Toolmaker Review

Item: Toolmaker at BMW Group UK
Rating: 3.9
Author: Anonymous

at BMW Group UK

Level 3 Apprenticeship

Engineering

Swindon, UK

Review Submitted: April 2023

Overall Rating

3.9 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

4/5 - Overview of Role

4/5 - Skills Development

3.8/5 - Structure and Support

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

4/5

arrive at work and get changed into workwear. We then ask our process leader what jobs we have for that day, if we're working on a die he gives us maintenance schedule and we perform the work appropriately, or if there's a specific job he want us to do we follow verbal instructions. we record evidence of the work as we do it.

To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

4/5

i enjoy all of the work we do even though it can be repetitive it is constantly engaging and we have to focus and constantly improve which is good as stops the days feeling long and draining which is what can happen when work isn't engaging and there's nothing for your mind to do

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

4/5

i have learnt many new skills, particularly the ones used in die maintenance as it is a specialist role, but also for things used to facilitate die work, such as crane training and NVQ work. in our spare time when there's no work for us to complete we can do other work such as practicing using the wire cutter.

Structure and Support

How well organised/structured is your programme?

4/5

overall the structure is good, there is a checklist of experience and knowledge i should be getting from the work i should be doing in each area in each stage of the program, however on a day to day basis when there just isn't a lot of work available it can feel slow. college is structured very poorly and has no organisation