Apprentice Maintenance Technician

Amrctraining; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000

Job description

Special Melted Products Limited are looking for an Apprentice Maintenance Technician to complete a Level 3 Mechatronics Maintenance Technician apprenticeship to join their team.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Understand mechanical systems and be able to diagnose problems/plant faults constructively and accurately.
• Carry out both reactive and proactive maintenance tasks, including VIM, VAR, and ESR furnaces.
• Take part in the development, creation, and implementation of PPM schedules to achieve maximum machine availability.
• Record daily activities and creation of work orders within a CMMS, as well as using the system to assist with any fault diagnosis.
• Attend and contribute towards daily and weekly planned maintenance meetings/plant priority reviews.
• Identify/specify and order critical parts using the company's Ecrib system.
• Contribute towards the control and improvement of critical spares requirements.
• Ensure that all parts required are booked out correctly and recorded as necessary.
• Work with specialist OEM service engineers where required.
• Facilitate lean ways of working to minimise waste and maximise efficiency, ensuring departmental objectives are achieved.
• Participate in training and upskilling activities to help maintain and improve your site and technical knowledge.
• Undertake any other tasks, which are reasonable in relation to the skills, knowledge, and experience.
• Able to perform safety & quality risk assessments and work.
• Adhere to standard safe practices and procedures, environmental and legislative requirements.

Skills Required:

• Exemplary timekeeping and attendance.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as an individual and as part of a team.

Personal Qualities the Candidate Must Have:

• A willingness to learn.
• An interest in developing into a Mechanical Engineering career.
• Excellent attention to detail and precision in work.

Special Melted Products are a manufacturer of Super Alloys that are used in critical applications for the Aerospace, Oil & Gas, and Civil Nuclear industries. At Special Melted Products we have a long history, with a metals production lineage dating back to the 1800s. Our headquarters and main operational facilities are in Sheffield, UK where we occupy 3 sites in close proximity with significant melting, forging, and machining capabilities. Now is a great time to join Special Melted Products as we are one of the few UK manufacturers of high-integrity re-melted materials and components. We are planning to increase our current production capacity through a capital expansion plan, potentially including the UK’s first 10,000 tonne super alloy press forge facility.

Things to Consider:

During the first year, you will be required to attend the University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre in Sheffield, full time for an initial block of study. You will return to your workplace one Friday per month. After the initial block training, you will attend the AMRC Training Centre for one day a week to undertake the knowledge study. The remaining four days will be spent in company learning on the job.

Please note the AMRC Training Centre reserves the right to close applications ahead of the published closing date.

Qualification Requirements:

Advanced Apprenticeships Entry Requirements:

• GCSE English language C or 4 or above.
• GCSE Maths C or 4 or above.

Applicants are also required to successfully complete a series of assessments at the University of Sheffield’s AMRC Training Centre, as well as an employer recruitment and selection process to secure a place on an apprenticeship programme.