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Three more Roll-Royce trained apprentices join Hart

~~Three more Roll-Royce trained apprentices join Hart

Hart Door Systems (HDS), the Westerhope-based specialist engineering company, has appointed three additional apprentices who have all trained at the Rolls-Royce North East Training Centre, Scotswood Road, Newcastle.

The new apprentices join a fourth former Rolls-Royce trained apprentice at HDS bringing the total staff level to over 40.

“This is significant in that 10% of our staff are apprentices. If all businesses could reflect this sort of work-force balance, youth unemployment could be a thing of the past,” says HDS chairman, Doug Hart.

He adds: “We have struggled to get suitably qualified and experienced engineers who can work on the manufacture of a range of industrial door products which we sell on a global basis. These are engineered and sophisticated door systems that operate in a wide range of industrial applications and widely different climates. Above all they are manufactured to stringent international standards.

“We are delighted that we have these additional apprentices from such a good school as the Rolls-Royce North East Training Centre. They will train over a four-year period on a range of IT and engineering challenges which means very high calibre individuals are developed as the next generation of skilled engineers.”

Keith Robson, InField Team Leader, Rolls-Royce, says the Training Centre has 120 apprentices who train over a one year period on a wide range of disciplines. “Engineering is a tremendously exciting career. We deliver a hands-on training programme which at the end gives our student engineers a nationally recognised practical qualification in engineering operations,” says Mr Robson.

“With studies to a recognised engineering qualification our training gives our apprentices quality, basic, training which enables them to join a company and work thereafter towards an Engineering Apprenticeship Framework that includes a level 3 National Vocational Qualification and a Level 3 National Diploma academic qualification.

“In other words we are delivering the next generation of engineers for our region where the key word of the region’s success since the Industrial Revolution has been engineering.”

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