Agricultural Service Engineer Apprentice
MASTER FARM SERVICES GB LTD
BURES (CO8 5DJ)
Closes in 16 days (Friday 22 August 2025)
Posted on 5 August 2025
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Summary
Join our small family run business based on the outskirts of Sudbury. Initially based in the workshop, building, refurbishing, servicing and maintaining mobile grain driers. Following training, the successful candidate will progress to customer based site visits around the country, carrying out service, breakdown and installation activities.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Engineering operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5pm. Tea breaks 10 - 10.15am and 3 - 3.15pm. Lunch break 1 - 1:30pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year
- Positions available
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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
- Building Grain Driers
- Refurbishing Grain Driers and/or other agricultural and ground care equipment
- Servicing of agricultural machinery
- Maintaining a clean and tidy workshop
- Washing down of second hand equipment
- Fault diagnosis
- PDI inspections
- Customer site visits for breakdown, service and commissioning of agricultural equipment
All aspects of training given, including obtaining fork lift licence, electrics including 3 phase, welding, service and maintenance of agricultural equipment.
Where you'll work
BURES PARK
COLNE ROAD
BURES
CO8 5DJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
COLCHESTER INSTITUTE
Training course
Engineering operative (level 2)
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Training schedule
- The apprentice will be working towards the Level 2 Engineering Operative Apprenticeship Standard
- College attendance required once per week at Colchester Institute's Braintree Campus (transport from Colchester campus provided if needed)
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE 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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
Overtime may be required, busy season is May – September. Some hours/days working away on site, and some nights away (expenses and company vehicle supplied).
About this employer
We are a long standing stable small family run company based in Bures, Suffolk. We are the number one supplier of the Master Pedrotti Mobile Grain Drier, supplying to the farming community around the country. We thrive on having a great workforce which allows us to provide an exceptional back up service, to be on farm whenever is needed for whatever is needed, building, maintaining, servicing or problem solving. We are very proud to have an ever growing loyal customer base.
http://www.masterfarm.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Company pension scheme, service vehicle available for site visits
After this apprenticeship
Good long term prospects with an excellent opportunity to progress to higher responsibilities within the business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MASTER FARM SERVICES GB LTD
Garry Ingram
garry@masterfarm.co.uk
01787 228450
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335454.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 22 August 2025)
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