Precision engineering company Newburgh Engineering is demonstrating its commitment to young people in manufacturing and engineering roles by sponsoring a dinner at the Cutlers Hall in Sheffield, which will bring together education leaders and headteachers from Sheffield and Rotherham and key figures from manufacturing and engineering businesses in the region.
The dinner, which will be held on 10th February 2011 and organised by Business & Education South Yorkshire and Sheffield City Council, is part of the Global Manufacturing Festival: Sheffield, aimed at reaffirming Sheffield's position as a global leader in advanced engineering and manufacturing innovation. The invitation-only event will be hosted by the Master Cutler, Bill Speirs and the aim is to bring together leaders in both education and business to further promote the ways that they can work better together to support young people's learning and knowledge of the industry and enhance their career opportunities.
Vincent Middleton, managing director of Newburgh Engineering said: “We are delighted to be supporting this event because, as a business, we recognise how vital it is to invest in developing the next generation of skilled engineers for the future. There are huge opportunities for young people within the engineering and manufacturing sector and by working more closely with schools, this region's businesses will ensure they can remain competitive on a global scale.”
In the past three months, Newburgh Engineering has employed three full time apprentices and the company is firmly committed to its apprenticeship programme, not least because of the high value long-term contracts it has secured recently. This includes the announcement that the company had been awarded a major new 10 year multi-million pound contract with Springfield Fuels which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company and Toshiba Nuclear Power Division to supply in-core reactor fuel components for use at existing UK nuclear power stations.
In addition to this, in January this year, Newburgh Engineering was awarded a second contract with a value of over one million pounds with a major power generation company.
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