Summary
Start your career in engineering with Holcim UK at Cauldon Cement Works. This exciting apprenticeship offers the opportunity to earn while you learn, gaining hands-on experience alongside skilled engineers. You’ll develop valuable technical skills, work with modern industrial equipment and gain a nationally recognised qualification.
What you will do at work
As an Apprentice at Holcim UK, you’ll become part of the engineering team at Cauldon Cement Works, learning how systems and equipment are maintained, repaired and improved to keep the site operating safely and efficiently.
Working alongside experienced engineers, you’ll develop practical skills in maintenance, fault finding, automation and the integration of new technologies.
Throughout your apprenticeship, you’ll gradually take on more responsibility as your knowledge, confidence and technical abilities develop.
Training
You’ll undertake a Level 3 Engineering and Manufacturing Support Technician Apprenticeship over a three-year period, combining structured training at The JCB Academy with practical experience at Holcim UK’s Cauldon Cement Works.
Your training will include:
- Attending The JCB Academy, Rocester, for three days per week during the initial training period, following an agreed training timetable.
- Developing core engineering knowledge and practical skills through workshop-based and classroom learning.
- Studying engineering principles, technical mathematics, health and safety, and engineering processes.
- Gaining practical experience alongside qualified electrical engineers at Holcim Cement Works.
- Learning to maintain, troubleshoot and improve electrical equipment and automated manufacturing systems.
- Applying the knowledge gained during formal training to real engineering tasks in the workplace.
- Completing workplace assessments and gathering evidence to demonstrate your developing knowledge, skills and behaviours.
- Undertaking regular progress reviews with your employer and The JCB Academy.
- Completing an End-Point Assessment (EPA) to demonstrate occupational competence.
- Functional Skills in English and mathematics at Level 2 will be included where required.
The programme will provide you with the technical knowledge, practical experience and professional skills needed to develop a successful career within electrical engineering.
Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard Engineering Technician
- EAL L2 Dip in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Foundation Competence)
- EAL L3 Dip in Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering -Technical Support Technician (Development Competence)
- Level 2 Functional Skills English (where required)
- Level 2 Functional Skills Maths (where required)
Requirements and skills
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
Qualifications
- GCSE English (4) – desired
- GCSE Mathematics (4) – desired
About this employer
Holcim UK is a leading supplier of construction materials and building solutions, providing essential products for homes, schools, hospitals and major infrastructure projects across the country.
With over 4,000 employees and more than 200 sites across the UK, Holcim is committed to innovation, sustainability and helping the construction industry move towards a lower-carbon future.
At Cauldon Cement Works in Staffordshire, you’ll join an experienced team working within a large-scale industrial manufacturing environment. You’ll gain exposure to modern engineering systems, industrial machinery and technologies that help keep production running safely and efficiently.
Holcim places a strong emphasis on employee development, teamwork, health and safety, and continuous improvement. As an apprentice, you’ll benefit from practical experience, structured training and support from knowledgeable colleagues.
Joining Holcim UK offers the opportunity to develop a rewarding career with a major organisation that is helping shape the future of sustainable construction.
After this apprenticeship
Excellent prospects for progression within Holcim Cement in the UK and wordwide.