Its Purpose

Due to our rapid worldwide growth, we need to recruit a significant number of engineers over the next five years.

In the past, new engineers have been trained largely “on the job” by colleagues and supervisors. However, the rapid recruitment of large numbers of new engineers requires a different approach to training. Business units need to bring their new engineers up to speed as quickly as possible, with minimum disruption to everyday business. This was the motivation for the development of Howden Academy. It allows us to focus, without distraction, on providing product and application training to our engineers.

Howden Academy is an extremely exciting initiative that will help us to attract and retain the very best engineers. It provides new personnel with the fastest possible route to full productivity and allows them to quickly start making a genuine contribution to the company’s activities.

The Academy, which is backed by considerable funding and the support of managers throughout the organisation, makes a major contribution to Howden’s continuing growth and prosperity. It reflects, in the most direct way, our policy of investing in people who make Howden the global force that it is.

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