Technical Apprentice Review

Following my mentor and being supervised while carrying out maintenance tasks on a variety of different equipment and vehicles.

I have learnt many new skills, from using tooling, understanding diagrams to following procedures and health and safety at work.

I enjoy my programme a lot with regards to what I work on with my mentors. However, I have not enjoyed how unorganised the programme has been and how little effort the managers put into our own learning. If it was not for the mentors doing work off their own back, I would probably not be working here.

Very poorly. My managers still do not understand the course I am actually on. They are unsure what our NVQ entails.

My mentor gives me a lot of support off their own back. When it comes to sickness and working with you, they are very good. When it comes to help with the apprenticeship, it always falls of deaf errors, they say they will sort things out and never do.

Warwickshire college have been great with all the support, especially while at the college. The only issue is that a couple of lecturers can be hard to get hold of when not at college and do not reply to emails much. Apart from that, I would say they have been amazing.

The qualification is not related to what I do at work in any way. Apart from carrying out the health and safety course which has helped and 1 course of hand fitting, the rest of them are pointless, for example I have been working on lathes, domestic wiring and PLCs and CAD at college while none of this takes place at work.

Not really no, there are no social or sports groups. There is one I know about with a small group, but apart from that, no.

No

As stated above, there is no course which relates to what we do at work at this level, at most they should just offer level 2. The apprenticeship has managers changing all the time in which all they care about is getting the levy, and keep costs to a minimum. Though working here has perks, I would not advise using this for an apprenticeship.

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