About this vacancy

Fort Vale are offering an opportunity for multiple young apprentices to join their ever growing and established business. Fort Vale is a globally recognised engineering company and take pride in offering high quality apprenticeships to young people from the local area.

During your apprenticeship you will be involved in highly-skilled, complex and precision work. To help you develop your overall skill set, you will experience all our machining areas and spend time in our assembly and inspection departments.

Skills and personal qualities required for the role:

• Willingness to learn and adopt new techniques
• Work well both in a team and individually
• Good communication skills
• Able to solve problems
• Positive attitude towards work
• Work well under pressure
• Great attention to detail
• Good attendance and punctuality

There are plenty of good career prospects in Fort Vale. A number of Directors/Managers and Supervisors have progressed through the apprenticeship scheme here and into their current roles.

Please see link to the company website – https://www.fortvale.com/

Duties/main responsibilties include:

As an apprentice mechatronic technician, you will be trained in electrical, electronic, and mechanical systems.

During your apprenticeship you will work with our skilled maintenance team to make sure that our plant and machinery perform efficiently so that the factory can achieve its production targets regarding safety, quality, delivery time and cost.

This role is very diverse, you will learn to apply a complex range of skills to carry out the installation, testing, fault-finding, and planned maintenance of complicated and automated machinery.

This is a ‘4 year’ apprenticeship where you will be expected to complete your HND in Mechanical Engineering.

Working week

Monday – Friday, 07:30 – 16:15