So I’m looking to retrain and looking at apprenticeships as a service engineer.
Finding it frustrating that many descriptions are only listing how many hours a week. For example the ones with South Eastern simply state
> 35 hours per week (subject to travelling while attending courses etc). From year 2 onwards you may begin working shifts, which consists of 4 days on and then 4 days off.
But nothing about the times of day.
Am I right to assume this would mostly be night shift based as that is when most trains will be out of operation. Of course different depots will have different shifts depending on their needs - a 24hr service like Thameslink is obviously very different to say a branch line service- But I’m wondering if anyone could suggest what a typical shift patterns might look like for this role?
cheers
Finding it frustrating that many descriptions are only listing how many hours a week. For example the ones with South Eastern simply state
> 35 hours per week (subject to travelling while attending courses etc). From year 2 onwards you may begin working shifts, which consists of 4 days on and then 4 days off.
But nothing about the times of day.
Am I right to assume this would mostly be night shift based as that is when most trains will be out of operation. Of course different depots will have different shifts depending on their needs - a 24hr service like Thameslink is obviously very different to say a branch line service- But I’m wondering if anyone could suggest what a typical shift patterns might look like for this role?
cheers