Training 41 Airedale celebrates a first class apprentice
THE SERVICE DIVISION of British cooling systems manufacturer, Airedale International, is currently celebrating its first apprentice to achieve a degree in refrigeration and air conditioning engineering.
Service technical support engineer, Jamie Acs, has proved to be a model student achieving no less than a first class BSc honours, the only student in his year to achieve this classification. Mr Acs is one of four students representing Airedale at the Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education on a day release basis. Adrian Trevelyan, UK service manager for Leeds-based Airedale says: “When he embarked on his training programme we deliberately did not set an end goal, instead giving Jamie the option to progress as far as he wanted. Achieving the accolade of the first Airedale employee to receive a BSc (Hons) in Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Engineering has surpassed our expectations.”
Mr Acs is an integral member of Airedale’s 55-strong service and spares division whose technical support staff and field service engineers provide 24/7 coverage to data centre, industrial, retail and public sector customers nationwide.
Like his colleagues, Mr Acs is expected to hold advanced technical knowledge in order to provide the highest levels of support to customers and site engineers. Having specialised in mathematics and the sciences at school, Mr Acs joined Airedale in 2008 because he was attracted to a career in engineering and the opportunity to earn a full-time salary while working towards a degree. His apprenticeship has seen him grow both his technical understanding and commercial skills to take on extra responsibility for key accounts and project-managing Airedale’s bespoke controls upgrades. Airedale’s HR director, Steve Joyce says: “Our apprenticeship scheme works exceedingly well, with all but one of our recruits having stayed within the business, some moving from technical into commercial and managerial roles. I think this success is due to the fact that trainees have a very clear career path which allows them to work their way through the business and are given the support they need to achieve the right balance between working and learning.”
Fellow apprentice Danny Carter who works in Airedale’s test centre is another example of the scheme’s success, having won ‘Engineering Advanced Modern
Apprentice of the Year’ with Leeds City College in 2011. Airedale recruits around four to five apprentices a year via the Leeds College of Building. There are currently 12 apprentices within the business including eight in production and four in service. In addition to external training with local education providers, apprentices also benefit from training in both cooling technologies as well as practical skills such as brazing and electrics at Airedale’s dedicated CITB-ConstructionSkills approved training facility in Leeds.
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ACR News September 2014
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