Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician Apprenticeship Level 3
Electrical Pathway: This apprenticeship is perfect if you aspire to become an engineering technician with practical skills and an excellent knowledge of your chosen role. You should be working in a relevant engineering sector and have access to real life tasks, equipment or services. You’ll need to work ethically and demonstrate commitment to continual learning and development. As a Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician you’ll work on complex machinery and equipment, maintaining, servicing and testing to meet regulations, health and safety and production requirements.
You will be covering a variety of units in this apprenticeship, but the specific units to this pathway include:
Electrical and electronic principles
Electrical and electronic systems and devices
Wiring and testing electrical equipment and circuits Forming and assembling electrical cable and enclosures Producing CAD models using a CAD system
Producing engineering project plans
Engineering maths
Repairing and maintaining electronic equipment
Mechanical Pathway: This apprenticeship is perfect if you aspire to become an engineering technician with practical skills and an excellent knowledge of your chosen role. You should be working in a relevant engineering sector and have access to real life tasks, equipment or services. You will need to work ethically and demonstrate commitment to continual learning and development.
Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician work on complex machinery and equipment, maintaining, servicing and testing to meet regulations, health and safety and production requirements. You will be required to attend College one day per week as part of the apprenticeship’s 20% off-the-job training requirements.
You will be covering a variety of units in this apprenticeship, but the specific units to this pathway include:
Carrying out preventative planned maintenance on mechanical equipment Preparing and using mills for milling operations
Preparing and using lathes for turning operations
Producing CAD models using a CAD system
Manual turning techniques
Carrying out fault diagnosis on fluid power equipment and circuits Engineering drawing
Producing replacement components for maintenance activities
Course Details
- You should have a genuine interest in this subject
Electrical pathway:
Electrical and electronic principles
Electrical and electronic systems and devices
Wiring and testing electrical equipment and circuits Forming and assembling electrical cable and enclosures Producing CAD models using a CAD system
Producing engineering project plans
Engineering maths
Repairing and maintaining electronic equipment
Mechanical pathway:
Carrying out preventative planned maintenance on mechanical equipment Preparing and using mills for milling operations
Preparing and using lathes for turning operations
Producing CAD models using a CAD system
Manual turning techniques
Carrying out fault diagnosis on fluid power equipment and circuits Engineering drawing
Producing replacement components for maintenance activities
Maintenance & Operations Engineering Technicians covers 7 roles: Electrical Technicians; Mechanical Technicians; Control & Instrumentation Technicians; Wind Turbine Technicians Electrical System and Process Control Technicians; Electromechanical Technicians and Plant Operations Technicians. They will maintain the safety, integrity and effective operation of plant and equipment in one or more of the following Industries that are part of or have activities that are part of the broader national infrastructure Engineering Sector: the electricity generating environment, which may use a range of different fuels including coal, gas, nuclear, wind and other renewable sources; telecommunications power plants; oil and gas refining; nuclear waste reprocessing; processing and production of chemicals; pharmaceuticals; human and animal food; cosmetics; petrochemicals; sewerage and the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas.
These Technicians will undertake installation, testing, servicing, removal, replacement, maintenance and repair of a range of equipment, sometimes complex, as part of planned preventative and reactive maintenance programmes. They may also undertake decommissioning activities when plant is being removed from service
Course Applications
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This course costs: £
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Many of our courses are fully funded for 16-18 year olds however not all courses are available for this age group.
You may also be entitled to support with travel, childcare and equipment.
To find out exactly what you could receive, contact our Helpzone team on 08000 380 123 for a free, impartial appointment, with no commitment necessary.
“The content of this course was very interesting and applicable to my occupation. It helped me to explore leadership and management concepts further which I can now apply in my role."Joan Audas
