Maintenance Technician Review

I work on the machines that manufacture the engine parts. these parts are the crankshaft, engine body/block and the engine head. i work with a shift on a weekly shift rotation to gain more focused skills and to work close with one team on the shop floor. i have also worked in the basement too.

i have further developed a myriad of skills, these being fault finding skills, skills when using different tools and equipment, working at height skills, lifting equipment skills, team working skills. i have also been on several training courses to gain a larger range of skills and acquire training in the courses.

i greatly enjoyed the first 3 years of the apprenticeship with the first year being spent at the college for a full time lvl 2 and half of the BTEC (lvl 3). the second and third year being spent working in a large range of areas in the machining side of the business.

the overall structure and organisation of the programme could be a little better. with the higher years working on shift rotations, there seems to be confusion with when we are on site next with our manager. one of the managers in machining has organised well structured placement plan for the apprentices to ensure that we have good exposure to as many areas in the business as possible.

if i feel i want to go on a training course for anything specific, i am always supported by my employer, just need to give some pushing to ensure it happens

if we desperately need a little more time to work on qualifications we can ask for a day dedicated to working towards them

i do not feel that the higher education college course i am doing for the final 2 years of my apprenticeship is of much use to my job role as the selected units for it are completely different to what would be useful

there are some yes, however have been postponed for the past 2 years due to covid

Yes

it has good opportunities to progress in the business and is a great starting point in your career

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