Category: Industry News

Despite having this year’s Electrical Apprentice of the Year, the King’s Lynn branch of Dodd Group is not one to rest on its laurels and is always looking to the future. To this end, Alex ‘AotY18′ Goodman and Mike Jones attended the College of West Anglia’s open day to encourage the next batch of school-leavers to consider an electrical apprenticeship. Attending these events often pays dividends as Joe Lewis, the…

23-year old Rhys Boni has been crowned 2018 SkillELECTRIC champion after excelling in an intensive two-day practical competition at WorldSkills UK LIVE – the nation’s largest skills and careers event with over 80,000 visitors. Rhys, who trained with the Scottish Electrical Charitable Training Trust (SECTT), took top marks over his fellow finalists in a complicated electrical installation task comprising four circuits with various components and equipment The task had to…

Michael White, aged 30 from Selby, competed against the very best of home-grown talent across 70 disciplines from all over the UK. In the Electrical Installation category he was up against four competitors from Scotland, four from Ireland and one for Wales – Michael was the only competitor from England. Michael was delighted to win Bronze, saying; “It’s a massive competition and the standard was incredibly high. The pressure of…

Pictured: L-R-SeaKing-Apprentices-Michael-Mcevoy-Hayes-Callum-Mulrooney-James-Fields-and-Bradley-Jones Merseyside’s SeaKing Electrical is ushering in four new starters on the 10th anniversary of its apprentice training scheme. A grand total of 43 apprentices have now been employed by the marine electrical specialist. SeaKing employs more than 100 engineers worldwide with a track record delivering projects across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Caribbean and USA. New apprentices Callum Mulrooney, James Fields, Michael Mcevoy Hayes and Bradley Jones will now…

Tom Lewis from Maesteg has won the Engineering Award at Cardiff and Vale College’s Annual Awards 2018. The electrical installation apprentice with Blues Electrical topped off his fantastic year after coming third in the Sparks UK Electrical Apprentice contest in 2017. Supported by his employer Blues Electrical and his CAVC Lecturer Geoff Shaw, Tom was also selected for Team UK at EuroSkills in Budapest where he competed against some of the…

Dodd Group has named Alex Goodman Electrical Apprentice of the Year and Callum Williams Mechanical Apprentice of the Year 2018 in celebration of the business’s long-standing commitment to training and development. Both apprentices impressed the judges with their maturity and commitment in the workplace and at college and were presented with their awards by their respective Mayors. The Mayor of Kings Lynn, Cllr Nick Daubney, a former mechanical trainee himself…

The NEC Group Arenas are continuing their work in nurturing young industry talent, having taken on the first electrical apprentices in UK arenas. The two apprentices – Liam Dyde, 21 and Mohammed Waseem, 28- will be mentored through a three-year placement by the Group’s Arenas ElectriX team, in the hope of completing their NVQ Level 3 in electrics. What makes this different to most electrical apprenticeships, is the specialist knowledge…