Mechanical Engineering Degree Apprentice
To support in the management of the Mechanical maintenance department to ensure
- Highest standards of H&S are continually followed
- Legislative compliance is fulfilled
- Best practice maintenance techniques are utilized to provide highest possible asset availability
- Support PM11 Mechanical Responsible across all duties
- Due to location a driving licence would be advantageous
Main Responsibilities
- Health & Safety
- Follow the Site H&S procedures, practices and propose improvements
- Report any problems and issues immediately following site procedures
- Promote site H&S standards and challenge where necessary
- Lead H&S investigations
- Undertake allocated H&S actions
- Ensure awareness of current legislative and statutory requirements to maintain site compliance
- Audit site maintenance activities to ensure site safety standards are followed
Environmental
- Responsible for environmental aspects in own area
- Follow the site environmental procedures, practices and propose improvements
- Report any problems and issues immediately by using the site procedures
- Ensure site environmental critical equipment is maintained to relevant Mechanical standard
Quality
- Ensure site quality critical equipment is maintained to relevant Mechanical standard
- Suggest innovations to ensure customer satisfaction is guaranteed
- Audit quality of site maintenance activities
Specific Tasks (this list is not exhaustive)
Maintenance Operations – Working Towards (As part of the Degree Apprenticeship)
- Supports Area Responsible and Engineer in maintenance planning in more complicated cases with long term impact
- Identifying spare parts requirements and technical specifications for maintenance work
- Identify and search alternative spare parts, if parts are not available at site
- Creation of Saica MRF form for non-stock spare parts and materials
- Follow up spare part and material purchase process
- Support Area Responsible and Engineer in daily activities, when required
- Creation of Standard Operation Procedures (SOP) for repetitive work, when required
- Creation of Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS) for maintenance work, when required Reviewing and updating work instructions
- Review Maximo master data content and coordinate data update projects within own responsibility area with Maximo admin
- Define update requirements for Maximo master data
- Create and follow Maximo data requests
- Follow up of maintenance measures (KPI’s) and agree required actions with Area Responsible
- Creating and updating work orders in Maximo
- Troubleshooting and communicate with production about troubleshooting cases
- Act as a supervisor during a shutdown
- Supervision of shutdowns and evaluating work execution time schedules
- Inform shutdown leader of any delays or change needs of shutdown works during a shutdown Provide required information and proposed solutions to shutdown leader of shutdown plan changes during a shutdown
- Development of maintenance working methods and practices within own responsibility area
- Ensure implementation of new working methods and practices within own responsibility area Requesting quotations from service companies and external maintenance providers
- Defining scope and requirements for maintenance services and external maintenance suppliers
- Requesting quotations from Maintenance Services and external maintenance suppliers –
- Evaluation of specialist support needs within own responsibility area
- Defining and identifying companies for specialist/expert support
- Requesting quotation from specialist support companies
- Defining scope and requirements for specialist support
- Organisation and coordination of specialist onsite visits
- Execute activities given by solid line supervisor
- Participate in on-call support
- Participate in Preventative and Corrective maintenance Activities to support schedule improvemen
Reliability
- Facilitate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations, when required
- Support and participate RCA and failure mode analysis
- Responsible to implement actions from RCA at own responsible area
- Support integration of a reliability cantered maintenance program
- Support and cooperation of reliability issues with mill reliability specialist and development team within own responsible area
- Identification of maintenance improvements and preparation of improvement projects for long term maintenance futureproofing
- Review PM’s and PM content improvements within own area
- Development of preventative and predictive maintenance program within own responsible area
- Optimise preventive and predictive maintenance programs within own responsibility area
- Follow preventive and predictive maintenance performance within own responsibility area
- Create action plan with Area Responsible and mill reliability specialist based on data analyses and studies
- Create life time estimation of assets within responsibility area and define long term maintenance strategy for these assets
- Maintain and develop long term service plan and requirements for critical assets within own responsibility area including major repairs and high-cost maintenance of assets
- Cost awareness of area maintenance activities
University Criteria
- You will need 96 UCAS Points.
- Your Level 3 subjects must include mathematics and a science subject; for instance, A-level Mathematics and Physics or BTEC Extended Diploma in Engineering.
- Technology and engineering subjects and additional mathematics subjects (such as further maths and statistics) will be accepted as science subjects.
- You should also have five GCSES at grade C or above or grade 4 to 9 (or equivalent), including English, Mathematics and Science.
- If you have an HND/C in an appropriate engineering discipline, we'll consider you for entry to level HE5 of this programme, depending on the subject area of qualification and the level of maths and science that you have achieved.
- You will be required to attend University one day a week, with the reminder of your time in the workplace
- You may be asked to undertake additional assessments (s) to determine your suitability for the course. You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.
- Do not contact the employer directly.
- The University acts as the training partner, not the employer, and will require previous learning checks to assess suitability for the course entry requirements.