This week is National Apprenticeship Week and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway has announced a vacancy for a Heritage Engineering Steam/Diesel Apprenticeship at its headquarters at Grosmont.

This is the latest opening that the heritage steam railway has to offer, 25 years after Traction and Rolling Stock Manager, Piglet, joined the NYMR as a 16-year-old engineering apprentice in December 1996.

Since then, Piglet has worked at the NYMR, being promoted to Foreman in 2007 and then Depot Manager in 2016 before becoming Traction and Rolling Stock Manager in 2017.

“The key benefits [of an apprenticeship] for me were it gave me immediate income and freedom,” he recalls. “I was itching for freedom, and I was able to buy a motorbike only a few months after starting my apprenticeship.”

“It also gave me the skillset to get to grips with my trade, gave me more ‘life skills’, and allowed me to progress – here I am, 25 years later, in a senior management role.”

“Just because you’re an apprentice doesn’t mean you can’t climb the ladder of promotion – you don’t have to go to university to end up as a senior manager if you can prove your worth.”

To apply for the apprenticeship vacancy, please visit the North Yorkshire Moors Railway website.

The closing date for applications is Monday 15th March 2021.

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