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When I finished school I enrolled in to a 2 year construction course at Cauldon College, Stoke which I passed. My main ambition at the time of this course was to gain an apprenticeship on site in order to gain crucial on the job experience. Unfortunately, this never came to fruition as during the 2 year course, the building trade took a huge nose dive so many firms weren't able to take on an apprentice. As I passed my course, the building trade had not recovered so finding work or any firm to give me a chance was near on impossible as I had no on site experience. Even though the end goal wasn't achieved, looking back, the whole experience of being at college and learning new skills I feel set me on my way in life. Following this I took on various bit part jobs through agency's. Eventually I found myself at BAE systems (Radway green) where I spent 3 years helping to manufacture ammunition where I worked various shift patterns. I mainly worked in a QC role using gauges and various measuring devices and was also trained to operate various press and guillotine machines. After 3 years service, the cell that I was working in was unfortunately shut down with no other positions available for agency staff such as myself. Before the cell was actually closed, I very tentatively applied for a role at Olympus engineering, where to my surprise, I was offered the role as a CNC machinist. Olympus - Here I spent 8 years. I started as a complete novice to the CNC world and went on to operate machines which produced parts for JCB, Serck, Hydraforce and Bentley amongst many others. The work was very precise, down to .005mm tolerances in some cases. I learnt how to read technical drawings, operate numerous precision CNC machines, change and set tooling and also went on to setting/resetting full jobs on machines. I also learnt how to use many different gauges such as Vernier's, Micrometers, dial indicators and basic knowledge on how to run CMM machines during many periods where I worked within the inspection department. I eventually went on to earn my NVQ level 3 diploma in mechanical manufacturing. Following this and 4 years down the line, I earned a new role as team leader of the Bentley department which consisted of 6 team members. My roll was then increased to take on Serck and JCB products where I lead around 11 team member's. In my final 18 months at Olympus I took on the role of team leader for Hydraforce which were Olympus' biggest customer. In this role I managed approximately 25 team members. Following this, i moved to Stairbox as a Workshop manager.