Mechanical Engineering Apprentice
NAMMO (U.K) LIMITED
Bucks (HP18 0XB)
Closes in 23 days (Monday 25 August 2025)
Posted on 1 August 2025
Contents
Summary
The successful candidate will be taken on as a full-time employee of Nammo UK starting September 2025 and will be taken through a complete structured apprenticeship with formal instruction based.
- Wage
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£20,700 a year
- Training course
- Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Mon-Thur 08:00 am 16:45 pm, Fri 08:00 am - 12:00pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 4 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
• Our aim is to produce a very highly skilled Mechanical Engineer with expertise in precision turning, milling and micro drilling using both manual and CNC machinery.
• The components you will create, will primarily be manufactured in titanium, stainless steel or super alloys, they must be manufactured to an extremely high standard.
• You will learn how to carefully produce work to the tightest possible tolerances. We will teach you how to overcome extremely demanding engineering challenges and produce the necessary tooling to help you do so.
Where you'll work
Building 47
Westcott Venture Park
Westcott
Bucks
HP18 0XB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ENGINEERING TRUST TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Follow health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, segregation of resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, British Standards (BS), International Organisation for Standardisation standards (ISO). European Norm (EN).
- Analyse engineering and manufacturing data and information to support technical outputs. For example, read and interpret text, data, engineering drawings, work instructions, method statements, operation manuals.
- Apply scientific, technical or engineering principles.
- Apply problem solving techniques to solutions for identified technical problems.
- Organise, plan and prioritise workflow and scheduling of work with stakeholders.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks, considering cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Produce job specific technical outputs. For example, engineering drawings, quality control management, computer control programming, business improvement, adverse incident reports, technical investigations, equipment appraisals and specifications.
- Provide support and guidance for handover of work to stakeholders. For example, checklists, product or process status, access to supporting documents.
- Record information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, equipment service records, test results, handover documents, checklists.
- Follow standard operating procedures.
- Follow manufacturer's instructions. For example, safe instructions for use of products, processes and machinery.
- Apply quality assurance and control principles and practices. For example, conduct physical checks, take samples, inspections or tests.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, stakeholders, colleagues, and managers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
- Apply equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Follow health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, segregation of resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, British Standards (BS), International Organisation for Standardisation standards (ISO). European Norm (EN).
- Analyse engineering and manufacturing data and information to support technical outputs. For example, read and interpret text, data, engineering drawings, work instructions, method statements, operation manuals.
- Apply scientific, technical or engineering principles.
- Apply problem solving techniques to solutions for identified technical problems.
- Organise, plan and prioritise workflow and scheduling of work with stakeholders.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks, considering cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Produce job specific technical outputs. For example, engineering drawings, quality control management, computer control programming, business improvement, adverse incident reports, technical investigations, equipment appraisals and specifications.
- Provide support and guidance for handover of work to stakeholders. For example, checklists, product or process status, access to supporting documents.
- Record information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, equipment service records, test results, handover documents, checklists.
- Follow standard operating procedures.
- Follow manufacturer's instructions. For example, safe instructions for use of products, processes and machinery.
- Apply quality assurance and control principles and practices. For example, conduct physical checks, take samples, inspections or tests.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, stakeholders, colleagues, and managers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
- Apply equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
Training schedule
Qualifications included:
- Engineering and Manufacturing Support Technician - Apprenticeship Standard.
- Company Training Plan
- Level 2 Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering Foundation Competencies (full time at college for Year 1)
- Level 3 Diploma in Engineering and manufacturing Support technologies (1 day per week for 2 years at college)
- Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Technical Support
- Level 2 Functional Skills- Maths (if required)
- Level 2 Functional Skills - English (if required)
- End Point Assessment
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Motivated
- Interest in Engineering
- Time Management
Other requirements
Duties will be performed in a facility requiring the frequent use of Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE) and chemically resistant clothing to handle potentially hazardous substances, and working with high pressure gas systems. You will be required to pass a periodic basic medical examination. You must be able to work in a safe and conscientious manner in areas with known hazards. While performing the duties of this job, you will occasionally be required to work late/nightshifts, weekends and holidays. Use of PC equipment is required. Other requirements include: Manual handling, ability to climb ladders, bending at waist, sitting, kneeling, climbing, walking, crouching as job may require, ability to work outdoors in hot and cold temperatures during all weathers, working in high noise level environments requiring hearing protection, working around lubricants, solvents, batteries, cleaning fluids, paints, and other chemicals.
About this employer
Nammo Westcott designs, manufactures and tests a range of chemical thrusters (small rockets) which are used to propel satellites into position either in the Earth’s orbit or for deep-space missions to other planets. The company also makes less powerful thrusters that control the satellite’s attitude/position during its 15 year orbit life. The company is the UK’s only space rocket thruster manufacturer and has a long history of success with many hundreds of units in use, the team has approx 80 experienced people based at Westcott which covers every aspect of space thruster engineering and production. We now seek to build the team by adding a mechanical engineering apprentice to the production team.
After this apprenticeship
- We would hope that your career develops with our company and that you will find the work constantly interesting and challenging.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ENGINEERING TRUST TRAINING LIMITED
Sally Parr
s.parr@theengineeringtrust.org
07879 128768
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335025.
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Closes in 23 days (Monday 25 August 2025)
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