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Rolls-Royce North East Training Centre is an approved training provider based in Newcastle upon Tyne, offering apprenticeships in mechanical, fabrication, electrical and general engineering, at N.V.Q. levels 2 and 3.
The training centre is located within Rolls-Royce, Newcastle, part of the Marine Division of Rolls-Royce.
The company was founded over 100 years ago as an Apprentice Training School for the Vickers Armstrong Armourments Factory, training only the company’s own apprentices. Since then it has evolved into its present form, training apprentices and adults for the engineering community at large, with only a minority of training aimed at the parent company.
Our mission is to help young people achieve full time employment within engineering, with all of the associated vocational and academic qualifications necessary to start a successful career and provide a quality training service for adult workers.
We offer a wide range of training in mechanical, electrical, maintenance, sheet metal and fabrication skills to National Vocational Qualifications.
In the workplace we can offer advice on setting up the delivery of training to N.V.Q levels 2, 3 and 4 standards in addition to a monitoring and assessment service.
Our main centre of operation is a self contained engineering training workshop with computer suites and lecture facilities. We have also subsidiary sites including colleges and work placements.
We are contracted mainly through the Tyne & Wear Skills Funding Agency to deliver our training programmes. We have a very diverse client base of companies in the North East ranging in size from major international organisations to local small engineering enterprises.
Our instructional staff are all qualified assessors and/or internal verifiers capable of delivering training and advice consistent with the latest technology and practices adopted by modern manufacturing industry and the stringent requirements of the qualification awarding bodies. The company structure consists of a team of vocational instructional staff, a team of in-field assessors and verifiers, business development, contract management and administration.
