Apprentice Service Technician - #1717035

Title: Apprentice Service Technician

Reports to: Site Engineering Manager

Location: Middlewich – Cheshire

Introduction to role

Vanderlande is the market leader in efficient logistics process automation within the airports, warehousing and parcel sector.

This role will see the successful applicant joining a small team of experienced engineers to support a major UK airline with their retail operations.

The business is charged with ensuring outbound flights have the retail stock on board to ensure customer delight and to process returned stock. To do this efficiently they have invested heavily in automated warehousing solutions from Vanderlande and ensuring the safe, efficient and high quality maintenance of that equipment is the responsibility of the onsite Vanderlande team.

Role Responsibilities

You will be supported to achieve an NVQ Level 3 at a local College, where you will spend your first year. Apprentices will work towards completing a NVQ Foundation, BTEC L3 in Advance Manufacturing and Engineering, and NVQ L3 in Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (Mechatronics Maintenance Technician). This program is accredited via End Point Assessment by iMechE (EngTech).

You will then continue your learning working at the customer’s site.

The Apprentice Service Technician will be performing maintenance duties to safely ensure productivity and output, equipment availability, health & safety compliance and quality. You will be performing the following tasks:

 Your responsibilities and activities will include:

• Comply with all health and safety rules and regulations.


• Ensuring a top condition of the various installations.


• Responsible for performing malfunction and maintenance work as well as carrying out preventive and periodic maintenance, in collaboration with colleagues.


• Resolving mechanical, electrical and any control technical faults.

Upon completion of your apprenticeship, you will apply for a service technician role within Vanderlande.

Role Qualification and Skills

As an Apprentice Service Technician, you make an important contribution to customer satisfaction, whereby the continuity of the customer process is central. You therefore have an enthusiastic and proactive attitude and are flexible

What we see as a nice to have:

• Five A*-C or 9-4 grade GCSEs (Including Maths and English).


• An interest in engineering


• Enthusiastic and motivated attitude

What we offer

• 28 days of annual leave (excluding public holidays)


• Bupa Medical Cover


• YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers.


• Access to Achievers, an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.


• A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.


• Cycle to work scheme


• Pension with Aviva

Vanderlande is fully committed to supporting, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcomes applications from all candidates who meet our job specifications. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.