Engineering Trainer

Job Title: Engineering Trainer(Fluid Power)

Department / Business Sector: MTC Training – AMTC

Reporting to: Programme Delivery Lead

Location: AMTC, Coventry

About MTC Training

MTC's vision is to develop a training capability that embeds adaptable knowledge, skills 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.

Job Purpose

This Apprentice 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.

This role will require you to deliver high quality electrical bias training to satisfy Awarding Body requirements and Apprenticeship Standard Duties/KSBs. You will also, when required, support the delivery of topics which you have knowledge or experience in to support the smooth delivery of learning to people accessing MTC Training provision

You will also develop softer skills which are embedded within apprenticeships. This will require you to provide regular constructive feedback to learners and record the impact of their own learning on a regular basis.

Person Specification

All aspects of the role are to be carried in adherence to the MTC RIGHT way values: acting responsibly, providing inspirational leadership, delivering in the broadest sense a great working environment, leading with honesty and integrity, and promoting teamwork.

In addition:

• Be customer and quality focused.
• Be approachable, and able to handle issues with sensitivity and confidentiality.
• Able to work independently with own initiative and in a team.
• Be comfortable updating various internal stakeholders on a regular basis and give presentations to a wide variety of audiences.
• Work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Highly articulate and presentable.
• High levels of organisation skill and attention to detail.
• Promote the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.

Key Activities

• Effective delivery of subjects which align with competencies of the individual with a bias towards Mechanical Maintenance and Assembly.
• Support the delivery 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.

Person Requirements

Essential

• High level of engineering knowledge, preferably gained from several years of industrial experience.
• Experience of best practise in the key competencies of the individual e.g Installing and Maintaining Fluid Power / Mechatronic Systems.
• Evidence of knowledge in teaching methodologies
• Ability to communicate high level technical information at a granular level to ensure the scaffolding is in place to allow the learner to build on their knowledge.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a strong communicator
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Be creative in thought processes and delivery.
• Strive to improve our technical training offering by developing new and interactive methods of teaching.
• Integrate the latest industry standards into the curriculum through building relationships internally and externally.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Industry related qualifications such as L3 Apprenticeship, HNC, HND or Degree.
• Functional Skills Level 2 / GCSE's in Maths and English grade C or above.

Desirable:

• CAVA or equivalent assessor qualifications.
• Recognised Training/Teaching Qualification.
• Internal Quality Assurance qualifications.

Vetting Checks

Learners’ safety and wellbeing is of paramount importance to all MTC Training employees. All individuals are expected to actively contribute to our culture of safeguarding and vigilance to ensure learning is delivered in the safest environment possible. 

Shortlisted candidates are subject to safer recruitment screening, including but not limited to:

• Employment history check,
• Right to work check,
• Identity check,
• Two references,
• Qualification check,
• Industry prohibitions check (applies to programme delivery and assessment roles),
• Public online activity search,
• Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list check.

The successful applicant will be required to promptly complete training relating to safeguarding and prevent and is expected to undertake ongoing training in relation to children’s safety and wellbeing.

The successful applicant will be expected to maintain our safeguarding culture and contribute to it by supporting the Designated Safeguarding Lead and safeguarding team.

The successful applicant will be required to adhere to our Code of Conduct and share our commitment to the welfare of children.