Apprentice Training & Benefits Package

The Apprenticeship

Your first year will be based at SETA (Southampton Engineering Training Association), Millbrook, Southampton. Here you'll focus on expanding your practical skills and start working towards a SEMTA (Science, Engineering, and Marine Training Association) NVQ Level 2 Apprenticeship Qualification. We'll make sure you learn all the theory needed to back up your newly-acquired expertise, too. You'll learn skills such as welding, fitting, electrical, machining and/or plating and even IT. And you'll gain this knowledge through hands-on experience. In short - you'll learn by doing.

You'll also work towards a Vocationally Related Certificate (VRQ) in Engineering and Technology, as well as a BTEC in Electrical/Electronics or Mechanical Engineering. The BTEC will be obtained by attending Southampton City College one day a week. However, the majority of your training and key skills development will be learnt first hand at the Fawley refinery during the next two years.

The second year will see you move around the different areas of the Fawley site to gain a better understanding of how we work. And moving into your third year, you'll complete your NVQ Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship. What's more, you'll begin taking on more responsibility and gain our prestigious and bespoke Refinery Trade Test qualification.

So, after the three years, you'll have stacked up an Advanced Apprenticeship NVQ Level 3 in Maintenance Engineering or Fabrication and Welding Engineering, a VRQ in Engineering and Technology, an EDEXCEL BTEC, and an Esso Refinery Trade Test certificate. With all that under your belt, there's every chance for you to embark on a successful career with Esso Petroleum or ExxonMobil Chemical.

Benefits

As well as the long list of qualifications you'll earn with an ExxonMobil Apprenticeship, there are numerous other significant benefits to help you up the career ladder. Not only will you be working your way to more qualifications than if you were still at college full-time, you'll be getting paid a competitive salary to do it: a salary that is reviewed annually. The starting salary in 2008 was £12,692. We'll also reimburse your college travel and parking costs, give you full use of our subsidised canteen and on-site gym, and add to you to the share scheme and team-building courses. What's more, we'll throw in 20 driving lessons including the tests as well as 25 days' holiday a year.