Sheet Metal Modern Apprentices (6 places)

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Deadline: 8 May 2025

An exciting opportunity has emerged for a motivated apprentice to join Zot Engineering‘s team as a Sheet Metal apprentice at one of the UK’s leading manufacturers in the sheet metal industry, located in Musselburgh. In this role, you will receive hands-on training and mentorship in state-of-the-art facilities, where you will learn essential skills in operating machinery, interpreting technical drawings, and working with various sheet metal materials.

Zot’s apprenticeship programme will see you turn your interest in engineering into valuable skills, experience and qualifications and give you everything you need to build a successful career with the company. This is your opportunity to earn while you learn and contribute to its outstanding work, supporting many of our highly important and crucial contracts and customers.

Zot supplies high-end electronics to a wide range of markets, including Military, Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial, Computing, Engineering, and Medical Industries.

You will work in several areas within our Sheet Metal division to develop your practical skills to support, enhance and develop your Apprenticeship.

• Basic assembly and hand tool skills
• Reading and understanding an engineering drawing in full, including all aspects of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
• CNC programming/machining and fabrication skills
• Latest CAM (Computer Aided Manufacture) software.
• How to measure, cut, and weld pieces together according to specifications, blueprints, or directions.
• How to connect pieces or secure seams by riveting, rolling, soldering, or using steel screws.
• Perform assigned work on assembly lines on mechanical assembly using a variety of fixing methods and inspection.
• Completion of in-process inspection sheets and route cards.
• You will learn how to deburr and inspect your work.
• Undertake routine maintenance and safety checks of equipment in use.
• How to ensure the general tidiness and good housekeeping of personal and shared workspaces.
• Maintain time and attendance to company standards.
• Observe Health and Safety regulations in company procedures, college, and government legislation.

As a Sheet Metal Apprentice, you’ll attain base manufacturing skills in the form of SVQ Levels 2 & 3 NC in either Manufacturing or Fabrication. Over the course of four years, this will be a mix of attending college two days a week and working in Zot’s Sheet Metal Division, where you will work closely with supervisors and gain hands-on experience.