Level 3 Heritage Engineering Technician Apprenticeship
Does a career restoring and preserving historic vehicles and machinery sound fulfilling? With 6 standards to choose from within this Level 3 Heritage Engineering apprenticeship, your existing skills can be tailored to the area your most passionate about.
The standards for this apprenticeship have been accredited by businesses such as Jaguar Land Rover and The Royal Air Force Museum. Continue reading below to find out more about this fascinating apprenticeship opportunity.
The 6 options available within this apprenticeship:
- Aviation Technician: working with any type of aircraft, Civil or Military. Use traditional or new technology to conserve, repair or restore them.
- Marine Technician: carrying out maintenance or restoration on any vessels including sail, oar and engine powered.
- Steam (Mechanical Overhaul) Technician: repairing, modelling or manufacture of mechanical components, such as wheels or frames. Related to steam engines, for example locomotives and ships.
- Steam (Boiler-smith) Technician: also working on any steam engines, with a focus on the boiler design, restoration and manufacture.
- Vehicle Mechanical Technician: this includes a range of historic vehicles. Varying work complying with strict legislation.
- Coach-building & Trim Technician: ranging from repair to rebuilds of coaches and trims.
What will you do as a Heritage Engineering Technician?
Across all of the above options, the skills you will learn and work includes working on heritage artifices, researching their history and surveying the condition of them. Dissembling projects and recording insights, evaluating components, generate insights and methods to solve unique issues, and carrying out restoration and repairs.
What will you learn?
As a heritage engineering technician, you will gain a core knowledge and insight of
- Regulations relevant to your specific area, as well as general organisational, statutory and health and safety.
- The guide for Care of Larger and Working Historic Objects published by the Museums and Galleries commission.
- The value of heritage engineering.
- Materials, equipment and tools necessary for each project.
- How to review and draft schedules and plans, and develop working strategy as it progresses.
- Mathematical and scientific principles e.g. formulae, metric and imperial measurement.
- The principles of supple chain management.
- Non-destructive testing methods.
- Methods used to inspect, restore, protect and manufacture- original methods and new.
- Supply chain management principles.
- How to identify forms of corrosion and degradation, and select the best restoration method in response.
- Mechanical, non-mechanical and thermal jointing processes.
- How to manage customers expectations, requirements and budgets.
What behaviours will you need to demonstrate?
- Compliance with policies and and health and safety regulations, taking personal responsibility. This includes the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and others. The apprentice will need to demonstrate high levels of personal resilience and responsibility as a core competency.
- Good team working skills across internal and external teams. Managing people, responsibility and workloads through strong communication.
- Hold strong ethical, diversity and equality values, and work at a high standard to promote these.
- Demonstrate communication and interpersonal skills. Use appropriate channels of communication to be clear, and honest. Have a respectful manor always when navigating partnerships or suppliers.
- Quality and problem solving. Identifies opportunities to improve processes, quality, output, speed and efficiency.
- Continuous professional development. This is a strong drive and self-motivation to always improve, learn new skills and find challenges. Overall this is a passion to improve personal performance.
Interested in a Heritage Engineering Technician apprenticeship?
If this sounds fascinating to you, and you want to apply, you’ll need minimum entry level 3 maths and English qualifications.
The length of a Heritage Engineering technician apprenticeship ranges 42 to 48 months.
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