This week, during National Apprenticeship Week, the spotlight has fallen on apprenticeships and the fantastic opportunities they offer young people.
And this Sunday 15 March is our ‘deadline day’ for apprentices to submit their applications to us for 2015.
The feedback we get from our apprentices is that they enjoy the chance to earn a salary whilst at the same time picking up valuable skills and training.
They help maintain 205,000km of power lines, work in wind farms, hydro stations and thermal plants, and help maintain commercial and domestic electrical systems.
SSE offers apprenticeship programmes lasting three to four years. We put trainees through foundation degrees as well as giving them work experience across the business. Graduates then join a two year rotational programme to develop their skills and experience and become professional engineers.
Since 2007, we have hired more than 800 apprentices and this year we’re boosting our intake number by 20%, investing £11.68m - an average of £80,000 per trainee.
Our apprentices are the future faces of SSE and we’re looking forward to meeting the new intake this summer – make sure you’re one of them!
Anyone interested in applying can do so by visiting the SSE website: www.sse.com/careers but don’t hang around because you only have until Sunday.