Maintenance engineer Review

Preventative and reactive maintenance to CNC machines and many other assets used to manufacture and repair aerospace parts and also maintain pre production facility assets. Some fabrication work also carried out. Always solving problems and seeking to improve processes. Following strict health and safety guidelines.

Fault diagnosis Maintenance Complex machinery Repairs Fabrication Accurate measuring Team work Liaising with 3rd parties and ordering Using computer based maintenance records

College experience was shambolic, some lessons weren't even taught to us we had to learn ourselves. I struggled with maths and engineering principles when asked for help they said they disnt have the time. Work experience is good on the whole but company wont provide training in specific machines which means they expect me to work on, diagnose and fix complex machinery with no proper training and in a timely manner. Impossible. Lots of red tape and bearaucratic nonsense slows down evry single process and becomes quite exhausting.

Poorly organised. Assessors are too stretched and are sometimes unreachable and dis engaged. Training team cant keep hold of their staff because it was in such dissary and poorly managed. Only towards the end that they had decent staff who were helpful and did what they say. Pay rises were always late by several months due to red tape and people not doing their jobs properly.

Certain people at the company are very supportive theough my own connections and social movements. Company is very disconnected from apprenticeship and on the whole have no clue whatsoever of my training or anything to do with my apprenticeship. They were supposed to set objectives and plan work ahead to help towards training and my apprenticeship which never happened. Complete disconnect.

Zero.

Not very much at all.

I signed up to apprentice association and never heard back from them. They're normally run by higher ed students who are quite elitist and look down on people. Only social events I've been involved with are the ones I've organised.

No

It's old fashioned views on engineering really hold people back and demarcation is still very much abundant there. They are reluctant to train people due to costs, the training they do offer is often irrelevant. They are extremely slow in everything they do and purchasing processes takes a very long time. I came out of my apprenticeship feeling very unprepared .

Go for HNC or HND or machinist qualifications. These seem to be much better routes to take and much more focus on the training and proper career development.