Key information
- Duration:
- 27 months plus End Point Assessment (EPA)
- Start date:
- September 2025
On this apprenticeship, you’ll advance your skills and knowledge to develop your career in:
- manufacturing
- transportation
- the energy-supply and sustainable-energy industries.
You’ll develop in-depth practical engineering skills and have the opportunity to apply them in the context of newer technologies. These include additive layer manufacture and multi-axis machining. You’ll develop transferable, high-value skills in research, design and engineering analysis. 
Teaching methods will include online study through our study portal, as well as learning on campus at Sussex. You’ll have the opportunity to use our manufacturing facilities. As an apprentice, you’ll be registered as a ÈÕº«ÎÞÂë student and have access to our:
This course is mapped to the IfATE-standard degree apprenticeship. As an apprentice, you’ll spend 20% of your paid working hours in protected learning time, ensuring minimal disruption.
We are part of the which focuses on providing flexible and affordable higher-level education and training in engineering and manufacturing, digital technologies, construction, planning and the built environment, and sustainable technologies.
This course is currently subject to validation, in line with our procedures for assuring the quality of our degrees. This means that some course detail and content may change as we develop this new course. The validation process will be finished before your course starts.
How to apply
Employer
If you want to offer an apprenticeship for an existing employee or a new recruit, contact us at apprenticeships@sussex.ac.uk
Apprentice
We work with employers to identify the right employees to sign up to our apprenticeship programmes. If this in an area that interests you and you are already in employment, ask your employer to contact us at apprenticeships@sussex.ac.uk
We understand that deciding where and what to study is a very important decision. We’ll make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the courses, services and facilities described in this prospectus. However, if we need to make material changes, for example due to government, professional body or regulatory requirements, or unanticipated staff changes, we’ll let you know as soon as possible.