The MTC (Manufacturing Technology Centre) is a major success story. One of the UK’s most advanced Research & Technology Organisations, championing world leading manufacturing and engineering innovation.

Created in 2011, it represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing and has since grown to a team of over 800 spread several facilities covering not only R&D, but also Training, Advanced Manufacturing Management and Factory Design across multiple businesses and sectors.

Working in partnership with Consilium Recruit from launch, we seek career driven and agile talent from industry, academia, and other leading organisations to work in this truly unique centre of excellence.

Benefits – beyond salary, the MTC provides one of the most extensive and progressive benefits packages available, designed to inspire, develop and reward employees to the full including:

Fully flexible working including compressed hours, remote working, part-time hours, flexible start and finish times. And career breaks. Tell us what works for you and don’t let anything stop you from applying!
Enhanced Holiday leave with accumulated days plus option to buy & sell
Private Health Insurance from Vitality Health
Life Insurance
Generous Pension Scheme
Income Protection in the event of long-term illness or incapacity to work
Salary Sacrifice (tax efficient Bike 2 Work plus Car Lease Scheme including competitive on-site EV charging)
Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity support
Professional subscriptions paid plus access to Leadership Academy
Long service recognition plus contribution awards

The Role

The role of the Apprentice Assessor (work-based) is to provide support, guidance, training, and assessment of engineering apprentices whilst working within their employer’s workplace.

The role is to support students in their progression and development of level 3 development competency qualifications, ensuring knowledge, skill and behaviors are met and assessing against various associated qualification within engineering standards, assessing students and their work to awarding bodies standards and to provide guidance and support through to EPA.

The role requires a high-level of self-motivation to manage an assigned case load of apprentices within years 2 to 4 of their apprenticeship though to their timely completion.

Ensure that regular student reviews are conducted within the guidelines laid out within ESFA funding regulations. This will be face to face meeting on employers sites and via video calls.

Forge and establish strong working relationships with student employers.

Monitoring of students working environment ensuring learners workplace health & safety and welfare are adhered to and actively support by their employer.

Conduct the marking of students work in a timely manner leaving summative and formative feedback against the evidence and the checking of learner mapping against unit criteria.

Perform written work-based observations of the student conducting engineering tasks and duties with their employers sites.

The Person

The successful candidate for the role of Apprentice Assessor (work based) will have/be:

A high level of electrical and mechanical engineering knowledge gained through a number of years of industrial experience.
An in-depth understanding of engineering apprenticeships and qualification standards.
A good understanding and practice of various assessment methods used within an apprenticeship standard.
A good understanding of IQA processes and compliance.

Essential:

Time served engineer with a good understanding of both electrical systems and mechanical engineering.
Hold a related engineering qualification to a level 3 standard or above.
Functional Skills Level 2 / GCSE's in Maths and English grade C or above.
CAVA or equivalent assessor qualifications.
IT proficient in Microsoft office suite of software packages including Outlook and TEAMs

Desirable

A Recognised Training/Teaching Qualification.
Internal Quality Assurance qualifications.
IOSH Health and Safety qualification.
The use of Smart Assessor E-portfolio and Pro Monitor software packages

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are integral to everything that we do. We are committed to these values and they are central to our mission. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities, and we are more than happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require.

Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references being obtained alongside a level of security clearance checks

To apply for the position of Apprentice Assessor (work based) forward an up to date copy of your CV to Matthew Fielding.

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