Modern Apprenticeships at Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd

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Modern Apprenticeshipsat Sheffield Forgemasters
International Ltd
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Introduction

• Steve Tagg
• Group Human Resources Manager
• Put the Right Person, in the Right Job, at the
  Right Time

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Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd

• A Global Player in a World Market
• Famous for over 200 years
• The Only British Owned Steelmaker left in Britain
• Sheffield's Biggest Single Employer

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Company History
Atlas Site Ex Firth Brown 1837
River Don Site Ex BSC 1806
1982
Two companies merge Move to River Don site
Sheffield Forgemasters
2005
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The Company
Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd
Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering Ltd
Sheffield Forgemasters Steel Ltd
Vulcan SFM
Euro SFM
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The Technology of Flat Rolling, 3rd to 14th
September 2001
Steel Making
BACK UP ROLLS - FORGED
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The Technology of Flat Rolling, 3rd to 14th
September 2001
The Forging Process
COLD STRIP MILL WORK ROLLS
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The Technology of Flat Rolling, 3rd to 14th
September 2001
Forging
BACK UP ROLLS - FORGED
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The Technology of Flat Rolling, 3rd to 14th
September 2001
Classical Hardening
BACK UP ROLLS
Conventional
Vertical
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The Technology of Flat Rolling, 3rd to 14th
September 2001
Heat Treatment
BACK UP ROLLS
Selas
Induction
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The Foundry Process

• Pattern
• Core
• Mould
• Cast
• Knock-Out

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Machining

• Turning
• Milling
• Grinding
• Other Metal Removal Methods
• Sawing
• Planing
• Burning.etc

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Modern Apprenticeships

• Permanently Employed from the start
• Career in Heavy Engineering
• Further Education Day Release
• NVQ levels 2 and 3
• Many Other Skills Taught
• Partnership with Metskill

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Metals AcademyApprenticeships for the Metals,
Mechanical Electrical SectorPeter
HillAcademy Manager
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Apprenticeship?

• Entry route for young people 16-24 years of age
• Structured training leading to nationally
  recognised qualifications
• Development of competence and underpinning
  knowledge
• Apprenticeship frameworks set out required
  qualifications (NVQs, Key Skills, Tec. Certs,
  ERR) for national approval
• Funded by Government through LSC

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Metals Sector occupations

• Electrical Engineer 40 months
• Mechanical Engineer 40 months
• Lab. Technician 36 months
• Moulder/Coremaker 36 months
• Patternmaker 36 months
• Production Engineer 36 months
• Production Operator 18 months
• Admin. / Sales 12 36 months

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ApprenticeshipEmployer Concerns

• Low quality of applicants
• Developing the right skills (engineering
• and personal)
• Lack of simple advice, Complexity of
  frameworks, Perceived bureaucracy
• Need apprentices to be productive not always
  off-the-job
• Relevance of off-the-job training
• Lack of training infrastructure in company

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Metals Academyworking on behalf of employers to
recruit, train and develop the best young people
National Resources Promote the Industry Support
employers

• Recruitment
• Provision
• One-stop-shop for
• employers young people
• Recruitment Selection
• Training plans
• Specialist assessors
• Training providers
• Through Monitoring

• Education
• activities
• In depth relationship
• with 4-6 schools
• Teacher Placements
• Company Visits
• Work Experience
• Ambassadors

• Training
• enhancement
• Lean manufacturing
• HS passport
• Peer group
• Activities
• Apprentice Lectures
• Social events

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Recruitment and Provision

• Designing programme to meet employers needs
• Specialist Metal Processing and Engineering
  routes
• Balance on off-the-job training
• Best local Engineering Training
• Recruitment Selection
• Connexions advertising
• Links with schools
• Arrange Delivery
• Industry specific Induction
• Work based Key Skills delivery
• Full co-ordination regular, accurate, progress
  updates
• Celebration of success

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Education Activity The Schools Strategy

• Focus on building relationship between schools
  and employers

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The Schools Strategy

• Develop long term relationship with a small
  number of schools
• Select schools which have a vocational agenda
• Offer employers a fully co-ordinated programme
• Senior partners meet regularly to review and plan
• 4 core activities

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Industry Schools Partnership
Teacher Placements
A M B A S S A D O R S
Company visits
Student Placements
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Enhanced Training

• Metals Industry Awareness Course
• Lean Manufacturing
• Presentation Skills
• Networking events
• Apprentice Committees
• Ambassador programme
• Sports and Social events

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Be The Best That You Can Be

• BTEC National (ONC)
• HNC
• Degree
• Masters Degree
• Ph. D

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2007 Intake (21)

• 4 x Maintenance Electricians (2 now set on)
• 3 x Maintenance Fitters
• 1 x Pipefitter
• 5 x Machinists (Mechanical Engineers)
• 3 x NDT / Ultrasonic Technicians (1 set on)
• 1 x Moulder / Coremaker
• 1 x Sand Technician
• 1 x Foundry Methods Engineer
• 1 x Instrument Technician
• 1 x Test House Technician (now set on)

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Maintenance Electrician

• Not just
• Wiring a plug
• Fitting a new light bulb
• However it does involve
• Getting very dirty
• Working at height
• Working in confined spaces
• Repairing electrical equipment wherever it may be
• It will involve shift working after 2 years
• Need to understand works drawings

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Maintenance Fitter

• Usually work together with an electrician
• Need a number of skills
• Welding/burning
• Bench fitting
• Use of hand held tools
• Knowledge of hydraulics
• Involves working at height and in confined spaces
• Repairing plant and equipment wherever it may be
• Needs to understand works drawings
• Will involve shift work after 2 years

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Machinist (Mechanical Engineer)

• Mechanical Engineers required to work in our
  South Machine Shop
• To do a variety of CNC or manual machining tasks
• This will include
• Turning, milling, grinding, boring, sawing etc
• Need to understand works drawings
• Will involve shift work after 2 years

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NDT / Ultrasonic Technician

• Non destructive testing/ ultrasonic examination
• We test our products during and after manufacture
  - Sometimes at our customers plants all over
  the world
• Ability to understand works drawings
• Various NDT Techniques will include
• Ultrasonic flaw detection
• Magnetic particle inspection
• Eddy current testing
• Dye penetrant crack detecting
• Staff position after 2 years

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Moulder / Coremaker

• A Foundry skill
• We make the biggest casting in the world i.e over
  350 tons
• It involves
• Coremaking, mould making, Sand technology, molten
  metal knowledge
• Shift working after 2 years

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2008 Intake

• 18 Apprentices
• Machinists
• Metallurgists
• Admin Clerks
• Patternmakerts
• Engineers
• 10 Graduates Various Roles

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• Any Questions?