Engineering Design Degree Apprenticeship - Cumbria (Higher)

Job Introduction

Discover our Engineering Design Apprenticeship

NNL offer design apprenticeships in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical, Control and Instrumentation. You’ll be trained in all aspects of design and will follow an engineering design apprenticeship route, tailored to your design discipline.

Engineering designers need to be safety conscious and have good IT, mathematics & communication skills. You will need to have perfect colour vision and therefore must undertake a colour vision test.

This is a Degree Apprenticeship, which means NNL will pay for you to gain a Degree and we’ll pay you a salary while you’re learning.

Further information about the Engineering Design apprenticeship can be found at: http://joinprojectdiscovery.co.uk/engineer.html

Role Responsibility

Discover the role:

• How to work in a safe manner, you will become familiar with industry guidelines and regulations such as LOLER, PUWER and COSHH
• Produce drawings and designs using Computer Aided Design (CAD)
• Auto-CAD and additional design & prototyping programmes
• Maintenance of existing equipment and manufacture of new parts when required
• Problem solving and fault-finding
• Installation, testing and adjustment of plant and machinery to make sure it is running smoothly, safely and meeting performance targets
• Use of different tools

The Ideal Candidate

Discover what we want from you:

You’ll already have a good academic background when you apply for an apprenticeship with us. You should have attained 5 GCSE's A-C including Maths & English, and be on track to or passed A-Levels or BTEC (of which one must be Engineering). But that’s not all you’ll need.

We’re looking for people who can be part of our future. People who want to succeed and have the commitment and motivation to get there. People who ask questions and demand answers, who’ll be open to learning and work hard.

We’re looking for bright, enthusiastic achievers who’ll want to be part of our mission to grow the nuclear industry. Applicants must be 18 or over.

About the Company

We play a key role in the UK and global nuclear industry. That means reducing the cost of clean-up and decommissioning, maintaining critical skills and attracting talented new people to the industry. We're the only UK organisation with the skills, facilities and expertise to provide technical support to all aspects of the nuclear industry. What's more, we pride ourselves on offering quality, value and service to every one of our customers.

National Nuclear Laboratory