Secunda is a Project Management degree apprentice, with NSAR as part of our scheme as a flexi-job apprenticeship agency. She is employed by NSAR and undertakes placements at various other organisations to gain a variety of experience and skills.

Routes into Rail sat down with Charlie, a Signalling Project Engineer at Colas Rail UK, to find out about her experience as a graduate and a degree apprentice in the industry.

As a Graduate Mechanical Engineer (Fleet), Saqib oversees the maintenance, overhauls, and enhancement of the maintenance rail vehicles that operate on the railway network.

I began HS2 as a graduate in project management and was not only provided with great placements throughout the 24-month programme working on a variety of different, and very complex, projects, but I also achieved my Project Manager’s Qualification through the APM by the end of the programme.