Stainless Metalcraft is celebrating a milestone in the company’s apprenticeship programme with the 500th apprentice being recruited as part of its latest intake of trainees.
The company hosted a special event at its Chatteris factory announcing the forthcoming milestone and to celebrate final year students completing their five-year apprenticeships. Customers, businesses and local dignitaries were among guests attending the event.
Earlier in the day, pupils from Burrowmoor and Kingsfield primary schools, and Year 7/8 students from Neale-Wade Academy and Cromwell Community College visited Metalcraft as part of a special insight day into its apprenticeship scheme.
Students had a factory tour around the advanced manufacturing and training facilities and spoke to current and former apprentices. They also learnt about the importance of choosing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects for a career in engineering.
Metalcraft, which celebrated the centenary of its apprenticeship programme in 2016, recruits up to ten apprentices a year and over 50% of its employees have been trained at the company. Metalcraft has received national recognition for its investment in skills and training programmes, including the SEMTA 2018 Engineering Awards, and has been named in the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers for the last two consecutive years.
Metalcraft, which is part of Avingtrans PLC, helped set up the Fenland Engineering Skills Centre at the Chatteris factory as part of its investment in its 5-year apprenticeship scheme to provide first class on-site manufacturing, commercial and operational training facilities.
