Mazda opens new supplier coaching centre


Mazda UK has opened a brand new bespoke coaching centre that can centralise coaching for workers from throughout the Mazda supplier community.

The 11,000sq foot facility in Stewartby, Bedfordshire is designed to facilitate coaching for supplier roles from apprentice by way of to grasp technicians, in addition to administration coaching in gross sales and repair roles.

It helps the launch of a spread of latest apprentice and technician coaching programmes.

Mazda’s new coaching centre has the capability to host 40 delegates a day and in addition includes a dwell broadcast room for distant on-line coaching.

Throughout the course of a mean yr, the Mazda Academy plans to host 5,500 delegates who will work with a devoted staff of three technical trainers and three industrial/product trainers.

Mazda UK gross sales director Peter Allibon mentioned: “I’m delighted that we’ve opened this state-of-the artwork Mazda Academy facility that won’t solely host a spread of vital bodily and digital supplier coaching actions, however it should additionally embrace a studio for growing  video and to ship dwell broadcast modules.

“The automotive business is altering at a speedy tempo, with new car applied sciences and electrification, in addition to altering buyer calls for and preferences, so supporting our supplier community in being arrange for achievement by way of these adjustments is essential and the brand new centre is an funding to make sure that’s precisely what we do.”

Allibon just lately mentioned the Japanese model’s difficult launch of on-line retail, its direct car imports to the UK and company mannequin retail in a wide-ranging interview with the AM News Show.

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With a  customized fit-out, the constructing displays the most recent Mazda company identification throughout each flooring. On the bottom ground the reception space includes a house for a show automobile from the Mazda UK Heritage fleet, whereas the digital studio allows dwell broadcasts and in-house coaching content material creation. Two extra broadcast rooms are totally soundproofed for dwell coaching supply. There’s additionally a big apprentice coaching room.

A big technical coaching workshop space options device cupboards with built-in TV screens to transmit dwell coach motion footage. The workshop has house for eight vehicles in devoted bays, plus can also be geared up with EV charging factors and is configured for coaching on combustion engine, plug-in hybrid and full battery electrical autos.

Mazda Academy Supervisor, Rob Hancock, added: “We’ve got capability for 40 delegates onsite per  day, however as well as we may also practice supplier employees from the dwell broadcast rooms, so can combine and match between face-to-face and on-line coaching.

“We’ll supply a model new apprentice programme and launch a brand new Service, Senior and Grasp Technician on-line coaching programmes, which is able to embrace extra bite-sized video tutorials guaranteeing ease of entry to coaching on the level of want. In truth these video coaching clips are already supporting the launch of the all-new Mazda CX-60.”

In April, Mazda UK began shipping cars directly from Japan to the UK, shortening lead occasions to as little as 10 days.


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