Pharmaceutical Firm Strikes Gold with Award-Profitable Apprentice

World pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging providers firm PCI Pharma Providers struck gold when apprentice laboratory analyst Evan Coombs joined the enterprise by means of the Aspire Blaenau Gwent Shared Apprenticeship Programme.

Evan, 19, from Blaenavon, was a gold medallist within the Laboratory Technician class on the Abilities Competitors Wales earlier this yr and has saved his employer money and time with the information he gathered for a steady enchancment undertaking.

Evan Coombs is dedicated to studying.

The undertaking has resulted in two technicians being employed by PCI Pharma Providers on a 12 month contract.

Now Evan has been shortlisted for the Tomorrow’s Expertise Award on the prestigious Apprenticeship Awards Cymru 2022. The winners might be introduced at a digital awards ceremony on November 10.

The awards spotlight the excellent achievements, throughout unprecedented instances, of employers, apprentices and work-based studying practitioners.

Spotlight of the yr for apprentices, employers and work-based studying suppliers and practitioners, the awards are organised by the Welsh Authorities and supported by the Nationwide Coaching Federation for Wales (NTfW). Headline sponsor for the third yr is Openreach.

Evan, who’s working in the direction of a Laboratory and Science Technicians Apprenticeship delivered by Coleg y Cymoedd, is employed collectively by PCI Pharma Providers and Aspire Blaenau Gwent. He’s additionally finding out a Increased Nationwide Certificates Degree 4 in Utilized Chemistry at Gower School Swansea.

Praised for his glorious work, Evan is already working to the usual of an business Degree 1 analyst and works extra time to make sure that lifesaving medicine is delivered to the market forward of time and that monetary targets are met by the division the place he works.

Danielle Davies, PCI’s stability staff chief, mentioned,

“I’ve seen Evan develop in a brief time period to turn into a totally functioning, succesful analyst throughout the first yr of his apprenticeship.”

“His achievements have all been as a result of his devotion to studying and the need to do nicely. He has accomplished every activity to 100% of his capabilities and hit all objectives and targets set.”

Regardless of doing nicely in his A-Ranges, Evan was unsure about going to college as a result of menace of additional distant studying brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The apprenticeship with Aspire and PCI has allowed him to make use of his data and expertise, achieve expertise, additional his schooling and develop a profession.

He added,

“I actually take pleasure in my job as a result of it entails doing one thing completely different each day and it permits me to place into follow every thing that I’m studying. My ambition is to maintain progressing with PCI.”

Responding to his shortlisting for the Tomorrow’s Expertise award on the Apprenticeship Awards Cymru 2022, Evan mentioned:

“It got here as a little bit of a shock, but it surely’s good to be recognised.”

Lena Shipley, a Coleg y Cymoedd tutor, mentioned:

“Evan’s expertise and confidence have grown considerably over the primary yr of his apprenticeship and he has thrown himself into his coaching with enthusiasm and dedication.”

“Evan has been a mannequin scholar since beginning with us, producing work of an distinctive customary and has achieved distinctions in all models accomplished up to now.”

Congratulating Evan and all the opposite shortlisted finalists, Financial system Minister Vaughan Gething mentioned:

 “Apprenticeships make an enormous contribution to our economic system and might be essential as Wales continues to bounce again from the pandemic.”

“They can assist futureproof, inspire and diversify a workforce, providing folks the prospect to realize high-quality vocational expertise.”

“As a part of our Younger Particular person’s Assure, the Welsh Authorities might be investing £366 million over the following three years to ship 125,000 all-age apprenticeships throughout Wales in the course of the present time period of presidency.”

“We need to enhance alternatives for folks of all ages and backgrounds to develop transferable expertise within the office and enhance their lives. The funding may even assist sort out expertise shortages and gaps in precedence sectors vital to drive productiveness and financial development, supporting our web zero ambitions, the every-day foundational economic system and public providers.”

The Apprenticeship Programme is funded by the Welsh Authorities with assist from the European Social Fund. For extra details about recruiting an apprentice, go to: https://gov.wales/apprenticeships-genius-decision or name 03000 603000.

Llwyddodd cwmni gwasanaethau gweithgynhyrchu a phecynnu fferyllol byd-eang, PCI Pharma Providers, i daro ar aur pan ymunodd Evan Coombs, prentis dadansoddwr labordy, â’r busnes trwy Raglen Rhannu Prentisiaethau Anelu’n Uchel Blaenau Gwent.

Enillodd Evan, 19, o Flaenafon, fedal aur yn y categori Technegydd Labordy yng Nghystadleuaeth Sgiliau Cymru yn gynharach eleni ac mae wedi arbed amser ac arian i’w gyflogwr gyda’r knowledge a gasglodd ar gyfer prosiect gwelliant parhaus.

O ganlyniad i’r prosiect, mae PCI Pharma Providers wedi cyflogi dau dechnegydd ar gontractau 12 mis.

Yn awr, mae Evan wedi cyrraedd rhestr fer gwobr Doniau’r Dyfodol yng ngornest fawreddog Gwobrau Prentisiaethau Cymru 2022. Cyhoeddir enwau’r enillwyr mewn seremoni wobrwyo rithwir ar 10 Tachwedd.

Mae’r gwobrau’n tynnu sylw at y rhyfeddodau y mae cyflogwyr, prentisiaid ac ymarferwyr dysgu seliedig ar waith wedi’u cyflawni yn y cyfnod anodd hwn.

Y gwobrau yw uchafbwynt y flwyddyn i brentisiaid, cyflogwyr, a darparwyr ac ymarferwyr dysgu seiliedig ar waith. Cânt eu trefnu gan Lywodraeth Cymru a’u cefnogi gan Ffederasiwn Hyfforddiant Cenedlaethol Cymru (NTfW). Eleni, am y drydedd flwyddyn, Openreach yw’r prif noddwr.

Mae Evan, sy’n gweithio tuag at Brentisiaeth Technegydd Labordy a Gwyddoniaeth a ddarperir gan Goleg y Cymoedd, yn cael ei gyflogi gan PCI Pharma Providers ac Anelu’n Uchel Blaenau Gwent ar y cyd. Mae hefyd yn astudio ar gyfer Tystysgrif Genedlaethol Uwch Lefel 4 mewn Cemeg Gymhwysol yng Ngholeg Gŵyr Abertawe.

Mae Evan yn cael ei ganmol am ei waith ardderchog. Mae eisoes yn gweithio i safon dadansoddwr Lefel 1 yn y diwydiant ac yn gweithio goramser er mwyn sicrhau bod meddyginiaethau achub bywyd yn cyrraedd y farchnad mewn digon o bryd a bod ei adran yn cyrraedd targedau ariannol.

Meddai Danielle Davies,

“Rwy wedi gweld Evan yn datblygu mewn cyfnod byr, o fewn blwyddyn gyntaf ei brentisiaeth, i fod yn ddadansoddwr abl ac effeithiol, arweinydd tîm sefydlogrwydd PCI.”

“Mae’n llwyddo oherwydd ei ymroddiad i ddysgu a’r awydd i wneud yn dda. Mae wedi ymroi’n llwyr i bob tasg ac wedi cyrraedd pob un o’i nodau a’i amcanion.”

Er iddo wneud yn dda yn ei Lefel A, roedd Evan yn ansicr a ddylai fynd i’r brifysgol oherwydd bygythiad o ragor o ddysgu o bell o achos pandemig COVID-19. Mae’r brentisiaeth gydag Anelu’n Uchel a PCI wedi rhoi cyfle iddo ddefnyddio’i wybodaeth a’i sgiliau, ennill profiad, hybu ei addysg a datblygu gyrfa.

Dywedodd,

“Rwy’n mwynhau fy swydd yn fawr achos rwy’n cael gwneud rhywbeth gwahanol bob dydd ac mae’n gyfle i mi roi popeth rwy’n ei ddysgu ar waith.  Fy uchelgais yw dal i symud ymlaen gyda PCI.”

Ar ôl cyrraedd rhestr fer gwobr Doniau’r Dyfodol yng Ngwobrau Prentisiaethau Cymru 2022, dywedodd Evan:

“Roedd yn dipyn o sioc, ond mae’n braf cael eich cydnabod.”

Dywedodd Lena Shipley, tiwtor yng Ngholeg y Cymoedd:

“Mae sgiliau a hyder Evan wedi cynyddu’n sylweddol dros flwyddyn gyntaf ei brentisiaeth ac mae wedi ymdaflu i’w hyfforddiant gyda brwdfrydedd ac ymroddiad.”

“Mae Evan wedi bod yn batrwm o fyfyriwr ers iddo ddechrau gyda ni. Mae’n gwneud gwaith o safon eithriadol ac mae wedi cael ‘Rhagoriaeth’ ym mhob uned a gwblhawyd hyd yn hyn.”

Wrth longyfarch Evan a phawb arall ar y rhestrau byrion, dywedodd Vaughan Gething, Gweinidog yr Economi:

“Mae prentisiaethau’n gwneud cyfraniad enfawr at ein heconomi a byddant yn hollbwysig wrth i Gymru barhau i ddod dros y pandemig.”

“Gallant helpu i baratoi gweithlu at y dyfodol, ei ysgogi a sicrhau amrywiaeth, gan roi cyfle i bobl ennill sgiliau galwedigaethol o safon uchel.”

“Fel rhan o’n Gwarant i Bobl Ifanc, bydd Llywodraeth Cymru’n buddsoddi £366 miliwn dros y tair blynedd nesaf i ddarparu 125,000 o brentisiaethau bob-oed ledled Cymru yn ystod tymor presennol y llywodraeth.”

“Rydyn ni’n awyddus i wella cyfleoedd i bobl o bob oed a phob cefndir i ddatblygu sgiliau trosglwyddadwy yn y gweithle a gwella’u bywydau. Yn ogystal, bydd y buddsoddiad yn helpu i fynd i’r afael â phrinder sgiliau a bylchau mewn sgiliau yn y sectorau blaenoriaeth. Mae hyn yn hollbwysig er mwyn hybu cynhyrchiant a thwf economaidd, gan gefnogi ein huchelgeisiau sero web, yr economi sylfaenol a gwasanaethau cyhoeddus.”

Caiff y Rhaglen Brentisiaethau ei hariannu gan Lywodraeth Cymru gyda chymorth Cronfa Gymdeithasol Ewrop (ESF). Os hoffech wybod rhagor am recriwtio prentis, ewch i: https://llyw.cymru/prentisiaethau-dewis-doeth neu ffonio 03000 603000.