A large number of employees at Machine Part Engineering in Haverhill,
Suffolk, have improved efficiency in the business by completing NVQ
training.
The firm considered business efficiency as an important factor in remaining
competitive and, as a result, invested in helping two thirds of the
employees gain vocational qualifications.
Ten staff at the firm have spent the past year completing their Level 2 NVQ
qualifications in Business Improvement Techniques (BIT).
The firm had gone through a quiet period in recent times and instead of
cutting back on providing training for employees, Managing Director Robert
Haylock saw it as an opportunity to invest in up-skilling his current staff
with improved workplace skills. He explained, "I thought it was a chance to
get more efficient while it was quiet. Things have improved in certain
areas."
He added that the improvement techniques that the employees have learned
have helped the firm to make savings and cut the time it takes to perform
certain tasks. He added, "We have improved on lots of little different
things, but when you add them up at the end of the day it makes a big
difference."
He went on to say, "Basically, it got the guys on the shop floor to look at
things the way I do in here to make them more efficient."
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