Trainee Pre Production Engineer

Company: Rubicon Recruitment Agency
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Location: Hurn
Job Description:

Trainee Pre-production Engineer | Christchurch | up to £35000


Learn how every project is shaped before it reaches the shop floor, turning customer drawings into accurate, workable production plans.This is a role where you’ll be trained properly, and where accuracy and process discipline are genuinely valued, not just expected.


As a Trainee Pre-production Engineer, you will benefit from:



  • Full on-the-job training and development towards a Pre-production Engineer role

  • 31 days holiday (195 hours), including bank holidays, with a Christmas shutdown

  • Enhanced pension, 4.5% employer and 4.5% employee contributions

  • Death in service cover

  • Employee Assistance Programme

  • Cycle to Work Scheme

  • Free on-site parking and uniform

  • Free eye test with £80 contribution towards glasses

  • Free hot drinks

  • 39-hour week with a half-day Friday


As a Trainee Pre-production Engineer, your responsibilities will include:



  • Learning to prepare cost estimates and quotations from customer specifications, drawings and BOMs

  • Supporting the planning of manufacturing processes, routing and material requirements

  • Assisting with customer queries on technical, specification and delivery requirements
  • Gathering supplier pricing, lead times and material availability

  • Reviewing drawings and BOMs to help spot manufacturing risks and cost implications


As a Trainee Pre-production Engineer, your experience will include:



  • An engineering qualification (or working towards one), or some hands-on manufacturing experience

  • Ability to read engineering drawings, or a strong willingness to learn

  • Good numerical and analytical skills with a high level of accuracy

  • Organised, detail-focused and keen to develop a career in engineering

  • Exposure to CNC machining, fabrication or welding processes (desirable)

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Posted: October 6th, 2026