Higher Apprentice in Manufacturing Engineering Review

my role within the company is as a training manufacturing engineer. I spend most of my current time being in 3 month placements throughout the company to be able to see how the whole company works and what the different stages are. I support the team leaders in every placement I am in.

I have developed my engineering and manufacturing skills from basic to a very high level as working in the industry gives you a better view into how it works which in-turn has allowed me to learn a lot more by doing rather than reading. Also the degree [program they put us on gives us the academic side as well which has really helped understand the subject in detail

for me the program that I am on is always teaching me new things which helps me maintain my enjoyment in the subject. I love my job and that the company really looks after you no matter what your situation is. also the fact that everyone in the teams and the higher up staff treats you as a colleague rather than a trainee makes the experience a lot nicer and makes it more enjoyable in the process.

I feel extremely valued as an apprentice at rolls Royce as everyone sees us as there future and that we are there to help the company move forward. another reason why is because the company put so much into us in the form of courses, the degree program and even sending us to another site to gain better experience.

when I first arrived at the company I felt like I was a fish in an ocean however the induction and the training that they put us through make us feel that we are part of a team. this is structured in such a way that we are always a step ahead of what we need to learn for example we learn how to use all the systems that we need to know for the shop floor before we even get there. the apprenticeship as a whole is set out like this and there is always room to be able move forward and never get stuck.

for each of us we have an apprentice development leader. They support us through the entirety of out apprenticeship giving us support on what ever we need from simple advice on how to deal with something to career prospects and helping us go in the direction we want to get the career we want. also the managers and the assessor are all there supporting us along our apprenticeship. there has never been a moment when I have not been able to get support from someone due to everyone willing to help no matter what the issue is.

our employer is the one who gives us an assignment ADL and then they give us information on who to contact for different issues. the attitude as a whole in terms of support is very good as they want to help us finish our apprenticeship so that we can give something back to help the company move forward.

the salary that they provide is more than enough to live on. and if not then they have help in place to help with those issue. what makes it really good is that there are stages within the apprenticeship program that give us a pay rises depending on our performance. this helps us perform better and also makes us feel we are moving forward. its a brilliant incentive to get the work done.

the company gives us loads of options in terms of external opportunities such as sports, gym memberships and they even get us to go into schools and out on events to promote STEM and also to have a good time. an example of this is they sent an entire team of around 80 people down to Farnborough air show for the day due to hitting targets.

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I would recommend Rolls-Royce to a friend and to anybody for that matter because it is a brilliant company that takes good care of there apprentices and also because the program itself gives you so many possibilities within the company and outside the company. also because the apprenticeship sets you up for a good career with an amazing company who fully train you up to a degree level and even better they pay you to do it.

I would say give your al in the application, any experiences big or small put them in to the application. even if its just building an RC car because interested you. BE ENTHUSIASTIC is the other main one, this company loves people who are enthusiastic and passionate about the subject. this could be shown by writing a cover letter for your application to go with your cv explaining why you would be good for the company. for info on what they want just look at the website it tells you all you need to know. good luck