Training

We're committed to supporting our employees in developing their knowledge and capability, facilitating them to build longstanding careers. Our dedicated Training Managers identify specific training needs and make personalised development plans for each employee.

The idea came about when a shortfall was identified within the skilled labour sector, aiming to provide tailored, hands-on training to all employees within the organisation. 

Our vision is to equip each employee with the competencies required to perform specific jobs. We feel it is an essential tool to determine a person’s ability to fulfill their future plans for success.  We have found this to be especially beneficial for our apprentices, as we felt that today’s education is not customised to suit specific sectors. Attending a classroom setting one day a week, provides students with inadequate and restrictive learning for the skills required to approach real-life jobs, therefore limiting opportunities to well-paid employment. We, therefore, put procedures in place to assist students and employees in their training development and ensure they have the necessary exposure and coaching required to thrive in our industry.

Our programme concentrates on apprentices and lower-level operatives to enhance and develop them into tradesmen. The technique we use to measure the individuals’ needs is through detailed evaluation forms; this identifies specific areas that require additional training by Steve and is also handed over to our site supervisors to ensure support is always available. Training sessions are conducted across sites and within our appointed training area. Set up at our Stockport premises, the training area allows access to materials where required, and provides the trainees with the opportunity to practise varied tasks across the programme, leading the workers to become multi-skilled.

The programme has received tremendous positive feedback. The apprentices advised that by being taken away from their peers and pressure of a working site, it allows them to concentrate on specific areas of the programme. It provides a safe space for trainees to make mistakes,  that are inevitable in the learning processes, but without effecting any of our live construction projects.