Graduate Production Engineer

  • Apprenticeship Reference: 2181332499-2
  • Date Posted: 4 June 2025
  • Apprentice Employer: MTrec Recruitment
  • Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear
  • Apprentice Pay: £25,000 to £32,000
  • Apprenticeship Sector: Civil Engineering, Engineering, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Procurement & Supply Chain, Project Management
  • Apprenticeship Type: Permanent

About this Apprenticeship

Rewards and Benefits on Offer;

  • Option to work a 4 or 5 day week
  • Competitive pension contribution
  • Dayshift hours
  • Opportunity to gain experience across all aspects of the business to develop your skills
  • Natural progression into the engineering side of the business within 12-18 months
  • Working with various prestigious blue-chip customers on a daily basis

Working Hours:

  • 39 hours, Mon - Thurs
  • 7am - 5:15pm

MTrec's New Opportunity;

MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious manufacturing client based just outside Newcastle, with their plans for growth and expansion, by recruiting a Graduate Production Engineer to join their team. You will be joining a rapidly growing, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and fantastic opportunities to progress your career.

If you have a background in production or process engineering, ideally with some additional experience in planning/control, please apply now for an immediate response.

The Job You'll Do;

  • Planning, organising and controlling activities of production through the Production Supervisors.
  • Responsible for production plan preparation based on forecasts, stock positions and orders.
  • Ensures compliance with specification, company policies and procedures, rules and regulations including welfare, H&S, quality (ISO 9001) and environment (ISO 1400)1.
  • Resource management within the production area including reporting on performance and attendance of the resource to the General Manager.
  • Maintaining profitable and efficient throughput of production items in accordance with specifications (including packaging and transport).
  • Liaising with the quality department, the General Manager and Project and Tooling Manager (as necessary).
  • Any additional duties that the General Manager deems appropriate to the job role and to assist the business.
  • Assisting the General Manager with forecasting and production planning discussing any present or future business volume, including adjustments of shipping commitments due to production constraints.
  • Reviewing and approving monthly production schedule for the month execution of production plan.
  • Providing accurate daily reports on produced items, rejects and scrap.
  • Liaising with the Procurement and Production Co-ordinator to ensure that records are accurate and up to date daily.
  • Identifying manpower forecasts, then allocating workload per employee with Supervisors to satisfy customer needs and to meet delivery schedules.
  • Reacting to poor performance and lack of productivity either through human resource or machinery / equipment.
  • Implementing and monitoring the preventive maintenance plan for equipment in line with production levels and forecasting.
  • Reviewing and assisting in any disciplinary action, leave application, overtime work, employee and Supervisor reporting, ISO documents and other matters related to employee's compensation.

About You;

  • Mechanical Engineering qualifications/background would be highly desirable (Apprenticeship, NVQ, HNC, HND, Degree).
  • Experience within a Production planning, control, process or engineering role
  • Ability to use Microsoft Office package (Outlook, Word and Excel).
  • Confident and professional being the 1st point of contact for customers.
  • Good organisational and communication skills at all levels.
  • Ability to work in a changing and flexible organisation, adapting quickly to change where necessary.
  • Absolute attention to detail