Mechatronics Maintenance Apprentice: Cranes & Automation

Training Provider; Yeovil; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Yeovil College offers a Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship in Yeovil, training you to inspect, maintain, and repair overhead cranes, industrial doors, and automated storage systems. You’ll learn to log inspections, test safety devices, and ensure compliance with LOLER/PUWER standards.

The role includes lubrication, alignment checks, torqueing, fault isolation, and component replacement, with on-site training and supervision during the apprenticeship.

Responsibilities

• Visual structural evaluations: Inspecting crane runways, bridge girders, end trucks, and industrial door tracks for alignment, wear, or stress fractures
• Safety device testing: Verifying the functionality of limit switches, emergency stop buttons, anti-collision sensors, and door auto-reverse safety edges
• Load-bearing component checks: Examining wire ropes, hooks, sheaves, chains, and hoist drums for fraying, deformation, or excessive wear
• Regulatory documentation: Logging all inspection findings to maintain compliance with statutory occupational health and safety standards e.g., LOLER/PUWER
• System lubrication: Applying specified grease and lubricants to crane gears, bearings, wire ropes, industrial door hinges, rollers, and drive chains
• Mechanical adjustments: Tensioning door springs (counterbalance systems), adjusting brake air gaps on hoist mechanisms, and aligning tracks
• Fluid and filter management: Checking hydraulic fluid levels on automated doors and gear oil levels in crane hoist and travel gearboxes
• Fastener torquing: Inspecting and tightening critical structural bolts, rail clips, and mounting brackets subject to operational vibration
• Electrical fault isolation: Using multi meters and drawing to trace faults in variable frequency invertor drives (VFDs), pendant controls, radio remotes, and door automation control panels
• Component replacement: Swapping out worn brake pads, damaged contactors, frayed cables, broken door slats, and faulty limit switches
• Drive system overhauls: Repairing or replacing malfunctioning electric motors, gearboxes, and hydraulic door operators
• Post-repair verification: Conducting functional un-loaded and rated load tests to certify equipment is safe to return to service

Job description

Yeovil College offers a Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship in Yeovil, training you to inspect, maintain, and repair overhead cranes, industrial doors, and automated storage systems. You’ll learn to log inspections, test safety devices, and ensure compliance with LOLER/PUWER standards.

The role includes lubrication, alignment checks, torqueing, fault isolation, and component replacement, with on-site training and supervision during the apprenticeship.