Apprenticeship training course
Food and drink engineer (level 5)
Maintaining, managing and installing a diverse range of specialist equipment and technology used in the manufacture of food and drink products.
- Qualification level
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5
Equivalent to higher national diploma (HND). - Typical duration
- 36 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Engineering and manufacturing
- Maximum funding
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£18,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Continuous improvement food and drink engineer
- Food and drink electrical engineer
- Food and drink mechanical engineer
- Food and drink reliability engineer
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Use engineering principles to deliver products/packaged food.
- Comply with standard operating procedures, company, legal and regulatory requirements and customer/consumer and engineering standards.
- Plan, for example labour and engineering materials.
- Influence and communicate with colleagues and others, such as engineers, other functions and teams.
- Assess team and individual performance, provide feedback to improve; coach and mentor.
- Use continuous improvement techniques, for example apply quality management principles, participate in failure investigations and contribute to and implement practical engineering solutions for efficiency and/or profitability.
- Use IT, digitisation and manual methods to collect data from systems to support engineering activity within the business.
- Use and develop planned preventative maintenance (PPM) strategies, incorporate appropriate proactive maintenance routines, such as vibration analysis, thermography, simple visual/part measurement.
- Analyse operational performance, specification and data.
- Evaluate possible failure modes and identify strategy, for example technical risk assessment methods, PPM to RCM techniques.
- Contribute to the construction and commissioning of equipment and machinery used for producing preserved/fresh and safe food and drink products.
Full information on Food and drink engineer (level 5) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.