Apprentice sharing scheme benefits both subcontractor and customer
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Precision subcontractor G&H Precision Engineering, Southampton, has created an apprentice sharing arrangement with one of its prime customers, with each company's employee benefiting from the other.
A second-year G&H apprentice machinist will spend between six and eight weeks at the customer's premises to experience line assembly work and larger company working practices. Meanwhile, one of the customer's apprentices will be mentored by G&H's turning and milling setter/operators to gain frontline CNC experience in the world of subcontracting.
Said G&H Precision Engineering managing director Steve Hill: "We hope this will provide valuable experience to both apprentices, which should also feed back to benefit each employer in the longer term. As a subcontractor, we have grown very quickly and have to look to our future. This means enhancing our in-house skills and, most important, building the necessary awareness to think out of the normal machinist box. This will help Ben Coady in his apprenticeship as he starts putting together some of the parts he has been responsible for machining, and should create some very interesting lessons and feedback for us."
