February 5, 2025
Recently, we needed to support the installation of the circa 10 600x600 led panels at the Rexel office and store in Cheltenham. While you may feel that we fulfil such requests every day, let me tell you this one was particularly exciting as I was requested to send a couple of our engineering apprentices for the job! I knew that Ellie Williams, James Grey, and Oliver Smith, our apprentices, and our field service engineer, Daniel Sparks, would be the right mix for the job. For me, however, this was presenting them with an opportunity to collaborate, harness the power of a team, put to use what they had learnt and then learn some more. Read on to learn more about their experience.
The chosen team needed to replace standard LED panels with Ecolink LED panels that offer top-quality, competitively priced, and energy-efficient LED luminaires. As a brand, Ecolink is designed and developed in the UK to meet the specific needs of electrical professionals. Ecolink delivers quality lighting products that are competitively priced.
When I heard about their experience, I was pleased to see how the team collaborated to make the task successful. Backed by research and reading up all about the panels, the day began with assessing the site, taking a tour and understanding how everything was wired up by using click plugs – something the team had never used before. They then exchanged notes and had the branch manager answer all questions that could help them understand the scope of work- going in with a customer-first attitude.
'I have been with Signify for a while , and it was exciting to use what I had learned, from height training to manual handling, electrical safety training, etc. It's rare to get a chance to use what you have learned and learn so much more that you could put to use in the future!'- Oliver Smith, engineering trainee at Signify UKI.
'We got to put our learning into practice. That was quite cool and fun at the same time!' – Ellie Williams, engineering
