Manufacturing Technician

What is a manufacturing technician? 

As a Manufacturing Apprentice, you’ll learn new skills, gain experience and be creative whilst developing a new career in a purpose-built advanced manufacturing facility with amazing bespoke equipment and cutting-edge technology, producing products through the whole lifecycle.  

You’ll develop your skills by experiencing a variety of placements across manufacturing and the wider business supported by a team of experienced placement supervisors. 

You’ll receive all the training, support and guidance you’ll need as you learn skills to enable you to help manufacture products and play an integral part in protecting national security. You’ll learn on the job, whilst also receiving applicable training to develop your skills.

Career path

Joining the Manufacturing team, you'll have opportunity to work across multiple disciplines. You'll also gain knowledge of the wide range of machinery and processes that HMGCC has to manufacture products. Not only that but you’ll be helping to protect national security and go on to solve problems you won’t find elsewhere.  

What will I learn? 

Our Manufacturing Technician apprentices undertake modules* through a training provider covering areas such as:
• Engineering design
• Engineering maths
• Engineering science
• Managing a professional engineering project
• Mechanical principles
• Automation, robotics, and programmable logic controllers
• Electrical and electronic principles
• Computer-aided design

* modules are subject to change.

End qualification 

• Level 4 production engineering apprenticeship
• HNC in Engineering

Entry point 

You will have or be predicted to achieve by September 2027: 

•5 GCSEs at Grade C/4-5 or above including English Language, Maths and a Science, Technology or Engineering related subject;
AND EITHER:
•2 A-Levels at Grade A*-C (preferably STEM subjects)
OR
•BTEC Level 3 Engineering BTEC with a minimum of 90 credits

You’ll also have: 

•An interest in how products are created, built, or put together.
•A desire to learn and expand your knowledge and skills.
•Experience of working as part of a team to complete a project or task.   

Duration 

• Three and a half years