Whale Tankers celebrates 12-year apprenticeship milestone17 October 2014

Offering apprenticeships can help manufacturers to plug the skills gap by growing in-house talent, while enabling young people to learn much-needed engineering skills.

That's the message from waste tanker manufacturer Whale Tankers, which is celebrating more than 12 years of its apprenticeship scheme.

The Solihull-based business has continued to operate its apprenticeship scheme through the recession and 29 young people have been successful on the programme so far.

Mark Warmington, former apprentice and now managing director for Whale Tankers, says: "Developing the potential of young people is very important to us … and we take our responsibility of bringing on the next generation of skilled engineers very seriously."

One of Whale's recent apprentices is Alexandra Capewell, who is two years into her apprenticeship.

She decided against university and joined Whale's apprenticeship programme: "I had been considering a career in engineering and felt that joining a company like Whale Tankers on an apprentice scheme ... would be extremely beneficial for me."

Having achieved A-levels in maths, biology and photography, she is now undertaking an engineering degree, spending one day a week at Warwickshire College.

Whale's apprenticeship scheme is run in conjunction with IMechE (the Institution of Mechanical Engineers).

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Laura Cork

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