Education Policy

It is our policy to provide the best educational environment possible for our employees to allow them to Increase and enhance their existing qualifications, take on new opportunities and gain new qualifications, which allows the individual employee to gain promotion and further their career. Courses which the company are currently supporting and paying for include:

• Supervisory Management
• Masters in Business Administration
• Diploma in Safety Management
• Facilities Management Diploma (BIFM)
• Facilities Engineering (Diploma)
• Environmental Engineering
• Diploma in Business Studies
• Electrical Engineering
• Taxation
• Accountancy
• BA Human Resource Management

Vocational Training

In addition to supporting external education and training, we have a strong in-house training scheme. Our HR department co-ordinates all of the training carried out in-house, including:

• Customer service
• Health & safety training
• Reception & Telephone skills
• Maintenance & technical activities
• New employee inductions
• Site specific skills & training courses

We internally support a number of training schemes, including:

Vector Apprenticeships

We take and support a new employee through their 4 year apprenticeship program to obtain a formal technical qualification.

Intra year

In conjunction with many universities & colleges, we will take on a student for 6 month “on the job” training experience. The students get an opportunity to apply their studies to real life situations. We find that this is highly beneficial to the student, our organisation as well as our other employees

Graduate Placements

Every year our Portadown office takes on a number of graduates from UUJ and QUB, as part of the Graduate Support Program. At the end of their placement, typically 6-12 months, Vector has the opportunity to take on the staff. To date, we have hired 100% of the staff from these programmes.

We work alongside a number of institutions & colleges in these programmes and other training, including:

• Invest NI
• Queens University, Belfast (QUB)
• University of Ulster, Jordanstown (UUJ)
• Open University (OU)
• Dublin City University (DCU)
• Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)