How important are engineers and your technical staff to your business/sector?
Engineers and technical staff are the absolute lifeblood of the industries we serve which are currently navigating radical reforms, rapid technological advancement, and persistent skills shortages. Without a steady pipeline of technically grounded, competent professionals, industrial productivity stalls.
As a national provider specialising in the technical standards, our entire business is dedicated to developing these individuals. We ensure they don't just learn theory, but possess the practical knowledge, skills, and behaviours required to keep British industry competitive on a global scale.
How does professional registration benefit your company, staff, sector?
Through this partnership, we recognise that IMechE's professional registration and recognition are crucial in helping individuals and the businesses in which they work grow and excel.
- For our sector: Professional registration establishes a benchmark of international quality, safety, and competence. It reassures employers that their workforce meets rigorous industry standards.
- For our staff & company: As a leading provider embedding industry-standard NVQs, Diplomas, and HNCs into our programmes partnering with awarding bodies like SIAS, NOCN, CIRO, RPD, RCG, Rail Academy, EAL, and Pearson. Alignment with professional registration elevates our curriculum, it validates our technical delivery and proves that Train’d Up is operating at the absolute pinnacle of engineering training.
- For our apprentices: It maps out a clear, prestigious career pathway from day one, transforming an apprenticeship into a recognised, lifelong professional journey.
Why did you decide to become a Membership Partner with IMechE?
As an apprenticeship training provider covering engineering, manufacturing and rail, we share a common commitment to the sectors we serve and to the professional development of all apprentices we train as an organisation.
As the #2 large-scale apprenticeship provider in the country, partnering with the world's premier mechanical engineering institution was the natural next step. IMechE embodies the same dedication to technical excellence, continuous professional development, and industry sustainability that drives Train’d Up.
With thousands of apprentices under our care, this partnership allows us to explicitly connect high-quality vocational training with a globally recognised professional framework, bridging academia and hands-on industrial application.
How do you envisage this partnership will help your business and staff?
This partnership will enhance our curriculum insights, ensuring our training plans and customised schedules remain perfectly aligned with cutting-edge industry requirements. For our tutors and technical staff, it provides direct access to a world-class network of engineering knowledge, resources, and professional development. For our business, it reinforces our market-leading position and deepens our credibility when collaborating with employers nationwide.
What are/will be the most important benefits of working with IMechE?
The most important benefit is the ability to offer a seamless bridge to professional registration such as EngTech for our completing apprentices. By embedding IMechE alignment into our delivery, we add extraordinary value to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours apprentices are required to have and show.
Ultimately, working with IMechE allows us to give employer partners a dual benefit: they receive workplace-ready, highly productive apprentices via our flexible site-based delivery model, and they inherit the next generation of professionally recognised, accredited engineers.