Apprentice welder Review

Typically, a day-to-day scenario of working within this role during your first year would be to attend one of two colleges depending on your chosen trade, attending there Monday to Friday starting at 9am and finishing for 4pm. Usually, all days involve PEO based subjects excluding a Wednesday which will instead provide NC level classes for you to complete.

During my time at college, I was able to extend my knowledge in certain criteria to do with my specific trade alongside actually being able to touch up on the practical side of my trade. We would work in an actual welding environment with MIG/TIG and MMA machines which would allow us to complete practical welding assessments.

As a whole, I thoroughly enjoy my programme, you are well looked after by the BAE systems early career employees. If you have any personal issues or just something you need a hand with, you receive the company perks from the get go rather than having to wait until your time is served, Overall, it’s a very good programme to be involved in and it caters to everyone.

Typically ,you attend college Monday to Friday, completing your classes and that is you for the first year, but in this case myself and two others already had the qualifications that you set out to complete within your first year so the company then had to create a plan for myself and the two others on the spot to provide us something to do over the first year so we weren’t attending college classes that we had already completed. They have managed to provide us with multiple last minute placements within the actual yard allowing us to complete hands on work and getting an early taste of what we are going to be doing once in the yard full time. Overall, it felt like an easy transition for us, but for them I believe it would have been long and tedious providing this for us.

Personally, the support I’ve been provided from my employer I couldn’t have asked for more. They are usually only an email or phone call away if you need help with anything, be that struggling with certain criteria while at college or something as simple as needing a holiday put in for a certain time. They are always there and always happy to help.

For the brief time I was in the college full-time and while still attending on a Wednesday. At the moment, the college lecturers make it apparent that their job solely is to get everyone on board and do what they can to make each individual pass their classes to progress and be ready.

I believe that the theory and practical classes provided by the training provider are very beneficial to yourself in extending your knowledge and what specifics actually go into your chosen trade as well as allowing you to actually get hands on experience and perform your trade throughout your time in the college.

To my knowledge, I do not really know of any extra curricular activities going on, I do know however that the company in the past has participated in charity sporting events like football matches between two separate places in the yard within the company which has happened a couple of times over the years.

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I believe the company as a whole is a great place to work. It provides you with the training you need to be competent at your job. It provides great company perks and incentives, great holiday allocation, and the environment as a whole is just full of great people you will meet. And if all that isn’t enough, then being able to say you are part of the working force at BAE Systems with the type of stature it has worldwide is amazing.

Ensure you have some idea of what you would like to definitely do, put 100% into it if you are offered the opportunity and rewards and progression will come your way. When it comes to your interview JUST BE YOU. At that point, they have already seen your qualifications and know what you are capable of, they now want to see what you are like as a person and how you portray yourself so just be calm, enjoy it and be you.