25-0106 Apprentice Forge Estimator

The successful candidate will support the estimation and process routing of high-value, long lead time components. The candidate must ensure company costs are covered whilst providing competitive pricing. This is mostly an office-based role, however; visits to various manufacturing areas will be required to establish best methods of manufacture.

Responsibilities:

• Take a customer’s drawing and create a forging profile capable of being machined to the finished dimensions
• Be able to understand manufacturing procedures and apply them to methods of production while adhering to the customer’s specifications
• Select the appropriate ingot required to make the forging, and any required heat treatments that the forging is required to be subjected to
• Liaise with the machine shop estimator to ensure that the method chosen is the most cost effective from an overall business perspective
• Raise steel orders for the melt shop once an order has been placed
• Generate forging procedures to give instruction to the foremen how to forge to estimated product
• Designing forging profiles and routes based around the company’s capabilities i.e. crane SWL and sizes of treatment fires
• Seek out sub-con assistance when required i.e. certain steel coatings or sub-con forging
• Must be able to work closely with technical and production departments, thus optimising the most economical production route
• Assist with the preparation of documents to meet customers’ requirements
• Adhere to all company H&S systems of work and procedures
• Work to Standard Process Instructions, Works Operating Instructions and the Works Quality Documents

Any other duties commensurate with this position.

You will study on a Level 4 Engineering Manufacturing Technician higher apprenticeship on a Manufacturing Operations pathway.

On completion of this, you will gain a qualification in Engineering at Level 4 Standard.

During the first year of the apprenticeship, your learning will take place at the University of Sheffield’s AMRC Training Centre based at Catcliffe, Rotherham, for an initial block of study on a full-time basis. After this, you will attend the training centre for one day a week for knowledge study.