Five years after completing his joinery apprenticeship with us, Josh Marshall is back at DMR as our new administrator and training consultant. Naturally, we wanted to find out what he’s been doing for the last few years, so we made him a brew and plied him with questions.
We’ve already interviewed a Queen fanatic for our Meet the Team series, and today we’re rolling out another one: Elizabeth Gredecki from Business Support. Elizabeth joins us for coffee (us) and warm Vimto (her), and a chat in the Georgie Fame Room at Tartleton Villa (a.k.a. DMR HQ).
We’re pleased to share the news that you can once again get your CSCS Labourers card (green card) with DMR Training. We deliver the one-day Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in a Construction Environment which is a key requirement in green card application.
As a provider of training and qualifications in the low carbon sector, we’re pleased that the government’s Green Heat Network Fund opened for business last month.
Ryan has worked with DMR for several years now, and he’s an indispensable part of our training and assessment team. He covers a number of occupational areas, including roofing, cladding and construction supervision. This month, Ryan added another string to his bow by gaining his Internal Quality Assurance qualification.
DMR assessor Steve Graham talks to us about NVQ assessment, the Great Storm of 1987, Freddie Mercury and Pope John Paul II
Last time we spoke to Sean, he had just started his NVQ Level 2 in Fitted Interiors (along with three of his colleagues). This month we caught up with him again to find out how he got on with his qualification.
We like asking our construction NVQ achievers why they decided to take a qualification, and how they feel they’ve benefitted from it.
Too many experienced construction workers approach their NVQ with trepidation. But there’s really no need to fret. To help allay your fears, we asked four of our assessors to share their best advice on completing an onsite NVQ in the construction industry.
NVQs done your way is partly inspired by the way we try to adapt every qualification to the needs of each individual learner. Today we’d like to give an example of what we meant by that.
If you’re a regular visitor to dmr-training.co.uk, you may have noticed that change is afoot. We recently updated the website with a new logo, colour scheme, tagline and images – all of which form part of a rebranding of DMR Training.
We collared Jody for ten minutes to quiz her about work and find out what her magic formula is. She’s very modest and wouldn’t let us use a photo with this blog post (but rumour has it you can find a pic of her on the About Us page of this website).
Earlier this year we gave our yard at DMR HQ a facelift. We’ve created this pictorial timeline charting the last six years in the life of our yard on Church Street in Leigh.
Among the many companies who receive NVQ assessment from DMR is Johnsons 1871, a Cheshire-based removal firm specialising in a range of services including logistics, furniture installation, hygiene and project management.
Last month we caught up with Pete Leyland of Leyland Forrest for a Zoom chat about the post-Grenfell firestopping industry, staff qualifications, waste reduction and sustainability.
Among the range of construction qualifications that we offer at DMR Training is onsite NVQ assessment in Insulation and Building Treatments. This NVQ is suitable for experienced construction and building maintenance workers who specialise in internal/external insulation and energy efficiency building treatments such as external wall or roof insulation.
When experienced kitchen fitter Lewis Steinborn first contacted us last summer, he was working with his dad, had no qualifications and was worried about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on his immediate future.
When Luke Wainwright first enquired with us about doing a plastering NVQ in 2019, he was vexed that he wasn’t on the same pay rate as other plasterers at the firm where he worked. Despite diving head first into the plastering trade when he left school at 16 and then working full-time for five years, Luke was earning less than the going rate.
The last time Wayne Swinbourne completed a bricklaying qualification, Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, Aston Villa were European champions and Larry Holmes was the best heavyweight in the world.
One of the latest construction industry workers to benefit from our government funded NVQ assessment provision is Darren German, a hard surface repair technician from Manchester. He works on various sites across the region repairing and restoring a range of surfaces from worktops and window frames to porcelain tiles and UPVC doors.
