Engineer Your Future with Goodwin
Dive into a dynamic and rewarding career where you can earn while you learn
Do you want a diverse & challenging career where you can earn while you learn?
Goodwin is a dynamic and profitable Engineering Group with worldwide external sales in excess of £120 million. The success of Goodwin is based on engineering excellence and we are keen to train more engineers to provide for future growth.
What Do You Get?
A four-year apprentice training programme
Off-the-job tuition in our bespoke training centre
On-the-job training with placements at our 7 UK sites
High level skills input from specialists within the Group
Be a part of a dynamic, global Engineering Group
A Radical Approach to Future Growth
A radical new approach is needed to raise the skill level of the individual worker to the standard that we require for the future.
Our Apprenticeship Training scheme generates opportunities for school leavers who can display the right attitude & passion for a future in engineering.
Careers within the group await apprentices who have the passion to succeed.
How It Works
The apprentice project is based around an on-the-job training concept, ensuring continued interest in what you are learning.
You will go through a formal 4 year apprentice training programme including off-the-job tuition in our bespoke training centre.
A positive work ethic & attitude is encouraged from the very start.
Engineering is an exciting, varied and rewarding career...
Engineers build the world around us; they create, design, innovate, invent, evaluate and enhance our lives on a daily basis.
Our continued investment in training people is an essential part of business life. We aim to develop skills where integrity and proficiency are our bridge to the future.
The apprenticeship lasts for a period of four years with an initial 12 month off-the-job formal basic training. Thereafter on-the-job training is given at one of the subsidiary companies.
All apprentices qualify to Level 3 in Manufacturing Engineering and gain further qualifications depending on their journey within the Group.
Success Stories
Joe
Project Engineer, Refractory Division
Before starting at Goodwin, Joe had little experience in Project Management and Mechanical Engineering, but the in-house trainers built his knowledge from the ground up.
Joe then completed the in-house level 3 BTEC in Manufacturing Engineering; this, along with his previously completed A Levels, provided a good foundation for Joe’s future role.
Qualifications Gained:
Level 3 BTEC in Manufacturing Engineering
Bachelors degree Mechanical Engineering
Masters degree Advanced Mechanical Engineering
Ashleigh
Technical Engineer
I completed my Level 3 in just three months at the Goodwin Training Centre. My placements across Goodwin companies gave me extensive knowledge and job experience. Now, I’m developing and testing new products in the Technical Department at Dupré Minerals.
Qualifications Gained:
Forklift Truck Operator Qualified
AED & First Aid at Work
HNC Level 4 Mechanical Engineering
Working for EASAT has given me the opportunity to better myself in an engineering career that I want and value. Working for the Company for ten years now speaks for its self, coming through as an apprentice to where I am now in the RF department.
Michaela
RF Chamber Technician, EASAT
Michaela started the apprentice scheme at the Training Centre in 2014, working towards the in-house qualification. The scheme was practice-based using millers, lathes & fitting skills but also had a theory side including maths and health & safety.
In 2015, based on her work & personal goals, Michaela was placed at EASAT, a Goodwin company, where she worked as a fitter. She was involved in building antennas as well as going on site to perform maintenance & repair work.
In 2017 Michaela transitioned into the RF department where she tested waveguides and RF cables with a VNA as well as testing fully built antennas in EASAT’s Anechoic Near-Field Chamber.
Michaela is now the RF Chamber Technician at EASAT where she tests all RF parts & all antennas that EASAT fitters build.
“Part of the testing I enjoy most is the problem solving. When testing an antenna in the anechoic chamber we need to make mechanical adjustments to shape the RF results. A few of these are the reflector and polarizer tilt, polarizer angles and the phase. We do this by taking the measured data from the chamber and analysing it to see what areas need adjustment and by how much.”
Qualifications Gained:
Level 3 BTEC in manufacturing engineering.
I.T best Practice
NSI-MI short course on nearfield antenna measurement
NVQ diploma in business- improvement techniques (QCF) level 2
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