In honour of National Apprentice Week 2020, the company invited a selection of its current class of 47 apprentices to put their own questions on a career in engineering to a selection of senior staff, including managing director UK & Ireland sales division, Alan Mucklow; general manager – European sales engineering, Lawrence McCann; and Spindle Service Centre manager, Dave Clarke.
Alan Mucklow, managing director UK & Ireland sales division at Mazak, commented: “Anyone who has ever visited our Worcester facilities over the years will have caught several glimpses of eager blue-shirted employees to-ing and fro-ing across the site, often in tow with one or more of our senior engineers. These are the Mazak apprentices, on whose shoulders the future of our company, and – arguably – the machine tool industry, lies.
“Without doubt, our apprentice scheme is one of the cornerstones of our operations here in Worcester. As a former apprentice myself, I can offer first-hand ratification as to the solid foundation such a route lays down for you in our industry, and the ceremony in which we present newly qualified apprentices with their first grey shirt of a full-time engineer always fills me with great pride.”
He concludes: “Speaking on behalf of all of us who took part in the video, it was great fun to connect with the apprentices in such a fun way. They asked a lot of intriguing questions, and I hope people enjoy watching the video as much as we did participating in it.”
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Yamazaki Mazak www.mazakeu.co.uk