Z-Tech Apprenticeship Scheme

Z-Tech Apprenticeship Scheme

Year 1: £18,000

South East of England

Are you interested in STEM subjects and want to work across multiple industry sectors within an engineering biased organisation? The Z-Tech 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.

Z-Tech 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!

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 Z-Tech’s 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 Z-Tech operate within.

What are Z-Tech looking for?

Z-Techer’s are:

• Smart thinking – No Numpties: Our Z-Techers look, think and act smart.
• Solve problems – Don’t cause them! Z-Techers delight customers by delivering exceptional customer service, fixing their most difficult problems.
• Use tools, don’t be one! Z-Techers think for themselves, they apply common sense and go above and beyond the call of duty.
• Have fun – Great Teamwork: Z-Techers have fun while working together as one team.
• Ambitious people driven and motivated to pursue their career and education.
• Somebody that can manage their time effectively, remain focused and organised.
• Although working as a team is a key attribute, being able to work effectively and independently is important.
• Effective communication skills
• Health & Safety conscious, looking out for yourself, your colleagues and anyone who can be effected by Z-Tech’s and your undertakings.

Educational requirements:

• GCSE grades at 4 or above (A-C), in Maths and English or functional skills at level 2 as a minimum.

If you are yet to sit your exams or waiting results, we still want to hear from you if your predictive grades meet our requirements.

Why choose Z-Tech?

We are a highly skilled workforce delivering mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation (MEICA) services to our customers in Water, Energy and Transport sectors, taking a dynamic approach to our work and problem solving solutions. We work across sectors that have an impact on the everyday life of the population of UK through our customers, offering a place to grow and become part of a great organisation where the customers and our employees are at the centre of everything we do.

What’s in it for you?

• Year 1 and 2 – Travel expenses paid in line with our expenses policy
• 25 days' annual leave plus 8 days' bank holiday
• PPE provided
• Pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunities to progress in a successful company
• Cycle to work scheme
• Refer a friend scheme

Who doesn’t like a discount? You will have access to your ‘My Rewards’ portal. This provides amazing reductions on 1000’s of purchases including Mobile Phone, Utility bills & top retail brand discounts.

Here’s a few so you can see the type of saving’s you can make:

What are you waiting for? Apply today!