Sector Routeways: Manufacturing & Warehousing course starts Monday 13 January

Opportunity Sheffield’s Sector Routeways: Manufacturing & Warehousing course starts on Monday 13 January, with a registration session a week before.

Registration session: Tuesday 7 January 2025

Course starts: Monday 13 January 2025

Time: 9:30am – 4pm

Venue: Magna Science Centre, Magna Way, Templeborough, Rotherham, S60 1FD

Course length: Initial 10 days of training

Why recommend our training course?

This programme will help participants to gain an insight into the various roles and opportunities within the sector:

• From shop floor to support roles
• From traditional manufacturing to advanced manufacturing and traditional warehousing to modern day logistics
• Provides you with the basic knowledge, understanding and skills to succeed in an industry role.

The training includes:

• Getting to know you and confidence building
• Insights into Manufacturing and Warehousing in the region
• Team building and problem solving
• Communication and basic technology in the workplace appropriate to the sector
• Insights into the Industry through tours and meeting employers/employees
• Interview and application support
• Health & Safety, risk management, health and wellbeing and manual handling including the opportunity to gain an accredited qualification
• Understanding business and your role in it
• Sector-specific knowledge including introducing Lean Manufacturing
• Work Experience preparation and support

Qualifications participants will gain:

• Level 1 in health, safety and welfare for workers
• Level 1 in manual handling

Candidates should meet the person specification below:  

• Be adaptable, willing and enthusiastic to learn, with a good work attitude
• Able to work on your own initiative, and able to fit in and work as part of a team
• Be able to complete tasks within given timescales
• Good problem solving skills, with the ability to see a job through to completion
• Be flexible and prepared to work additional hours to support the team, if required
• Must be punctual, reliable and have a positive, can-do attitude
• For shop floor and warehousing roles, need to be able to work with your hands and use a variety of tools specific to the industry.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for the course, participants need to be aged 16+, live in South Yorkshire, be unemployed, not in full-time education, and have the right to work in the UK. They will need: 

• Their National Insurance Number
• ID – Passport, NI letter, Birth Certificate or Biometric Residence Permit
• Phone login to your Universal Credit account or a recent UC letter
• If not on benefits, their proof of right to work – residence card/sharecode 

To register for the Information and Registration Session on Tuesday 7 January, get in touch.

To make a referral, please call 0114 229 6188 or sectorrouteways@sheffield.gov.uk