Apprentice Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical Bias)
FORGED SOLUTIONS GROUP LIMITED
Matlock (DE4 2JB)
Closes on Thursday 31 July 2025
Posted on 18 June 2025
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Summary
This is a fantastic apprenticeship opportunity to join a Darley Dale based manufacturer. The role will involve working as part of a dedicated maintenance team where you carry out fault diagnosis, emergency repairs and planned maintenance repairs.
- Wage
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£20,800 a year
- Training course
- Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8.00am to 4.00pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 1 August 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
- Work in a safe and responsible manner. (For own and other people’s safety).
- Comply with statutory, Quality and Organisational and Health and Safety regulations whilst carrying out manufacturing techniques.
- Ensure that plan and equipment perform to the required standard to facilitate production targets regarding Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost within a high value manufacturing environment.
- Work on a broad range of activities including installation, testing, fault finding and the on-going planned maintenance of complex equipment.
- Use and interpret a range of engineering data sources and supporting documentation.
- Utilise lean techniques to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Where appropriate, support installation, testing and commissioning of a wide range of equipment.
- Carry out complex fault diagnosis and repair on high technology engineered systems.
- Maintain mechanical equipment.
- Maintain fluid and pneumatic power equipment.
- Minimise machinery downtime by carrying out preventative planned maintenance.
- Confirm testing and subsequent smooth hand over of equipment and plant.
- Read mechanical schematics.
- Use of basic hand tools.
- Gain an understanding of mechanical systems including gears, bearings, pneumatics and hydraulics.
Where you'll work
Forged Solutions Group Dale Road North
Darley Dale
Matlock
DE4 2JB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CHESTERFIELD COLLEGE
Your training course
Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
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Your training plan
An apprenticeship allows you to earn a wage, gain valuable work experience and industry specific competence. You will be expected to work towards the MOET L3, with support from your employer and the Chesterfield College Group.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
Forged Solutions Group provides high integrity forgings for the world's most demanding applications. From aerospace and energy production, to underground mining, off-highway vehicles and space launch programs we have forged solutions for advanced manufacturing industries for more than 100 years.
After this apprenticeship
Full time position with the company.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CHESTERFIELD COLLEGE
John Sheldon
sheldonj@chesterfield.ac.uk
01246500500
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000326800.
Apply now
Closes on Thursday 31 July 2025
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