Engineer Apprentice
1ST CHOICE STAIRLIFTS LTD.
CALNE (SN11 9PT)
Closes in 14 days (Friday 20 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 3 June 2025
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Summary
Working in our workshop and off-site in customer homes with our engineers, you will be responsible for assisting to prepare, install, repair and service a range of stairlifts and home lifts making a difference to our customers lives every day.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.00pm.
Excluding bank holidays.
30 minute lunch unpaid break.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 2 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- 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
- Preparing products ready for installation
- Installation and removal of our products
- Maintenance of our products, servicing, repairs, reconditioning
Where you'll work
25 HARRIS ROAD
CALNE
SN11 9PT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
WILTSHIRE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CENTRE
Your training course
Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
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Your training plan
- Day release to attend Wiltshire College & University Centre Chippenham campus during term time
- In our workshop with our trained engineers
- On the job training with DBS checked engineers visiting customer homes
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C - 9/A*)
- Maths (grade 4/C - 9/A*)
- Scienc (grade 4/C - 9/A*)
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Engineering basics
Other requirements
Will require lifting heavy objects and very occasional outdoor installations.
About this company
We are a small team of 20 staff and have been in business for 21 years. We pride ourselves on our customer service and are Which Trusted Traders with 5* customer ratings, awarded the Which Certificate of Excellence in 2020.
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship programme, there maybe an option to progress on to a workshop engineer or field engineer role.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WILTSHIRE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CENTRE
The apprenticeship team
apprenticeships@wiltshire.ac.uk
08453452235
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000323132.
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Closes in 14 days (Friday 20 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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