Apprentice - Mechanical Engineering

As an Apprentice Manufacturing Technician at Oxford Instruments, you'll rotate around all of our different Value Streams, learning about every step of manufacturing and testing our range of products. You'll also complete your HNC so will have good academic knowledge to complement the practical experience you build.

Vacancy Description

* In addition to day release at college, you'll complete a placement in each of our manufacturing cells, and will also spend time in New Product Introduction, Supply Chain, Service, Manufacturing Engineering.

* This will give you experience with all the different products we manufacture and send to customers around the world as well as an excellent introduction to all the possible career directions that Manufacturing and Operations might take you in with Oxford Instruments.

Entry Requirements

To qualify for this apprenticeship, you must either have a Level 3 engineering qualification or relevant STEM A Levels.

Skills Required

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Organisation skillsProblem solving skills

Number skills

Analytical skills

Logical

Team working

Initiative

Interest in Manufacturing & Engineering

Time Management

IT skills

Administrative skills

Non Judgemental

Personal Qualities

A keen interest in Manufacturing and Engineering.

Training to be Provided

Qualifications included..

Level 4 Engineering Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship(1 day per week for 2 years at college)

Company Training Plan & Assessment.

Development Competence Qualification (workplace)

End Point Assessment at the end of the apprenticeship

Things to consider

We are based just outside Abingdon in Tubney (OX13 5QX). We're on a good bus route which connects Oxford to Wantage, and a short walk away from the Oxford-Faringdon-Swindon route.

Future Prospects

We are looking for people with a genuine interest in manufacturing and engineering, and hope that your post-apprenticeship career with us will be in this area. This may be a role in our factory, or could be a move to a field service engineer role, or a related office-based position (such as supply chain or manufacturing engineering). We have previous apprentices who we have supported as they continued their academic qualifications to Bachelor's and Master's level. #LI-JR1