Engineering Support Technician Apprenticeship - Level 3
NEWBURY ELECTRONICS LIMITED
Berkshire (RG14 2AD)
Closes in 29 days (Sunday 24 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 24 July 2025
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Summary
A fantastic opportunity to join Newbury Electronics, a leading UK PCB Manufacturer with over 60 years experience. Located in Newbury, they design, fabricate and assemble tens of thousands of electronic printed circuit boards. You will learn each process from materials control and production processing, right through to final shipment of product.
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
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To be negotiated with the successful applicant.
- Training course
- Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Wednesday, between 8.00am - 5.00pm. Thursday, between 8.00am - 4:30pm. Friday, between 8.00am - 3.00pm.
Half an hour lunch and 2 x 10 minute tea breaks per day.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- 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 Engineering Technician role involves a wide variety of interesting work. If you are dexterous, careful, and have an attention to detail, this could be the job for you. Newbury Electronics Ltd is a busy, very well equipped, and expanding family business based in Newbury and founded 60 years ago.
Technician Responsibilities
- Work as a member of our experienced team reporting to Production Manager.
- Operate modern equipment in one of the best equipped plants in the UK.
- Ensure that quality standards are maintained throughout all stages of production.
- Liaise with Management on any reoccurring quality issues and trends.
Where you'll work
Faraday Road
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 2AD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NEWBURY COLLEGE
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
You will be supported by a development coach from Newbury College, so that you can confidently demonstrate the knowledge, skills and behaviours required for the apprenticeship standards of the Level 3 Engineering and Manufacturing Support Technician.
Please note, If you are aged between 16 - 18 and do not have a GCSE grade 4/C or equivalent in either or both English and maths, you will be required to take Level 2 Functional Skills alongside your apprenticeship. Your lessons will be delivered either remotely or in person at Newbury College. You must achieve level 2 in the required subject/s before you are able to complete your apprenticeship and you have the whole duration to achieve these if required.
At the end of your apprenticeship you will have completed the Level 3 Engineering and Manufacturing Support Technician Standard and will be required to complete an End Point Assessment (EPA). Your development coach will support you with preparing for your EPA.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
- Science (grade 4/C)
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
- Team working
- Self-motivated
About this employer
Newbury Electronics is a leading UK PCB Manufacturer with over 60 years of industry experience. Located in Newbury, Berkshire, we design, fabricate and assemble tens of thousands of PCBs at our manufacturing and assembling plants. Close Our comprehensive service and constant technological investments enable us to offer a faster service than any other Contract Electronic Manufacturers in the UK. This helps us to shorten our clients' development cycles for prototyping, get products to market faster and keep our client’s inventory requirements down. We are renowned for being the only UK PCB Manufacturer able to undertake a project from inception to completion and delivery accompanied by complete technical support, all under one roof. Working with a global portfolio of multiple suppliers, we are able to meet any volume and technical requirements at very competitive prices and short lead times, without compromising on quality. Through multi-sourcing, our buying power gives us significant influence and virtually unlimited capacity.
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After this apprenticeship
A potential career in contract electronic manufacture (production and/or engineering), electronics design, supervisory roles and possibly management.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEWBURY COLLEGE
Apprenticeships - Newbury College
business@newbury-college.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333556.
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Closes in 29 days (Sunday 24 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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