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Gabriella Murphy of
Liverpool Wins Veolia 2015 Apprentice of the Year
WITH the Government planning to create 3,000,000
apprenticeships by 2020, UK resource management leader, Veolia has demonstrated
its long term commitment to apprentices as central to its long term people
development programme at a special awards ceremony at the House of Commons
today.
Skills Minister, Nick Boles MP and Veolia’s Senior Executive Vice President,
Estelle Brachlianoff, presented its 2015 Apprentice of the Year Award for
Hazardous Waste Services to Gabriella Murphy, a 24 year old Invoicing
Administrator from Huyton, Liverpool.
Selected from 500 Veolia apprentices across the UK, Gabriella works at Veolia’s
Physico-Chemical Treatment Plant (PCT) at Lower Bank View in Liverpool. Here
Gabriella handles all site administration including wages, purchasing and
general enquiries. She is also a qualified First Aider and has completed Skin
Surveillance Training meaning she is responsible for performing safety checks on
all site personnel.
As a result of attending Roby 6th Form College and St. Edmund Arrowsmith
Catholic High School, Gabriella has completed AS Level English Language,
Philosophy and Religion. Now with the help of Campus Veolia, the company’s in
house learning and development centre, Gabriella has utilised her NVQ in
Business Administration (Level 3) to drive improvements to the processes of the
PCT plant and its administrative key performance indicators. She is a great team
player with a real zeal to learn new skills and she always displays a can do
attitude.
Estelle Brachlianoff, Veolia’s Senior Executive Vice President,
UK and Ireland, said:- "As a 2 time winner of the National Vocational
Qualifications Employer of the Year award, we see many of our future leaders
emerging from our apprenticeship programme which is central to our investment in
the company’s long term development. As we continue to push forward with our
strategy of Resourcing the World the talent we grow is key to ensuring the skill
sets needed to preserve resources in the future are developed today. We are also
proud to be amongst the leading employers in the development of the new national
Trailblazer higher apprenticeships which are the benchmark for quality training
programmes that will anticipate business needs."
Skills Minister Nick Boles MP said:- "Through hundreds of exciting
apprenticeship programmes talented young people like Gabriella are receiving the
training, qualifications and income to start a rewarding career. At 24,
Gabriella has already developed a range of high quality skills and is blazing a
trail for other young people looking to build a great career. It’s crucial that
employers like Veolia continue supporting high quality apprenticeships which
help young people build their skills and help boost the UK’s productivity and
prosperity."
Congratulations also go to finalist Hannah Dennis, age 21 from Crewe, Cheshire
who was a very close runner-up. Hannah, who is an ex-Ruskin Secondary School and
South Cheshire College student, has been an Apprentice Administrator for
Veolia’s Underground Storage Facility at Britain’s oldest working mine since
December 2013. The Rock Salt at Winsford was formed 220 million years ago and
the mine lies almost 200 metres under the Cheshire countryside.
The release features a young finalist from Crewe; Hannah Dennis and the Winner
of the Apprentice of the Year for Hazardous Waste Services; Gabriella Murphy
from Huyton, Liverpool. |
