28 | Tees Business
Apprentice
integration
Of Applied Integration’s 35-strong
team, six are now apprentices – that’s
an impressive 17% of the workforce.
Future leaders – Applied Integration director
Garry Lofthouse (centre) with, from left,
apprentices Craig McEvoy, Lucy Phenix,
Hayden Cartwright, Conner Harvey, Jordan
Wales and Jack Gould.
OUR TEAM OF THE FUTURE
D
irectors at Applied Integration say
the company’s six apprentices
can follow in their footsteps by
becoming the Teesside firm’s
leaders of the future.
With three of the Stokesley company’s
four directors having started their working
lives as apprentices, they recently took
their apprenticeship numbers to six.
New recruits Jack Gould and Hayden
Cartwright have joined talented trainee
engineers Jordan Wales, Craig McEvoy,
Conner Harvey and Lucy Phenix on
Applied Integration’s apprenticeship
programme.
Applied Integration director Lee
Raywood, who began his career as a
multi-skilled apprentice with IMS Lycrete
in the early 1990s, says the company is
investing in its long-term future.
“We’re employing an active role in
looking towards the future by taking on
the brightest prospects from the local
area.
“Talented young people are the future
of our industry and our business, so by
ensuring that a steady stream of talented,
well trained individuals pass through our
doors, we’re laying the foundations for
sustainable growth for years to come.
“We ultimately want to create a
production line of talented, motivated and
qualified engineers for our business.
“We want to encourage local talent
to come into the engineering industry
and develop what can be an exciting,
Applied Integration’s six-strong team
of apprentices in instrumentation and
controls are:
challenging and lucrative career. While
graduate recruitment remains critical for
a business such as ours, apprenticeships
are an excellent alternative to the
traditional route into engineering of
attending university.”
Fellow director Garry Lofthouse,
himself a former apprentice instrument
technician with ICI, added: “Our latest
apprentices have been taken on as
they have shown all the characteristics
required to be a successful member of
our team.
“As well as passing the aptitude tests
with flying colours, both Jack and Hayden
are ambitious, intelligent, willing to learn
and, most importantly of all, they both
show the desire necessary in order to
build a career within the automation and
controls industry.
“Our third year apprentices are now
getting involved in commissioning and
project work, which is fantastic for them
and highlights for all six of our apprentices
the potentially exciting careers they have
ahead o