Apprentice Mechanical, Electrical and Quality Engineer

Ford Motor Company, is a global automotive industry leader, that manufactures or distributes vehicles across six continents. With about 202,000 employees and about 65 plants worldwide, the UK employ over 13,000 individuals.

The ONE Ford plan is transforming the business. Aligning the organisation into an integrated global team to accelerate; the creation of vehicles customers really want, reduce costs, introduce exciting new technology, enhance quality and improve efficiency.

At Ford Halewood Transmission Limited it develops and manufactures transmissions and employs c500 people. The Plant has a proud 59 year history as a local employer. Dedicated to manufacturing high quality product at the Plant, Ford are currently investing up to £230 million at the facility to transform it to build electric power units for future Ford all-electric passenger and commercial vehicles.

All employees are dedicated to the success of Ford Halewood Transmissions, but also of our customers and business partners.

The four-year engineering apprenticeship will initially cover broad based training and grounding in Electrical and Mechanical skill at Waterside Training in St Helens. In years 2,3 and 4 working apprentices will work on plant at Halewood alongside qualified craftsmen in either an Electrical or Mechanical discipline whilst continuing to attend college day release up to Level 4 HNC.

We are excited to introduce new elements to the programme launched this year which incorporates Quality Engineering bias to broaden the knowledge of our apprentices across the fields of the workforce.

Engineers work as part of a team to provide engineering support to multi-million-pound plant operations, to maintain and repair equipment to improve efficiency and product quality along with carrying out fault finding diagnosis and problem solving. Other avenues of experience may involve working in quality orientated areas of the plant – measurement and material laboratories and quality evaluation garage.

The Maintenance Craft apprenticeship will include activities such as:

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• machine and equipment maintenance.
  
• fault finding and diagnostics.
  
• using preventative maintenance systems.
  
• restoring components undertaking repair.
  
• replacement and servicing.
  

Quality bias for the apprenticeship will include activities such as:

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• Support commissioning new measurement equipment.
  
• Measurement of Internal and external purchased components using laboratory equipment.
  
• Support the development of test methods and continuous improvement opportunities.
  
• Produce measurement reports for components measured.
  
• Assist with Quality investigations providing measuring support.
  
• Be able to work within a team to ensure tasks are in line with targets.
  

GCSE in:

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• Maths (grade 5)
  
• Science (grade 5)
  

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

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• Analytical skills
  
• Logical
  
• Initiative
  
• Work Ethic
  
• Time Management
  

Engineering maintenance technician - dual discipline (level 3)

You must be able to travel to both Waterside based at St Helens and Ford based at Halewood to attend both off the job and on the job training.