Providing advanced guidance on a range of land-based tools and equipment.
Overview
The land-based service engineering technician was approved for delivery on 23/12/2015. This Advanced apprenticeship standard awards you with a level 3, qualification when completed. The usual duration of this apprenticeship is 36 months, but this does not include the End-Point Assessment Period.
What the course covers
This apprenticeship provides training for the various technical challenges one meets when dealing with land-based equipment, ranging from simple maintenance jobs to complicated diagnostic and technical repair. You may be called upon to support more junior engineers and colleagues, whilst also interacting with customers and offering advice on machinery selection. Typically, the role of a Land-based service engineering technician includes the preparation and installation of complex technologically advanced equipment, diagnosis and repair of machinery, repairing specific components alongside junior colleagues and conducting machinery and equipment inspections.
As an apprentice technical, you will gain an understanding of the interface between machine, biological systems and the specific working environment such as climate, soil, animal and plants. You will learn to carry out a risk assessment, how to interpret complex writing and hydraulic circuit diagrams, and how to record information correctly and precisely following the industry you are working in.
Apprentices may work at the employer’s site, the customer’s location or a combination of the two. You should be ready for outdoor working in all weathers and flexible working related to the various seasonal requirements.
Careers and jobs associated
- Agriculture engineering technician
If you would like to find out more about the land-based service engineering technician apprenticeship standard, skills, learnt, assessment methods and duties of the role, visit the Institute for Apprenticeships.
