Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship

This apprentice will learn inspection, maintenance and repairs to overhead traveling cranes, industrial doors and automated storage machines, as well as experiencing loose lifting equipment inspections. 

What you'll do

• Visual structural evaluations: Inspecting crane runways, bridge girders, end trucks, and industrial door tracks for alignment, wear, or stress fractures
• Safety device testing: Verifying the functionality of limit switches, emergency stop buttons, anti-collision sensors, and door auto-reverse safety edges
• Load-bearing component checks: Examining wire ropes, hooks, sheaves, chains, and hoist drums for fraying, deformation, or excessive wear
• Regulatory documentation: Logging all inspection findings to maintain compliance with statutory occupational health and safety standards e.g., LOLER/PUWER
• System lubrication: Applying specified grease and lubricants to crane gears, bearings, wire ropes, industrial door hinges, rollers, and drive chains
• Mechanical adjustments: Tensioning door springs (counterbalance systems), adjusting brake air gaps on hoist mechanisms, and aligning tracks
• Fluid and filter management: Checking hydraulic fluid levels on automated doors and gear oil levels in crane hoist and travel gearboxes
• Fastener torquing: Inspecting and tightening critical structural bolts, rail clips, and mounting brackets subject to operational vibration
• Electrical fault isolation: Using multi meters and drawing to trace faults in variable frequency invertor drives (VFDs), pendant controls, radio remotes, and door automation control panels
• Component replacement: Swapping out worn brake pads, damaged contactors, frayed cables, broken door slats, and faulty limit switches
• Drive system overhauls: Repairing or replacing malfunctioning electric motors, gearboxes, and hydraulic door operators
• Post-repair verification: Conducting functional un-loaded and rated load tests to certify equipment is safe to return to service

Training

• The apprenticeship training is delivered through a combination of workplace learning and regular college attendance
• This training will teach you the knowledge, skills and behaviours set out in the Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship
• On completion, the apprentice will receive Mechatronic Maintenance Technician qualification

After the apprenticeship

On completion of a Level 3 Mechatronics Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship, individuals can progress into skilled engineering and maintenance roles within manufacturing, engineering, automation, and production environments.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative
• Patience

Qualifications

• Essential: GCSE, English (grade 9 – 4 / A* - C)
• Essential: GCSE, Maths (grade 9 – 4 / A* - C)

Things to consider

You MUST be prepared to commit to your work and training for the duration of the apprenticeship. In some cases, you may be required to have a telephone interview with Yeovil College prior to your application being passed on. If a suitable candidate is found prior to the advertised closing date, it may close earlier so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

About the employer

• WH Scott Engineers was founded in Belfast in 1897 by William Hill Scott and his son, manufacturing boilers and pressure vessels. It was, from the beginning, a business built around equipment that fails dangerously if it is made or maintained badly.
• The modern chapter began in 2010, when a management buy-out led by, current CEO, Patrick Doyle and this kick started a deliberate, capability-led expansion through strategic acquisitions.
• By 2026 the WH Scott Group had grown to nine businesses, each with its own name, history and reputation. That was a sign of successful expansion, In 2026 we reviewed the entire portfolio and rationalised it into three market-facing brands. Each has a clear specialism and a clear customer. Each is backed by the scale, resources and technical support of the wider Group.

Apprenticeship details

• Course: Mechatronics maintenance technician (level 3), Engineering and manufacturing
• Apprenticeship level: Advanced (level 3)
• Training provider: YEOVIL COLLEGE
• Expected duration: 3 Years 7 Months
• Hours: 39 hours a week. Working week: Monday to Thursday: 8:30am to 5pm. Friday 8:30am to 4pm.
• Start date: 23 October 2026
• Positions available: 1
• Wage: £16,224 a year