Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship
WH Scott Group
Yeovil (BA20 2YB)
Closes in 8 days (Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 28 September 2026
Contents
Summary
This apprentice will learn inspection, maintenance and repairs to overhead traveling cranes, industrial doors and automated storage machines, as well as experiencing loose lifting equipment inspections.
- Wage
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£16,224 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Mechatronics maintenance technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday: 8:30am to 5pm. Friday 8:30am to 4pm.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 12 October 2026
- Duration
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3 years 7 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
- Visual structural evaluations: Inspecting crane runways, bridge girders, end trucks, and industrial door tracks for alignment, wear, or stress fractures
- Safety device testing: Verifying the functionality of limit switches, emergency stop buttons, anti-collision sensors, and door auto-reverse safety edges
- Load-bearing component checks: Examining wire ropes, hooks, sheaves, chains, and hoist drums for fraying, deformation, or excessive wear
- Regulatory documentation: Logging all inspection findings to maintain compliance with statutory occupational health and safety standards e.g., LOLER/PUWER
- System lubrication: Applying specified grease and lubricants to crane gears, bearings, wire ropes, industrial door hinges, rollers, and drive chains
- Mechanical adjustments: Tensioning door springs (counterbalance systems), adjusting brake air gaps on hoist mechanisms, and aligning tracks
- Fluid and filter management: Checking hydraulic fluid levels on automated doors and gear oil levels in crane hoist and travel gearboxes
- Fastener torquing: Inspecting and tightening critical structural bolts, rail clips, and mounting brackets subject to operational vibration
- Electrical fault isolation: Using multi meters and drawing to trace faults in variable frequency invertor drives (VFDs), pendant controls, radio remotes, and door automation control panels
- Component replacement: Swapping out worn brake pads, damaged contactors, frayed cables, broken door slats, and faulty limit switches
- Drive system overhauls: Repairing or replacing malfunctioning electric motors, gearboxes, and hydraulic door operators
- Post-repair verification: Conducting functional un-loaded and rated load tests to certify equipment is safe to return to service
Where you'll work
C O Leonardo Helicopters
Lysander Road
Yeovil
BA20 2YB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
YEOVIL COLLEGE
Training course
Mechatronics maintenance technician (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Use information technology, for example to create documentation, communication and information management.
- Obtain, read and interpret task related documentation, such as work instructions, quality control documents, drawings, operation manuals, specifications and service manuals.
- Record information for example job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
- Conduct initial assessment of equipment that requires maintenance.
- Formulate plans setting out the methodology of the maintenance activity including timescales and resources.
- Select, prepare and use material, consumables, tools and equipment.
- Comply with health and safety regulations and organisational requirements applicable in the workplace. For example, COSHH, PUWER, LOLER, PPE and applying safe systems of work.
- Apply dynamic risk assessment, hazard identification and risk mitigation principles and techniques.
- Apply isolation principles and techniques to equipment undergoing maintenance, including dissipation of stored energies as required.
- Manufacture, repair and refurbish components using hand and machine tools.
- Restore the workplace on completion of the maintenance activity. Handover resources, consumables and equipment to process owner.
- Apply the techniques and processes used in reactive maintenance and repair activities on complex engineered systems such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power and control systems.
- Produce, maintain, update, record and store documentation including electronic items such as PLC and robot programmes.
- Apply techniques and processes used in planned and preventative maintenance activities on engineered systems such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power and control systems.
- Apply functional testing and checking techniques and processes after maintenance interventions, and handover to the operational team.
- Apply techniques and processes used in condition monitoring, non-destructive or sensory testing. Record findings and take necessary actions.
- Apply calculation techniques such as, feeds, speeds, tolerances, electrical calculations using Ohms law, power calculations and cable sizing calculations.
- Select, use and confirm calibration of electrical and mechanical testing and measuring equipment.
- Produce sketches or drawings to support maintenance activities.
- Communicate in writing. Prepare communications, documents and reports on technical matters.
- Segregate, separate and dispose of waste streams and by-products.
- Apply 4S or 5S principles of housekeeping to the work environment.
- Identify opportunities and make recommendations to improve operational performance.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Communicate with others verbally. Negotiate with colleagues or stakeholders. For example, to access equipment or arrange access to equipment.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
- Apply fault finding techniques used in reactive maintenance on complex integrated systems including half split, input output, six point technique, function or performance testing, unit or component substitution and equipment diagnostics.
- Use information technology, for example to create documentation, communication and information management.
- Obtain, read and interpret task related documentation, such as work instructions, quality control documents, drawings, operation manuals, specifications and service manuals.
- Record information for example job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
- Conduct initial assessment of equipment that requires maintenance.
- Formulate plans setting out the methodology of the maintenance activity including timescales and resources.
- Select, prepare and use material, consumables, tools and equipment.
- Comply with health and safety regulations and organisational requirements applicable in the workplace. For example, COSHH, PUWER, LOLER, PPE and applying safe systems of work.
- Apply dynamic risk assessment, hazard identification and risk mitigation principles and techniques.
- Apply isolation principles and techniques to equipment undergoing maintenance, including dissipation of stored energies as required.
- Manufacture, repair and refurbish components using hand and machine tools.
- Restore the workplace on completion of the maintenance activity. Handover resources, consumables and equipment to process owner.
- Apply the techniques and processes used in reactive maintenance and repair activities on complex engineered systems such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power and control systems.
- Produce, maintain, update, record and store documentation including electronic items such as PLC and robot programmes.
- Apply techniques and processes used in planned and preventative maintenance activities on engineered systems such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power and control systems.
- Apply functional testing and checking techniques and processes after maintenance interventions, and handover to the operational team.
- Apply techniques and processes used in condition monitoring, non-destructive or sensory testing. Record findings and take necessary actions.
- Apply calculation techniques such as, feeds, speeds, tolerances, electrical calculations using Ohms law, power calculations and cable sizing calculations.
- Select, use and confirm calibration of electrical and mechanical testing and measuring equipment.
- Produce sketches or drawings to support maintenance activities.
- Communicate in writing. Prepare communications, documents and reports on technical matters.
- Segregate, separate and dispose of waste streams and by-products.
- Apply 4S or 5S principles of housekeeping to the work environment.
- Identify opportunities and make recommendations to improve operational performance.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Communicate with others verbally. Negotiate with colleagues or stakeholders. For example, to access equipment or arrange access to equipment.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
- Apply fault finding techniques used in reactive maintenance on complex integrated systems including half split, input output, six point technique, function or performance testing, unit or component substitution and equipment diagnostics.
Training schedule
- The apprenticeship training is delivered through a combination of workplace learning and regular college attendance
- This training will teach you the knowledge, skills and behaviours set out in the Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship
- On completion, the apprentice will receive Mechatronic Maintenance Technician qualification
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 9 – 4 / A* - C)
- Maths (grade 9 – 4 / A* - 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
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
You MUST be prepared to commit to your work and training for the duration of the apprenticeship. In some cases, you may be required to have a telephone interview with Yeovil College prior to your application being passed on. If a suitable candidate is found prior to the advertised closing date, it may close earlier so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
About this employer
- WH Scott Engineers was founded in Belfast in 1897 by William Hill Scott and his son, manufacturing boilers and pressure vessels. It was, from the beginning, a business built around equipment that fails dangerously if it is made or maintained badly.
- The modern chapter began in 2010, when a management buy-out led by, current CEO, Patrick Doyle and this kick started a deliberate, capability-led expansion through strategic acquisitions.
- By 2026 the WH Scott Group had grown to nine businesses, each with its own name, history and reputation. That was a sign of successful expansion, In 2026 we reviewed the entire portfolio and rationalised it into three market-facing brands. Each has a clear specialism and a clear customer. Each is backed by the scale, resources and technical support of the wider Group.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
On completion of a Level 3 Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship, individuals can progress into skilled engineering and maintenance roles within manufacturing, engineering, automation, and production environments.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
YEOVIL COLLEGE
Gabrielle Cobner
studentrecruitment@yeovil.ac.uk
01935845380
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000055543.
Apply now
Closes in 8 days (Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 11:59pm)