Engineering Apprentice
AZENTA UK LTD
Manchester (M44 5AY)
Closes in 24 days (Sunday 31 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 7 August 2025
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Summary
As an Electrical Engineer Apprentice, you will be a part of our engineering design team. This apprenticeship will offer you hands-on experience and professional development opportunities in a supportive environment.
- Wage
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£15,311.40 to £24,761.88, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5.00pm, with a 30 minute unpaid lunch.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- 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
- Operates as team member on a variety of customer and internal development projects
- Works with other members of the hardware and software teams to develop and validate new automation equipment and labware
- Operates CAD system, company data-management system (Agile PLM) and other business IT tools
- Conducts tests on equipment and / or labware and evaluates results
- Produces documentation, (eg test results reports, design calculations) and records in company’s document management system
- Introduces design or process improvements where applicable, eg. assists with the generation of standard templates for calculations and / or reports
Where you'll work
Gilchrist Road
Northbank Industrial Park
Irlam
Manchester
M44 5AY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WARRINGTON & VALE ROYAL COLLEGE
Training course
Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
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Training schedule
Four days in the workplace and one day a week at Warrington & Vale Royal College.
Where applicable, you may also experience business functions outside of Engineering, such as Finance, Customer Service and Sales in order to gain a full understanding of our business.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
- Physical fitness
- Excellent time management
About this employer
Azenta Life Sciences offers a wide range of consumables and instruments for various life science industries, including biobanking, compound management, consumer genomics, synthetic biology, and basic research. Our products, such as 2D-coded sample storage tubes, readers, and sample management systems, support diverse customer applications, from basic research to molecular diagnostics. We prioritize sample integrity throughout the entire lifecycle, from sample collection and preparation, through PCR analysis to cryopreservation and storage. Our temperature management systems, including workstations, modules, dishes, cryo boxes, and other essential consumables, meet the diverse needs of the life sciences sector. As an Electrical Engineer Apprentice, you will be a part of our engineering design team. This apprenticeship will offer you hands-on experience and professional development opportunities in a supportive environment. Throughout the duration of the apprenticeship, you will be taught, and put into practice, engineering skills which will be key for an engineering role at Azenta. During which time you will rotate around the engineering teams across our business. You will undertake a series of objective training placements in different departments working on initial design all the way through to manufacture and installation.
http://www.Azenta.com (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Bupa healthcare - Bonus - Medicash
After this apprenticeship
You will have gained an engineering qualification.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WARRINGTON & VALE ROYAL COLLEGE
Georgia Bramhall
gbramhall@wvr.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336087.
Apply now
Closes in 24 days (Sunday 31 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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