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Training that goes further than the codes do
Nobody certifies installers of automated storage systems, and nobody trains the engineers who set them out. The published racking methods stop at conventional racking. So we built it ourselves, in three parts.
Workforce training portal
Twelve in-house modules, TR-01 to TR-12, from abrasive wheels to harness use. Theory modules delivered online, practicals on the rig. For SSI installers and crews, with an access code from the training office.
Online now: TR-05, TR-06, TR-08, TR-10 and TR-11, in English and Romanian. The practical modules stay on the rig.
ASRS Specialist Worker qualification
Our own fourteen-unit qualification for installing automated storage systems, assessed on live site work. Every installer on an automated job has it.
Level 2 · EQF 3 · SSI-ASRS-001
Graduate Development Programme
Eighteen months, three stages, twelve of them on live UK projects, leading to the role of Automated Systems Installation Engineer.
For engineering graduates · applications open
- CITBRegistered employer. We pay the levy and we put it back into cards, courses and qualifications for our own installers.
- 14 unitsIn our own ASRS Specialist Worker qualification, assessed on live site work.
- 12 modulesHealth, safety and site competence modules, each with a knowledge check and, where it applies, a practical.
- Two languagesKnowledge content delivered in English and Romanian. Site documentation in English.
The ASRS Specialist Worker qualification
Our own written qualification for installing automated storage and retrieval systems, pitched at the level a skilled site operative works at: Level 2 in UK terms, EQF 3 across Europe. It covers what the published codes do not: measurement and set-out from a datum, rail and guide alignment, verification against tolerance, the interfaces with automation, and the risk management that goes with working at height on a structure that is not finished yet.
Fourteen units in two groups. The core units run from drawings and documentation through erection, stabilisation, rail alignment and verification; the operational units cover fault investigation back to its structural cause and commissioning support when the machines first run. Installers follow one of two pathways, shuttle-based or crane-served, matched to the project they are on.
Assessment is by portfolio of evidence on live site work, observed by an assessor, with the assessment decisions checked by someone who did not make them. It is the same structure an awarding body would use, because that is where it is heading.
What it means on your site
- Every installer on an automated job has been assessed against a written standard, not just told what to do
- Records of who was assessed, on what, by whom, available if you want them
- A crew that already knows why the tolerance matters before the integrator explains it
- A clear answer for European clients and suppliers' engineers who ask what the certificate means
Where the qualification stands
Today the certificate is issued and signed by the company, and says so. We are working on external accreditation and on becoming an approved centre so our installers can also take recognised storage equipment installation qualifications and CSCS routes through us. We'll say more here when it is signed, not before.
The twelve workforce modules
Delivered under our own training plan and quality assurance framework. New starters go through the ones their role needs before their first site; everyone refreshes on a cycle. Knowledge checks pass at 80 percent; practicals require every critical item competent. The five theory modules (TR-05, TR-06, TR-08, TR-10, TR-11) are online in English and Romanian, with illustrated site scenarios, a shuffled knowledge check and a record that reaches the training office automatically; the rest are classroom and rig.
- Tools and equipment
TR-01 Abrasive wheels · TR-02 Dust extraction units · TR-03 Pallet trucks · TR-07 MEWP emergency rescue
- Health
TR-04 Manual handling for racking installation · TR-05 COSHH awareness · TR-06 Noise and hand-arm vibration
- Site conduct
TR-08 Equality, diversity and inclusion on site · TR-09 Fire extinguisher use and hot work fire watch
- Height
TR-11 Work at height awareness · TR-12 Harness use and personal fall protection
- Foundation
TR-10 Health, safety and environmental awareness, a full day in ten sessions
- On top of the cards
CSCS for everyone, IPAF, telehandler and truck tickets, first aid, SSSTS for supervisors, IOSH Managing Safely for the people who run sites, face-fit testing and safety-critical medicals.
Who runs it
Our own people. The programmes are written and run by management holding teaching and train-the-trainer qualifications alongside the NEBOSH General Certificate and IOSH technical membership. The technical units are assessed by a civil engineer with more than a decade of hands-on automated systems installation across Europe. Knowledge sessions run in our training room at Hinckley, practical modules on our own measurement rig in the yard, and everything else on live projects.
How it is paid for
We are a CITB-registered employer. We pay the levy like every construction employer our size, and we claim the grants it exists to fund: cards, plant tickets, first aid, supervisor courses, the lot. That is why an installer who joins us never pays for a card out of their own pocket, and why the training keeps running whether or not a project is paying for it that month. We are also a registered UK learning provider, which is the groundwork for taking our own qualification to an awarding body.
Want to be trained by us?
Installers: the way in is through the crew. See how to join.
Graduates: the development programme has its own page, with the stages, the entry criteria and how to apply.
Manufacturers and integrators: if you would like to know what any of this covers in detail, or whether a jointly recognised certificate would help your competence requirements, ask us. That conversation is one we are keen to have.