Highways apprentice Review

by E.ON

Best Apprenticeship Employer

Rating

7.1/10
  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

    • Swapping old street lights for new street lights and digging out the street lights to get to the live cables. Disconnect, take out the existing colum and connect the new colum

    7/10
  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

    • Learn how to handle live cables following correct training and procedures (jointing). Building on reading plans and job instructions, becoming competent

    7/10
  • 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

    • It is a good programme but there could be more courses to help build our future to give us different paths within the company.

    7/10
  • 4. How well organised/structured is your programme?

    • It was going well then covid set us back but the company is putting things in place to get me back on track.

    6/10
  • 5. How much support do you receive from your employer?

    • The support is there if we need it

    8/10
  • 6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?

    • We all have mentors and apprentices leaders and help is there anytime you need

    9/10
  • 7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?

    • Some of the courses link in with the day to day stuff and ables me to put it into perspective

    7/10
  • 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.)

    • The people I work with at the yard go out for meals some times especially at Christmas

    6/10
  • 9a. Would you recommend E.ON to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 9b. Why?

    • Good qualifications for the future

  • 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to E.ON?

    • Always ask questions

Details

Level 2 Apprenticeship

Engineering

Burton upon Trent

March 2023

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