Apprentice Engineer

Summary

Start your Engineering career at apetito. Commencing 17th September 2025. Full time, 5 days per week in Trowbridge. On your development journey, you will work towards a Level 3 Mechatronics Maintenance Technician qualification, with a combination of on-the-job learning, at apetito's food manufacturing facility, and residential training.

Wage

£19,500 a year

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As well as investment in residential training to develop you skills, you will receive generous pay and company benefits: Year 1: £19,500 per annum Year 2: £25,397 per annum Year 3: £29,000 per annum Years 4: £35,400 per annum

Training course

Mechatronics maintenance technician (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Friday, variable hours.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 17 September 2025

Duration

4 years

Positions available

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

Support the planned preventative maintenance activities in the facility
Support the breakdown recovery activities in the facility
Complete and effectively record on the job learning tasks to support the completion of the training program
Work under supervision to learn maintenance skills for preventative and reactive maintenance
Work under supervision to carry out root cause analysis, including writing up reports on findings and setting countermeasure ideas and actions
Carry out your duties and responsibilities in line with apetito's Health & Safety policy as well as relevant Health & Safety legislation
Carry out duties in line with apetito's food safety policies and standards

Where you'll work

Canal Road
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 8RJ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

EEF LIMITED

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

On your development journey, you will work towards a Level 3 Mechatronics Maintenance Technician qualification, with a combination of on-the-job learning, at apetito's food manufacturing facility, and residential training at one of the most advanced technical training facilities in the UK.

Your residential training will be in Witton, North Birmingham, alongside apprentices from across various industries in Make UK's fully equipped training centre with experienced qualified Engineers.

The residential element is sponsored by apetito and includes hotel accommodation, meals and transport to the training facility:

Year 1: 6 x 4 week residentials (4 nights Mon-Thurs)
Year 2: 16 weeks
Year 3: 4 weeks
Year 4: On-the-job with apetito

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

4th GCSE in any subject (grade 4 or C (or above))
English (grade 4 or C (or above))
Maths (grade 4 or C (or above))
Science (grade 4 or 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
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative

Other requirements

You must be willing to complete residential training at Make UK in Birmingham. Due to the nature of this apprenticeship, in our food manufacturing facility, you must be at least 18 years old before 1st September 2025.

About this company

apetito is a welcoming and rewarding company to work for. It has lots of different types of customers and the factory is right here in Trowbridge so we can see, smell and at lunchtime taste what we make. We also make food for some of the most vulnerable parts of society, so staff feel they are making a real difference.   All our employees, as part of learning about the company in their first few weeks, spend time learning about the business such as helping in the factory, visiting customers with a delivery driver, and visiting our giant freezer – our warehouse near Bristol where the temperature is minus 16 degrees! This really helps the people that join understand the many business units and their challenges.

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Company benefits

Sponsored residential training 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays Discretionary annual bonus scheme Employer matched pension contributions up to 4% Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary Subsidised canteen Free parking

After this apprenticeship

We hope that this will be the start of a long career with apetito.
Further training can be discussed

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