IQA Growth

Ashley Richardson, HR Advisor

IQA has celebrated the five years service of a further three employees, showing their dedication to the Company and helping in its growth. 2011 has seen the Company grow at a tremendous rate with 27 people joining us since January and a further nine employees join us on Monday 18th April, bringing the total number of employees to 141! Despite this fast growth, we strive to keep the family atmosphere at IQA making it a happy and enjoyable place to work.

Operative Training - July Overview

Blogger – David McKinlay (Electrical Compliance and Training Manager)

This will be a monthly blog that will discuss in house training of our electrical staff and how this helps them progress with outside authorisations.




Instruction Room Attendees
A total of 17 personnel passed through the instruction room in July covering topics such as the SP live working manual, metering practice and preparation for refreshers, final interviews and authorisations. In this time one operative passed his OP3 initial course while a further three passed OP3 refreshers. Five more operatives successfully passed their WI1 refresher training and three passed the M0008 five day service position courses and will now be booked in for their OP3 final interviews.

Apprentice/ Trainee Quarterly Reviews
July also saw the quarterly apprentice/ trainee reviews being carried out. There were no concerns in terms of college work or onsite training with everyone producing very good project work which has been confirmed by training officers and class lecturers alike.

Safety Stand Down
SP safety stand downs were carried out on a number of our operatives over seven dates in July. These presentations included general safety and trade competence while highlighting the link between trade and safety competence.

IQA News

Good news for IQA staff - our stats are up for our isolator operatives for the second consecutive week. This is due to hard work from both our office staff and engineers so well done to all involved!!

We are still looking at ways to develop our brand image to reflect our current status in each business unit so exciting times are ahead for the company. This week has seen us making progress with our website and other literature so updates on these will follow in the next few weeks.

As well as this we recently had a team building session where everyone had to write a description of whoever they had been paired up with so the results will be interesting. This was done over lunch between staff who wouldn't normally have day to day dealing with each other so it was good to build team morale and communication.

New Staff

Since September we have taken on a total of 7 new staff including electricians, admin and an operations engineer. We are proud of this as it shows we are continuing to grow in the face of the recession and are confident enough to continue to hire staff.

Check our website or follow us on here and twitter (https://twitter.com/iqablogs) to keep up to date on any new vacancies.