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NEIoT Apprenticeship

Level 3 Metal Fabricator Apprenticeship

Overview

Work includes manufacturing bridges, oil rigs, ships, petro-chemical installations, cranes, platforms, aircraft, automotive and machinery parts, sheet metal enclosures, equipment supports, and anything that can be fabricated out of metal. Fabricators can work alone or in teams, in factories or on operational sites. Fabricators use a large range of metals including steel, aluminium and titanium at a range of thicknesses from 0.5mm up to over 20mm. The size and weight of the fabrications can range from components that can easily be picked up by hand, to massive structures that require several cranes to manipulate.

In their daily work, an employee in this occupation interacts with planners, supervisors, inspectors, designers, welders, pipefitters, fitters, machinists, riggers, steel erectors, stores personnel, painters and many others involved in manufacturing, production, maintenance and repair.

An employee in this occupation will be responsible for the quality and accuracy of their own work whilst ensuring it conforms to a relevant specification such as an engineering drawing or an international standard. Fabricators are also responsible for the health, safety and environmental (HS&E) protection of themselves and others around them.

Engineering Technicians in the Automotive and wider Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Sector are predominantly involved in highly skilled, complex work and must, as a minimum be able to:

  • Apply safe systems of working

  • Make a technical contribution to either the design, development, quality assurance, manufacture, installation, commissioning, decommissioning, operation or maintenance of products, equipment, systems, processes or services

  • Apply proven techniques and procedures to solve engineering/manufacturing problems

  • Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills in communicating both technical and non-technical information

  • Have a commitment to continued professional development

Engineering Technicians take responsibility for the quality and accuracy of the work they undertake within the limits of their personal authority. They also need to be able to demonstrate a core set of behaviours in order to be competent in their job role, complement wider business strategy and development. This will enable them to support their long term career development.

Engineered and manufactured products and systems that Engineering Technicians work on could involve mechanical, electrical, electronic, electromechanical and fluid power components/systems.

Knowledge

  • The importance of complying with statutory, quality, organisational and health and safety regulations

  • General engineering mathematical and scientific principles, methods, techniques, graphical expressions, symbols formulae and calculations

  • The structure, properties and characteristics of common materials

  • The typical problems that may arise within their normal work activities/environment

  • Approved diagnostic methods and techniques used to help solve engineering problems

  • The importance of only using current approved processes, procedures, documentation and the potential implications if they are not adhered to

  • The different roles and functions in the organisation and how they interact

  • Why it is important to continually review fabrication and general engineering processes and procedures

  • The correct methods of moving and handling materials

  • Processes for preparing materials to be marked out

  • The tools and techniques available for cutting, shaping, assembling and finishing materials.

  • Allowances for cutting, notching, bending, rolling and forming materials

  • Describe Pattern development processes, tooling and equipment

  • Describe Cutting and forming techniques, tooling and equipment

  • Describe Assembly and finishing processes, tooling and equipment

  • Inspection techniques that can be applied to check shape and dimensional accuracy

  • Factors influencing selection of forming process

  • Principles, procedures and testing of different joining techniques (Mechanised or Manual)

  • Equipment associated with Manual or Mechanised joining techniques including maintaining equipment in a reliable and safe condition

  • Consumables used in Manual or Mechanised joining

  • Effects of heating and cooling metals

  • Metallurgy associated with joining

  • Different types of Welds and joints

  • How to interpret relevant engineering data and documentation

Skills

  • Work safely at all times, comply with health & safety legislation, regulations and organisational requirements

  • Comply with environmental legislation, regulations and organisational requirements

  • Obtain, check and use the appropriate documentation (such as job instructions, drawings, quality control documentation)

  • Carry out relevant planning and preparation activities before commencing work activity

  • Undertake the work activity using the correct processes, procedures and equipment

  • Carry out the required checks (such as quality, compliance or testing) using the correct procedures, processes and/or equipment

  • Deal promptly and effectively with problems within the limits of their responsibility using approved diagnostic methods and techniques and report those which cannot be resolved to the appropriate personnel

  • Complete any required documentation using the defined recording systems at the appropriate stages of the work activity

  • Restore the work area on completion of the activity and where applicable return any resources and consumables to the appropriate location

  • Identify and follow correct Metal work instructions, specifications, drawing etc.

  • Mark out using appropriate tools and techniques

  • Cut and form Metal for the production of fabricated products

  • Produce and assemble Metal products to required specification and quality requirements

  • Identify and follow correct joining instructions, specifications, drawing etc.

  • Carry out the relevant preparation before starting the joining fabrication activity

  • Set up, check, adjust and use joining and related equipment

  • Weld joints in accordance with approved welding procedures and quality requirements

  • understanding the importance of complying with statutory, quality, organisational and health and safety regulations

  • understanding of general engineering/manufacturing mathematical and scientific principles, methods, techniques, graphical expressions, symbols formulae and calculations used by engineering technicians

  • understanding the structure, properties and characteristics of common materials used in the sector

  • understanding the typical problems that may arise within their normal work activities/environment

  • understanding approved diagnostic methods and techniques used to help solve engineering/manufacturing problems

  • understanding the importance of only using current approved processes, procedures, documentation and the potential implications for the organisation if this is not adhered to

  • understanding and interpreting relevant engineering/manufacturing data and documentation in order to complete their job role

  • understanding the different roles and functions in the organisation and how they interact.

  • understanding why it is important for an organisation to continually review their processes and procedures


Skills:

  • obtaining, checking and using the appropriate documentation (such as job instructions, drawings, quality control documentation)

  • working safely at all times, complying with health, safety and environmental legislation, regulations and organisational requirements

  • planning and where applicable obtaining all the resources required to undertake the work activity

  • undertaking the work activity using the correct processes, procedures and equipment

  • carrying out the required checks (such as quality, compliance or testing) using the correct procedures, processes and/or equipment

  • dealing promptly and effectively with engineering/manufacturing problems within the limits of their responsibility using approved diagnostic methods and techniques and report those which cannot be resolved to the appropriate personnel

  • completing any required documentation using the defined recording systems at the appropriate stages of the work activity

  • restoring the work area on completion of the activity and where applicable return any resources and consumables to the appropriate location

  • Engineering Design

  • Engineering Maths

  • Engineering Science

  • Managing a Professional Engineering Project

  • Mechanical Principles

  • Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Heat Engines

Optional Units, select two from:

  • Mechanical Workshop Practices

  • CAD for Maintenance Engineers

  • Maintenance Engineering

  • Production Engineering for Manufacture

On successful completion of this apprenticeship you will hopefully gain full time employment or you may wish to progress onto an HNC

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