Captec Apprentice training scheme receives MP’s attention

Member of Parliament, Dr Alan Whitehead, has been interested to discover best practices in Apprentices training and the role they play in business. Accompanied by Martin Lamb, Area Director of the LSC for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, they visited Captec’s UK industrial computer systems integration facility in Fareham. Captec have a well established apprentice training scheme and a long history of training Apprentices in a proven scheme that grooms talent and feeds the business from the ground up to build its growing range of industrial pc lines.

Alan Whitehead and Martin Lamb were able to speak to Captec apprentices at different stages of their training.  The programme is very structured and comprehensive to ensure the skills matrix requirements are well covered.  Captec apprentices are groomed into production technicians, multi-skilled to various levels of capabilities to be able to build and test any one of Captec’s many different industrial computer systems.  Whether these be a panel pc, embedded pc, medical pc, military pc, rack mount computer or any other variant of industrial computer or fully integrated 19” rack cabinet.  Captec’s industrial computers find their way into a wide diversity of applications, from running the London Underground to defending the nation in Type 45 destroyers.  They may be small touch points, but each technician contributes in varying degrees to the making of industrial computers that have a significant impact to our lives. 

Working in collaboration with SETA, the Southampton Engineering Training Association, City College and a number of other local colleges and training providers, Captec supplements its training to further enrich the apprentice training scheme.  Captec have sponsored and funded technicians to up to all levels, depending on their abilities, from NVQ levels, up to  Degree level in Electronic Engineering. Captec’s Apprentices regularly appear in the list of nominations for the Apprentice of the Year Awards.

Having chatted with the Apprentices and found out how much they have got from their training, Alan and Martin met with Captec’s senior management to find out what Apprentices add to the business.  Captec Managing Director, Max Toti, gave a short presentation about the business and went on to explain how important training is to the company.    “Training in general and Apprenticeships in particular play a key role in our company grooming plans.” Mr Toti explained.  “Because what Captec do is very specialised, and because there is a growing shortage of skilled technicians and engineers, training is the best way we can make sure our workforce remains skilled to the level we require as we grow.  Working with a training provider, like SETA, any company can find an Apprenticeship route that will suit their needs, and know that they have the support of that training provider throughout the Apprenticeship.”

Head of Operations at Captec, Jeremy Langdon agrees.  “Not only does our business gain from training but our employees do too.  What better way to show our staff that they are valued than to invest in their training and their futures."

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