Luke Hamilton – Work Experience

Luke Hamilton - Work Experience

Luke Hamilton of Kingsmead Secondary School joined us for a week of work experience on the 15th July.

Luke plays rugby for the North Petherton RC and hopes to take his tennis playing to a competitive level as well.

He spent a week at our Taunton Headquarters, working in a variety of different departments. This is what his schedule looked like:

  • Monday

Introductions and H&S including YP risk assessment. Basic overview of stores. Assisting in hydraulic hose manufacturing.

  • Tuesday

In depth process review of Stores. Luke was involved in booking in/out, Packing and Picking etc .

  • Wednesday

Hands on website building, following good marketing practices. (Focused on a topic of Luke’s choice)

  • Thursday

Shadowing electrical engineers in the electrical bay and performing a variety of tasks.

Working with the design team receiving a basic overview of design to conception on AutoCad/Solidworks.

  • Friday

Overview of design to conception. Basic engineering tasks within the workshop – use of hand tools etc. Visiting a customer and helping spec up a project.

Luke says:

“I enjoyed my time here. It helped me realise how many different opportunities there were for engineers. The variety surprised me. It made me realise I definitely want to get into engineering, even if I am not sure which specialisation to focus on.”

It was a pleasure to host this talented young man and we wish him all the best in his future endeavours.

Joe Lang – Summer Work Experience

Joe Lang - summer work experience

When: 24th June – end of summer

The 16 year old Joe joined Rotec for the summer holidays to help us with continuous stock taking and assist Goods In/Out with packaging components and products, ready for transport.

Joe is starting his Digital Media Studies at Bridgwater College once the summer is out, which he eventually hopes to merge with his other interests in art and cars. Joe enjoys visiting car shows and car meets, and taking photographs. He was recently selected for a project with Studio Digital in Watchet, where he already spent some time developing his arts skills, to take part in a project in partnership with Somerset Waste. Joe is also a big fan of Manchester United.

Joe has already proven himself to be a diligent and steadfast worker and we hope to welcome him back in the future, when he is on a break from college.

Welcome to the team Joe!

Team Rotec

5 years of sponsoring the Somerset Cricket Club

SCCC win the RLODC 2019

In 2014, we started our Somerset County Cricket Club sponsorship journey with branded rain covers. 

Little did we know, that on the day, we forged a relationship that would last half a decade (and counting) and bring us so much joy over the 5 years. We have watched the players and the club grow and transform, emerging victorious in this year’s Royal London One Day Cup. 

 It has been an incredible journey so far and we look forward to supporting the team for years to come.

Specialised training for our engineers

We have received the latest certification and passport cards for engineers whom have carried out training week commencing 25/03.

At Rotec, we believe the work we do is only as good as the people who do it. Maintaining high standards and safe work practices is paramount, which is why we invest into high quality training for all of our engineers. A number of them attended courses in March, designed specifically for the Fluid Power industry by The British Fluid Power Association (BFPA):

The engineers have now been supplied with the certification and updated engineer passport cards.

TRAINING PASSPORT SCHEME FROM THE BFPA

“This new initiative developed by the BFPA aims to help you keep an easily accessible record of the BFPA training you have achieved. You will be able to show these training passport cards to employers and customers to confirm qualifications and they will act as a reminder for when individual training courses need to be renewed.”

You can read more about Engineer Passports on the BFPA website.

Date: 15/04/2019

Author: Sarka Humpolcova

One week of work experience at Rotec

Last month, we were pleased to team up with the Kingsmead School in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, to provide a work experience for one of their pupils: Harry Alcock. Harry joined our Taunton Depot for a week, to experience first-hand how Rotec operates. Under the direction of Matt Turnbull, Rotec’s purchasing manager, Harry spent time working in the Stores, Warehouse, Electrical Bay and the office learning about Mechanical Design and Website build.

Harry was in for a Health and Safety briefing on Monday morning, before spending the afternoon with our Stores Manager, where he learned the general operational principles such as booking in/out, packing and picking. The next day, Harry was actively involved in the Stores day to day activities discussed the previous day and assisted with assembling a crate for one of Rotec’s marine customers.

On Wednesday, Harry joined the marketing department where he was introduced to website building using the popular online platform Wix. Harry chose to create a website focused on supercars and spent the day with Rotec’s marketing executive creating a working site using best marketing practices. The website Harry created is available on: https://harrysalcock03.wixsite.com/harryssupercars

Thursday morning was spent in the warehouse hose assembly with our team of engineers, wrapping hoses for our utilities customer.

Harry then joined our electrical engineering team, in the electrical bay, learning about safe working practises and some hands on electrical work.

On Friday morning, Harry was back in the office, working under the guidance of Rotec’s engineering director (pictured), who taught Harry about CAD design, before moving onto assisting the stores and the warehouse in the afternoon, with their usual Friday housekeeping tasks.

Matt, who supervised and supported Harry through-out his working experience, was impressed at Harry’s work ethic, at his ability to follow instructions and his positive attitude. We would gladly welcome Harry back anytime and we look forward to the next time we are able to support the local schools with their work placements.

 

Author: Sarka Humpolcova

Date: 2/08/2018

 

Engineering Talks 1.4: Bridgwater engineering student joins us for work experience

Harry Safe work experience

Harry Safe

This week we had a welcome addition to our engineering team at Taunton in form of the lovely Harry Safe, a final year student at Bridgwater College, who joined us for work experience.

 

Name: Harry Safe

Course: Level 3 Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering

 

 

How did you get the work experience at Rotec?

I was looking at the local companies and since my parents know Paul Prouse (Managing Director), I send him an email asking about any opportunities and he agreed to take me on for a week.

 

Is this the only work experience you are doing?

Yes

 

Could you guide me through your week at Rotec?

On Monday I was with Richard Renfree, working on Solidworks, designing disc brakes. On Tuesday I was with Dan Foster, doing electrical work on winching systems. On Thursday I was with Matt Cooke, testing release valves and taking apart flow control valves and today, I am building brackets for the winches I worked on on Tuesday.

 

Any highlights?

Yes, yesterday was pretty good, hands – on work.

 

So you prefer hands-on work to for example design?

Yes, both are good, but yes, definitely prefer the more hands on work.

 

Do you feel the experience benefited you, if so, how?

Definitely benefitted me, it’s a bit of an eye-opener really, it gives me an idea of what’s it actually like to work in the industry, instead of just not knowing anything about the work places.

 

What are your future career plans?

I am working on getting enough UCAS points to allow me to enter the RAF as an officer, which is what I want to do.