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Swickers’ Maintenance Manager Dave Howard, school-based trainee Carl Fewquandie and Human Resources Manager Rebecca Richmond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Carl’s Carving A Career At Swickers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Year 11 student Carl Fewquandie has begun a Certificate II in Engineering and is learning important new life skills thanks to MRAEL’s Indigenous Employment and Training Project.<\/p>\n

Carl is interested in a career in the electrical trades but jumped at the opportunity to do an engineering traineeship and work at Swickers Kingaroy Bacon Factory as a stepping stone to his career.<\/p>\n

His ultimate goal is to become an electrical engineer and MRAEL researched various options before he started the traineeship. The plan is for him to to undertake the school-based traineeship and then try to secure an electrical apprenticeship.<\/p>\n

Carl is being exposed to a wide variety of work at Swickers … not only engineering but also electrical and some fitting and turning, a great opportunity to support his future career goals.<\/p>\n

He’s learning how to work as part of a team as well doing hands-on maintenance in Swickers’ workshop.<\/p>\n

Carl works in conjunction with a tradesman on repair jobs and is learning how to TIG weld, spray paint and recondition electrical motors. He’s also getting very familiar at reconditioning the all-important hooks and gambles that keep the processing line flowing smoothly.<\/p>\n

Swickers’ Maintenance Manager Dave Howard said Carl was going “really well” and was showing a real skill at welding.<\/p>\n

Feedback from his TAFE teachers has also been extremely positive.<\/p>\n

Carl works at Swickers one day a week as well as completing TAFE modules and attending school. During the school holidays, he has the opportunity of spending more time – and earning more money – at Swickers.<\/p>\n

Swickers’ Human Resources Manager Rebecca Richmond said other students interested in working at Swickers should register their interest with MRAEL for this year’s intake of apprentices and trainees.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

July 11, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ten young Indigenous trainees are now combining work with school in an innovative project organised by Kingaroy-based apprenticeships company MRAEL with the backing of Stanwell Corporation and the local Wakka Wakka people.<\/p>\n

MRAEL Apprenticeship Specialist Frances Ross<\/strong> told southburnett.com.au<\/strong> that she had become frustrated as she knew there were local indigenous students who would love the opportunity to undertake a traineeship.<\/p>\n

There were also host companies who would love to provide the students with an opportunity. The only thing standing in the way was a lack of funding and someone to co-ordinate the process.<\/p>\n

The solution came in the form of the Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) drawn up between Stanwell Corporation and the Wakka Wakka people.<\/p>\n

An implementation group set as a result of this ILUA provided the funding necessary to \u00a0allow MRAEL to establish its new “Indigenous Employment and Training Project”.<\/p>\n

Frances said the project aimed to provide 10 fully-funded school-based traineeship opportunities for Year 10 or Year 11 indigenous students in the South Burnett where these opportunities did not exist previously.<\/p>\n

Community consultation had identified traineeship opportunities in the areas of retail, hospitality, horticulture, health and community, business, engineering and electrical.<\/p>\n

Each student must agree to complete Year 12 as a \u00a0condition of being accepted into the program.<\/p>\n

“The overall goal of the project is to see each school-based trainee through to successful completion of their traineeship and to provide a pathway for on-going training and development,” Frances said.<\/p>\n

The qualifications that the trainees will earn are nationally recognised.<\/p>\n

“The students will not only work towards achieving these qualifications but gain real work life skills to assist them after they complete Year 12,” she said.<\/p>\n

Nineteen students – from Kingaroy, Murgon and Nanango high schools – applied and the 10 successful candidates have now been selected and placed with employers including Swickers, Ken Mills Toyota, Rendezvous Designs and South Burnett CTC.<\/p>\n

One of the students, Lehman Brunjes, has actually begun an apprenticeship at a local electrical business as no traineeship option was available.<\/p>\n

“MRAEL have put in a huge amount of hours and effort into this project and I am passionate about providing this opportunity which has never existed before,” Frances said.<\/p>\n

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Tina Torrens from Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE and MRAEL Apprenticeships Specialist Frances Ross help another young trainee as part of the Indigenous Employment and Training Project; \u00a0Lehman Brunjes has \u00a0commenced an electrical apprenticeship with CKD Electrical of Murgon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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