Key Takeaways
- Undertake a 5-year Level 6 Manufacturing Engineer Apprenticeship with Yeovil College, leading to a BEng in Engineering and a permanent role.
- Earn £24,000 per year, working 37 hours per week.
- Develop skills in defining and optimising manufacturing processes, contributing to innovation, and ensuring product readiness.
- Applications close on 2027-02-17.
- Requires GCSE Maths and English (grade 5x 9-4 or A*-C) and A Levels including Maths and a STEM subject (grade 4 (C) or above).
About the Role
The role will develop your engineering skills to become a confident, positive and flexible industrial process engineer with well-honed technical knowledge gained from both the academic commitments and on the job training. You will be part of a team that provides manufacturing solutions in support of our customers’ requirements.
This will provide many opportunities to experience the various aspects of engineering such as, defining and optimising manufacturing documentation, tools and workflows for manufacturing, performing manufacturing readiness reviews, contributing to the technological innovation to reduce costs and workflows, whilst guaranteeing the feasibility and reproducibility of the process.
What You Will Learn
Throughout the apprenticeship, you will gain experience and knowledge in:
- Develop an understanding of the required behaviours and codes of practice of a professional engineer
- Understanding complex systems by working on different tasks on on-going projects
- Assessing Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) of products by reviewing the product maturity with project teams to identify and minimise risk
- Define, set up, prepare and optimise manufacturing processes and tooling for a defined area or product line
- Contribute to Health, Safety and Environment processes
- Define and optimise manufacturing documentation, tools, workflows for manufacturing and inspection based on the information supplied by upstream R&D engineering departments
- Contribute to the technological innovation to reduce costs and workflows, whilst guaranteeing the feasibility and reproducibility of the process
- Attend Material Review Boards and Configuration Control Boards on behalf of manufacturing, actively manage failures and changes
- Implement test & control plans for manufacturing equipment
Training
Apprenticeship Programme
You will study towards a Level 6 Manufacturing Engineer with Yeovil College.
Manufacturing Engineers help take products from design to manufacture, ensuring that they are launched on time, at cost and to the right quality. This programme will provide a strong foundation across mechanical, electrical, digital, materials, product design and advanced manufacturing.
This is a 5-year programme delivered via an in-person delivery model on campus. Over the first 4 years you will attend college on a day release basis to complete your academic studies and will embed your learning in the workplace through your day job. Year 5 will be 100% work-based and will focus on the completion of your End Point Assessment.
At the end of the programme, you will have achieved a BEng in Engineering, as well as a Level 6 Manufacturing Engineer Apprenticeship and will roll-off the scheme into an Industrial Process Engineer position in our Underwater Systems business.
What happens at the end
Secure a permanent role from day one at the start of your apprenticeship.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Number skills
- Team working
Qualifications
- GCSE subjects to include Maths and English (grade 5x 9-4 or A*-C) - essential
- A Level additional STEM subject (grade 4 (C) or above) - essential
- A Level x2 including Maths (grade 4 (C) or above) - essential
Key details
- Wage: £24,000 a year
- Working week: Monday - Thursday, 37 hours a week (9.25 hours, Monday - Thursday).
- Hours: 37 hours per week
- Duration: 5 Years
- Start date: 2027-09-06
- Closing date: 2027-02-17
- Apprenticeship standard: Manufacturing engineer (degree) (level 6)
- Training provider: YEOVIL COLLEGE