Some of our more 'Mature' Apprentices from Anglian Water
17/11/09
Eagit are currently running a course for delegates from Anglian Water who are brushing up on their existing skills by doing an Elec to Mech engineering course. The course lasts for 4 weeks and covers various skills including hand skills and quiet a bit of theory. According to our highly qualified instructor, Mick Gilmore '...a lot of these guys already have the necessary experience to do the tasks but in some cases weren't aware of more formal approaches to solve mechanical problems.' This is what is hopefully to be achieved through this course.
EAGIT instructor Mick Gilmore sharing some of the wealth of experience he has gained through years of working in industry and from teaching engineering
The team of five water engineers from Anglian Water are currently following a 4 week Mechanical Engineering Course at EAGIT
The 5 Anglian Water delegates – 3 from Lincolnshire and 2 from Norfolk – will be working in the Clear Water and Waste Water Treatment Sections and will have learnt how to measure, identify and replace bearings and to re-assemble the machines in the correct manner. They will also be cover the types and styles of gears and gearboxes, pumps, cams, links, levers, mechanisms and seals applications.
The Course follows all relevant national and industrial standards and is designed for those requiring additional mechanical maintenance skills or electrical to mechanical conversion skills. A further course is planned for January 2006 when five more water engineers will fine tune their skills to keep our water pure.
Anglian Water supplies water to around 4 million customers and the safe and efficient treatment of water and its delivery to customers is the company’s core business.
On a typical day Anglian Water supplies 1,200 million litres of water which is treated at 142 water treatment plants and supplied through 36,000 kilometres of water mains.
Anglian Water’s major on-going investment is in improving their works and pipe networks and preparing for future demand. They also research the use of wastewater for industrial purposes. Wastewater is treated through a membrane to a high enough standard so that it can be used in industrial processes. In July 2000, Anglian Water put this into practice with the energy company TXU Europe at their Peterborough power station, thereby avoiding the need for one million litres of drinking water a day to be taken from the mains by the power station.
Without a guaranteed supply of water, the Energy Industry could not operate effectively.
One of the Anglian Water delegates, Mark Brocklehurst, spoke of the benefits he gained from the EAGIT course; “This course has widened our viewpoint to a great extent. Before coming here we were concerned solely with the water treatment process – working on filters, reservoir levels and water towers. Now we will be multi-functional. We will be able to do minor mechanical repairs to pumps and drive systems to make the system run more efficiently. This will be much more cost effective than calling out a fitter every time there is a minor mechanical problem.”
(Information for the above article was collated by EAGIT's very own roving reporter Marguerite Finn)
If you would like to know more about courses which can be run specific to your industry then please call 01603-401606 and speak to Jamie Cooper to book an existing course. We also have an online booking form which can be filled in under our short-course section.
Information about Anglian Water can be obtained from their website: www.anglianwater.co.uk
