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Press Release – Enspec expands Systems Studies Team

chris@precisionpr.co.uk — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:33:05 +0000

For Immediate Release

Enspec expands Systems Studies Team

High demand for specialist skill creates new career opportunities

22^nd September 2020, St Helens, UK – Power quality engineering specialists, Enspec Power Limited, is reporting a consistent increase in demand for its power system studies. So much so that it is expanding its system studies team, and currently searching for new trainee engineers.

“We’re specifically looking for new electrical engineering graduates,” says Enspec director, Tim Rastall. “Because systems studies require a unique approach to the work, we’re looking for people who want to learn the unique skillset and develop their engineering capabilities towards Chartership. It’s an area of our business that has enjoyed constant growth, and demand is outstripping our current capacity.”

Enspec’s clients include renewable energy projects, power transmission networks, and manufacturers connecting to the national grid (including one of the world’s most famous car makers). They are increasingly recognising the benefits of carrying out system studies early in project cycles to ensure grid code compliance. As a specialist in the field, Enspec is now taking on engineers to build the team from the bottom up.

“We have a policy of staff development, and a clear promotion and succession strategy,” explains Tim Rastall. “That is one of the best ways of building specialist skills and retaining them within the company.”

One of the products of this strategy is Kerim Ozer, who’s promotion has led to the recruitment drive. “I joined Enspec as a new graduate 4 years ago, with the objective of becoming a chartered engineer,” says Kerim. “It’s been an exciting journey, helping grow the systems studies services as I have learned new skills and taken on more and more responsibility for increasingly complex projects. Enspec has provided me with excellent support to develop my engineering career.”

Tim Rastall hopes to have someone in post by the end of the year. “COVID-19 has made it a bit trickier to recruit than it might have been, but we’re still hoping to have at least one new starter in post by the end of the year. We’re advertising for recent graduates with a particular interest in this aspect of engineering and ambitions to complete their Chartership. We’re based in St Helens, but whoever comes on board will have opportunities to work all over the UK, and possibly Europe.”

Enspec Power Systems offers a ‘full-stack’ of survey services for grid code compliance and power system analysis – both independent studies and turnkey study and solution offerings.

For more information on vacancies, visit the Enspec website: https://www.enspecpower.com/ or contact Tim Rastall on 01744 347547

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Notes to Editors

About Enspec Power Ltd

Enspec helps organisations to make money and to save money – professional engineers can do this! It offers specialist engineered products and services such as Power System Studies, Power Factor Correction, Harmonic Filters, Reactive Compensation, Point-on-Wave Switching and Site Services. The company helps all manner of heavy electricity users such as utilities and renewables, oil and gas, manufacturing and other industries.

Enspec has been making businesses more profitable since 1998 when its sibling founders, fed up with the bureaucracy of larger organisations, decided to go it alone and set up a friendly, flexible engineering company.

Two decades on, the Enspec team is still a friendly bunch and one of the UK’s leading independent specialists in power quality engineering. The team really understands electrical power systems and is passionate about what it does and what’s happening in the wider world of technology.

Enspec is a progressive member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) with links to academia – so if the team don’t have the immediate answers, chances are they know someone that does.

You can find more about Enspec Power Limited at: https://www.enspecpower.com/

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Remembrance Sunday – it’s more than a Poppy

chris@precisionpr.co.uk — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 12:22:39 +0000

Harrogate’s Cenotaphe

What your staff might think matters

This is a post about my daughter. I make no apology for that – not even to her. And certainly not to her soon-to-be-ex-employers.

My daughter is a Cadet Warrant Officer (CWO) in the Air Training Corps (the ATC or the Air Cadets). That’s a pretty significant achievement, and represents a considerable level of responsibility and trust placed in her by the adult staff of 58 (Harrogate) Squadron. It also means she recieves great respect from the younger cadets, because without that respect, she couldn’t do what she does. And what a CWO does is handles the daily running of the squadron.

George (my daughter) has been a cadet since she was 13. She decided that she would like to join the Royal Air Force (RAF), and the ATC allows her to learn more about it and gain relevant experience to help her through the selection process. She’s currently going through selection for Officer Training, but in the meantime she’s working in retail.

As part of her work within the ATC, she has collected money for the British Legion by selling Poppies, and for the RAF Benevolent Fund every year since joining – and regularly tops the list of collectors at the squadron. As she’s 19 years of age, this year is her last year within the ATC before she ‘ages out’ on her birthday in December.

Why this matters to George

George has been working for a local firm. In fact, she’s been working very hard for that firm having been promoted to store manager earlier this year. She’s made a success of her shop and is diligent about staffing, targets, stock control – every aspect. But she’s only 19, and working over-time (usually unclaimed and unpaid), plus a train and bus (or two buses) journey home interferes with her work at ATC and the fitness work she has to complete for her RAF selection.

Because she wants to take part in a ATC competition (the national drill championships) she needed a weekend off. Because she needed that weekend off, George was not allowed to take time off on the Saturdays leading to Remembrance Sunday in order to collect for the British Legion. Because the company that she works for has a different ‘nominated charity’ she was not allowed to have a British Legion collecting box on her shop counter. And because of that, the straw has broken the camel’s back, and she has resigned to take a less-pressured job closer to home and just down the road from her gym.

Why this matters to employers

George comes from a family with quite a bit of military history. She has a 2nd cousin who served 21-years in the Royal Navy. Her grandfather and his two brothers served in the British Army, and two of their cousins were an Army helicopter pilot and an Army bomb disposal officer who served in Northern Ireland during ‘the Troubles’. Her great-grandfather served in the Merchant Navy on troop and ammunition ships in the Mediterranean, including at Gallipoli where two of his brothers were killed fighting for the Australian army. Their sister married an Regimental Sergeant Major who had served on The Western Front, and two of George’s great-grandmother’s brothers were killed at Passchendaele in that same conflict.

Anzac Cove, Gallipoli

Add to that George’s stated desire to join the forces and the fact that her boyfriend has just completed Elementary Flying School within his RAF service, and you can see that Remembrance Sunday and Battle of Britain Day (the RAF Benevolent Fund’s day of commemoration) are pretty important to her.

Her employers could very easily have understood this, and could have helped her organise cover. At the very least they could have allowed her to collect for her chosen causes in their shop. But no … instead they have lost a diligent, hard-working and effective shop manager just before Christmas.

So my point is …

It’s simple. If you want to retain key staff you need to find out what will keep them happy. George’s employer could so easily have accommodated her or compromised with her. Instead they acted without taking notice of something important to her, and which surely everyone else saw as a fantastic activity by her. The result was she is leaving them to go to someone more accommodating, more flexible and more appreciative of her cadet and charitable works.

So if someone asks you if they can have support for a community or charitable activity, maybe find out why it’s important to them before you respond.

Written by a proud Dad

Commonwealth War Graves – Stonefall Cemetery – Harrogate

ps. George sold Poppies in her lunchtime and on her way home instead. On Remembrance Sunday she laid the wreath on behalf of the ATC at Harrogate’s cenotaph, and led the ATC contingent on parade at Harrogate’s Commonwealth War Graves, Stonefall Cemetery..

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