S&T Review

As a S&T apprentice and Network Rail my roles fall into two different categories. These are maintenance and faulting. They both include a variety of different things and jobs. Maintenance can include point maintenance, loc maintenace, recording and writing down readings and results taken. Faulting includes any faults that occur, we will be called out to fix.

All of the skills and knowledge that I have learnt and gained on this apprenticeship are new skills. Although I’ve always had a keen interest in engineering all of the skills I have developed are new. As well as gaining knowledge through the coursework a lot of the skills I’ve gained have come from working with varies different teams and people in my depot.

I thoroughly enjoy the apprenticship that I am currently on. It has allowed me to learn new things and meet many new people. Not only that but it has allowed me to have a good pathway and helped me massively on my career path, in something I’ve always. Even interested in.

I would say that some parts of my apprenticeship programme are better organised and structured better than other aspects. The apprenticeship programme itself is very good and one of the best I have come across however I believe that the communication isn’t the best, so some information isn’t shared.

I believe that there is only a certain extent of support that I get from the Network Rail apprenticeship programme. When in the training schools doing course work there is help and guidance, but I feel that once at depot and no longer with tutors there’s isn’t much help in terms of the coursework.

I believe that when it comes to the coursework aspect of my apprenticeship there isn’t much help or support given once we are no longer at the training schools (such as Westwood or HSM Sultan). I feel like sometimes there is confusion and getting the information needed to help is hard to find.

I believe that only some of my qualifications/coursework actually help me to perform better in my role. Whilst at HSM sultan I believe that it gave me a better understanding of certain aspects of my role. The qualifications at Westwood had little or nothing to do with my actual job role.

No, I don’t believe that their are. Or if so, I am not aware of them. These types of extra curricular activities were available at my training centre Westwood in Coventry but not in my actually work place, depot. There are briefings and safety meetings in which I have attended before.

Yes

I believe that it is a very good apprenticeship. I believe that it puts you on a good path way and opens up doors for you within the company and allows a g old career path. Although some small things could be improved I believe that it is one of the best apprenticeship programmes.

Come into it with an open mind, Network Rail have a number of values and safety protocols and such which makes it a very hood company to work for. As long as you’re willing to learn new skills and gain lots of new knowledge then it will be a good fit.