For power plant operators to be confident that refurbishment and maintenance work will be carried out safely, on time, to cost and to the required quality standards, they need to have complete faith in the skills of the service team.
We focus not only on training new recruits, such as apprentices – three-quarters of whom go on to study for a degree – but on continually refreshing and upgrading the skills of our existing employees.
Our new £4 million training centre in Newcastle includes a dedicated area containing steam and gas turbines and generators. This enables employees to be trained in a working environment very similar to that which they will find out in the field and to benefit from real hands-on experience.
All of the training courses which we run for our field service employees are ECITB accredited, and those we deliver for our factory employees have been approved by EAL, the UK’s leading awarding organisation for engineering qualifications. We’re also an accredited nuclear training provider. Having these independent seals of approval shows that our training is best in class.