CCG helps 20 young people to build up their skills

TWENTY young people have started a trade apprenticeship programme with Glasgow-based CCG (Scotland).

The construction firm will offer each of the recruits an industry-recognised four-year training programme that will cover both practical and theoretical skills to equip them for a career in construction.

After the graduation of fourth year apprentices and 2018 intake, the total number of apprentices across CCG’S group of five companies is 70, representing more than 10 per cent of the company’s workforce.

Each apprentice will focus on a specific trade and will receive one-to-one support from a fully qualified mentor.

This year, the apprentices will take on plumbing, bricklaying, joinery, heating engineering and electrical engineering. They have come from different areas including Glasgow, Paisley, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Edinburgh.

Chairman and chief executive Alastair Wylie said the firm “has continued to commit to our apprenticeship scheme promoting future skills replenishment within our industry”.

Apprentice Bradley Wilkie, 17, from Darnley, found out about the apprenticeship programme while undertaking a Workingrite placement at one of CCG’S housing projects in Nitshill.

He said Workingrite gave him experience of working on a construction site and the CCG programme “will give me the skills I need to have a trade for life”.