Technician Review

My current role is a technician role for the production line in the helix department of Teledyne e2v, this involves me working with the production line making sure everything is working as it should, looking into any problems and preventing them from happening again and looking into methods to help save time and money.

Throughout the course I have already learnt a multitude of skills some being new and some I've simply developed over time from being here. From being on placement and developing your communication skills and how you present yourself due to all the different people you will meet, to learning new skills from different training courses available to you through out your apprenticeship.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here so far, the work is really good as you get involved with really good projects where you can see the project from start to finish and be heavily involved with the designing and build of it. You also get to meet so many new people with lots of experience who will help you along the course.

Although your title is apprentice you are treated the same as everyone else on site. You receive a lot of recognition for your work throughout your apprenticeship, from reviews with your manager to see how you have performed and reflect on your work to having a awards night once a year to give out awards to apprentices for their hard work.

Where the apprenticeship has been running for many years it has become very refined, for example you start by having training at a college before starting on site, followed by a month of training on site to give you all the essential skills you will need to work around site in the different areas.

You receive a lot of support throughout the course, your training provider is always willing to help whatever the situation is, they'll either point you in the right direction or simply just sit down with you and have a chat on whatever your query.

Your manager puts in 100% all the time, they always have time to help you out and support every apprentice on the scheme, whether its help with problems at work, or giving you some guidance with where to go one something. You have a mentor assigned to you near the beginning where you can go to and talk about issues if your manager is not free, or ask anyone on sit as everyone is friendly and willing to help.

The wage is great to start, you have enough to save some money, travel to work and treat your self to something nice every now and then.

There are plenty of things to do outside of work, this includes going to careers fairs and promoting the apprenticeship, school events in primary schools in the local area to teach and interact with the schools and the chance to go abroad with work depending on what you are working on at the time.

Yes

It's a great scheme with a lot of opportunities to help you develop and grow, its fun and keeps you engaged all the time and is a great place at work.

Keep an open mind, don't be shy and apply if you are considering the apprenticeship to see if you get onto the next stage of the application process.