More skills Champions
November 2019

ALUK is the latest company to partner with the Building Our Skills campaign, Making Fenestration a Career of Choice.

Technical Director Nick Cooper explained: “I first became aware of the Building Our Skills campaign through conversations with Mick Clayton, CEO of GQA Qualifications with whom we are an Approved Centre.

“We’re proud to offer our own academy to train people on fabrication and installation, so to join in with them and be partners to their own Practical Training Academy and the new Inspiring Talent Academy is a really exciting prospect for us.

“We have also committed our Chepstow headquarters to be one of the Inspiring Talent Academy exemplar facilities, and we look forward to welcoming students who visit us in 2020, and to playing our part in encouraging them to make Fenestration their long-term career of choice.”

Three senior AluK staff, Darren Burford from the AluK Academy Training and Support Department, Leigh Cooper, Academy R&D Facilities Manager, and Steve Watkins, Head of Projects, have been appojnted ‘Champions’ for Building Our Skills, across the company to deliver the message and the opportunities through its customer and supply chain network.”

Building Our Skills has a range of campaigns running designed to help attract new people to the industry and to retain key staff already in place as a way of bridging the widening skills gap.  These include the ‘Inspiring The Future’ campaign in association with FENSA, ‘Challenging Workplace Stereotypes’ in association with the FIT Show, and ‘Working With The Military Careers Service’ in association with GQA Qualifications.

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