E,C&I Technician Review

Maintenance/repairs on various plant such as actuators, lighting or batteries.

Yes, I have learnt an industry skillset as I had no idea how to do anything E,C&I before starting the apprenticeship.

I enjoy my program as it is something new everyday and pushes me out of my comfort zone to learn.

It is well organised from SSE's side however HETA lets this down as they didn't even start on NVQ when I was meant to and only organized it when I told them, as well as everyone in HETA having different understanding of what I should be doing.

I receive great support from SSE in many ways, educationally as they have lots of training courses organised and are supporting me through my HNC. I also get great benefits such as BUPA and many other employee benefits.

I have a bi-monthly review with a representative from HETA who guides me on what work to complete. However, this completely goes against what other people at HETA told me to do so I feel it isn't great. Also, courses were oversubscribed so we received poor training.

I feel that only my true experience on site has helped me as the quality of training on site was not brilliant due to poor equipment and oversubscribed courses. However, it does look good for my CV.

I support a lot of WiME events and we do events at schools to help get people involved in the industry so there are lots of community events to get involved with.

Yes

Because the company has many benefits in place and is very serious with health and safety. They also properly treat apprentices as any other employee which is the best working environment I've ever encountered for apprentices.

Seem interested, be a team player and know your stuff about the company itself.