London North Eastern Railway (LNER) currently has more than 150 apprentices undergoing training throughout the company, and is marking their contribution to its business in National Apprenticeship Week 2023 from Monday, 6th to Friday, 10th February.
To coincide with National Apprenticeship Week, London North Eastern Railway has released a video that highlights the vital role that apprenticeships play in supporting the development of existing employees, and to attract fresh talent into the rail industry.
The company offers a large range of apprenticeships, from train driving and engineering to Human Resources (HR), Finance, and Customer Experience. Earlier this year London North Eastern Railway gained a UK Top Employer award for the fourth year running.
London North Eastern Railway's social media channels will feature the work of a number of its apprentices as part of National Apprenticeship Week.
Anyone who wishes to find out more information about opportunities with London North Eastern Railway people can find details here https://lnerjobs.co.uk/jobs/
Claire Ansley, People and Customer Experience Director at LNER, said: “At LNER we are delighted to support apprentices across the business to gain new skills, as well as a recognised qualification. An ideal apprentice is someone who is passionate about development and learning new skills with a huge variety of roles available in the railway industry.”
Train Manager, Rahnum Ishtiaq has recently completed his apprenticeship and is now working onboard services between London and Newcastle, Leeds and Lincoln. Rahnum said: “The apprenticeship with LNER has given me the opportunity to do the job that I really wanted to do and was passionate about securing.
“I had the opportunity to shadow someone who was experienced and to learn from them, one-to-one about how to provide our customers with the best possible experience. Showing empathy, showing you care, and listening are all key skills, as well as learning to deal with incidents by yourself. Learning from experienced colleagues has really helped enhance those skills in addition to our formal training.”
Megan Cooke used to work in hearing care before becoming an Apprentice Train Driver at LNER. Speaking ahead of National Apprenticeship Week, Megan said: “By the time I get through the apprenticeship training, I will have every tool needed to be an LNER Azuma train driver. I know that when I'm given my key to the cab and told to go out there by myself for the first time, that I will have earned it.”
As aapprentice trained mechanical engineer I fully understand and back the training for the future. The schemes being run by LNER are ensuring the companies future, Claire must be congratulated and be pround of the achievements the training is giving. I guess I have been lucky in being able to meet and discuss the training they receive with the trainees. This also applies to the senior staff qs without their devotion and forward thinking any training will not succeed. Keep up the good work it is worth it.
AS an x engineering apprentice I fully understand the absolute need to train for the future. From at times close contact with perons such as Claire it is one of the UKs best apprentice training any person can get. Any person trained by LNER has a wonderful future.
All the best to the apprentices and not forgetting the Management teams involved.