Apprentice Calibration Technician Review

On a day-to-day basis, I attend college where I attend lessons, work on various assignments and carry out jobs in both the electrical and mechanical workshops.

During my time on my apprenticeship, I have definitely developed new skills which have helped me along the way. The BAE Systems behaviours have been helpful in my day-to-day tasks. These behaviours are adaptability, creativity, strategic vision, inspiration, collaboration, develops people, courage and integrity. I have also learnt new skills in the workshop for example, I have learnt how to create different electrical circuits and how to test them appropriately.

I thoroughly enjoy my apprenticeship at BAE as it offers the opportunity to earn as I learn the skills that I will need to carry out my job at the close of my apprenticeship. I have a large amount of independence in the workshop and am trusted to carry out different jobs which some people may struggle to do.

During my experience, the programme has been well organised with the odd problem.

I receive a fair amount of support from BAE but time is tight to complete assignments and we are expected to carry out a lot of class work in a short time compared to the other apprentices since we are on a balance of two days in classes and three days in the workshop.

The college which provides our training doesn't really put in the effort which is needed for the qualification and some tutors express that they aren't able to teach the content in the amount of time we have to complete the qualification.

The college provide a good insight of how things work in the business but sometimes struggle to relate the work we are doing to how it will operate in the business since some of them don't have experience in the specific field which we are going to work in.

To my knowledge, the only thing that apprentices in college can take part in is the college council, which I am not currently part of.

Yes

BAE provides a great experience for their apprentices and work very hard to improve the apprenticeship experience and step in to improve gaps in knowledge.

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