Electrical Engineering Apprentice

The four-year engineering apprenticeship will initially cover broad based training in Electrical and Mechanical skills at Waterside Training in St Helens with years 2,3 and 4 working on plant at St Helens alongside professional engineers tackling “real life” activities as an Electrical Engineer whilst continuing to attend college day release up to Level 4 HNC in Electrical Engineering.

The apprenticeship will provide training in electrical skills for the maintenance and fault finding of manufacturing equipment within the glass industry.

Our team of highly skilled engineers work closely with all other departments to provide electrical engineering support throughout all production.

Engineers work as part of a team to provide engineering support to multi-million pound plant operations, to maintain and repair equipment to improve efficiency and product quality along with carrying out fault finding diagnosis and problem solving.  

As an Electrical Engineer you will be involved in Electrical activities assisting the engineering teams in various job roles.  You will be trained in both areas assisting with preventative maintenance on electrical equipment, such as motors, control units, PLC’s, sensors, instrumentation, distribution systems and switchgear and assisting with preventative maintenance.  

As part of the Engineering team you will aim to react quickly, safely and professionally to all requests as we work towards the goals of Pilkington UK Ltd.

You will be involved in activities such as:

• Machine and equipment maintenance, including preventative and planned maintenance tasks
• Fault finding and diagnostics
• Using preventative maintenance systems
• Restoring components undertaking repair
• Replacement and servicing equipment

You must be able to travel to both Waterside and Pilkington sites in St Helens to attend both off the job and on the job training. 

• Training will take place at Waterside Training 1 day per week from 9am – 4.30pm 

• We endeavour to offer full time, permanent roles to qualified Engineering Technicians at the end of the period of apprenticeship training
• We are a global business with opportunities for talented individuals both in the UK and abroad; most of our former apprentices go on to become Team Leaders, with many subsequently moving into Engineering management roles both at our Upstream manufacturing sites and at our European Technical Centre in Lathom, nr Ormskirk
• Funding for degrees is available, subject to business requirements, throughout your career