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Engineering Higher Apprenticeship

Siemens Healthineers
Pay: Competitive
Location: Sudbury Sudbury United Kingdom
Category: Entry Level
Available from: Immediately
Finishes on: Ongoing Position
Type of work: Full Time, Indoor , Daytime Work
Job reference: E03741945
Engineering 2021-03-01 2021-03-27

Job Description

Engineering Apprentice – Siemens Healthineers – Sudbury

As one of the most innovative and influential players in medicaldevices, we offer ambitious students the chance to help shape the future ofhealthcare. Discover what you are capable of and join the ApprenticeshipProgramme at our Diagnostic Imaging business in Sudbury. Over the courseof your apprenticeship, you’ll gain skills through on the job and formaltraining at college. Over time, you’ll take on more responsibility andaccountability as your skills, knowledge and expertise increases.

This is a fantastic challenge for any student to enter the world ofSiemens medical devices and understand the world of manufacturing in accordanceto FDA regulations. This apprenticeship will allow the candidate to work withthe Production Engineering team to not only develop basic core skills but alsodevelop the understanding on PLC’s, software and digitalisation across allSiemens Sudbury facilities and have a good understanding of all aspects ofcompany departments.

You’ll need to be available tobegin this apprenticeship in September 2021 and will completea 2-year Level 4 Higher Apprenticeship in EngineeringManufacture. Suitable candidates may be supported toprogress onto the Engineering Manufacturing Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship.

Your mission and responsibilities:

Reporting to the Manufacturing engineering manager you will be expectedto:

  • Understand and follow the sites Ergonomic, Health and Safety policy
  • Understand and demonstrate Lean/continuous improvement actions and participate in Kaizen events for the site delivering sustainable savings.
  • Understand and demonstrate Siemens Quality Policy and systems how to write CAPA’s and IR’s in the event of a non-conformance.
  • Learn and develop an understanding of key departments within Siemens and develop a broad range of essential skills and knowledge.
  • Demonstrate how to fault find, repair and make available processes or product identified during manufacturing verification processes.
  • Understand and demonstrate how to manufacture products
  • Understand and explain how products function
  • Support the introduction of all new instruments, processes and capital equipment.
  • Support the introduction of any new process improvements such as digital advances.
  • Participate in maintenance and calibration activities
  • Understand and demonstrate how to project manage a project to completion
  • Understand and demonstrate how to create new procedures for manufacturing processes or validation.
  • You will have the ability to develop your business competences andfunctional knowledge including:

  • Learn how to lead a meeting and develop project management skills
  • Develop an understanding of electrical/mechanical drawings and use a voltmeter
  • Maintain quality awareness
  • Understand how to correctly use tools for repairs
  • Gain drawing knowledge and develop how to read and understand technical drawings
  • Your qualifications and experience:

    We are looking for forward-thinking, inquisitive candidates thatdemonstrate the following characteristics:

  • Excellent organisational and time management skills
  • Enjoys collaborating and can work effectively in teams to find innovative solutions
  • Be a confident communicator across all levels as well as take initiative for tasks
  • You can work independently, safely and responsibly; take ownership of challenges and ideas and are looking to develop your ability to drive and lead change
  • Desire to develop skills in an engineering/maintenance/electronics discipline
  • An Electrical/Mechanical background would be advantageous
  • Demonstrate a strong interest in digitalisation
  • You must have:

  • Minimum of five GCSEs at A*– C / 9 - 5 (or equivalent) including Maths and English
  • Educated to A Level standard B grade or equivalent NVQ/BTEC or HNC
  • Competency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • What’s the application process?

    On applying for the role, you’ll be taken through the following 3-stageprocess:

    1. Online application – Please complete our onlineapplication and submit you CV, which will then be screened by our TalentAcquisition team.

    2. Gamified assessment – You will be required tocomplete a 30-minute online test that assesses your skills and cognitiveability.

    3. Assessment centre - If you're successful, you'll beinvited to a virtual assessment centre including a strengths-based interviewand group exercise.

    The deadline for applications is 12th March 2021 however the opportunity may close early so we encourage you toapply now to avoid disappointment.

    During the process, we're looking at your overall skills and personalityso the best you can do is to simply be yourself. Remember, it's as much of anopportunity for you to get to know us, as well as allowing us to get to knowyou - it's very much a two-way process.

    Benefits:

  • An apprenticeship salary
  • 26 days annual holiday
  • Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities including 2 paid volunteering days per year
  • Access to our flexible benefits from private medical insurance to gym memberships
  • Generous pension contributions
  • Support from our 24/7 employee assistance programme
  • In addition, we provide a flexible and dynamic environment with thespace to stretch beyond your comfort zone in order to grow both personally andprofessionally. Our unique team spirit arises from embracing differentperspectives and you will join a diverse network of graduate and early careerprofessionals.

    Training & Development:

    The successful candidate will complete a 2-year HigherApprenticeship in Engineering Manufacture with equivalent to a BTECPearson Level 4 Higher National Certificate in Engineering. This requires18-months of college attendance one day per week. The final 6 months of will befocused on completing a skills portfolio during work-based learning. Oncompletion, the apprentice will receive Professional Engineering Institutionstatus ‘EngTech’.

    Suitable candidates will have the option to be supported to progress onto the Engineering Manufacturing Degree Apprenticeship Level 6, which includesHigher National Diploma L5, BEng Honours L6.

    About Siemens Healthineers:

    Siemens Healthineers is a leading medical technology company with a170-year legacy of first-to-market technologies and product innovations.Passionately driven by empowering healthcare providers to better help theirpatients, our technologies touch an estimated 5 million patients globally everyday. We are committed to helping healthcare providers to succeedand work in the areas of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, laboratorydiagnostics and molecular medicine as well as digital health and enterpriseservices.

    Recently celebrating 80 years of manufacturing excellence, our Sudburysite designs and assembles blood, urine and diabetes analysis instruments. Withour point-of-care testing systems, Siemens Healthineers delivers lab-accurate,actionable, and timely results on the spot. You can find more information .

    Being part of our team:

    Our success comes from our people – we are around 50,000 dedicatedcolleagues in over 70 countries who are passionate about innovating the futureof healthcare. You can hear directly from our current and past apprentices on our .

    Change is a constant aspect of our work. We aspire to lead the change inour industry rather than just react to it. That’s why we want you to seek,implement and celebrate your best ideas. We recognise that building adiverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We stronglyencourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunityto discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants to encourage agileworking and innovation.


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