Major training contract awarded to Walsall-based provider

Independent training provider In-Comm Training has secured its largest apprenticeship contract in years.

The major deal with Lander Tubular Products means In-Comm Training will become the strategic training partner for the firm which creates precision engineered metallic and plastic manipulated pipe assemblies for the automotive, commercial vehicle and off-highway sectors.

Forty Level 2 apprentices in Lean Manufacturing Operations will be recruited over the next six months in a bid to develop a future talent pool that can help the manufacturer meet a rapidly growing order book.

In-Comm will cover all recruitment and selection, advise on funding, induction process and delivery of training, with assessors set to be permanently based at Lander Tubular Products’ internal academy at its Woodgate Business Park factory in Birmingham.

Paul Hodgetts, the business development manager at In-Comm Training said: “The tender process was over a three-month period, involved six providers and numerous visits to each other’s locations. We were able to listen, understand exactly what the firm needed and then put together a flexible learning package that obviously appealed to the management team here.”

With more than 140 year’s history, Lander Tubular Products has three manufacturing sites in the UK and a further two production facilities in the USA.

Its product range covers multiple applications for the transfer of fluids or air, and tubular structural products for a broad range of major OEM and tier one customers.

Anita Davenport-Brooks, Group HR Manager for Lander Tubular Products said: “Vocational learning is so important for us and, next year, the plan is to recruit up to 100 apprentices.

“Working with In-Comm Training will save over £200,000 on recruitment costs alone in 2022 and that does not take into account the bottom line benefits our learners will deliver to our three businesses across the Midlands.

“Several of our senior team and middle managers all started with an apprenticeship and are now critical to our future success.”