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NES Manufacturing Personnel Complete Business Improvement Techniques Qualification

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

As part of NES’ vision and values, the need to continuously improve performance and develop the skills of employees are identified as key drivers for the business moving forward. In 2010 NES provided its employees with the opportunity to study for vocational qualifications in Business Improvement Techniques.

Employees were enrolled on to the City & Guilds programme at the start of March 2011. The qualification is aimed at developing the skills of employees and focussing on improvements in the efficiency of the business.

Over the last twelve months employees attended a series of practical workshops as part of the qualification covering workplace organisation, continuous improvement, effective teamwork, problem solving and developing visual management systems. This was supported by a series of workplace assessments directly linked to the series of workshops and were a practical application of the skills and knowledge developed.

The course is designed to cover both theory and how employees could perform their job role more efficiently and effectively, focussing on the needs of customers both internally and externally in order to contribute to improving the performance of NES.

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Sellafield MD Visits NES

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

NES were recently visited by Sellafield Ltd Managing Director Todd Wright and Decommissioning Director Jim French.

The visitors received a presentation from members of the NES Board of Directors and project delivery team for the SEP Mobile Cave Waste Retrieval contract.

Matt Wedge, NES Project Manager, responsible for the delivery of Silo Emptying Plant (SEP) 2 commented, "The visit was the ideal opportunity to show Todd and Jim the work NES has been delivering for SL, with the tour of the works being extremely well received. We were able to demonstrate key areas of the SEP contract, giving Todd and Jim a thorough understanding of the machines. Through the presentations we were able to demonstrate the level of design innovation contained with the SEP machines through 3D ProE modelling, then the reality with the manufactured equipment on the shop floor. The full scale of the project was clearly visible when we were able to show the visitors the 25m high test rig, which is a replica of one of the 22 silos the machines will service".

Group Shot, from left to right: Steve Barlow (NES), Dave Roden (SL), Malcolm Goulding (NES), Jim French (SL Decommissioning Director), Matt Wedge (NES), Mike Hawe (NES), Todd Wright (SL Managing Director), Chris Halliwell (SL Head of Programme…

Wear Red to work for Children In Need

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

NES employees joined in the charitable spirit on Friday wearing red to work in aid of Children in Need.

Organised by Di Bailey-Moore, Projects Team Leader – Doc Control and Admin, the company raised over £250 for the charitable cause.

Children in Need is just one of the many charity events supported by NES, many spearheaded by Di.

Di would like to thank all of the employees for their support.

NES Employees Celebrate 35 Years Service

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

NES employees Jack Lane - PA to the Directors, Sue Clarke - Project Administrator, and Dave Priest - Manufacturing Engineer, recently celebrated 35 years' service with NES.

The three employees who started with the company back in 1976, joined when the company was under the ownership of Clarke Chapman. Jack and Sue both started as trainee shorthand typists, and Dave as a manufacturing apprentice. Their employment spanned the changes in the company ownership through NEI Thompson, Rolls Royce NES, to the current Nuclear Engineering Services.

Commenting on her 35 years' service, Jack Lane said "It's been great, I can honestly say that I have really enjoyed my 35 years' with the company. During my time I have met a lot of interesting people at the company, some who have become good friends outside of work. I have worked all over the site throughout my time with the company but I am now back in the same office where I started 35 years' ago".

As a token of the companies appreciation, employees received a gift voucher and bottle of champagne from the company during a celebratory lunch with NES' Managing Director, Mike Hawe.

NES Continue to Support Workington Town RLFC in the 2012 season

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

NES will continue to support Workington Town RLFC as the main club sponsor for the 2012 Championship 1 season, following a highly successful 2011 campaign.

In their second season supported by NES, Town fell just short in the Championship 1 play-off final at the Halliwell Jones stadium, Warrington.

Following a highly successful league campaign in which they finished third, just 6 points behind the champions Swinton, Workington reached the play-off final following a semi-final victory over Keighley Cougars. In the final Workington again came up against Keighley and were beaten 32-12 in a game watched by over 1000 Town fans.

In a game where Keighley made a blistering start leading 22-0 at half time, Town rallied with a second half come back but could not overturn the first half deficit.

Town will now look to rebuild and launch another promotion assault in 2012 and are already making significant player signings for the 2012 season backed through NES sponsorship (http://www.townrlfc.com/article.php?id=6345).

Speaking on the 2011 season and looking forward to 2012, Barry Scholey, Commercial Manager at Workington Town commented "Since the beginning…