Mechanical Automation & Maintenance Fitting Apprentice

Background:

Veolia is Ireland’s leading environmental services company. We provide a comprehensive range of energy, waste and water solutions and are dedicated to carbon reduction, protecting the environment and building the circular economy. We offer all employees a benefits package as standard which includes full VHI cover, pension and education assistance.

When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources, and help it become a better place for everyone. It's why we're looking for someone who's just as committed as we are, to push for genuine change and bring our ambition of Ecological Transformation to life.

We know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.

Mechanical Automation and Maintenance Fitting Apprentice

Location: Clondalkin, Co Dublin

39 Hours per week - 08:00 to 16:30

Overview of the role;

The Fitter‘s job concerns plant and machinery installation, maintenance and

repairs, replacement of broken or work parts, adjustment, servicing and

checking components, machinery and equipment, component replacement.

Parts may have to be fabricated using machine tools i.e. lathes, milling machines,

grinders etc., components may have to be repaired or fabricated using welding,

brazing, rivetting, soldering etc. Increasingly machines and processes involve

integration with computer and electronic operating and control systems with

mechanical/hydraulic and pneumatic devices i.e.PLCs, CNC, CAD, CIM and CAM.

At the end of the apprenticeship, the craftsperson will be able to demonstrate

competence in the following skills:

Core Skills

• Installation, service, maintenance, fault rectification of process plant, machine tools, power and production equipment
• Component fabrication by Turning, Milling, Welding, Cutting, Machining, Drilling, Reaming and Pipe Fabrication
• Machine setting/adjustment of control system elements, including computerisation and system programming

Skills and Specialist Skills

• Precision turning
• Advanced milling
• Coded welding
• CNC machining/programming
• CAM, CAD
• Hydraulics
• Pneumatics
• Electronics

Common Skill

Workshop practice including: safe use and maintenance of tools and

equipment, marking out, drilling, tapping, reaming, rivetting, fasteners,

technical drawings and interpretation of 1st and 3rd angle, isometric, oblique

and freehand drawings/symbols.

Safety - hazard avoidance,

good workshop practices, basic first aid, fire extinguishers, electrical shocks,

lifting, evacuation, basic thermal processes, pattern development, materials,

mechanical,handling light fabrication, environmental protection and rational

use of energy.

Personal Skills

• Initiative/adaptability
• Verbal communication
• Problem solving
• Teamwork
• Planning
• Report writing

Minimum Requirements

• Leaving Certificate
• Strong Mathematical ability

Please note:

​If you are an EU/EEA national, you will be asked to show proof of right to work in Ireland.

If you are a non-EU/EEA national , you will require current and valid permission to work and reside in the Republic of Ireland.

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