Apprentice Service Technician

Vanderlande Industries B.V.; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Vanderlande as an Apprentice Service Technician, supporting a major UK airline's retail operations. You'll work with experienced engineers, gain qualifications, and perform critical maintenance tasks to ensure equipment efficiency and safety.

Benefits

28 days of annual leave

Bupa Medical Cover

YuLife Wellbeing membership

Cycle to work scheme

Pension with Aviva

Qualifications

• Support to achieve NVQ Level 3 at a local College.
• Perform maintenance duties to ensure productivity and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Comply with health and safety rules.
• Perform malfunction and maintenance work.
• Resolve mechanical, electrical, and control faults.

Skills

Enthusiastic attitude

Proactive attitude

Flexible

Education

Five A*-C or 9-4 grade GCSEs

Job description

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Apprentice Service Technician

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Job Title

Apprentice Service Technician

Job Description

Title: Apprentice Service Technician

Reports to: Site Engineering Manager

Location: Middlewich - Cheshire

Introduction to role

Vanderlande is the market leader in efficient logistics process automation within the airports, warehousing and parcel sector.

This role will see the successful applicant joining a small team of experienced engineers to support a major UK airline with their retail operations.

The business is charged with ensuring outbound flights have the retail stock on board to ensure customer delight and to process returned stock. To do this efficiently they have invested heavily in automated warehousing solutions from Vanderlande and ensuring the safe, efficient and high quality maintenance of that equipment is the responsibility of the onsite Vanderlande team.

Role Responsibilities

You will be supported to achieve an NVQ Level 3 at a local College, where you will spend your first year. Apprentices will work towards completing a NVQ Foundation, BTEC L3 in Advance Manufacturing and Engineering, and NVQ L3 in Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (Mechatronics Maintenance Technician). This program is accredited via End Point Assessment by iMechE (EngTech).

You will then continue your learning working at the customer’s site.

The Apprentice Service Technician will be performing maintenance duties to safely ensure productivity and output, equipment availability, health & safety compliance and quality. You will be performing the following tasks:

Your responsibilities and activities will include:

• Comply with all health and safety rules and regulations.
• Ensuring a top condition of the various installations.
• Responsible for performing malfunction and maintenance work as well as carrying out preventive and periodic maintenance, in collaboration with colleagues.
• Resolving mechanical, electrical and any control technical faults.

Upon completion of your apprenticeship, you will apply for a service technician role within Vanderlande.

Role Qualification and Skills

As an Apprentice Service Technician, you make an important contribution to customer satisfaction, whereby the continuity of the customer process is central. You therefore have an enthusiastic and proactive attitude and are flexible

What we see as a nice to have:

• Five A*-C or 9-4 grade GCSEs (Including Maths and English).
• An interest in engineering
• Enthusiastic and motivated attitude

What we offer

• 28 days of annual leave (excluding public holidays)
• Bupa Medical Cover
• YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers.
• Access to Achievers, an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.
• A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with Aviva

Vanderlande is fully committed to supporting, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcomes applications from all candidates who meet our job specifications. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.

About Us

Aspire. Grow. Achieve. Together

Are you looking to develop your career and satisfy your ambitions at a company where you can aspire to new heights, enjoy personal growth and thrive on achievement? At Vanderlande, we seek passionate and ambitious people capable of making a positive impact on our key customer projects while developing a successful and prosperous career in a challenging and rewarding international environment.

We are the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports – from London Heathrow to Singapore Changi – and in the parcel market for leading players such as UPS and FedEx. Furthermore, we are also a leading supplier of solutions for warehousing giants, including Walmart, which seamlessly integrate innovative systems, intelligent software, and life-cycle services.

If you aspire to a position of responsibility and want to make a difference by facilitating the delivery of what matters most to consumers, passengers, and businesses, the next step on your path to global opportunities is to join Vanderlande. As part of our network and unique culture of freedom and flexibility, you will be able to express yourself and become connected to our dedicated people, building strong relationships and rising to the challenge of industry-leading projects.

You will grow, take ownership and make every day better as you continue on the road to success with your spirit of adventure – and fulfill your ambitions for personal development through our Academy. Vanderlande will give you the necessary knowledge, tools, and support so that together we have the confidence and ability to exceed our customers’ expectations in over 100 countries.

To achieve our collective goals, you will seize the initiative and have a hands-on role working in a positive environment to deliver tangible, state-of-the-art products and improve the competitiveness of our highly visible customers. As an integral part of our team, you will have the enthusiasm and be driven to reach our destination before your next journey with Vanderlande begins…

So, if you would like to join a profitable and growing company that will enable you to reach your goals and focus on your future, please get in touch with us.