Training scheme launched for busy gas engineers
PLEASED Andy Burton, Ray Stafford, Karen Barrett and Steve Owen
A NEW training centre to help gas engineers update their qualifications has been launched.
It is being run by Williams & Co, and the new training centre is next to the firm’s city trade counter at OJ’s Industrial Park, off Burrfields Road in Portsmouth.
The CertifiTraining.com programme is being run with The Gas Safe Corporation.
Boiler manufacturer Main has donated the boilers and cylinders for delegates to work on, and will be able to use the centre to deliver free training to Main installers in the area.
Williams & Co managing director Ray Stafford said: ‘Our customers are nearly all one-man bands and it is difficult for them to take enough time off the tools to do all the gas exams that are required.
‘We have tried to make the courses as flexible as possible for them, for example having early 7am starts, so they can cover more in a day and therefore take fewer days to do the assessments.
‘The beauty of having the training company attached to the trade counter is that we can book installers in for training when it suits them, rather than them having to plan it in weeks or even months in advance.’
‘We sell training packages through all Williams branches, in the same way as we sell boilers and plumbing accessories.
‘Installers buy a card voucher with a unique serial number. Then all they have to do is call to arrange their course.’
Williams & Co chairman Mick Williams was the driving force behind the successful campaign for the Boiler Scrappage Scheme, announced by Labour Chancellor Alastair Darling in December 2009. It won him a Corgi award for his ‘contribution to plumbing and heating’.
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