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New Talent Trained for Specialist Workforce
01 Jan 2007
Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd (SFIL) has taken on a new batch of apprentices to add to its specialist engineering workforce. The 200- year-old company is continuing to take a proactive role in putting crucial engineering skills back into the industry through its outstanding apprenticeship scheme.
SFIL will train 42 apprentices during 2007 – the majority in their second and third-years, but 17 of which are new school and college graduates studying for specialist careers and roles in all departments across the 64-acre Brightside Lane site.
Steve Tagg, HR Officer at SFIL, said: “Over the years, we have visited schools and have hosted visits from schools all over the country to explain what we do here and to raise the profile of engineering as an important career choice. Consequently, we have masses of interest and the calibre of students coming to serve apprenticeships at Forgemasters is rising every year.”
The company’s apprentices have repeatedly won top industry awards for their efforts and one of last year’s trainees’was awarded the 2005/6 EEF Young Engineer of the Year Award as well as picking up a third for the 2006 MIAY while studying for an ONC and HNC in Engineering Maintenance. Three more of last year’s Forgemasters’ graduates also finished second, third and fourth in the the 2006 Metals Industry Apprentice of the Year (MIAY), coordinated by MetSkill in partnership with the Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers.
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