Engineering Trainer (Electronic Engineering)

The MTC (Manufacturing Technology Centre) is a major success story. One of the UK’s most advanced Research & Technology Organisations, championing world leading manufacturing and engineering innovation.

Created in 2011, it represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing and has since grown to a team of over 800 spread several facilities covering not only R&D, but also Training, Advanced Manufacturing Management and Factory Design across multiple businesses and sectors.

Working in partnership with Consilium Recruit from launch, we seek career driven and agile talent from industry, academia, and other leading organisations to work in this truly unique centre of excellence. 

Benefits – beyond salary, the MTC provides one of the most extensive and progressive benefits packages available, designed to inspire, develop and reward employees to the full including:

• Fully flexible working including compressed hours, remote working, part-time hours, flexible start and finish times. And career breaks. Tell us what works for you and don’t let anything stop you from applying!  
• Enhanced Holiday leave with accumulated days plus option to buy & sell
• Private Health Insurance from Vitality Health
• Life Insurance
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Income Protection in the event of long-term illness or incapacity to work
• Salary Sacrifice (tax efficient Bike 2 Work plus Car Lease Scheme including competitive on-site EV charging)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity support
• Professional subscriptions paid plus access to Leadership Academy
• Long service recognition plus contribution awards
• Envious working environment with free parking, excellent public transport links, employee discounts and on-site canteen, plus more…

The Role         

MTC's vision to develop a training capability that embeds adaptable skills, knowledge and behaviours that future proof UK manufacturing. Aligning technical content identified in MTC's core business to our apprenticeship and commercial (engineer upskilling) is at the core of our strategy.

The Electronic Engineering Trainer role is required to manage and develop a comprehensive and innovative teaching and learning experience in a variety of practical and theoretical skills within the current apprenticeship trailblazer standards and will require you to deliver high quality technical training to small groups of learners through face-to-face or online learning following nationally recognised qualification.

As well as developing technical knowledge and skills you will be instrumental in developing softer skills which are embedded within apprenticeships. This will require you to provide regular constructive feedback to learners and record their impact on their own learning on a regular basis.

Key activities would include:

• Effective delivery of electrical based knowledge and practical subjects at level 2, 3 and HNC; paying due regard to developing independent learners, and enabling apprentice progression towards successful completion of both the level 3 apprenticeship & HNC programmes.
• Management of all physical learning resources and teaching spaces required to ensure the training and assessment of learners is achieved within the guided learning hours.
• Learning content creation and development of apprenticeship trailblazers’ schemes-of-work. Identifying and coordinating the integration of relevant existing training offers from industry partners into the apprenticeship scheme of work.
• Monitoring of the learning environment. Ensuring learner workplace Health, Safety and welfare by working with the DSL.
• Ensuring the progress of the whole caseload of Learners towards completing their apprenticeship in a timely manner. Supporting their individual needs and tailoring your approach to support them.

The Person 

The successful candidate for the role of Electronic Engineering Trainer will have/be:

• High level of Electrical engineering knowledge preferably gained from a number of years of industrial experience.
• Experience in delivery of Electrical principles and industrial electrical control, motor control and panel building.
• Evidence of lean practices and training delivery.
• Industry related qualifications such as HND, or NVQ's – essential
• 18th Edition qualified to deliver Industrial Electrical engineering - essential
• Functional Skills Level 2 / GCSE's in Maths and English grade C or above - essential
• CAVA or equivalent assessor qualifications - desirable
• Recognised Training/Teaching Qualification - desirable
• Internal Quality Assurance qualifications – desirable

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are integral to everything that we do.  We are committed to these values and they are central to our mission.  We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities, and we are more than happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require. 

Please note, due to the nature of the role, candidates must be willing and able to complete National Security Vetting.

To apply for the position of Engineering Trainer forward an up to date copy of your CV to Matthew Fielding.