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Tubney Woods
Abingdon, Oxon, OX13 5QX

OXFORD INSTRUMENTS PLC - Apprentice Facilities Technician

Salary: £14,526.20 a year
Working Pattern: Full Time
Contract Type: Apprenticeship
Closing Date: Mon 13 Oct 2025 - 11:59 pm UTC
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OXFORD INSTRUMENTS PLC - Apprentice Facilities Technician

Summary

As a Facilities Technician Apprentice, Oxford Instruments will enrol you onto a course that will develop your skills and experience within facilities, operations and maintenance. You will spend time in each of our Manufacturing Value Streams to understand more about the day-to-day activities on site.

Annual wage: £14,526.20 a year
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Training course: Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)

Hours
Monday- Thursday 08:00 - 16:30 Friday 08:00 - 13:00.
37.0 hours a week

Possible start date: Monday 20 October 2025

Duration: 3 Years

Positions available: 1

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 join the facilities team and learn how to inspect, fault find, rectify problems and maintain plant and equipment to meet operational requirements
  • You will also learn how to comply with health, safety and environmental working practices and regulations
  • We are a diverse site with a manufacturing area for complex scientific instruments, office and catering facilities, as well as beautiful grounds that require maintenance
  • No two days will be the same

Where you’ll work

Tubney Woods
Abingdon
Oxon
OX13 5QX

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

ENGINEERING TRUST TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)

Your training plan

  • Building Services Engineering Service and Maintenance Engineer Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
  • Company Training Plan & Assessment
  • Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Building Services Engineering Technology and Project Management
  • Level 2 Functional Skills - maths (If required)
  • Level 2 Functional Skills - English (If required)
  • End Point Assessment at the end of the apprenticeship

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • A Min of 5 GCSE's inc Science, English & Maths (grade 4-9 (C-A*))

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness
  • Time Management
  • Interest in Engineering

Other requirements

We are based near Abingdon (Tubney Woods, OX13 5QX) with a bus stop on the Oxford-Wantage bus route at our front gate, or a short walk from the Oxford-Faringdon-Swindon route. A genuine interest in Building Services / Maintenance / Facilities and a can-do attitude to your work.

About this company

At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world’s leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. Our customers use our NanoScience ultra-low temperature and high magnetic field environments to go beyond what was once thought possible, whether that’s creating Nobel Prize winning materials or developing quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems.

https://nano.oxinst.com/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

  • Oxford Instruments are investing in our facility as our site grows which will give you plenty of opportunity for involvement in project work and for additional responsibility as your career develops

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

OXFORD INSTRUMENTS PLC

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000343155.

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Closes on Monday 13 October 2025

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