Scottish engineering enterprise ACE Winches is asking on trade to speculate extra in coaching younger individuals because it expands its personal apprenticeship scheme.
The Aberdeenshire-based firm has welcomed its very first basis graduate, bringing the variety of younger individuals recruited as apprentices to round 300 over the past 30 years.
The firm’s founder and CEO, Alfie Cheyne, a marine engineering apprentice himself when he left faculty at 16, has known as on all trade bosses to acknowledge the potential and spend money on the following era.
“It’s a changing world and our youth are better equipped than ever to embrace modern technology and apply it to industry,” he stated.
“For over 30 years, ACE Winches has been recruiting school leavers and training them through our own award-winning apprenticeship scheme. As the energy industry evolves, new opportunities are emerging for both businesses and individuals’ careers in conventional energy and renewables.
“Apprentices are our future, but few of the major companies are investing in them in the numbers needed. We have excellent schools and teachers in the north-east of Scotland and beyond, as well as our great colleges and universities, all of whom are preparing our youth for a future in industry.
“My first boss, Andy Kennedy, gave me a chance at Dauntless Engineering in Banff when I left school and I feel I have a responsibility to do the same.”
ACE Winches’ new basis graduate scheme recruits a person straight from faculty to separate their time evenly between Robert Gordon University and ACE, finishing a Graduate Apprenticeship in BEng (Hons) Engineering: Instrumentation, Measurement & Control within the course of.
The newest basis apprentice joins the corporate alongside eight new craft fashionable apprentices, three enterprise fashionable apprentices and two engineering graduates.
“The addition of a further 14 young people starting off on their journey is an indication of our intention to continue to support the next generation,” Cheyne stated.
“Many of our earlier ACE-trained apprentices and engineering graduates are now team leaders and business unit managers across the business. We have to make sure the company has a pipeline of future talent to support our ambitious growth plans.
“Our offshore service business has grown through our offering of experienced highly skilled multi-disciplined engineers and technicians, bolstered by our business support functions. We have a team of over 200 highly experienced individuals, who take on client challenges and transform them into creative, innovative, world-leading solutions.”
Earlier this yr ACE introduced the opening of a brand new hub within the Middle East as a part of its world development technique, including to present bodily areas within the U.S. and Norway.
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