Workplace Trainer - Engineering

Milton Keynes College are looking for a workplace trainer with expert skills in the field of Engineering to motivate train and develop our Apprentices.

Milton Keynes College are looking for a workplace trainer with expert skills in the field of Engineering to motivate train and develop our Apprentices.As a Workplace Trainer, your role will be dynamic, varied and highly rewarding working with employers, Apprentices and curriculum teams. Workplace trainers are assigned a caseload of Apprentices to train and assess throughout the evolution of their Apprenticeship.

You will maintain a strong working relationship with your Apprentices and employer links to ensure that Apprenticeship standards are being met and that Apprentices are progressing to complete on time. A significant amount of the training delivered by workplace trainers is completed as part of apprenticeship programmes, and the school has strong relationships with key Engineering employers such as Niftylift and Nissan Technology. 

We are looking for those with the skills and knowledge from the Engineering industry to enhance the learning experiences for our Apprentices, as such we are open to receiving applications from those looking to gain a teaching or assessing qualification.

As the successful candidate for the Trainer role you will be supporting Apprentices through their Apprenticeship in the Engineering industry. This is hugely popular vocation with a high demand. You will support in ensuring that learners are assessed and supported through their Apprenticeship to allow them to progress into their chosen career.

As a successful candidate you will have…

A minimum of a level 3 qualification in Engineering

A HNC  (desirable)

A willingness to work towards a HND or a degree

An Assessor/Verifier Award, or be willing to work towards this

Relevant Engineering experience and/or occupational competence in the subject 

Experience of designing and delivering workplace skills and knowledge training sessions

Experience of assessing NVQ/Apprenticeships

The ability to assess/train creatively, adapting to the needs of a variety of students and be willing to explore new learning strategies

Well-developed interpersonal skills

The ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative

Good organisational skills and be able to meet deadlines

More about the College

Milton Keynes College is proud to be an open and inclusive general Further Education College welcoming learners of all levels and delivering an exceptional educational experience. The College offers a broad range of qualifications with more than 3,000 16 – 18-year-old full-time students studying traditional A Levels, vocational courses, apprenticeships and Higher Education. In addition, the College delivers employability and key skills training programmes to 3,000 people in local community learning centres and is one of the largest providers of Offender Learning in England, working with 27 prisons across the East Midlands, South Central and West Midlands.