KEYFACTS
Location:
Leicester
Wage:
£15,000.00
Possible Start Date:
29-07-2024
Working Week:
Monday - Thursday, 7:30am - 4.00pm and Friday, 7:30am - 12:30pm.
Apprenticeship Framework:
Engineering and manufacturing
Level:
Advanced
Duration:
42 Months
APPRENTICESHIPSUMMARY
New opportunity to join our expanding team based in Leicester within a world leading metrology business. This role includes grinding components to tight tolerances, selecting grinding wheels & balancing wheels, inspecting components using Taylor Hobson instruments & using modern etchers and printers. Full on-site training provided.
- Produce components / tooling using a range of manual machines safely and to the required quality and within reasonable time scales.
- Read drawings and measure components to the drawing tolerances using various measuring kit.
- Finish basic components on both surface & cylindrical grinding machines safely and to the required quality and within reasonable time scales.
- Grinding components to tight tolerances.
- Selecting grinding wheels and balancing wheels dependant on material.
- Inspecting components using Taylor Hobson Instruments and various other techniques.
- Using modern etchers and printers.
REQUIREMENTS ANDPROSPECTS
DESIRED SKILLS & PERSONAL Qualities:
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Things to consider
Additional training to take place at Loughborough College to develop knowledge, skills and behaviours in accordance to this Apprenticeship. Please ensure you are able to travel before applying. Loughborough College reserves the right to withdraw this vacancy before the end date, following consultation with the employer.ABOUT THEEMPLOYER
TAYLOR HOBSON LIMITED
Taylor Hobson Ltd was established in 1886 and acquired by AMETEK in 2004. TH is a world leader in field of surface and form metrology, providing contact and non-contact measurement solutions to the most demanding applications with a worldwide infrastructure to support clients. Markets include optics, automotive, aerospace, medical, precision machining, and next generation technologies, particularly semiconductor, hard disk, precision optics and energy.