Electrical Engineering Lab Degree Apprentice
ORLIGHT LTD
ST ALBANS (AL2 2FL)
Closes in 13 days (Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 July 2025
Contents
Summary
Looking to become a qualified engineer without the student debt? Our Electrical Engineering Degree Apprenticeship offers paid work, professional development, and a fully funded degree – setting you up for long-term success at Orlight.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Embedded electronic systems design and development engineer (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 8.30 am to 5.30 pm, shifts may work evenings and weekends.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 22 September 2025
- Duration
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4 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
Key Responsibilities
Assist in the planning, execution, and documentation of product testing and lab experiments
Monitor and accurately log test data, ensuring results are recorded to internal standards
Support updates to technical documentation and compliance records
Participate in department rotations to gain insight into the full product development and manufacturing process
Collaborate with engineering, quality assurance, and production teams to troubleshoot and improve designs
Follow health, safety, and environmental regulations within the lab environment
Engage with university learning, completing assignments and assessments in line with the apprenticeship programme requirements
Where you'll work
3-4 VICTOR WAY
RADLETT ROAD
COLNEY STREET
ST ALBANS
AL2 2FL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Training course
Embedded electronic systems design and development engineer (degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Design functional electronic systems and circuits from component level
- Utilise modern CAD technology to implement circuit design with understanding of considerations for heat dissipation, electrical interference and other industry specific considerations affecting layout
- Write and document structured code to comply with industry norms and to allow others to understand and subsequently maintain/modify the code
- Utilise modelling techniques for circuit design, embedded software development and thermal management
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the principles and practice of design for market, design for manufacturability, design for testability and design for maintainability
- Ability to develop a test plan for a product that they have developed
- Ability to explain the process by which a product is introduced into production, including what aspects are discussed at what stage and with whom and how development gateways work
- Ability to develop a basic project plan including resource planning, time planning, use of contingencies etc. Also techniques for predicting pinch points and strategies for timescale recovery
- Awareness of international standards and compliance requirements for the products designed by the employer. Ability to discuss the differences between legislative and non-legislative requirements
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of basic business fundamentals including costs, overheads, gross margin, net margin, profit, and cash
- Ability to demonstrate awareness and understanding of basic health and safety principles both in the general workplace and specific to electronic circuit design
Training schedule
University Of Hertfordshire - College Lane Campus, SPECTRA, Hatfield AL10 9UW
Level 6 Embedded electronic systems design and development engineer (degree) apprenticeship
More training information
Day release delivery with two block release weeks every semester.
Teaching over Semesters A and B, with online touchpoints in C.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Maths or Equivalent (grade 4/C)
- Maths or Equivalent - Must be evidenced (grade 4/C)
A Level in:
- Maths (grade B)
- Non Specific (grade B)
- Physics or technology or engineering based subject (grade B)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
Our objective is to provide the highest possible specification lighting products anywhere in the world at dramatically reduced costs whilst negating product lead time through our unique From Source to Site strategy. Source to Site Explained Our unique manufacturing and procurement strategy allows us to provide enhanced product quality whilst reducing costs. Our direct route to market provides our clients with further savings, whilst our UK stock holding ensures product lead-in time is negated! We call this competitive edge From Source to Site. In-House product design Complementary lighting design service Bulk manufacturing to save costs whilst enhancing quality Bulk store to ensure fast delivery In-House test facilities In-House FORs Gold accredited fleet direct to your contractors 60-day end of month credit to facilitate supply NICEIC accredited aftercare to negate risk No third parties in our supply chain or route to market
After this apprenticeship
Careers
The broad-based skills acquired during this course will equip you to enter a wide range of electrical and electronics sectors. Electronics Engineering Degree Apprenticeship graduates typically find employment in medical electronics, power generation and distribution industries, communications, avionics and automotive electronics, with many successfully moving into management positions within a few years. Many others decide to stay at the University and extend their engineering education to a postgraduate level.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Dom Whyte-Ifill
D.Whyte-Ifill@Herts.ac.uk
07543301817
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334367.
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Closes in 13 days (Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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