Level 3 Maintenance Review

I am in my first year of the apprenticeship, and I go to North star college 5 days a week. We get some half term off, however we also get to shadow older apprentices sometimes, which is great fun, and you get to try so many new things. It is a lot of college work, however you can easily get it all done during college and self study hours. We come into our workplace one morning a week to complete college work and catch up with coworkers and our manager.

The program is very well structured. In your first year, you go to college full time to gain all the knowledge you will need for the workplace. In the second year, you do placements around the plant with different people, which helps grow your understanding of the workplace, and you still go to college 1 day a week to get education. In the third year you are on placement full time, and get self study time allocated to do your End Point Qualification work. In the 4th year, you can either stay in work, or choose to do a level 4, which helps grow your knowledge more and helps you get a higher position within the company.

I receive a lot of support from my employer, including free counselling I go to due to mental health issues. My manager has always been available to call or text whenever I have had any issues, and my coworkers have been very helpful when going through rough times. Overall I am very grateful to everyone who has helped me so much so far.

I receive a lot of support, and my manager is always asking if there is any way she can help. We have had lots of support from other apprentices and plant workers too, who have given us jobs to do for assignments, and have also helped us to wire it down.

I feel like the training that new college provide will be very helpful in the workplace. We have learnt many things, including pneumatics, which will be useful in plant as many of our systems involve this. We have also learnt about PLCs, which are another big part of our workplace.

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It is a great employer, and has so many great opportunities, which all are available for apprentices. These opportunities help you grow as a person, and can develop your skills and teach you about different parts of the processes you wouldn't normally see. You can go to other countries and all sorts.