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18.06.2025
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Apprenticeships with Cross
Cross Agricultural Engineering are offering a full time apprenticeship to 6 candidates who are looking to start a career in metal fabrication.
This programme is is carried out by Cross themselves along with SOLAS (official training body).
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Apprenticeship : Metal Fabrication
Payment: Discussed at interview stages
Job Description
Terms : Full time / Training programme
Cross Agricultural Engineering Ltd. are currently seeking 6 candidates to enrol in our apprenticeship programme. This is a full time position and is based at the Cross factory in Rathangan Co.Kildare.
About the Company: Cross is a leading engineering company who specialise in the design and manufacturing of farm, biogas, commercial and food processing machinery. We offer a top of the range service as standard to all our customers and would like to offer that training to our apprentices who get the opportunity to work with us. Currently there are 40 staff working in a state of the art factory and each staff member is given his/her own dedicated work bay. This means the staff working in Cross are working on their own small projects within the factory and are specializing in custom design. This is a lot less monotonous than production line work.
Apprenticeship programme: At Cross we pride ourselves in offering one of the best apprenticeship training programmes in the country. If you come to train and work at Cross there is no part of metal fabrication you will not have experience in. It is safe to say after the 4 years you will be one of the best trained metal fabricators in the country.
On successful completion of this Metal Fabrication apprenticeship, the apprentice is awarded a QQI Level 6 Advanced Certificate Craft – Metal Fabrication.
This apprenticeship consists of four on-the-job phases with Cross and three off-the-job phases in an educational organisation. Apprentices will be invited to attend their off-the-training phases in accordance with the SOLAS scheduling system.
This apprenticeship is deemed to be complete when an apprentice has successfully completed all on-the-job and off-the-job phases of their apprenticeship, which is a minimum of four years in duration from the date of registration.
Pay: At Cross we pay all our apprentices above the recommended wage by the ETB (Education and Training Board). A training allowance is paid by the local ETB while the apprentice is attending the off-the-job training.
Requirements:
Junior Certificate must be completed
Leaving Certificate is a bonus
Junior or Leaving Certificate Engineering, Tech Drawing (DCG), Woodwork, Physics, Phys/Chem are a bonus
Must be 16 years of age or older
No experience required (training provided)
Good communication skills
Ability to read manufacturing drawings is a bonus
Ability to work as part of a team
Past engineering experience is a bonus
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