Service Engineer | 2025

Apprentice Service Engineer (ASE)

Title: Apprentice Service Engineer [ASE]
Accountable to: Project Manager & Customer Service Engineer
Close liaison: After Sales/Service, Project Eng, Sales, Technical and Manufacturing Teams
Start date: TBC


Overview

The position of Apprentice Electrical Engineer has been created to provide the successful candidate with recognised training skills to qualify as an Electrical Engineer, and also training covering a range of disciplines within our manufacturing business. Throughout the training period the candidate will be exposed to other departments such as Goods inwards, Inspection, Mechanical assembly, Design.

It is foreseen that the training period would last for 3 years and subject to satisfactory completion of this period and relevant qualifications, a permanent role would be assigned.


Key Duties & Responsibilities

  • To complete BTEC or equivalent qualifications
  • To perform high quality electrical assembly work following the drawings and specifications supplied by the Drawing Office.
  • To liaise with the Mechanical Engineers to ensure that both electrical and mechanical work is co-ordinated.
  • To immediately report any component shortages to the Manufacturing Controller.
  • To report to the Production Manager when a job has been completed or to move off a job if there are not sufficient parts available to continue the build efficiently.
  • Responsible for reporting any quality failures to the Production Manager.
  • Responsible for reporting any problems related to the operation of equipment used to perform electrical assembly to the Production Manager.
  • To ensure that there are sufficient supplies of consumable components to perform the tasks required using the Edale Kanban system.
  • To ensure that there are sufficient supplies of consumable components to perform the tasks required using the Edale Kanban system.
  • To follow both the company’s Health and Safety and Environmental policies.
  • To ensure that working areas are kept to the highest level of cleanliness.
  • To perform any other task as may be reasonably required and consistent with duties of the post.

Performance Management:

The applicant will be performance managed through a set of dedicated milestones in conjunction with business and college expectations. This will include, but is not limited to, meeting college deadlines for coursework and adhering to company policy and procedure whilst diligently completing all necessary documents to a high standard.

The performance of the Apprentice Service Engineer will be tied into the wider departmental KPI’s and therefore will be entitled to any departmental bonuses or reward schemes.