Vacancies

Vacancies

Abacus Academy Apprenticeships Commencing September 2010

Abacus Lighting, founded in 1958, is a world leader in exterior lighting solutions for sports, industry, airport & ports and towns & cities.

We design and manufacture a wide variety of products ranging from our unique telescopic masts, installed at Lord’s and The Oval to the latest in LED lighting technology.

We are committed to our customers and our people, and because of that we are Investors In People accredited and have successfully achieved the BS EN ISO 9001:2008 quality standard. This means we focus on training and development and continuous quality improvements across the company.

We employ around 200 people across our two sites in the UK and China, and we have recently opened a third international office in St Petersburg, Russia.

Current Apprenticeship Vacancies:
Electrical & Lighting Design Sales Apprenticeships x 2

We are looking for enthusiastic and reliable people to train as Electrical & Lighting Design Sales Engineers, based at our head office in Sutton in Ashfield. Major duties upon completion of training will be to carry out lighting design proposals, complete sales quotations and support the Sales and Lighting Design departments.

Drive and enthusiasm are a vital requirement of the position, with the ability to reason and think through problems. A commercial outlook is also extremely important.
If you have an interest in sales and electrical engineering and are willing to learn and show initiative, then we'd like to hear from you.

Abacus apprentices must be willing to complete a nationally recognised college day release course at a local college / university appropriate to the chosen career over the 3-4 year apprenticeship, alongside an in house training & development program.