Advanced Engineering apprentice - Asymchem Ltd
Cogent Ssc Limited
Kent (CT13 9ND)
Closes in 13 days (Friday 27 June 2025)
Posted on 13 June 2025
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Summary
A springboard for your career, our engineering apprenticeships enable you to study for nationally recognised qualifications, while gaining invaluable on-the-job experience and skills. This four-year multi-skilled course will expose you to the engineering disciplines of Mechanical, Electrical and Control & Instrumentation.
- Wage
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£18,000 a year
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Annual salary increments
- Training course
- Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, between 8am – 4.10pm. Lunch break 12pm - 12.45pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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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
Considered doing something out of the ordinary? Take the plunge into an exhilarating world that really makes a difference to people's lives with an engineering apprenticeship at Asymchem.
A springboard for your career, our engineering apprenticeships enable you to study for nationally recognised qualifications, while gaining invaluable on-the-job experience and skills.
What's more, you'll immediately start earning a salary and many of the benefits enjoyed by all our employees.
This four-year multi-skilled course will expose you to the engineering disciplines of Mechanical, Electrical and Control & Instrumentation.
You'll learn core skills in your preliminary year, after which you'll experience first-hand what it's like to work directly with the engineering teams who support our cutting-edge pharmaceutical environment.
Types of mechanical, electrical, electronic and instrumentation engineering work carried out on our production equipment and building services include:
Planned Maintenance:
- Inspection
- Predictive e.g. vibration analysis, thermography and ultrasonic techniques
- Preventative
- Calibration
Corrective Maintenance:
- Breakdowns
- Repairs
- Fault diagnosis
Projects:
- Planning
- Continuous improvements
- BTEC & HNC training project
- Commissioning
You will also have specific training both onsite and at relevant centres to allow you to do your job. These may include:
- Safety (SSoW)
- Working at heights (ladders. towers and MEWP's)
- Isolation (LOTO)
- Electrical Regulations (IEE)
- Manual Handling
- Risk Assessment
- DSEAR (Hazardous areas)
- Welding
- Machining
- PLC's
- Instrumentation
The position of Maintenance Engineer involves providing essential support to ensure consistent operation and regulatory compliance of pharmaceutical equipment and utility supply services.
Responsibilities include installing, managing and maintaining hazardous and non-hazardous area equipment used to power and control engineering systems, machinery and processes, documenting task completion, diagnosing & repairing equipment breakdowns, coordinating vendor repair efforts, and supporting Building Energy Management Systems to ensure efficient control and operation of facility equipment.
The Engineering team at Sandwich play a vital role in drug R&D and manufacturing operations by ensuring workplaces, manufacturing equipment and building services are available and continually improved; this supports our mission to drive smarter, greener, and more cost-effective manufacturing to support clinical research and commercialisation.
Our apprentices contribute fully to this aspiration through the work they conduct in the Asymchem workplace. We believe our most precious resource is our people. We want to unleash the power of our people. This drives our desire to invest in, develop and stretch all our apprentices. You will be encouraged and supported to seek opportunities beyond the apprenticeship qualification. In the later years of the apprenticeship, you will take ownership of improvement projects, contributing in the same way as all of our team members.
We recognise the passion, knowledge and diversity that talented people bring to Asymchem, so we are dedicated to ensuring that we provide equal opportunities to our apprentices.
We will help you grow and thrive during your apprenticeship, ensuring you emerge as a confident and talented Engineer at the end of your four years with us.
Where you'll work
Discovery Park
Ramsgate Road
Sandwich
Kent
CT13 9ND
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
IPS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Your training course
Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
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Your training plan
This Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard in Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician can be flexible depending on the training plan designed by the employer and provider; however, it will need to meet the requirements of the End Point Assessment.
- Typically, in the first year, the apprentice will attend four days in a week completing practical skills within the IPS Rochester workshop (Performing Engineering Operations). They will also attend one day a week studying the Technical Certificate
- In year two the apprentice moves to day-release and will attend the Training Centre one day a week to continue the Technical Certificate, whilst working at the employer's site in the remaining 4 days.
- Starting in year 2, and continuing until they are ready for the End Point Assessment in year 4, the apprentice will receive regular training contact with IPS and their assigned Trainer
More training information
Please be aware the Training Provider is in Rochester Kent (1 hour drive from the Asymchem site).
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Maths (grade B/6 or above)
- minimum 5 including maths, English and science (grade Grade C / 4 or above)
- Physics/Science (grade B/6 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
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
Other requirements
Buses come to the site, but the train station is a 30-minute walk. The training provider delivering the apprenticeship is a 1-hour drive from the site in Rochester.
About this company
As the specialists in skills for science and technology, our purpose is to make sure your business; your people and our industry are future ready. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a family of commercially focused companies committed to supporting the skills, needs and ambitions across the UK science and technology sector.
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Company benefits
Holiday Allowance - 25 Days. Holiday Allowance, plus Bank Holidays. Pension - Employee 5%, Employer 3%. Discount schemes. Eyecare. Employee Assistance. Programme. Onsite Parking. Onsite Canteen. Days off for volunteering. Employee recognition awards.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Asymchem Ltd are keen to progress their Apprentices to HNC Level in years 3 & 4 depending on results from the BTEC National Diploma, also and if available, to further positions within the organisation.
Should there be relevant positions available at the completion of the Apprenticeship, then the successful applicants will be invited to apply for the vacancies.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Cogent Ssc Limited
Caroline Lees
caroline.lees@cogentskills.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000326044.
Apply now
Closes in 13 days (Friday 27 June 2025)
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