Swiftool
Swiftool Precision Engineering is a global vendor of safety-critical parts to the nuclear, petrochemical, and aerospace markets. Being based in Mansfield, an area with low educational attainment, has made it difficult to source and maintain the talent it needs.
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Challenges
To create and maintain a sustainable pipeline of highly skilled workers in an economically deprived area with poor educational attainment.
To become less reliant on external training providers to help employees attain new qualifications.
To offer best-in-class training starting from a point where they had no in-house educational knowledge or experience.
Our solution
Our specialist technical consultants worked with Swiftool to design, develop and deliver robust apprenticeships that would address their immediate and future skills needs.
We shared insights into the way young people learn today, to ensure that these apprenticeships would appeal to the next generation of engineering talent.
We guided Swiftool through the process of becoming an EAL centre, so that they could offer our relevant qualifications. This included support from planning to application, help selecting apprenticeship standards that they had the capacity to deliver, and support with meeting quality standards required.
The result
- Swiftool reduced its recruitment expenditure for skilled machining roles by 30% and employed more than a dozen apprentices - 13% of its total workforce
- It has been able to play a role in building a better local skills pool, being an employer representative on the local college skills board, providing hundreds of hours of work experience to students each year, and working strategically with schools as a National Cornerstone Employer
- All of Swiftool's most recent recruits have come from feeder sites within five miles of its plant.
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