Engineering Apprenticeship Level 3

Engineers can be involved in a range of different disciplines including the designing, installing, repairing or servicing of plant machinery and components; the design, repair and maintenance of electronic systems and investigating the behaviour of materials under different conditions to support advances in technology such as testing carbon fibre reinforced plastics to make stronger, lighter sports equipment, or developing special polymers, ceramics and alloys for use in medical implants. - As an engineer, you may work in one or more of the following areas: - Making parts, and installing and testing instruments or machinery to make sure they run smoothly, safely and meet performance targets. - Carrying out preventative maintenance and identifying and repairing faults in equipment and machinery. - Investigating and testing ideas to improve existing systems or to overcome machinery of process problems - Developing prototypes for new products. - Preparing technical plans using computer-aided engineering and design software. - Analysing test data. using computer modelling software - Helping to design product manufacturing processes that use new materials - Estimating manufacturing and labour costs, and timescales.

4 GCSE grades A*- C including Maths and English and Science

Upon successfully completing your Level 3 qualification you may be able to continue on to higher level qualifications such as HNC/HND

Andy Gardiner has been developing his engineering career for seven years. The 26 year old from Stroud works full-time as an engineer at Heber, a company specialising in the design and manufacture of electronic controls. Andy's employers sponsored him to undertake a level 3 qualification in Electronic Engineering, which he undertook at Gloucestershire College on a day release basis for two years. Upon successful completion of the qualification Andy then moved on to complete an HNC and is now in the final stages of completing an HND in Electronic Engineering.

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