Kimpton Apprentices 2024

Kimpton are proud to welcome seven new apprentices to our team, taking the total number to 17 across the business.

We’ve spent the past few years developing our apprenticeship strategy, shifting from the traditional method of recruiting school leavers, to working closely with the excellent vocational colleges we have across the Liverpool City Region to offer their students a range of pathways into an engineering career.

Caitlin Irvine, George Morris, Ajay Sturdy, Stephen Collins, Joel Breen, Sam Kerr and Alex Littler come from a diverse range of qualification pathways and will enter a variety of roles.

George and Caitlin will both train as commercial heating service engineers, having both completed Technical Plumbing Diploma Level 3 at local colleges, Caitlin from The City of Liverpool College and George from Hugh Baird College.

Ajay joins following a successful placement on a shared apprenticeship scheme in Birmingham and will remain living in his native West Midlands, travelling to support our specialist team working on student accommodation PBSA and BTR projects around the UK.

Alex and Stephen both completed work experience placements having also obtained a technical diploma in plumbing and were subsequently offered an apprenticeship role. Sam Kerr, our new AC apprentice is now working with our Maintenance team at ACC Liverpool.

Joel, a new technical apprentice, was part of the first-ever cohort of students in the city region to complete a T Level in Building Services Engineering, at City of Liverpool College. The T-Level qualification provides a specialised route into the industry and Joel’s chosen career as a Contract Manager. Studying exactly what we do for two years to the equivalent of 3 A Levels put Joel streets ahead of the other candidates we interviewed.

Meanwhile, four apprentices – Grace Roberts, Fionn Tierney, Josh Anderson and Harrison Jones graduate this year.

By engaging with local schools and colleges to offer industry insight and work experience placements, our college and further education partners recognise us as responsible employers of choice and we enjoy working collaboratively with them to identify and nurture that pipeline of young talent.

In a sector where women are traditionally under-represented, we’re also committed to creating equal opportunities for everyone, from all parts of society. Diversifying our industry is the only way we’ll address a skills shortage created by only recruiting from half the population for hundreds of years!

We’ve always invested in apprenticeships (9 of the 14 members of our senior management team started with us as an apprentice!) but, with such a strong talent pool to recruit from, we’ve been able to increase the number of apprentices we train each year.

The diversity of routes taken by our newest apprentices reflects Kimpton’s commitment to unearthing and investing in, the best new talent from across the city region and giving them a platform for a fulfilling career in an industry on the front line to NetZero.