Naval Engineering Science and Technology Of UK

A number of UKNEST companies have committed greater HR support to ensuring the success of both the placement and graduate recruitment schemes, seeing it as adding to the pool of talent from which they can select. This forum is also investigating the potential for sea-time training (with the blessing of the Royal Navy), a more formalised secondment scheme between UKNEST companies to provide a breadth of experience not currently available (and recognised as beneficial to the development of future leaders), a welcome pack to cover all UKNEST companies and a cross-company mentoring scheme.
In parallel, campus marketing material and posters, to lead undergraduates to the website, have been distributed to a large number of UK Universities. Further copies can be obtained from UKNEST. We have also re-advertised in the well established graduate careers brochure Target Jobs and Prospects (circulation 25,000 copies).
We have made contact with and fed into the Maritime Industries Leadership Council (MILC) working group on knowledge and skills with whom we have many similar aims.
We have engaged with a group of young(er) engineers across the UKNEST membership and they have now established a self-sustaining group called FutureNEST. This comprises 10 or so people, largely in their initial professional development phase as professional engineers, who have become engaged in a number of key working group initiatives. They are currently (for the TED working group):
· Cataloguing cross-company training courses that could be shared or developed to better serve UKNEST needs
· Providing blog material for the nextgenerationnavaldefence.com website
· Reviewing the content and appeal of both the nextgenerationnavaldefence.com and uknest.org websites.
In 2010 the TED working group will continue to promote the above activities and seek to expand the website to cover school leavers and non-graduates. Our aim is:
· To encourage engineering undergraduates in all disciplines to seek work placements in the UK maritime defence industry
· To encourage young engineering graduates in all disciplines to enter the UK maritime defence industry
· To contribute to local and national efforts in schools to promote engineering as a career and raise awareness of the maritime defence sector.