8th – 14th February marks National Apprenticeship Week 2021.
To celebrate the occasion, Ford Mainwaring discusses the importance of taking on apprentices, and how one of our former apprentices has progressed through the business.
As an SME, taking on an apprentice is beneficial for both the business and the apprentice; the business gets a fresh face to train and offer a career to, and the apprentice learns a craft and can build their professional life around.
As part of the company’s wider growth plans, we will be looking for up-and-coming talent to join the team as an Apprentice Service Engineer. We are very excited about the plans and we can’t wait to get started on finding the next generation to form part of the Ford Mainwaring family.
Matt Weedy celebrates 25 years of service this year, having started as an apprentice himself, he gives us an insight into his time at Ford Mainwaring.
“It has been a testament to the company that they have managed to retain so many loyal staff for many years. For myself in particular, coming through a successful apprenticeship and eventually making it through to management has been a great journey and route that we will continue to offer to apprentices coming through the scheme currently”.
Thanks to the scheme, Ford Mainwaring has been able to improve our business by taking on an apprentice to train and offer a career, and we’re grateful to all our staff who go through the programme. In the future, we plan to expand our involvement with the scheme and look forward to welcoming more young people into the world of mechanical and electrical engineering.
To find out more about becoming an apprentice at Ford Mainwaring, take a look at our Careers page, and email your CV to info@fordmainwaring.co.uk.