Job Description
Opportunity information
Salary £15000 per year
Duration 42 months
Advert closing date 19/05/2023
Description
RDS MME is the world’s largest distributor of Topcon/RDS on-board weighing and measuring products which are retrofitted onto mobile
machinery serving the quarrying/aggregates, recycling, civil construction and agricultural markets. We have field engineers all
over the UK and Scotland and are looking for an apprentice Electronics Mobile Engineer.
We have an exciting career opportunity for an Apprentice or Trainee Electronics Mobile Engineer in South East England around the Essex/Suffolk area.
- You will have on the job training for tasks include installing our mobile measuring equipment for many applications, to a vast array of machinery, on a variety of business sites, from quarries to farms to recycling sites.
- Over time you will learn the skills required to mount in cab displays, the fitting of various sensing technology and wiring installation looms onto normally new Fork Lift Trucks, Telehandlers, Loading Shovels, Excavators, Combine Harvesters, Agricultural Drills and Sprayers.
- Training will include how to calibrate our systems plus diagnosing of problems and servicing, all to a high standard.
- The role also involves installing routers to transfer information to data transfer platforms via WiFi or 4G Link. Knowledge of the platforms with be part of your training modules as you advance.
- This is a hands-on role for a conscientious individual that can work and train alongside our experienced engineers using their own initiative.
- This is a field-based position. (There is no office). You will be expected to train with our engineers who depart from the Colchester area daily and work in South East England counties of: Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, London, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex and Kent.
Entry requirements
- Basic IT knowledge. Word & Excel.
- Have an understanding and an ability to use technical/professional knowledge and information.
- Applicants need to have 4 GCSE’s including Maths and English grades 5-9/A-C or a commitment to undertake Level 2 maths and English prior to embarking on the apprenticeship.
- A clean driving licence is required.
Training to be provided
- The learner will be studying the Engineering Fitter Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard qualification.
- Day release to West Suffolk College.
- Functional skills will be studied if equivalent qualifications are not held.
Things to consider
This is a hands on mechanical and electrical field based role - the applicant will be working on ancillary systems and or agricultural/industrial mechanical machinery sometimes outside, in quarries, recycling sites, aggregates businesses and farms. This is a field-based role, departing from Colchester.
Skills required
Array
Future prospects
After sufficient training they will be a fully qualified Engineer with the world's largest distributor of Topcon/RDS on-board weighing and measuring products. You will be appointed a company vehicle which is effectively their mobile workshop and earning a competitive salary.
Hours per week 37.5
Working week Monday - Friday, 08:30-17:00
Apprenticeship standard Engineering fitter (Level 3)
Christchurch, Dorset, GB, BH23 3TG