Amcanu have a rich history of working with apprentices. Training young people at the start of their careers allows us to identify those who will become an integral part of the Amcanu team as we continue to grow.
Giving skills and experience to local young people has always been at the heart of our business – more than 50% of our entire workforce have completed apprenticeships over the past 40 years.
The foundations for working in this way were laid by our founder Spencer Davies OBE, who has always believed passionately in supporting young people. During the 1990s he became an active participant in the Government’s New Deal for Communities programme in Wales. This was a regeneration programme that focused on building skills, pride and opportunity across local neighbourhoods. Spencer’s involvement in this programme cemented Amcanu’s commitment to the community, which still stands firm today.
Working closely with Coleg Sir Gâr – we offer youngsters a supported transition from education into work, this helps to ease them into the culture of work and increases their employability.
The formality and structure of the programme helps to accelerate learning by combining practical work experience with classroom theory. For the apprentices, these two different ways of learning help to imbed new skills more quickly and make sure that they are not easily forgotten. Working in this way also benefits the business by enabling us to keep up with current standards.
We like working with apprentices because they bring enthusiasm, new ideas and perspectives which stop us getting stuck in our ways! The moment we try to teach somebody else, we have the opportunity to challenge ourselves by asking if our time-served ways are still the best.
Our current star apprentice is Rhys, who’s doing a mechanical engineering apprenticeship in collaboration with Coleg Sir Gâr. He’s proving to be an exceptional student, doing really well with his college work and impressing us all with his technical ability on the factory floor. It’s fantastic to see people going from strength-to-strength and progressing in responsibility as their career with us grows.
Joining as an apprentice really is a pathway to a career here at Amcanu. Josh, our production controller, started as an apprentice from Coleg Sir Gâr in September 2010 and then went on to become a welder fabricator. Because he had built up so much experience on the shop floor, when there was a vacancy for a new production controller he was the perfect candidate.
We’ll always be huge advocates for learning on the job, and remain committed to searching for the engineers of the future here in South Wales.
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