Apprenticeship training course
Material processing plant operator (level 2)
Operating and maintaining heavy mobile plant equipment like excavators, dumper trucks or construction material production plants
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 18 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Engineering and manufacturing
- Maximum funding
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£9,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Asphalt plant operator
- Concrete plant operator
- Crushing operator
- De-barking plant operator
- Kiln operator
- Locomotive operator
- Operations yard operator
- Packing plant operator
- Process operator
- Production plant operator
- Quarry operator
- Recycling plant operator
- Screening operator
- Washing plant operator
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Conduct pre-start checks of plant equipment.
- Conduct post operation checks of plant equipment.
- Identify and report environmental issues of work undertaken.
- Conduct maintenance activities such as planned, preventative, predictive or reactive.
- Use materials, fluids or lubricants required for operation and maintenance.
- Monitor stock levels.
- Monitor end product quality and report issues.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
- Comply with health and safety procedures in compliance with regulations and standards. Comply with safe systems of work.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Lock off and isolate equipment or systems using Lockout, Tag out, Try out (LOTOTO) procedures.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks, with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Communicate with others verbally for example colleagues and stakeholders.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, risk assessments, equipment service records, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, checklists, pre-start and post operation check records, waste records.
- Identify and take action when observing unsafe practice.
- Carry out risk assessments.
- Applies team working principles.
- Follow handover procedures.
Full information on Material processing plant operator (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.