Plastic Omnium - Level 3 - Toolmaking Apprenticeship with Great Benefits
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Company: Plastic Omnium
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Location: Birmingham, B46 1DA
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: £250.00 per week
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Sector: Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies
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Ref: VAC-00620
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Application Deadline Date: 06/06/2024
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Start Date: 11/09/2024
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: From Yr 2 Mon - Thu 8:30am - 5pm Fri 8:30am - 2pm
Brief Description
As a Toolmaker Technician you will be hands on, learning toolmaking skills including servicing and repairing tools and using lathes, millers and grinders to manufacture new tools. Fantastic opportunity to work toward becoming a fully skilled Toolroom technician.
Qualifications Required
GCSE Maths and English Grade 5/C or above.
Or, progression from level 2 engineering qualification.
Personal Qualities
• Open and polite to others.
• Rigorous
Skills Required
• Team player.
• Quality orientated.
• Great attitude to achieve goals.
• Technical mind set.
Training to be Provided
Together with invaluable commercial and practical experience, you’ll gain several academic and vocational qualifications throughout your time with us, which are fully paid for, including:
● Level 2 Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Foundation Competence) – off the job full time at Make UK in Aston, Birmingham in year 1
● Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Competence)
● Level 3 BTEC Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Knowledge)
● In house training in line with your requirements.
Future Prospects
Potential for permanent position or progression onto a higher apprenticeship (if positions are available).
The apprenticeship will provide you with the opportunity to work toward becoming a fully skilled Toolroom technician
Vacancy Detail
Plastic Omnium has been a manufacturer since the outset, and our operational excellence is recognized by our 93 international customers. The same exacting operational and quality standards are applied in all our 135 plants worldwide.
At Plastic Omnium we believe the car is an adventure and we are innovating to shape it through making its parts smarter and more economic.
Plastic Omnium placed 7th in the 2019 INPI ranking of the automotive industry.
This brilliant role will involve:
MISSION
• Maintain all compression tools on site.
• Support and contribute IPI targets.
• Support production and quality department to minimise scrap levels.
• Support projects team through industrialisation of new tools arriving on site.
• Support Toolroom Technicians in daily activates.
ACTIVITIES
• Manufacturing and trialling new mould tools, preparing the tool for plant industrialisation.
• Tool maintenance and repairs
• Once trained usage of lathes, grinders, milling machines and drills.
• Ability to TIG / MIG weld – external training will be provided
• Polishing and fabrication, once trained
• Use of hydraulic systems and electrical systems on mould tools.
• Level 1, 2 and 3 tool PM schedules
• Mould tool changes
In exchange, Plastic Omnium offer a generous salary with annual reviews, an amazing contributory pension scheme (employee 5%, employer 10%), extra holidays purchase and a discount scheme on a multitude of retail companies.
Please note: Due to the requirement to work with cranes candidates will need to be 18 years old or above by September 2024.
Other Information
Due to the requirement to work with cranes, candidates will need to be 18 years old or above by the start of the apprenticeship.
You will be contacted by a member of the apprenticeship team to discuss your application
Please be aware this advert will close early if position is filled and start date could be changed as a result.