Apprentice Graduation 2016

Stannah apprentice success celebrated in Tyneside Six graduating apprentices were honoured by Stannah in a special celebration held in Newburn, Tyneside at the company’s curved rail stairlift manufacturing base. Being honoured were: Andrew Devois - from the Stannah Service Branch covering North and North-East England, based in Gateshead. Andrew has achieved a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Engineering Maintenance and Lift Servicing Curtis Jones - from the Stannah Service Branch covering North West England and North Wales, based in Warrington. Curtis has achieved a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Engineering Maintenance and Lift Servicing Ross McDermott - again from the Warrington Branch and also achieving a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Engineering Maintenance and Lift Servicing Craig Biggs - from the Stannah Service Branch covering the South Midlands and Home Counties, based in Brackley. Craig has achieved a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Engineering Maintenance and Lift Servicing Bradley Went - from Stannah stairlifts manufacturing in Andover, Hampshire. Bradley has achieved a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Desmond Bloemers - from Stannah stairlifts manufacturing in Newburn, Tyneside. Desmond has achieved a BTEC Level 4 HNC Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering The graduation event provided the apprentices with an opportunity to see the factory and learn more about the manufacturing process of the curved rail stairlift products. The focus of the day was firmly on the graduating apprentices, some of whom were joined by their line managers and families to celebrate the successful completion of their apprenticeship programmes and to honour their achievements.After a short reception to welcome all participants there were speeches by Peter Perry, Managing Director of Stannah Lift Services (M&R) and Andy Hastilow, Operations Director for Stannah Stairlifts.This was followed by the presentation of the Apprenticeship Certificates by Mike Newman, Group Learning and Development Manager for the Stannah Lifts Group. Photographs preceded a celebratory lunch for all. The afternoon began with a short presentation from John Warren, Manufacturing Manager for all Stannah curved rail production sites, about the Newburn factory, the products and the people. Everyone then took the factory tour of this up-to-the-minute manufacturing facility that produces over 12,000 bespoke curved rails for Stannah stairlifts every year. A further networking session between attendees gave everyone an opportunity to ask all those burning questions generated by the day’s events. Mike Newman, Stannah Group Learning and Development Manager, comments: ‘It was a pleasure to spend time celebrating with this year’s apprentices. Their determination and hard work has brought rewards and an opportunity to continue to grow their knowledge and expertise. Congratulations to them all. Throughout the Stannah Group we have a continuous pipeline of apprentices in many job functions. With the introduction of the Apprentice Levy in 2017 we see an opportunity to increase our current number of apprentices, particularly in engineering roles. Training and development of all our 1700 employees across the Stannah Group is key to our continued success and our apprenticeship scheme is vital as we expand our lift products and services.’ Current career opportunities with Stannah can be found at http://www.stannah.com/work/apprenticeships/

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