ABERDEEN Training Centre (ATC) is to offer career opportunities to redundant oil workers when it opens its new Energy Training Centre in Aberdeen later this week.
As well as providing ongoing support and training for Plumbers, Heating Engineers and Electricians, the company will actively encourage new entrants to the industry to help meet current trades supply and demand issues.
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The company has been set up by Plumbing & Heating Engineers, Steve Anderson and John Toet, who have been planning the venture for the last two years.
Managing Director, Steve, comments: “Our plans for the centre started long before the current Covid-19 crisis, so we never envisaged the redundancies across the region that we’ve seen over the last year. Sadly, the oil & gas industry has been hit hard, but we hope to offer new opportunities to these people as they try to get their lives back on track. The sector has suffered supply shortages for a long time and we think the technical skills required in this area of work are a good fit for former oil & gas workers.”
ATC hopes to run 50 introductory courses over the next 12 months, which will give new candidates the certification they need to enter the industry.
With changes in legislation ahead to support green energy, the duo are keen to encourage those working in the sector to embrace sustainability by learning new skills. ATC will be offering training in Natural Gas and LPG from the outset, but future plans include training in hydrogen and other innovative energy systems, as they are introduced to the market. Part of ATC’s offering will be to keep the industry up to date on new technologies.
Operations Director, John Toet, comments: “We’ve been watching the changes over the last few years and we see the opportunity for tradesmen in the North-east to get on board with these early. There’s a lot of changes ahead, which link to the government’s objectives of reaching net-zero by 2050, and for good reason. We are in a strong position to support this and to help make society a greener place.”
ATC is a BPEC and HETAS approved Training Centre. Its newly refurbished premises are on Crombie Road in Aberdeen. The centre will open on Friday 26th March and start delivering courses from Monday 29th March 2021. For more information visit https://atc.energy.
