Apprentice Electronics Production Engineer
West Control Solutions
Brighton (BN2 4JU)
Closes in 23 days (Friday 29 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 5 August 2025
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Summary
Exciting opportunity with a world-class company! In this wide-ranging apprenticeship you will learn to design, develop and test new, plus maintain current test fixtures.
- Wage
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£20,280 a year
- Training course
- Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
- Hours
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7.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Thursday (0.5hr for lunch).
7.30am to 12.30pm, Friday.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 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
The Electronics Production Engineer is responsible for initiatives to achieve continuous improvement and maintenance of West’s current test fixtures and jigs. This is a team-based position working within the Production Engineering team.
You will learn to:
- Design, develop, maintain and upgrade test fixtures and jigs.
- Test and troubleshoot of electrical/electronic control systems, producing detailed design.
- Some software development.
- Creation and control of production drawings and work instructions.
- Hardware and software revisions.
- Develop databases.
- Define and implement work Instructions and processes.
This role will develop over the apprenticeship as you learn to maintain current software up to date to upgrade legacy testers using electrical schematics and Control Philosophy/FDS. A Functional Design Specification (FDS) is a document that describes how a process or a control system will operate.
Where you'll work
The Hyde
Brighton
BN2 4JU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SIGTA 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
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Desirable 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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
Other requirements
You will be committed and motivated to complete college work and other assignments. Enthusiastic, ability to see projects through to completion, strong interest in science and technology, interest in how things work or are manufactured. Creative – engineering is a field of innovation.
About this employer
At West Controls Solutions, we focus on providing valued temperature and process control expertise, global presence and support, a wider range of products and the power to innovate. West Control Solutions is part of Gems-Setra, a Ralliant operating company, and is home to West Instruments, PMA and CAL Controls. While West Control Solutions is based out of Brighton, UK, Gems-Setra has locations around the world. At West Control Solutions, we pride ourselves on being a dedicated team of temperature control experts, who can provide in-depth application expertise, and are always there to support our customers. As a result, our products are repeatedly used in temperature control applications such as plastics machinery, ovens, furnaces, laboratory and test equipment, packaging machinery and food processing.
Company benefits
25 days holiday p.a. + bank holidays, health and dental plan in place, long service award after 5 years, cycle to work scheme, life assurance scheme and employees encouraged to expand their professional development with membership of industry bodies.
After this apprenticeship
To become a fully trained and qualified Electronics Production Engineer with West Control Solutions.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SIGTA LIMITED
Jacquie
jalstrom@sigta.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335522.
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Closes in 23 days (Friday 29 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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