Engineering and maintenance training courses and qualifications

Skills and qualifications across the whole of the food and drink manufacturing industry

Investment in new technology has created 21st century manufacturing facilities, which means the industry needs the cutting edge maintenance skills to match. But it’s only with ongoing investment in training that the skills of your engineers can keep up with the ever increasing complexity of automation used in food and drink manufacturing.

Engineers in the food and drink industry must be skilled in a wide range of areas such as strategic maintenance management, technology deployment and practical skills like fault finding and the latest mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic and electronic technologies.

At the National Skills Academy our network of training providers offer engineering and maintenance training courses and qualifications to ensure your businesses, and your machinery, runs smoothly.

See our latest engineering and maintenance training courses

We’ve picked out a selection of courses in the panel on your right, or you can see our full range of engineering and maintenance courses here. You can also learn more by joining our engineering and maintenance network groups or seeing our full list of training providers.

Through our UK-wide network of training providers we can offer a range of engineering and maintenance training courses including:

• NVQs in performing engineering operations, mechanical engineering and engineering leadership
• Reliability centred maintenance for the food and drink sector
• Apprenticeships in engineering
• Inspection, testing and certification of electrical installations
• Fabrication, welding, bronze welding and cutting
• Inspection, testing and fault diagnostics
• Incident and accident investigation
• Pneumatics, electro-pneumatics and PLC controls
• PAT testing
• Manual handling awareness course

Read our engineering and maintenance training case studies.

Join our industry action group

To get involved and join other like-minded employers in identifying common themes and issue within the engineering and maintenance sector, please speak to one of our skills consultants.