Rating

3.8/10
  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
  • Checking cpontract packages, writing PTs, which are the jobs for production to carry out, doing health and safety rounds on the boats.

    4/10

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
  • Yes how to write PTs, and surveys.

    2/10

  • 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
  • Not much, could be more to do, better teaching, more variety of work, working with other apprentices in the same position as me, using skills we learnt in college in our actual job, more events for apprentices to attend.

    2/10

  • 4. How well organised/structured is your programme?
  • Quite poorly, college instructors are rarely in consistently, teaching standard could be a lot better, we are dumped into different placements and expected to pick up things as we go rather than actually being properly taught, the jobs I do are not sufficient to create write ups for my NVQ.

    2/10

  • 5. How much support do you receive from your employer?
  • Not a lot, most of the support engineer apprentices address issues frequently with little to no change, and I believe as a whole support engineers apprentices are not considered enough or recognised, in other words I and the others feel unheard a lot of the time, which perhaps links to why our apprenticeship appears so unorganised and poorly structured.

    4/10

  • 6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
  • Not too bad, the college do tend to help in the best way they can, despite the poor teaching standard and bad organisation.

    6/10

  • 7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
  • ??

    2/10

  • 8. Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)
  • Yes there are career events that you can volunteer for, and you are required to do a certain amount of hours of this. There is also 'be kind days' which you can volunteer for. And you get the hours you worked at events given back to you as annual leave.

    8/10

  • 9a. Would you recommend Babcock to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 9b. Why?
  • It is a big and reliable company if your looking for any apprenticeship in Plymouth, but I would not recommend the apprenticeship im doing.


  • 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Babcock?
  • make sure you know exactly what the job includes before you apply for it.


Details

Level 3 Apprenticeship

Engineering

Plymouth

April 2025


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