Herefordshire Apprenticeship vacancies with HWGTA
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- Please note this is not a complete list of vacancies available at any one time.
- As Accountancy and Engineering apprenticeships have one intake each year in September, these will not be advertised all year round and may just feature the company recruiting or type of role(s) available.
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Commerce
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Excellent opportunity to work for an established firm of financial advisers. You will work in a busy office, providing an efficient and comprehensive admin service to our advisers. This is a large open-plan office where you will be working side by side with other team members.
What you’ll do at work
You will be responsible for a range of administrative tasks including:
- Opening and distributing post
- Scanning
- Answering the phone
- Stationery requests
- You will meet and greet clients / visitors to the office
- Have regular contact with insurance providers and advisers
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Knowledge of Microsoft office
- Positive attitude
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work individually
- Enthusiastic
- Ability to prioritise work
- Able to meet set deadlines
Contact
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432 377002
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An exciting opportunity to work for an established and independent insurance business based in Hereford. You will learn the different aspects of the business including commercial insurance with the potential of spending time in our close protection and security department. You will study Business Administrator Level 3 Standard.
What you’ll do at work
- Working with Account Executives to service their clients including Renewals, New Business and Mid Term Adjustments.
- Email and Letter writing.
- System administration.
- Face to Face and Telephone work.
- General Office Administration.
- Office support tasks including post etc.
- Full training provided.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Positive
- Enthusiastic
- Motivated to learn new things
- Honest
- Reliable
- Forthcoming
- Great attention to detail
- Confident communicator
- Computer literate
Contact
Lisa Wilkinson
Lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432 377002
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We are looking for a Finance Apprentice to support the key business functions within the finance department in our Hereford office at FläktGroup.
What you’ll do at work
- Input daily banking information onto Dynamics, allocate customer payments to relevant sales invoices
- Match intercompany invoices against relevant purchase orders, acquire authorisation from relevant signatories, help resolve queries, and load invoices to Dynamics
- Reconcile intercompany invoices against statements to finalise monthly netting payment
- Raise sales invoices and send to relevant customers
- Assist with new maintenance contracts, and customer queries
- Assist the credit control team by chasing up outstanding sales invoices
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Number skills
- Team working
- Confident
- Professional attitude
Contact
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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A fantastic career opportunity for the right candidate. The role will initially focus on bookkeeping and software support, with full in house software training provided. The role and relevant training will also cover payroll and accounting services, with potential involvement in audit work as the candidate progresses.
What you’ll do at work
- Bookkeeping/software support
- Payroll bureau work
- Accountancy services
- Audit work
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
Contact
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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What you’ll do at work
From day one we will be teaching you the skills you require to prepare accounts and eventually tax computations from data provided by our clients.
Your work will include:
- Data analysis
- Reconciliation
- Problem solving
- Sense checking
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Contact
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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You will help contribute to financial management that supports delivery of LPT’s key purpose and vision, ensuring adherence to financial routines, accuracy and compliance with relevant statutory and regulatory requirements. You will also support the finance team with administrative tasks, such as managing data and preparing documents accurately.
What you’ll do at work
- Timely & accurate processing of purchase invoices in Xero accounting software
- Maintenance of financial CRM records
- Support sound & effective financial controls
- Assist with compiling Gift Aid claims
- Assist with preparation of annual audit files
- Process petty cash transactions
- Assist with accurate recording of donations and income including producing reports and reconciliation
- Responsible for cash handling including accurate counting and recording of bank deposits
- Matching purchase invoices to purchase orders, obtaining necessary approvals and ensuring a full audit trail
- Export and analysis of data for use in KPI reports
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
Contact
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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We are looking for an accounts apprentice to join our growing team. If you would like to work for a business that is dynamic, loves innovation and encourages people to grow and reach their potential, then this may be the position for you. Attitude is key to success within and those that thrive have a ‘can do’, proactive, customer-focused approach.
What you’ll do at work
- Daily preparation of accounts to review stage, with assistance from your mentor
- One on one training with your mentor with each stage of an accounts job
- Use of the cloud software, Xero in the preparation of accounts and VAT jobs
- Exposure to VAT returns and bookkeeping processes to see the process through to the accounts completion stage
- Responsible for your own workload, ensuring you complete each job by the agreed timescale
- Working as a team to ensure the work is delivered to clients in a timely manner
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Confident
- Pro-active
- Motivated
- Positive
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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Providing general administrative support to TW, a forward thinking and innovative accountancy firm. The role will be working as part of the admin team, assisting the other departments in the firm and contributing to ensuring all operations run smoothly. You may be working on particular projects.
What you’ll do at work
Day to day responsibilities may include:
- Receive regular training as and when agreed in a training programme, to understand the general activities of the administration team and deliver administration services to the organisation.
- Provide general administrative activities to the organisation to include filing, data entry, scanning post to cloud document storage and distributing accordingly, typing and assisting in the management of communications and paperwork, managing diaries, assisting with travel arrangements/organisation, looking after visitors and assisting with general reception and telephone duties
- Assisting other teams to meet their deadlines, by ensuring clients are chased to bring in relevant information in a timely manner
- Maintain accurate records/documentation associated with your work
- Immediately report problems/failures that may impact on the organisation and/or its clients/customers to Line Manager
- Contribute towards the smooth running of the team
- Interact and co-operate with all members of the organisation and its suppliers and clients/customers
- Use of internal systems, including IRIS Accountancy Software, Xero Cloud Accounting and Xero Practice Management to maintain the client database and ensure accuracy
From time to time you may be expected to be part of special projects as are reasonably required of your job role.
You are responsible for your allocated workload and must meet all targets as agreed with your Line Manager. You must contribute towards the smooth running of the organisation generally.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Confident
- Pro-active
- Motivated
- Positive
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
Engineering
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The role initially will primarily focus on the service and repair of machinery within our workshop once confident with the equipment, this will then expand into offering technical support to our customer base and contract engineers either remotely or in field.
What you’ll do at work
An average week in the role will consist mainly of the servicing and repairs of our equipment. This will take place in our workshop.
These works will include:
- Electrical and mechanical diagnostics
- Refrigeration works Inc. handling of gas and brazing repairs
- Repair and replacement of componentry including motors, compressors, electrical switchgear etc
- Full function testing of repaired machines ensuring production and signoff
In addition to this the role will eventually incorporate technical support tasks offering first line support to our customers and field engineers, via telephone or email.
There will also eventually be a requirement for the candidate to undertake onsite work for diagnostic or repair duties. This will be infrequent but a willingness to travel is key.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Technically minded
- Practical skills
Contact
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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An excellent opportunity working for an established metal fabrication and welding company in our busy workshop based at Rotherwas Industrial Estate, Hereford.
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
You will be working with the rest of our team in our workshop and occasionally on site at our client’s premises. Duties include:
- Fabricating items such as small brackets through to larger structural items such as platforms
- Working on bespoke items for customers e.g tanks, pipework, handrails, staircase, shutters, gates and balustrades
- Training under supervision on machinery such as CNC Plasma cutting machine, powder coating, shot blasting, lathes, tubes, pipe bending, powered rollers and press brake
- Occasional general line maintentance for bottling industry and installations on construction sites
Skills
- Problem solving skills
- Punctuality
- Desirable-mechanically minded
- Enthusiastic
- Motivated
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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What you’ll do at work
- Working safely in a busy environment
- Checking materials coming in against a Material List.
- Processing steel sections through state-of-the-art CNC machinery to achieve required lengths, holes and any additional profiling as well as shotblasting.
- Making fittings in the correct sequence to keep the workshop up to speed with site programmes and schedules.
- Fabrication of structural steel against CAD drawings.
- Welding of structural steel in line with welding procedures.
- Painting protective coatings (Primer / Intumescent Fire Protective Paint).
- Loading trailers in a safe and efficient manner for transport.
- Helping the Production Control Team with CNC Programming, material ordering & other areas to enable a smooth and efficient workshop flow.
Skills
- Organisation skills
- Reliability
- Bright and Sparky
- Can do attitude
- Enthusiastic
- Pro-active
- Keen and eager
- An interest in weld/fab
Contact
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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Working as part of our Research & Development team assisting with the designing of mechanical components for Search and Rescue equipment used in aircraft environments, as well as providing support for our production facilities.
What you’ll do at work
The role of apprentice mechanical engineering technician will involve:
- Shadowing qualified staff to both assist them with the task at hand and also to gain knowledge
- Using relevant design software (Solidworks)
- Work with other departments to develop new products and improve existing
- Assist with any manufacturing issues in production
- Ensure work is well documented
- Gain an understanding of electronics in relation to your work
Skills
- Team working
- Motivated
- Enthusiastic
- Polite
- Evidence of good timekeeping
- Engineering work experience
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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Exciting opportunity to become part of a UK based Engineering Company with over 30 years’ experience specialising in the design and manufacture of packaged process plant, equipment and pressure vessels for the oil & gas, petrochemical, power generation and food industries.
What you’ll do at work
An apprentice welder fabricator at KGD will have duties including
- Ability to read and understand technical drawings
- Develop number and measurement skills
- Welding using multiple processes in numerous materials
- Cutting
- Folding
- Base-frame Fabrication and fabrication skills
- Tank fabrication
- Vessel fabrication
- Pipework, fabrication and welding (site based and factory based )
- Assembly skills – manufacturing maintenance
- Inspection and testing skills
- Manufacturing Sequences
- Quality Assurance
Skills
- Communication skills
- Team working
- Willing to learn
- Good work ethic
- Punctual
- Honest
- Respectful
- Outgoing
- Confident
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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We are looking for welding/engineering apprentices to start their careers with one of the countries leading bulk fuel manufacturers. We are a friendly team based in the small town of Ledbury and we have a number of employees who have over 30 years experience each who we are looking to pass their experience on to.
What you’ll do at work
An average day at the start of the apprenticeship would be:
- To shadow one of our long term experienced Welder/Fabricators. Watching and listening to their guidance
- We always like to get our apprentices to be hands on whenever possible, so trial welding/fabricating would be offered, under guidance
- Helping out wherever is needed in collecting items from stores to be used
Skills
- Team working
- Eager to learn
- Take instruction
- Hard working
- Conscientious
- Good timekeeping
- Positive attitude
- Enthusiastic
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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We are looking for a Technical Support apprentice, to start their engineering career with one of the countries leading bulk fuel manufacturers. We are a friendly team based in the small town of Ledbury.
What you’ll do at work
The tech support role will entail:
- Shadowing our Technical Manager who progressed through the apprenticeship route
- Reading and completing drawings
- Liaising with other departments i.e Sales, Accounts, Production and Installation
- An aspect of admin work
Skills
- Team working
- Eager to learn
- Take instruction
- Hard working
- Conscientious
- Good timekeeping
- Positive attitude
- Enthusiastic
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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You are ambitious and curious. You have a keen interest in engineering, have always been a problem solver and are looking to embark on a dynamic career journey. Suntory, a global leader with over 125 years of experience, produces iconic products like Lucozade and Ribena. Start your journey on our Level 3 Mechatronics Apprenticeship.
What you’ll do at work
Working at our factory in Coleford you will plan and prepare for maintenance work – including maintenance and repair of production machinery and site services:
- Conduct planned maintenance, including testing, fault finding, repairing and manufacturing or replacing component parts
- Conduct predictive maintenance and respond to breakdowns
- Conduct reactive maintenance and perform corrective actions
- Understand the basics of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and integration into fault finding
- Lead and support operational teams with machinery changeovers, setups
- Maintain engineering documentation
- Ensure the availability and performance of equipment
- Contribute to internal and external audits
- Adhere to workplace health & safety regulations, ensuring a safe working environment for yourself and colleagues.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Eager to learn
- Keen for personal growth
Other requirements
You must be able to travel to the training centre in Hereford and to our site in Coleford at your own cost independently with your own transportation.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Lisa Wilkinson
Lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432 377010
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Mark Fenton Design Services is a growing, sub-contract design drawing office located in Hereford. The company specialises in producing high quality drawings for the industrial cladding and roofing industry. We are looking for an apprentice to join our team as technical support in design.
What you’ll do at work
Assisting the design team with:
- Production of layouts
- Detail drawings
- Material scheduling
- projects from design stage through to construction
- Work in close partnership with architects and contractors
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Creative
- Initiative
- Strong interest in CAD
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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Securcom is a family run business, and we have been providing Electrical Installations within the agricultural industry for the last 36 years. We also Install Solar PV and CCTV. We are looking for an Apprentice engineer to work alongside one of the company’s Senior Engineers in a development role here at Securcom.
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
Assisting Senior Electricians with:
- Installing conduits
- Installing new wiring
- Replacing old or damaged wiring
- Installing systems like lighting, fire alarms, and security systems
- Mounting panel boards, switches, and other equipment
- Troubleshooting and repairing equipment as needed
- Assisting in larger projects like installing panels and generators
- Reading blueprints
- Assembling, installing, testing, and maintaining electrical or electronic wiring, equipment, appliances, and fixtures
- Using basic electrical tools and operating power tools and equipment
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Excellent time keeping
- Punctuality
- Listen to instructions
- Positive
- Motivated
- Willing to learn new skills
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
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