With the entire site being an intricate mass of valves, towers, exchanges and pipes, you’ll enjoy the challenges that’ll enhance your practical skills.
Mechanical
As a machinery apprentice you will work in our workshops and out on the site! No day is the same with machinery, just some of the equipment you will find yourself working on will be pumps, compressors, tubines, exruders, presses, fans and also developing machining skills on lathes and milling machines along the way. With the foundations of your first year of training in traditional engineering: handfitting skills, precise meeasurement, hydraulics, lathe and milling operations, rigging and slinging and fault finding, you will also use cutting-edge technology to embrace new ways of working.
You will begin to develop your knowledge in traditional engineering in a hands on environment that will be the stepping stone to a career in this sought after profession.
Reliability
This is one of the key aspects of the successful operation of our site. It is equipment reliability that has led to Fawley refinery being one of the most productive in the U.K.
During your time as an apprentice, you will learn to analyse failure modes, identify the root cause and help develop and implement solutions to prevent repeat failures. You will also learn how to use cutting edge technology to set up our machinery within precise tolerances so that they run at their best.
Our dedicated team ar ready to welcome you and develop you into a competent machiinery technician.