Engineering Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship (EMT)
WM. NELSTROP & CO. LTD
Albion Flour Mills Stockport (SK4 1TZ)
Closes in 14 days (Friday 31 July 2026)
Posted on 16 July 2026
Contents
Summary
WM. NELSTROP & CO. LTD is one of the oldest flour millers in Great Britain and is proudly run today by the sixth generation of the Nelstrop family.
Nelstrop have a vacancy for an Engineering Maintenance Technician Apprentice to join their maintenance team in Stockport.
Nelstrop now require Multiskilled Engineering.
- Wage
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£16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Engineering maintenance technician - dual discipline (level 3)
- Hours
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40 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, 8.00am - 4:30pm. Friday, 8.00am - 1.00pm, whilst at college. Work pattern to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 14 September 2026
- 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
A Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer ensures all site equipment runs safely, reliably, and efficiently.
They carry out planned and reactive maintenance, diagnose faults, and support continuous operations across both mechanical and electrical systems.
The role is hands on, fast paced, and essential for minimising downtime, maintaining compliance, and keeping the site running smoothly.
Where you'll work
Albion Flour Mills Stockport
SK4 1TZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ELEVATED KNOWLEDGE LTD
Training course
Engineering maintenance technician - dual discipline (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Review and use information. For example, work instructions, drawings, design specifications, and plant configurations.
- Use planning, prioritising, organising, and time management techniques to plan tasks.
- Identify and organise resources to complete tasks. For example, consumables.
- Respond and adapt to work demands. For example, adapt working methods to reflect changes in working environment, re-prioritise workloads to react to breakdowns and fault scenarios.
- Identify equipment to work on. Check plant configuration is as defined.
- Prepare the work area for maintenance tasks.
- Identify environmental and health and safety hazards and risks and apply control measures.
- Apply health, safety, and environmental procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, signage and barriers, working at height, confined spaces, and COSHH.
- Follow security procedures. For example, site access, document classification, and securing assets.
- Follow emergency incident and response procedures.
- Apply sustainability principles. For example, minimising waste.
- Segregate items for reuse, recycling, and waste.
- Use mathematical principles and formulae to support engineering maintenance.
- Apply engineering maintenance standards and procedures.
- Apply foreign material exclusion procedures.
- Follow maintenance tools and equipment control procedures. For example, handling and storage.
- Reinstate the work area.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate with others to give and receive information. For example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
- Escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
- Record information.
- Produce or amend documents. For example, handover notes and reports.
- Identify and highlight issues (red pen), with technical drawings.
- Use digital and information technology. For example, databases, data sharing platforms, email, management information systems, and word processing. Follow cyber security and GDPR requirements.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques to identify improvement suggestions.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Confirm safe electrical isolation lockout tagout method has been applied and test for dead.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Select, check, and use electrical maintenance tools, measurement, and test equipment. Select, check, and use control and instrumentation maintenance tools, measurement, and test equipment.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Use electrical diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques. Use control and instrumentation diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Apply problem solving and critical reasoning techniques.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Inspect and test electrical aspects of plant. For example, visual checks, insulation and continuity checks, thermographic surveys, and voltage levels.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Remove and replace electrical parts.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Prepare and terminate electrical cables.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Set up and adjust electrical aspects of plant.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Clean parts. For example, removal of dust and debris.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Conduct and confirm electrical and connected services isolation and deisolation.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Conduct functional testing.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Inspect and test control and instrumentation systems.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Check calibration and make adjustments.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Check loop function.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Set up and adjust control and instrumentation systems.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Remove and replace instruments and sensors.
- Electrical and control and instrumentation. Re-connect instrumentation power supply, cables, pipework, and services.
- Electrical and mechanical. Confirm safe electrical isolation lockout tagout method has been applied and test for dead.
- Electrical and mechanical. Conduct and confirm electrical and connected services isolation and deisolation.
- Electrical and mechanical. Select, check, and use electrical and mechanical maintenance tools, measurement, and test equipment.
- Electrical and mechanical. Use electrical and mechanical diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques.
- Electrical and mechanical. Apply problem solving and critical reasoning techniques.
- Electrical and mechanical. Inspect and test electrical aspects of plant. For example, visual checks, insulation and continuity checks, thermographic surveys, and voltage levels.
- Electrical and mechanical. Remove and replace electrical parts.
- Electrical and mechanical. Prepare and terminate electrical cables.
- Electrical and mechanical. Set up, align, and adjust electrical aspects of plant.
- Electrical and mechanical. Clean parts. For example, removal of dust and debris.
- Electrical and mechanical. Conduct functional testing.
- Electrical and mechanical. Check condition and operation of mechanical aspects of plant and equipment. For example, pumps.
- Electrical and mechanical. Remove and replace mechanical parts.
- Electrical and mechanical. Examine mechanical parts for defects. For example, pump seals.
- Electrical and mechanical. Set up, align, and adjust mechanical aspects of plant.
- Electrical and mechanical. Lubricate mechanical assemblies.
- Electrical and mechanical. Apply bench fitting techniques.
- Review and use information. For example, work instructions, drawings, design specifications, and plant configurations.
- Use planning, prioritising, organising, and time management techniques to plan tasks.
- Identify and organise resources to complete tasks. For example, consumables.
- Respond and adapt to work demands. For example, adapt working methods to reflect changes in working environment, re-prioritise workloads to react to breakdowns and fault scenarios.
- Identify equipment to work on. Check plant configuration is as defined.
- Prepare the work area for maintenance tasks.
- Identify environmental and health and safety hazards and risks and apply control measures.
- Apply health, safety, and environmental procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, signage and barriers, working at height, confined spaces, and COSHH.
- Follow security procedures. For example, site access, document classification, and securing assets.
- Follow emergency incident and response procedures.
- Apply sustainability principles. For example, minimising waste.
- Segregate items for reuse, recycling, and waste.
- Use mathematical principles and formulae to support engineering maintenance.
- Apply engineering maintenance standards and procedures.
- Apply foreign material exclusion procedures.
- Follow maintenance tools and equipment control procedures. For example, handling and storage.
- Reinstate the work area.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate with others to give and receive information. For example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
- Escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
- Record information.
- Produce or amend documents. For example, handover notes and reports.
- Identify and highlight issues (red pen), with technical drawings.
- Use digital and information technology. For example, databases, data sharing platforms, email, management information systems, and word processing. Follow cyber security and GDPR requirements.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques to identify improvement suggestions.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
Training schedule
Engineering training will take place over 48 months as a combination of block release training at a local training provider and on site at the flour mill.
More training information
You will also be trained in Food Safety, Health and Safety, HACCP, Manual Handling, Fire Awareness.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 5)
- Maths (grade 5)
- Science (grade 5)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Good work ethic
About this employer
Our story begins over 200 years ago when our founder William Nelstrop crossed the Pennines from the family farm and mill in Yorkshire to create Nelstrops family flour millers in Cheshire.We have been making the finest flours for artisan, craft and home bakers ever since.
We source the best local and English grown wheat which can all be traced back to the farms where it was grown. We source Canadian hard spring wheat from the prairies for flours which are best suited for long fermentations and sourdoughs.
We then mill the grain at the family mill in Cheshire, at the same spot as where the mill was founded, which combines traditional milling with state of the art swiss milling.
We can mill a quality of flour not found elsewhere, and are winners of the highest Great Taste Awards in the country.
Nelstrops is one of the oldest millers in Great Britain and is proudly run today by the sixth generation of the Nelstrop family.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
After the apprenticeship has been completed, the successful applicant will remain a qualified member of the team and will have further training as required.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ELEVATED KNOWLEDGE LTD
Lisa Harris
lisaharris@elevatedknowledge.co.uk
01614755840
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000043015.
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Closes in 14 days (Friday 31 July 2026)
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