After searching the UK print and packaging industry for suitable new employees, Label Apeel has decided to create an in-house training centre to turn its apprentices into printing professionals.
The L-School Print Academy will give apprentices hands on work training and classroom training at college. On completing three years training the individuals will engage in an array of different training, further honing skills with opportunities to move in to supervisory management, sales, planning and production management.
Amy Chambers, managing director, explained, ‘Finding people who are as good as the reputation we have earned is not easy. We have therefore taken the decision that from here on in we will in the main only be training our own people. We will be looking for people from a range of different backgrounds that may not have the right skills, but do have the right attitude. That attitude being one which reflects the quality we all strive for and achieve on a daily basis. We need people that recognise that processes and procedures are essential and who put customer satisfaction at the heart of what they do. To help us deliver this we will be opening L-School Print Academy, where we will take people in and help them to get the necessary skills to meet the exacting standards that allows them to call themselves Label Apeel.’
The positions up for grabs are for two trainee printers, the first year will be spent rotating around the whole business working on reception, accounts, being a mac operator, on the printer presses and in the warehouse. Once the induction year is over, they will then choose a specialism from those available and will be registered as an apprentice with Leicester College
Individuals interested in applying need to be hardworking, reliable, conscientious and driven to succeed. Have a minimum of GCSE English and Maths grade C or above and preferably a design GCSE also a reasonable.
