Apprentice, Mechanical and Electrical Technician

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a  friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. 

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards.  We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our MEICA and capital maintenance team. Our Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control & Automation (MEICA) experts offer a one-stop solution, including ongoing operation and maintenance services. 

Want to be a part of it?

Are you interested in STEM subjects and want to work across multiple industry sectors within an engineering biased organisation? This M-Group Water Apprenticeship Scheme is the right step on to a career pathway that will give you vocational and further education qualifications across the mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control & automation (MEICA) fields.

M-Group Water provides mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control & automation (MEICA) maintenance and project delivery services across a customer base that covers the Water, Energy and Transport sectors, with additional customers across our adjacent markets such as chemical and pharmaceutical engineering.

This is a great opportunity for the engineers of tomorrow to develop practical and engineering skills across a broad range of topics and initiatives to take out into the STEM environment solving customers’ problems and fixing things!

What will you be doing?

Year 1 - Will be spent full-time (3 days a week) at our training provider’s centre in the South East of England working towards the first stage of the Engineering Technician Apprenticeship Standard at Level 2. This entails learning hand skills using tools across the electrical, electronic and mechanical disciplines within a controlled workshop environment. You will create write up’s that are assessed to achieve the Level 2 criteria. Also within year 1, you will be on day release with our training provider completing a Level 3 diploma in Engineering covering core subjects such as engineering maths, science and first principles. You will then spend 1 day a week within the work environment at Z-Tech working alongside our experienced technicians and engineers.

Year 2 - Will be the start of your Level 3 part of the Engineering Technician Apprenticeship Standard in either mechanical, electrical and/or control & instrumentation (MEICA). This will be conducted at the workplace alongside experienced technicians and engineers across our apprenticeship pathway programme through our 5 Business Units (Water, Energy, Rail, AES & Labour), where you will be assessed on site. You will also be continuing your day release with our training provider to complete the 2nd and final year of the Level 3 diploma in Engineering.

Year 3 and 4 - Will be the continuation of the Level 3 part of the Engineering Technician Apprenticeship Standard in your chosen disciplines until you have completed your mandatory assessments and achieved sign off from our training provider’s assessors.

Throughout the apprenticeship scheme you will be assessed against the criteria of the learning outcomes and M-Group values. Based on these performance criterion, during years 3 and 4 you may be offered the opportunity to complete a Level 4 HNC diploma in an engineering discipline suited to the industries M-Group operate within.

What you’ll bring 

• Valid driving licence
• Have the right to work in the UK at least Maths and English grades 4-9 including
• Good IT skills / Microsoft Office (in particular Microsoft Excel)
• Effective communication skills
• Have good organisational skills
• Keen to learn with an interest in development and progression
• Passionate about the industry
• Hardworking
• Reliable, with excellent attendance and timekeeping
• Ability to use own initiative
• Must have a ‘can do’ attitude

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Personal Accident Cover 

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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