Apprentice Maintenance Engineer - HILL BISCUITS LIMITED

Summary

As an Apprentice with us you will support the day-to-day running of the company ensuring that machinery is working and production isn’t affected. You will be trained to undertake installation, testing, servicing, removal, replacement, maintenance and repair of a range of equipment as part of planned preventative and reactive maintenance programmes.

Annual wage

£12,480 to £22,308 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

£9.50

Training course: Maintenance and operations engineering technician

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8.00 am to 4.00 pm
37.5 hours a week

Possible start date: 16 Mar 2025

Duration: 36 Months

Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Preventative & Reactive Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
Mechanical fault finding
Electrical fault finding
Creating a maintenance plan for the organisation’s equipment
Establishing maintenance policies and procedures
Ensuring that Maintenance Technicians carry out planned maintenance
Conducting frequent quality checks on equipment to ensure no maintenance is required
Completing emergency maintenance when equipment breaks down
Managing the budget for the maintenance of equipment
Keeping a record of preventive and emergency maintenance carried out
Ensuring the organisation complies with safety regulations while maintenance takes place
You will also deal with customers who come to collect and suppliers who deliver to the warehouse.
You will help the team load the van for deliveries
You will work closely with the operations manager and the office team to ensure a smooth running of the dispatch area.
Any other duties required

Where you’ll work

Tudno Mill

Smith Street

Ashton Under Lyne

Lancashire

OL7 0DB

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Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

ROCHDALE TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Your training course

Maintenance and operations engineering technician

Equal to Level 3 (A level)

Course contents

Your training plan

Training will take place both on-site at Hill Biscuits and weekly day release at the Rochdale Training. Candidates need to ensure that they can attend both sites

Requirements

Desired qualifications

GCSE Maths and English (Grade Grade 4/C or above) desirable

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Organisation skills
Team working
Experience is desirable
Punctuality
Reliability
Trustworthiness

Other requirements

Please research the location of Rochdale Training as well as the location of the employer to ensure that you can travel to both locations. Apprentices are paid for their normal working hours and training that's part of their apprenticeship (usually one day per week). The Apprenticeship National Minimum Wage guide is updated every April (ANMW): https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

About this company

Hill Biscuits is one of the largest and longest-established biscuit manufacturers in the United Kingdom. From its site in the heart of Ashton-under-Lyne, the Hill bakery operates 24 hours a day and produces over 100 product lines of everyday traditional biscuits – including flavoured creams, Bourbon Creams, Fruit Shorties, Gingerbread Men and Digestives – all following family recipes handed down through the generations. Started in 1855 by John and Sarah Hill from a small shop in Dukinfield, Manchester – manufacturing was scaled to meet supply in 1889 and four years later the foundation stone for the Tudno Mill factory was laid by Sarah Hill on 4th November 1893. The bakery remains the home of Hill Biscuits to this day, 130 years on.