Unit Support
- Maintaining a clean and organised workspace
- Carrying out compliance and safety checks
Quality Management Involvement:
- Understanding quality requirements for incoming
equipment - Reviewing certification for compliance with order
specifications
Where you'll work
Unit 202C
Burcott Road
Bristol
BS11 8AP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
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
- You will be pursuing a Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard in Mechatronics Maintenance, through Weston College
- As part of this program, you will attend Weston College as instructed, for workshops
- An assessor will conduct on-site observations to evaluate your progress, as well as supporting you in college throughout your apprenticeship
- At the conclusion of your program, your qualification will be assessed through an End Point Assessment
Requirements
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
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Responsibility
Other requirements
Some formal engineering know-how or experience is desirable but we are as much interested in someone with the capacity to learn and develop. The ideal candidate will also be willing to travel to national and international customer sites.
About this company
Nivalis are an innovative small enterprise. We are passionate about what we do and the equipment and support we provide to our customers. We have developed a technology called Ice Pigging from its invention at Bristol University to the commercial entity it is today. We are looking at continued growth and expansion. Our equipment is used in the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Estonia etc. Our team have been together for over 15 years although we only founded “Nivalis” in 2021. We support interesting applications in a wide area of industries, from defence to food, cosmetics etc. This is because our technology is transferrable across most industrial sectors.
After this apprenticeship
The chance to continue your studies post-qualification, and the potential to transition into a permanent management role within Nivalis.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Weston College Apprenticeships Team
apprenticeships@weston.ac.uk
01934411594
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000323075.
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Closes in 22 days (Friday 27 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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