Manufacturing Technician Apprentice

Type: Apprentice
Location: Greencroft Industrial Park (DH9 7YB)

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Daily duties will include:

• Maintain a safe, organised, and clean work area
• Following all health and safety procedures, including adherence to all PPE requirements
• Set up and operate production machines and equipment including CNC, saws, core drills, lapping and polishing machines and grinders
• Perform high-level parts using hand tools
• Inspect finished products for quality and adherence to customer specifications
• Produce and detail various-sized quartz (glass) parts to conform to specifications
• Work in accordance with process procedures, work order instructions, drawings, and other production documents
• Verify part or process conformance to specification
• Calibrate or adjust equipment to ensure quality production with approved inspection tools, such as callipers, micrometres, height gages, pin gages and comparators
• Perform detailed work, which may include waxing, dewaxing, chamfering, acid washing or other cleaning, cosmetic inspection of parts and other similar functions
• Assists with troubleshooting problems with equipment, devices, or products
• Maintain measuring and machine equipment. Detecting and correcting minor machine malfunctions and performing daily and monthly machine maintenance as directed
• Monitor and adjust production processes or equipment for quality and productivity
• Set up, operate, and perform routine maintenance
• Start up and shut down processing equipment
• How to work safely in our environment
• The use of precision measurement equipment and industrial trucks
• The use of machine and hand tools
• Machine mathematics
• Use of measuring equipment

Where you’ll work

2 Parkhead
Annfield Plain
Greencroft Industrial Park
DH9 7YB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE

Your training course

Lean manufacturing operative (level 2)

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Your training plan

Lean Manufacturing Operative Level 2.

The successful candidate will be assigned a training consultant who will guide them through their apprenticeship and support them in gaining the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to successfully complete the apprenticeship. The training consultant will visit the workplace on a regular basis, and there will be no college release days needed. Working alongside the college, you will also receive ongoing training from the workplace to develop your skill set.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade 4/C)
• Maths (grade 4/C)

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
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative
• Patience
• Physical fitness

Other requirements

This role does include a lot of manual handling therefore candidates are required to be able to lift and extend with arms outstretched, up to 20 kgs.
Candidates are required to be able to wear all required, company-provided safety gear during your shift. This includes goggles, aprons, boots, acid pants (optional), 2 sets of gloves, and a half mask or PAPR respirator.

About this company

We are Tosoh Quartz, Inc. (TQI), the world’s leading manufacturer of quartz glassware for the semiconductor industry. With locations in Portland, OR USA and Durham, UK, we have been dedicated to uncompromising quality and service since our founding in 1957. We’re looking for motivated individuals to produce our industry-leading products here at Tosoh Quartz, Inc.

https://www.tosoh.com/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Leave 194 hours.
Company pension.
Cycle to work scheme.
Free parking.
Health & Well-being Program.
Sick pay (post probation).

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