Wednesday, May 8, 2013

News: Continuous improvement at Newburgh

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Newburgh Engineering has achieved and been accredited to SC21 Bronze standard, solidifying its place within the aerospace and defence supply chains, and has secured funding to take on further apprentices.

Newburgh is a specialist contract manufacturer of component parts and assemblies for the nuclear, defence, oil and gas, petrochemical, aerospace and power generation industries. It has its head office and manufacturing facility in Templeborough and a site in Derbyshire.

SC21 is a change programme designed to accelerate the competitiveness of the aerospace and defence industry by raising the performance of its supply chains.

Newburgh Directors David Greenan and Matthew Jewitt were presented with their SC21 Bronze award at the ADS Taskforce event held in Bristol in April. ADS is a trade organisation advancing the UK aerospace, defence, security and space industries.

The SC21 programme is one of change and performance improvement. Its objective is to drive evolution, innovation and technology development to ensure continuous improvement within the cutting edge technology companies who operate within the aerospace and defence industries. This, in turn will benefit Newburgh and all who operate within their supply chains, having produced numerous benefits for the company already, from connecting its business strategy, formalisation of its continuous drive for improvement, enhanced key business metrics, leaner production, and ultimately extensive improvements in its overall business performance.

Matthew Jewitt, sales director at Newburgh Engineering (picture above, right), said: "We are delighted to receive this award which benchmarks both our business performance and our approach to the long term partnerships that we maintain.

"Continuous improvement is key to our business and sector success, this is applicable now more than ever as we head toward our companies 75th anniversary."

Helping the business to continuously improve is Newburgh's investment in developing skills. 25 apprentices are currently in place and recruitment is underway for six additional Advanced Apprentices.

As a member of the National Skills Academy Nuclear Manufacturing, Newburgh Engineering take on apprentices with the help of Supply Chain Apprentice for Nuclear (SCAN) funding provided by the National Skills Academy for Nuclear.

SCAN is a scheme to provide grants direct to medium and SME employers within the nuclear supply chain, with a wage contribution of up to £10k over the apprenticeship framework duration.

David Greenan, managing director at Newburgh Engineering (picture above, left), said: "It's critical that we see improvements in the UK skills base, and the Nuclear Skills Academy together with SCAN are doing a brilliant job to promote the sector and make this happen. We need to be in a position where we can maximise on opportunities in this expanding market."

Newburgh Engineering website

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