Maintenance Apprentice Review

My role is to be a maintenance apprentice at the new EMC factory, day to day life consists of running the machines and helping out as man power for production. Occasionally we will attend breakdowns and carry out PM work when it is available but this is rare due to the machines being so new and under warranty etc etc.

I have learnt a variety of new skills that are needed for my role such as pneumatics, hydraulics, electronics.

The environment I work in is excellent with the new facilities and the people around me, its just the actual content of work content is lacking for the skills I need and the work can be very mundane.

For the first year and a half of my apprenticeship I had little to no contact with JLR apprentice staff and any of our issues or questions went unanswered. It has got better since being on site but there is still little focus around emc apprentices learning and issue, we are mainly used to extra manpower.

The programme has very little structure, the first year was spent at college and after that we were put onto site. Since then there is no scheduled training, any vendor training is last minute. We haven't even had a set manager or apprentice co-ordinator until the last 3 months, so before then we have just been passed from pillar to post.

For my NVQ qualification I see my training provider once a month, he does his very best to see us but is stretched over too many people and sites.

Very little with regards to my qualifications, management on site try there best due to them already being busy with other things, but there is very little input from the apprenticeship team

The salary is competitive with other apprenticeships.

There are occasional opportunities outside of work such as CSR events but there is very little offsite training etc to help our learning.

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I would recommend it but it would be for a higher course rather than the advanced.

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