Manufacturing Apprenticeship Lead

Day-to-day apprentice support and management liaison

• Provide a day-to-day contact for apprentices on practical workplace and training questions. Signpost questions outside your remit and refer concerns requiring programme, placement or people-management decisions to the appropriate responsible role.
• Coach apprentices on professional behaviours and workplace expectations, including communication, timekeeping, teamwork, accountability and operating in a professional manufacturing environment.
• Help build an inclusive and supportive cohort culture so apprentices feel welcome and able to access the right support.
• Provide factual observations on training progress, skills development and workplace behaviours to support performance and OKR reviews led by the responsible manager. Include relevant feedback from training delivered in the production areas.
• Answer and signpost questions on company policy and procedure, involving the People team where appropriate.
• Hold regular one-to-one check-ins to monitor wellbeing, engagement and progress, and step in early where an apprentice is struggling.
• Provide practical support as apprentices become embedded in production areas and remain available as a day-to-day training contact.

Support for agreed rotations and placements

• Support apprentices in following the rotation plan agreed by the responsible programme and placement decision-makers. Deliver assigned training so apprentices gain a practical understanding of composites production processes.
• Provide practical training and readiness information to Team Leaders, Production Management and the roles responsible for placements. Support apprentices entering an agreed placement; placement selection, approval and programme coordination sit elsewhere.
• Record progress from the training and on-site skills verification you deliver, and provide this evidence to the role responsible for tracking apprenticeship standards and rotation objectives. Raise gaps identified through your training activities.

Education provider liaison

• Provide practical training information to support the education-provider relationship managed by the responsible programme role. Refer provider requests requiring programme decisions or commitments to that role.
• Attend provider progress reviews and site visits when requested to contribute observations on practical training. Deliver agreed training actions and supply evidence to the role responsible for aligning on-the-job and off-the-job learning requirements.
• Pass provider concerns to the responsible programme role and relevant manager. Hold supportive conversations with apprentices and carry out agreed practical training actions within your remit, reporting progress back to the responsible role.
• Maintain accurate records of training delivered and skills verification completed. Supply these records to support apprenticeship compliance, progress reviews and end-point assessment preparation; programme assurance and readiness decisions remain with the responsible role.

Team Leader enablement

• Educate and support Team Leaders on their responsibilities when hosting apprentices, so expectations are clear and consistent across every area.
• Provide factual training feedback to Team Leaders, Production Management and the responsible programme role to support progress discussions and agreed improvements.

Training delivery and practical support

• Provide delivery and practical support, working with the Production Trainer team to make sure all employees receive consistent and comprehensive training.
• Deliver assigned production training in line with agreed materials and standards, including induction and core composites process training for apprentices, operators and technicians. Record training completed and raise gaps or inconsistencies with the role responsible for the production training programme.
• Use current, approved training materials and maintain accurate records of training and skills verification. Identify materials requiring updates and submit proposed changes to the role responsible for approval and version control.
• Work with production, maintenance and engineering stakeholders to identify practical skill gaps. Share observations with the responsible training role and deliver the training assigned to address agreed priorities.
• Provide practical training input to the People team and hiring managers, and deliver agreed onboarding activities. Decisions about recruitment and alignment of the wider onboarding and training programme remain with the responsible roles.

Continuous improvement and alignment

• Provide feedback from day-to-day apprentice support and training delivery to the role responsible for reviewing the apprenticeship model. Put agreed improvements into practice within your assigned training and support activities.
• Share practical learning and training-delivery approaches with colleagues at MPC. Refer proposals for changes to cross-site apprenticeship arrangements to the roles responsible for programme governance and coordination.
• Deliver assigned induction and training activities for future apprentice intakes and provide practical onboarding support. Report training-delivery capacity constraints to the responsible manager or programme role; intake planning and resource decisions sit elsewhere.

Thursday, November 12, 2026

5 - Supervisory / Professional - (L-15)

0800 to 1700 - Monday to Friday

Working within the McLaren Composites Technology Centre in Sheffield, the Production Trainer delivers practical training and provides day-to-day contact for apprentices. Reporting to the Production Manager, you will help apprentices build technical capability, professional behaviours, confidence and workplace skills through training, coaching and signposting. You will raise concerns with the appropriate responsible role rather than take ownership of the apprenticeship programme.

The role works alongside production and training colleagues to deliver agreed technical training and practical apprentice support. Apprenticeship programme governance, programme coordination and placement decisions sit with other responsible roles. You will provide observations and training records to support their work, follow the agreed programme and placement arrangements, and refer matters requiring programme or management decisions to the appropriate owner.

Share practical experience of apprentice support and training delivery with colleagues at the McLaren Production Centre (MPC), where helpful. Decisions about a consistent cross-site apprenticeship model remain with the roles responsible for programme governance and coordination.

• Experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting, coaching, mentoring or developing others.
• Experience delivering or coordinating workplace learning activities.
• Experience working with apprenticeships, vocational learning or structured development programmes would be advantageous.
• People management experience or clear readiness to undertake line-management responsibility where required.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to build positive relationships at all levels.
• Excellent planning and organisational capability.
• Strong administrative, governance and reporting skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple activities and priorities simultaneously.
• Good understanding of learning and development principles.
• Understanding of apprenticeship requirements, manufacturing processes and operational environments.

• Apprentice retention, completion and End Point Assessment outcomes.
• Learner engagement, wellbeing and quality of apprentice experience.
• Timely progress against programme milestones and development plans.
• Quality, breadth and effectiveness of apprentice rotations and workplace development.
• Effective line-management or programme-ownership arrangements, with clear accountability across placements.
• Compliance, audit readiness and programme governance standards.
• Stakeholder and training-provider satisfaction.
• Successful progression into substantive Manufacturing roles and contribution to future capability pipelines.
• Delivery and closure of agreed continuous-improvement actions.
• Delivery of selected learning activity without displacing programme ownership responsibilities.

We offer a wide - ranging benefits package, which includes:

• Structured career development framework
• 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
• Enhanced company pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus award
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance benefit
• Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years' service
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• Generous parental leave policies
• A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice