Mechanical Engineering Apprentice
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Company: Nickerson Europe Limited (Plastic Moulding Supplies Limited)
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Location: Corby, NN17 4JW
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: £220.00 per week
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Sector: Engineering
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Ref: VAC-12394
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Application Deadline Date: 28/11/2021
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Start Date: 10/01/2022
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Monday to Friday, 8.00am - 4.30pm (Break for lunch)
Brief Description
Nickerson Europe are based in Corby. This is a great opportunity to undertake an apprenticeship in a small busy workshop manufacturing a wide variety of one off and batch metal parts using CNC (Computerised Numerical Control) and using lathes & mills. Other activities include grinding, polishing, brazing, heat treat, gun drilling & manual assembly.
Qualifications Required
You will ideally have GCSE at grade 9-3 (A*-D) in English and GCSE grade 9-4 (A*-C) in maths or equivalent.
Personal Qualities
The desire and commitment to learn from experienced older heads and to be an important individual within a small, skilled team.
Skills Required
An aptitude and interest in all things mechanical are the most important criteria.
Training to be Provided
Engineering Operative – Level 2
EAL Level 2 Diploma in Engineering Operations
EAL Level 2 in Engineering Operations
Future Prospects
On successful completion of your apprenticeship, there is natural progression within the existing team and they hope to find a candidate who will want to be part of that progression. This opportunity has been created because a previous apprentice now needs to pass on some of his work to a new apprentice as he moves up a level.
Vacancy Detail
Nickerson Europe are looking for an enthusiastic individual to be their apprentice and learn a wide variety of engineering skills. You will progress to being capable of carrying out most, if not all, of the manufacturing processes they undertake. So this is a very good opportunity for you, look below at how much you will learn.
The company is small with a highly skilled workforce. If successful you will be working alongside an Engineering Manager where you will learn to use a variety of CNC (Computer Numerical Control) NC (Numerical Control) and manual machines & techniques.
Your duties will be as follows:
Learn to manufacture metal components on the CNC mill, NC lathes and manual mills and lathes
Assemble various mechanical and electrical components
Learn CNC milling, NC turning, manual milling and turning, soldering, brazing, producing drawings using CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing)
Assembling magnets using a hammer and coiling heater elements
Making thermocouples by stripping electrical cable and soldering
Deburring & polishing metal components, using the oven to heat treat components
Checking components with verniers, micrometers & calipers to ensure adherence to drawing
Grinding and sand blasting, using the saw to cut bar material into billets
Assembling large components ready for dispatch to customers, cleaning swarf out of the machines
Learn how to manufacture a component from scratch, sometimes using a hammer, other times a 5-axis CNC mill; and sometimes reverse engineering it from a damaged and almost unrecognisable lump of metal, by drawing it using the CAD software and then making it
Tidying the work area; cleaning, maintaining and repairing the machinery in the factory
The company repair a wide variety of components and assemblies used in the injection moulding processes – they are unique in this aspect - and there is a lot of knowledge and many techniques to be learned from the older heads in the business, they want to pass this knowledge onto you.
Customers engage Nickerson Europe to provide a solution to their processing problems, either to suggest an alternative method of manufacture, supply a different product to aid manufacture, or repair or manufacture a new component for them. They want their apprentice to be involved in all aspects of the above.