A new apprenticeship programme has been launched by Raytheon Professional Services to address automotive skills shortages in the UK.

The apprenticeships will mean that trainees will be able to undertake the required three and a half years of study to prepare them for work as a service technician, service advisor, parts advisor or body and repair technician while in full-time employment.

As well as training at one of four state of the art centres across the UK, apprentices will undergo coaching within their workplace.

Apprentices who complete the programme will earn a nationally recognised qualification.

Steven Poggi, general manager of intraining National Training Programmes Scotland said: "Recruiting talented and motivated individuals to become technicians is critical for the UK motor industry. Raytheon’s apprenticeship programme provides the much needed technical training and other benefits that will attract new recruits. It will create a pipeline of skilled technicians essential to maintaining high quality automotive service in the UK”

Neil Johnson, RPS apprenticeship programme director added: “The apprenticeship programme builds on RPS’ 15 years of automotive retail training with organizations in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. In Europe alone last year, RPS delivered automotive retail training in 32 countries that totalled 122,000 participant days in the classroom and 46,000 participant days on the Web.”

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