Automation and Controls Engineering Level 4 Apprentice within Production Maintenance

BENTLEY MOTORS LIMITED

Cheshire (CW1 3PL)

Closes in 9 days (Friday 20 February 2026)

Posted on 9 February 2026

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Summary

Working within the Production Maintenance department, you will help maintain and improve equipment reliability to support achievement of output and quality targets. You will operate within Bentley’s operating policies and safety framework, contributing to Bentley’s wider goals and the Beyond100 strategy.

Wage

£24,929 a year

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Training course
Automation and controls engineering technician (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday, shifts to be confirmed.

35 hours a week

Start date

Monday 7 September 2026

Duration

3 years

Positions available

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

  • Supporting complex problem‑solving activities using safe, structured, and timely methods, ensuring correct escalation and communication
  • Gaining in‑depth knowledge of mechanical, electrical, electronic, control, PLC and robotic systems to assist in resolving maintenance breakdowns
  • Carrying out planned, preventative, and predictive maintenance
  • Following safe working practices and reporting any accidents or near misses to the appropriate supervision
  • Participating in continuous improvement activities, including generating Equipment Top Issues pareto analysis and applying root cause analysis tools
  • Working cross‑functionally to introduce new equipment, ensuring that the department is fully prepared and self‑sufficient from SOP and that equipment is robust

Where you'll work

Pym's Lane
Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 3PL

Training

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

Training provider

CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH AND WEST

Training course

Automation and controls engineering technician (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Safety Effective - The ability to work safely in an industrial environment and where required, produce risk assessment and method statement documentation. Be able to apply the principles of functional machinery or process safety including SIL (Safety Integrated Level) and PL (Performance Level) terminology.
  • Engineering documentation - Production and interpretation of a range of technical documentation (device manuals, operating procedures, schematics, fault reports etc), and working with company documentation systems.
  • Project engineering capabilities - Support of installation, commissioning, shut-down, start-up and maintenance, service, or support of a wide range of systems and devices.
  • Diagnostic capabilities - Fault finding, diagnosis, rectification and reporting of automation control systems and controls applications via the utilisation of formal problem solving methods and diagnostic tools or software.
  • Instrumentation configuration and calibration - Set-up, calibrate and commission a wide variety of field level instrumentation that interfaces to automation and control systems
  • Industrial Networks configuration and support - configure, assist commissioning and continued support of industrial network solutions at all hierarchical levels of control system integration using the requisite tools and or software.
  • HMI and SCADA configuration and programming - Make changes to existing systems or implement new configurations.
  • PLC or Robot configuration and programming - Implement complex PLC or Robot program content and configurations to affect changes to increase availability and or efficiency of automation controlled machinery and the ability to configure PLC and or Robot hardware and program a wide variety of PLC’s and or Robot’s.
  • Safety Effective - The ability to work safely in an industrial environment and where required, produce risk assessment and method statement documentation. Be able to apply the principles of functional machinery or process safety including SIL (Safety Integrated Level) and PL (Performance Level) terminology.
  • Engineering documentation - Production and interpretation of a range of technical documentation (device manuals, operating procedures, schematics, fault reports etc), and working with company documentation systems.
  • Project engineering capabilities - Support of installation, commissioning, shut-down, start-up and maintenance, service, or support of a wide range of systems and devices.
  • Diagnostic capabilities - Fault finding, diagnosis, rectification and reporting of automation control systems and controls applications via the utilisation of formal problem solving methods and diagnostic tools or software.
  • Instrumentation configuration and calibration - Set-up, calibrate and commission a wide variety of field level instrumentation that interfaces to automation and control systems
  • Industrial Networks configuration and support - configure, assist commissioning and continued support of industrial network solutions at all hierarchical levels of control system integration using the requisite tools and or software.
  • HMI and SCADA configuration and programming - Make changes to existing systems or implement new configurations.
  • PLC or Robot configuration and programming - Implement complex PLC or Robot program content and configurations to affect changes to increase availability and or efficiency of automation controlled machinery and the ability to configure PLC and or Robot hardware and program a wide variety of PLC’s and or Robot’s.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • 5 GCSEs (grade Passed)
  • English (grade C)
  • Maths (grade 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
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Team working
  • Non judgemental
  • Resilient

About this employer

Bentley Motors is a business built on people. Yes, we want to be known for our ideas, our technological innovations, our exceptional products. But none of it is achievable without talented individuals working together to make a diverse and successful team

After this apprenticeship

  • Further progression may well be available in other areas within our sector, upon successful completion of the apprenticeship

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH AND WEST

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000013033.

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Closes in 9 days (Friday 20 February 2026)

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