Covering associate Review

I am a leather covering apprentice. I work on the shop floor and cover parts for rolls Royce’s throughout my apprenticeship I learn the process the car goes through from start to finish in the leather shop spending placements in all zones learning how to do it. I have worked with different people throughout the business and been able to learn a lot of didn’t aspects of the business which will help me massively when wanting to progress

Yes loaded of skills, I had never even used a sewing machine before I joined the company and now I am very confident in using one, once you have learnt basic covering skills it’s a skill you never forget and you will find covering any part for the car very easy once you know how. I have had the opportunity to work with a lot of different people around the business and my communication skills have improved massively

I have enjoyed it, there’s been good parts and bad parts but that is with any job, I feel like my apprenticeship could have defiantly been planned out a lot better. My first year was very structured but the second not so much my last year has been my best as I have been able to experience other areas of the business and see what jobs I would be interested in going into when I finish

The first year was very structured but when I was in my second year I felt like I could have achieved a lot more than I did at times where associates are so busy you feel like your distracting them and I think we should have a certain person that is required to teach all apprentices. I did enjoy my apprenticeship though and I have learnt a lot of things I never thought I would have the opportunity to

I have had a lot of support, I have a mentor who I can go to if I ever have any issues of questions to ask, all apprentices have a trainer aswell who always communicates to us if needed. my mentor has really helped me push myself and get myself in a position I want to be for when I finish my apprenticeship and start looking for jobs I would like to do in the future

We have a good amount of support, they have let us catch up on college work at work if needed which has been very helpful as where we work full time along with our college it can be difficult to get stuff done at times, they always help us if we need help and the best thing is our trainers are previous apprentices so they have good knowledge and understand things that we struggle with

I honestly don’t think my college qualification has much to do with my role at rolls Royce, I understand there are not many qualifications these days that you can do involving leather but a manufacturing course or business would defiantly been a lot more suitable and would have been more beneficial for us when we come to apply for other jobs around the business. There’s a limited about of skills I can transfer

I havnt personally but I have heard of people coming together to do these things, such as playing football together, I have made a lot of friends in the business to I spend a lot of my time with them but I have not done any activities. There are a lot of networking opportunities within the business now and every week they have a chance for you meet someone new and have a conversation with new people

Yes

It’s a nice job and the people make it very good as I get a long with everyone in the business, the money is also very good and the environment is nice, the only thing that you need to be prepared for is the shift work, it’s not the best and I havnt started yet as in your apprenticeship you only do early shift but if you’re happy to that then the job is suited to you

Work hard, don’t get distracted and always push yourself to get to know as many people and areas of the business you can, the more people you know the better your networking is and I think leads you to a lot more opportunities around the the business for when you finish your apprenticeship, if you do what is expected of you I believe you can process very well throughout the business. Work hard guys