CNC Machining Apprentice (Select Works)

We have a fantastic opportunity for an apprentice to join this fantastic team. This is an excellent opportunity to earn while you learn. Your training will be underpinned by practical experience, which will prepare you for a great career. Select Works is in the process of moving to larger premises in the Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

We are offering a 4 year apprenticeship in which you will benefit from working closely with highly skilled engineers to learn and develop cnc machining skills and knowledge.

Your bespoke training will equip you with the capability to produce machined components for high specification products. Soft skills will also be developed during this period to help strengthen skills such as communication.

After successful completion of the 48-month apprenticeship, you will have enough skills and experience to make you a strong entrant to start work as a qualified member of the CNC machining staff.

You will combine on-the-job skills and knowledge gained in the workplace, along with off-the-job further education to ensure that this is achievable.

Key Accountabilities:

• Operation of CNC lathes and milling machines
• Understanding how to use lathes and milling machines to machine a wide range of different materials
• Fundamental engineering skills will be embedded into the training, progressing onto a number of CNC machines using conversational programming techniques
• Given the vast range of materials to be machined, you will learn the skills and techniques for machining each type of metal

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Team working
• Initiative

• GCSE English Language or English Literature (Grade 5/C or above) essential
• GCSE Maths (Grade 5/C or above) essential

• Full-time position upon completion of apprenticeship

Machining Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard:

• 3 x 5-week practical training modules in hand fitting, turning and milling at TDR Training
• Level 3 Extended Diploma in Machining
• End-point assessment

At Select Works Ltd. we offer a comprehensive range of services to provide a complete engineering solution to meet your manufacturing requirements.
From component manufacture through to project management, we believe we are a manufacturing partner that can deliver the high quality, cost focused service industry demands.

Our mission is to build a company that matches our ambition and experience, to deliver to industry a trusted manufacturing partner that can be relied upon to supply the highest quality engineering services and CNC machined components.

Combining highly skilled engineers and modern CNC and CAD/CAM machining advantages, we pride ourselves in our ability to maximise the latest available manufacturing technologies, allowing us to consistently deliver cost effective components and projects machined to our exemplary standards and supplied to our customer base throughout various tolerance sensitive markets.

At Select Works we are committed to our goals and continuously improving our services and infrastructure through investment in skills, people and technology. We aim to rise to your most demanding manufacturing challenges.

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Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate, North Shields, Newcastle, NE28 7SF

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