AESSEAL backs engineers with £1.25m apprenticeship scheme

AESSEAL plc will train at least 30 men and women in its apprenticeship programme.

Ten apprentices are already on board.

AESSEAL is fourth-largest designer and manufacturer of mechanical seals for oil, chemical, gas, mining, water and other industries in the world.

If the UK is to compete credibly in manufacturing, it needs to re-evaluate the term ‘engineer’, giving it the esteem it has in other leading manufacturing nations, such as Germany and Japan,” said production and personnel director Richard Cook.

“We must also stop devaluing apprenticeships and recognise them as a three to five-year programme of skills acquisition to create competent machinists.”

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