Maintenance Technician Review

Four days a week we are working in the technologies around the plant depending on what rotation we are on. Mostly we service/refurbish equipment and try to help as we can with the maintenance activities on the line.

I developed a lot my communication skill when trying to adapt to the different shifts and areas. I also learned about the principles of pneumatics, hydraulics and electrical. Apart from all that I got to see and learn in first person how one of the best factories in the world works.

I enjoy any logical manual works, such as understanding how a piece of equipment works and how to fix it. To put it plainly, whenever working in the technologies the standard environment and availability of information is great. However, I am in general very disappointed with BMET, especially the teaching quality regarding the HNC program.

Communication between the technologies and the our training department has been quite bad for most of the apprenticeship. There are some details about the training program that also are not well thought at all. For example, we spend a whole rotation learning PLC programing in the first year, which should be very useful to better understand the production process on each technology if the PLC language was the same... We learned Mitsubishi PLC while everywhere in this plant only uses Siemens. On the other hand I must also say that although this has been my experience, it is changing for the better. Three of our main managers have changed and ever since everything is running a lot smoother. The new management is also giving thought and taking our feedback to improve the program as much as they can so in the future I believe this apprenticeship will be a lot better.

I cannot complain at all about the support that is offered, as I mentioned before since the new management everything is a lot more pleasant and efficient. The employees in the technologies, from the production people that are hired through agencies up to the the highest rank within BMW, they are all very respectful and willing to help. Obviously there are people that prefer not to share information but in such a large company there are ten people willing to help for each that are not.

As much as needed.

All the content taught by BMET is hardly related to any activities out in the technologies. This does not need to be this way but it is up to the tutor to try to close the gap between the theory learned in the classroom and our job in the company.

To be honest there may be but I am generally not interested so I don't know about them.

Yes

Always good to work in such a huge company since is opens a lot of doors in your career. the salary is also incredibly given the required qualifications for it and in general it has a nice working environment.

Do not limit yourself to what is taught in the program, ask questions to as many people as you need until you achieve the answer that you want.