Operations Management Trainee Review

Production support, budget control, shareholder engagement, complaints management, contractor management,

Health and safety knowledge - Legislation etc Finance skills - Budget control, Customer communication skills, customer service etc.

The structure of the apprenticeship relies heavily on the line manager, regular restructures caused a lack of structure as management continuously changed. Needs a better overall structure/blanket structure.

As much support as I asked for, sometimes day to day jobs/role on site got in the way of development due to the scarcity of staff. Having to fill in operative roles due to lack of staff.

Derby Uni were very helpful in giving support. Regular weekly sessions open for questions about anything.

Qualification is very relevant to the current role that I am in. My only thought/worry is that the qualification is not going to betaken elsewhere in other industries, very specific to this industry.

Plenty of in work activities such as the employee development programme or help the plant schemes, not as many social or sport activities within the company.

Yes

Good company to get into, great industry and plenty of opportunity to jump sideways into other aspects of the business.

Practice before interviews have answers to potential questions and know a bit about the company before going into the interviews.