Employer Spotlight: MAC Roofing & Contracting Ltd MAC Roofing & Contracting Ltd is one of the largest roofing and cladding firms in the UK. Formed in 1975, they’ve been waterproofing British buildings for nearly half a century (as a rule of thumb, if you’re under a MAC roof then you won’t need a Mac raincoat). […]
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Employer Spotlight: GB Builders Despite forming during the height of the pandemic, Wigan construction firm, GB Builders, has gone from strength to strength. We met up with co-founder, John Gaskell, a former DMR graduate in NVQ Level 3 in Occupational Work Supervision, to find out how they’re getting on. Hi John, can you start by
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Retrofit: Live From The Central Belt We’re reaching outside the borders of England for the latest DMR learner interview. The operator has hooked us up on a direct line to the Central Belt of Scotland and we’ve got Stuart McGill on the other end. Stuart is an insulation installer and retrofit professional from Armadale, West
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Jay K’s Going Deeper Underground Literally – he’s an under floor insulation installer. Regular followers of our social media channels know we like peppering our posts with music-related puns. In March, we wrote a post featuring one of our NVQ achievers, Jay K, and infused it with references to Jamiroquai. Back then, Jay K was
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It’s time for another Meet the Team exposé where we collar an unsuspecting colleague and grill them with questions about their job, where they’re going on holiday and what they get up to at the weekends. Our latest victim is Zoe. We won’t tell you what her job role is just yet because she’s about to tell you herself.
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Passive fire protection in the North West of England has received a welcome boost following the launch of a new partnership in the sector. DMR Training & Consultancy Ltd and JM Passive Fire Protection Ltd have announced plans for a collaboration to expand the provision of passive fire protection training and assessment in the region.
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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.
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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).
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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
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