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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 electrical, control & instrumentation fields.

Z-Tech provides electrical, control & instrumentation maintenance and project delivery services across a customer base that covers the Water, Energy and Rail sectors, also with customers in the chemical and pharmaceutical engineering sectors.

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!

About The Company

Z-Tech Control Systems (a part of M Group Services) provides specialist Electrical, Control and Instrumentation support to the UK’s Water, Energy and Rail sectors. We’re dedicated to working with our customers to develop and implement environmentally sustainable and cost efficient solutions to business challenges, enabling them to remain focused on day-to-day operations.

We currently employ more than 250 Z-Techers across 5 business units, each of whom has a diverse range of skills and backgrounds. Z-Techers are defined by their enthusiasm to go further and we actively embrace individuality. We want our team to feel empowered, motivated and encouraged in their work to ensure we’re all working together to achieve excellence.

Z-Tech’s 5 Business Units

Water – Serving the UK Water companies with EC&I maintenance and project delivery services

Energy – Serving the UK Energy industry with EC&I maintenance and project delivery services

Rail & Adjacent Markets – Serving the transport and adjacent market sectors with EC&I maintenance and project delivery services

ATEX & Electrical Services – Providing ATEX and Electrical compliance services across our primary sectors (Water, Energy & Rail) and multiple adjacent industries across the UK.

Labour – Providing technical embedded labour services across our primary sectors (Water, Energy & Rail) and multiple adjacent industries across the UK.

What will you be doing?

Year 1 will be spent full-time (3 days a week) at our training provider’s centre in South West London working towards an NVQ Level 2 in Performing Engineering Operations. 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 NVQ Level 2 criteria. Also within year 1, you will be on day release with our training provider completing a BTEC Level 3 diploma in Operations & Maintenance. 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 NVQ Level 3 Engineering Maintenance in either electrical and/or control & instrumentation. 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 BTEC Level 3 diploma in Operations & Maintenance.

Year 3 and 4 will be the continuation of you NVQ Level 3(s) 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 BTEC HNC diploma in an engineering discipline suited to the industries Z-Tech operate within.

Educational requirements:

• GCSE grades at 4 or above (A-C), in Maths and English, or functional skills at BTEC 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.

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!