Engineering Apprentice – Siemens Healthineers – Sudbury

As one of the most innovative and influential players in medical devices, we offer ambitious students the chance to help shape the future of healthcare. Discover what you are capable of and join the Apprenticeship Programme at our Diagnostic Imaging business in Sudbury. Over the course of your apprenticeship, you’ll gain skills through on the job and formal training at college. Over time, you’ll take on more responsibility and accountability as your skills, knowledge and expertise increases.

This is a fantastic challenge for any student to enter the world of Siemens medical devices and understand the world of manufacturing in accordance to FDA regulations. This apprenticeship will allow the candidate to work with the Production Engineering team to not only develop basic core skills but also develop the understanding on PLC’s, software and digitalisation across all Siemens Sudbury facilities and have a good understanding of all aspects of company departments.

You’ll need to be available to begin this apprenticeship in September 2021 and will complete a 2-year Level 4 Higher Apprenticeship in Engineering Manufacture. Suitable candidates may be supported to progress onto the Engineering Manufacturing Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship.

Your mission and responsibilities:

Reporting to the Manufacturing engineering manager you will be expected to:

• Understand and follow the sites Ergonomic, Health and Safety policy
• Understand and demonstrate Lean/continuous improvement actions and participate in Kaizen events for the site delivering sustainable savings.
• Understand and demonstrate Siemens Quality Policy and systems how to write CAPA’s and IR’s in the event of a non-conformance.
• Learn and develop an understanding of key departments within Siemens and develop a broad range of essential skills and knowledge.
• Demonstrate how to fault find, repair and make available processes or product identified during manufacturing verification processes.
• Understand and demonstrate how to manufacture products
• Understand and explain how products function
• Support the introduction of all new instruments, processes and capital equipment.
• Support the introduction of any new process improvements such as digital advances.
• Participate in maintenance and calibration activities
• Understand and demonstrate how to project manage a project to completion
• Understand and demonstrate how to create new procedures for manufacturing processes or validation.

You will have the ability to develop your business competences and functional knowledge including:

• Learn how to lead a meeting and develop project management skills                                                         
• Develop an understanding of electrical/mechanical drawings and use a voltmeter
• Maintain quality awareness
• Understand how to correctly use tools for repairs
• Gain drawing knowledge and develop how to read and understand technical drawings

Your qualifications and experience:

We are looking for forward-thinking, inquisitive candidates that demonstrate the following characteristics:

• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Enjoys collaborating and can work effectively in teams to find innovative solutions
• Be a confident communicator across all levels as well as take initiative for tasks
• You can work independently, safely and responsibly; take ownership of challenges and ideas and are looking to develop your ability to drive and lead change

• Desire to develop skills in an engineering/maintenance/electronics discipline
• An Electrical/Mechanical background would be advantageous
• Demonstrate a strong interest in digitalisation

You must have:

• Minimum of five GCSEs at A*– C / 9 - 5 (or equivalent) including Maths and English
• Educated to A Level standard B grade or equivalent NVQ/BTEC or HNC
• Competency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

What’s the application process?

On applying for the role, you’ll be taken through the following 3-stage process:

1. Online application – Please complete our online application and submit you CV, which will then be screened by our Talent Acquisition team.

2. Gamified assessment – You will be required to complete a 30-minute online test that assesses your skills and cognitive ability.

3. Assessment centre - If you're successful, you'll be invited to a virtual assessment centre including a strengths-based interview and group exercise.

The deadline for applications is 28th February 2021 however the opportunity may close early so we encourage you to apply now to avoid disappointment.

During the process, we're looking at your overall skills and personality so the best you can do is to simply be yourself. Remember, it's as much of an opportunity for you to get to know us, as well as allowing us to get to know you - it's very much a two-way process.

Benefits:

• An apprenticeship salary
• 26 days annual holiday
• Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities including 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Access to our flexible benefits from private medical insurance to gym memberships
• Generous pension contributions
• Support from our 24/7 employee assistance programme

In addition, we provide a flexible and dynamic environment with the space to stretch beyond your comfort zone in order to grow both personally and professionally. Our unique team spirit arises from embracing different perspectives and you will join a diverse network of graduate and early career professionals.

Training & Development:

The successful candidate will complete a 2-year Higher Apprenticeship in Engineering Manufacture with equivalent to a BTEC Pearson Level 4 Higher National Certificate in Engineering. This requires 18-months of college attendance one day per week. The final 6 months of will be focused on completing a skills portfolio during work-based learning. On completion, the apprentice will receive Professional Engineering Institution status ‘EngTech’.

Suitable candidates will have the option to be supported to progress on to the Engineering Manufacturing Degree Apprenticeship Level 6, which includes Higher National Diploma L5, BEng Honours L6.

About Siemens Healthineers:

Siemens Healthineers is a leading medical technology company with a 170-year legacy of first-to-market technologies and product innovations. Passionately driven by empowering healthcare providers to better help their patients, our technologies touch an estimated 5 million patients globally every day. We are committed to helping healthcare providers to succeed and work in the areas of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, laboratory diagnostics and molecular medicine as well as digital health and enterprise services.

Recently celebrating 80 years of manufacturing excellence, our Sudbury site designs and assembles blood, urine and diabetes analysis instruments. With our point-of-care testing systems, Siemens Healthineers delivers lab-accurate, actionable, and timely results on the spot. You can find more information here.

Being part of our team:

Our success comes from our people – we are around 50,000 dedicated colleagues in over 70 countries who are passionate about innovating the future of healthcare. You can hear directly from our current and past apprentices on our careers page.

Change is a constant aspect of our work. We aspire to lead the change in our industry rather than just react to it. That’s why we want you to seek, implement and celebrate your best ideas. We recognise that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants to encourage agile working and innovation.