Electrical/mechanical Apprenticeship

Company: Crestchic Ltd
Location: Burton on Trent, DE14 2WD
Type: Apprenticeship
Salary: £22,896.00 per year
Sector: Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies
Ref: VAC-01342
Application Deadline Date: 28/07/2026
Start Date: 03/08/2026
Positions Available: 2
Working Week: Monday to Thursday 7:30am to 4:00pm, Friday 7:30am to 3:00pm

Brief Description

An Exciting opportunity has become available, as world leaders in load bank manufacturing and rental. Join a company that as been going for over forty years in Burton on Trent and with over ten depots around the world. The company is looking for new individuals to join our manufacturing department, learn how to assemble and wire our units.

Qualifications Required

GCSE Maths and English at Grade 4/C or above

Personal Qualities

• Polite.
• Smart.
• Wanting to learn.

Skills Required

• Ability to learn and pick up the skills you have been taught quickly.
• Ability to ask questions if you’re not sure of a task.
• Ability to spot and raise concerns within your role.
• Listen to instructions.

Training to be Provided

Level 2 Engineering Operative apprenticeship standard
Level 1/2 Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)

This apprenticeship is delivered through a combination of Work Based Assessment and day/block release. The programme will culminate in an End Point Assessment, where all the skills and knowledge gained on the apprenticeship will be formally tested.

Future Prospects

Once you complete your apprenticeship, you could have an opportunity to join Crestchic. With have various departments within our business that you could eventually move to if a vacancy opens. You would start on the shopfloor where you did your apprenticeship, but with internal vacancies popping up, this could be in our engineering department, service depot or rental depot.

Vacancy Detail

As an apprentice at Crestchic you will learn how to build our units from start to finish, this will include to start with mechanically assembling the load banks. This would involve using various sizes of fasteners to assemble our units together and getting them to a stage of readiness to start the electrical stage of the build. You will spend time at each stage of the build to get you to a level ready to move on to the next stage. You will get support from Crestchic personnel who you will be working with every day. you will be from time to time working on your own, but with full support from trainer. Each day you will receive training from the team for the tasks given to you for that day. eventually you will move on to the wiring stage of the build, again you will receive training and will be working with the electrical team.

Day-to-day responsibilities will include.
• To follow the Crestchic safety culture.
• To listen and learn from your trainer.
• To raise a question if you don’t understand.

Other Information

Our load banks comes in various sizes from small microwave sizes to large 40-foot iso containers. There would be various items that are heavy when lifting, but nothing over the standard legal weight for an individual to lift. Very little in manufacturing is outdoors.