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Entry Year

01/09/2025

Location

Millfield

Duration

2 Years (Full-Time)

Course Code

P00141-AA
Overview
Level 3Engineering Apprenticeship
Millfield
Full-Time
Further Education
Start Date: 01/09/2025
End Date: 20/06/2027

Qualifications

City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Engineering (600/0882/9)

Overview

Engineers are the drivers of modern life, researching, designing, building and maintaining infrastructures all around us.  From our roads, cars and properties to ships, planes and explosives, the engineering sector puts the laws of science and technology into practice.


This is a two-year course.
On successful completion of this course students will achieve the Level 3 certificate and earn recognition as a fully qualified engineer.

Apprentices are fully employed with an engineering employer from day 1.  They receive no training allowance from the college but receive a wage from their employer.


This programme of study is likely to include enrichment units which are an additional component to enhance your employability and apprenticeship training status within your workplace.

City and Guilds Diploma in Engineering (Fabrication and Welding pathway)

2850-301 Health and Safety in Engineering (online)

2850-302 Engineering Principles (online)

2850-305 Principles of Fabrication and Welding

2850-311 MIG Welding of Materials

2850-315 Fabrication and Erection of Structural Steel

2850-229 Produce Drawings using CAD

3268 Level 3 Advanced Welding Skills

 

ETCAL NVQ Level 3 Diploma in Fabrication and Welding (Structural Steel Pathway)

01 Complying with statutory regulations & organisational safety requirements

02 Using and interpreting engineering data and documentation

03 Working efficiently and effectively in engineering

22 Marking out components for metalwork

31 Producing fillet welded joints using manual welding process

34 Cutting materials using saws and abrasive discs

37 Producing finishing holes using drilling machines

39 Slinging, lifting and moving materials and components

41 Producing structural steel ancillary components

 

Advice
Pre-Entry Advice

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Requirements

GCSE grade C or above in Mathematics and English (or equivalent).

In addition, you must have fully completed a Level 2 Engineering framework qualification.  Evidence must be produced prior to enrolment.

If you meet the entry requirements, please contact ScienceEngConstruction@belfastmet.ac.uk 

Careers
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Careers

This course could help you develop a career in the Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering sector which could lead to a number of job roles including:

  • Fitter welder
  • Sheet metal worker
  • Pipe fitter
  • Plater fabricator
  • Maintenance welding operative
  • Welder
Careers
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