Trainee Apprentice Technician

ANTHONY KINNS AVIATION (SERVICES) LTD

Bedfordshire (MK43 0AW)

Closes in 19 days (Thursday 21 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 1 August 2025

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Summary

This role is based at Wharley End Farm, Cranfield, but may involve travel across UK sites with AK Aviation refuelling equipment. Training covers design, build, repair, and maintenance of aviation refuelling vehicles, tanks, and ground equipment, including hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and fuel systems.

Wage

£18,525 a year

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Annual Salary

Training course
Engineering fitter (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday, times to be confirmed.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

3 years 6 months

Positions available

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

Cleaning vehicle interiors, exteriors, engines, and components. Performing routine servicing of vehicles and machinery. Using tools and equipment safely and correctly. Diagnosing and repairing hydraulic systems, including pumps, motors, valves, hoses, and fittings, ensuring safe and efficient fuel transfer. Maintaining cleanliness in workspaces to support health and safety. Attending college regularly to complete academic requirements. Applying learned knowledge in the workplace under supervision. Assisting with traditional engineering tasks such as workshop support, material handling, and completing documentation. Progressing to carry out small tasks independently as skills develop. Working towards obtaining a full driving licence to operate company vehicles. Performing other duties as assigned by management, in line with the role.

Where you'll work

Wharley End Farm
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BEDFORD
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AW

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

MILTON KEYNES COLLEGE

Training course

Engineering fitter (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Reading, interpreting and understanding the component or assembly specification, diagrams, drawings and work instructions.
  • Planning component or assembly task – materials, tools and equipment.
  • Preparing work area for component or assembly task; sourcing required resources, tools and equipment.
  • Carry out relevant planning and preparation activities before commencing work activity and know how to source required resources and interpret detailed drawings, specifications and job instructions.
  • Checking tools during and after task completion; identifying and reporting defects.
  • Measuring and testing, checking or inspecting component or assembly for example; use of micrometers, verniers, multimeters, voltmeter.
  • Problem solving; analysing the issue and fixing the issue where appropriate.
  • Applying improvement techniques; recommending or implementing solutions where appropriate.
  • Communicating with colleagues or customers (internal or external).
  • Completing component or assembly documentation for example job instructions, drawings, quality control documentation.
  • Reporting work outcomes or issues.
  • Restoring the work area on completion of the activity; returning any resources and consumables to the appropriate location and house-keeping.
  • Disposing of waste in accordance with waste streams; re-cycling, re-using where appropriate.
  • Operating within limits of responsibility.
  • Operating in line with quality, health and safety and environmental policy and procedures; identifying risks and hazards and identifying control measures where applicable.
  • Reading, interpreting and understanding the component or assembly specification, diagrams, drawings and work instructions.
  • Planning component or assembly task – materials, tools and equipment.
  • Preparing work area for component or assembly task; sourcing required resources, tools and equipment.
  • Carry out relevant planning and preparation activities before commencing work activity and know how to source required resources and interpret detailed drawings, specifications and job instructions.
  • Checking tools during and after task completion; identifying and reporting defects.
  • Measuring and testing, checking or inspecting component or assembly for example; use of micrometers, verniers, multimeters, voltmeter.
  • Problem solving; analysing the issue and fixing the issue where appropriate.
  • Applying improvement techniques; recommending or implementing solutions where appropriate.
  • Communicating with colleagues or customers (internal or external).
  • Completing component or assembly documentation for example job instructions, drawings, quality control documentation.
  • Reporting work outcomes or issues.
  • Restoring the work area on completion of the activity; returning any resources and consumables to the appropriate location and house-keeping.
  • Disposing of waste in accordance with waste streams; re-cycling, re-using where appropriate.
  • Operating within limits of responsibility.
  • Operating in line with quality, health and safety and environmental policy and procedures; identifying risks and hazards and identifying control measures where applicable.

Training schedule

Training to be provided by Milton Keynes College and A K Aviation Services.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • Maths (grade 9-4)
  • English (grade 9-4)
  • Science (grade 9-4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Personable
  • creative
  • communicative
  • IT skills
  • professional

Other requirements

Predicted grades will be accepted. However, any offers made will be conditional, pending actual grades.

About this employer

Bedfordshire based Anthony Kinns Aviation (Services) Limited (AKA) was incorporated in 1990 and supplies refuelling equipment internationally to airports and major oil company users in the form of new and used refuelling vehicles. The company carries out design and installation work at airports in the form of storage tank supply, complete tank farm packages, mobile self-bunded storage and dispensing units plus any modifications or upgrades of existing facilities that may be required. Based on a background of sound engineering experience, the company has developed unique products to improve the quality, efficiency and safety of the complete fuel supply chain in the aviation industry. Following its first development of an improved Product Return Tank used to remove contaminants from the fuel tanks, the company has progressed into the continuous development of a series of different products covering the whole spectrum of fuelling aircraft varying in size from single seaters to commercial jet liners. AKA also stocks a whole range of refuelling vehicles of all sizes ranging from 5,000 litres up to 45,000 litre articulated units. These vehicles, available for purchase or hire, are either complete new-builds or re-mounted fuelling packages onto predominantly new low-entry chassis cabs. The choice of chassis can be made to match client requirements; all its products are built to the highest industry standards. Innovation AKA is striving to continually strengthen its client offerings, continually innovating with regards to equipment such as refuelling vehicles, ground supply equipment and dispensers as well as offering an ever-expanding variety of services including site surveys, training, inspection, fuel quality control, calibration and mechanical services. The company continually invests in new machinery and new processes and up-skilling its already well regarded, experienced and specialist workforce; it regularly invests in in-house as well as outside sourced up-to-date training to develop its people in a highly technology and safety conscious environment. To remain competitive, it has to devise and develop new products and processes which generate savings for its customers. Labour saving, fuel quality control, recovery and recycling of previously unused fuels together with improvements in the ergonomics and health and safety are all considered in each of its developments.

After this apprenticeship

  • 20 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Company Pension if eligible
  • Free Parking / On-site Parking
  • Workwear provided

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MILTON KEYNES COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335136.

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Closes in 19 days (Thursday 21 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

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