A true scholar

The MTA awards dinner, held at Birmingham's ICC in February provided Adam Hazeldine – one of PTG Holroyd Precision's young engineers – with good reason to celebrate.

That's because during the event, Mr Hazeldine was rewarded for his diligence and hard work to date through the presentation of the AMTRI Scholarship. Supported by Lloyds TSB Commercial, the scholarship will assist Mr Hazeldine in completing an MBA in order to pursue his goal of a management position with his Rochdale‐based employer. Two other Precision Technologies Group employees, Bradley Mooney and Jordan Beard were also shortlisted for the MTA Young Engineer of the Year award.

Speaking of Mr Hazeldine's AMTRI achievement, PTG HR director Don Whittle said: “Adam joined the business in 2005 as an apprentice machine tool Fitter. Although he'd previously completed ‘A' levels in Business, Law and Psychology, he decided that it wasn't the right time for university and he'd like a more craft‐based career.

“With his apprenticeship complete some five months earlier than expected, and having gained both an ONC and HNC in Manufacturing Engineering, Adam then joined the business in a permanent role, as a machine tool fitter. Driven by ambition, he also decided to take an evening course in CAD which was self-funded. His objective was to gain sufficient skills to be selected for a role within our machine design team.”

Through demonstrating a real work ethic, excellent skills on the shopfloor and a genuine commitment to the business, Mr Hazeldine was rewarded with a six month trial in the design office, with the promise that if he did well, the company would sponsor him to complete a degree in engineering. Inevitably, he lived up to expectation and the opportunity to study for a BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering degree at Manchester Metropolitan University was realised.

Mr Hazeldine is now employed as a design engineer with the company and has also recently been made a member of the company's Lean Manufacturing team and an internal auditor. He also works as a junior project engineer, involved in PTG Holroyd's latest machine tool developments.

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