Engineering and maintenance technician
Keep the instruments, plant and systems of a campus running.
Paid as an apprentice while you train. Pay varies by employer.
The route
How people get in and grow
Every lab, factory and data centre depends on technicians who install, maintain and fix its equipment. Level 3 apprenticeships lead into automation and controls work at Level 4.
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Start in engineering
An engineering course gives you the basics of tools, safety and how machines are built.
Unlocks: Level 2 or Level 3 engineering course
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Become a technician
The engineering technician and maintenance and operations apprenticeships pay you to learn the trade on real equipment.
Unlocks: Engineering technician or Maintenance and operations engineering technician apprenticeship (Level 3)
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Specialise
Automation and controls is the next step for technicians who want to work on programmable systems.
Unlocks: Automation and controls engineering technician apprenticeship (Level 4)
Ways in
Apprenticeships on this route
- A Level 2 or Level 3 engineering course at a local college
- Engineering technicianLevel 3 · 42 months typical · ST0457
- Maintenance and operations engineering technicianLevel 3 · 36 months typical · ST0154
- Automation and controls engineering technicianLevel 4 · 48 months typical · ST0662
Typical duration excludes the end-point assessment. Employers set their own entry requirements.
Occupational data from Skills England. © Skills England 2025. This information is licensed under the Open Government Licence https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Where this goes
Engineering and manufacturing in Oxford North runs from Level 2 (about GCSEs at grade 4 to 9) up to Level 3 (about A levels). These are the levels people move through, and what is open right now at each one.
Level 2about the same as GCSEs at grade 4 to 9
1 opening in Oxford North1 apprenticeship- Lean manufacturing operative (level 2)
Level 3about the same as A levels
2 openings in Oxford North2 different apprenticeships- Engineering design technician (level 3)
- Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
Level 4 exist in this work elsewhere in the country but nothing is open in Oxford North today. Worth widening your search, or asking a local college what they run.
Levels and apprenticeship standards from the Department for Education Find an apprenticeship service, counted from vacancies open today. Wages are the middle of what employers actually advertised, not a promise about any one job, and they do not always rise with the level: pay depends on the employer and the year as much as the qualification. These are the levels within this line of work, not a guarantee that one apprenticeship leads to the next.
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