Structures apprentice Review

My role involves the production of wings for Airbus. Day to day I will be in and around the structures side of operations drilling, bolting and ensuring my work is done to the correct standards to ensure the aircraft are safe to fly on. Operation of cranes and other machinery is involved when training has been done.

The organization of the program is okay. I feel communication to apprentices could be a little more transparent but I also understand the reasons why it may be difficult to do that. Overall I feel the structure is good even throughout a global pandemic I don’t feel any more disadvantaged.

I receive a lot of support from both my employer and also my managers and peers. I feel as though if I had an issue I could go to my manager and find a solution to that problem, which is what anyone would like to feel they can do within a business.

Throughout the apprenticeship we are given regular quality gate updates and told when we need to do to meet them. I feel personally it would be good if we actually had access to these trackers for each individual to see where we are up to and what needs to be done

I feel it gives us the basic skills and knowledge to go into the workplace. It is very difficult to replicate a factory environment in a college but it would be nice if they were more closely linked. I feel since going in to the factory that there are some major differences we could have been taught.

Yes

I feel as though it’s a friendly professional environment with plenty of opportunity for growth within. The apprenticeship program is perfect, especially in the 2nd and 3rd year for getting us ready to head into the factory and do this job dsy in day out professionally and also safely