Electrical apprentice Review

Item: Electrical apprentice at Babcock International Group
Rating: 4.3
Author: Anonymous

at Babcock International Group

Level 3 Apprenticeship

Engineering

Devon

Review Submitted: January 2022

Overall Rating

4.3 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

3.5/5 - Overview of Role

4/5 - Skills Development

4.4/5 - Structure and Support

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

4/5

My role in the dockyard as an apprentice, is to help the fitters with their jobs and at the same time learn and develop new skills that I need to become a electrical fitter

To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

3/5

I enjoy my job a lot at the moment but I know soon I’ll be forced to move placement into a new environment with new people, this makes the bonds and friendships that you make over the 6 month period completely wasted

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

4/5

I have learnt many news skills whilst being at this apprenticeship, I have learnt too many to put them all here so I’ll name a few
; wiring in a socket, banding, panduiting, proving dead, earthing bonds, packing glands, packing rackbergs, etc.

Structure and Support

How well organised/structured is your programme?

3/5

The company can be very organised and also very clumsy, for example they are able to set up everyone’s covid test and placements but are unable to manage the course work coming through as not all ADMs are present. This overloads one ADM and makes his job extremely hard.

How much support do you receive from your employer?

5/5

The support you receive is great from Babcock, they have many measures in place that mean you can be supported by union reps. They also offer health care through the ohc.