Stephen Gore

Business Development and Technical Training Manager

Stephen is employed as our Business Development and Training Manager and has a wealth of experience in both training delivery and apprenticeships. Stephen is a registered Mechanical Assessor and Internal Verifier. Stephen’s main role is developing bespoke training courses for industry including teaching Health & Safety, Manual Handling, Basic Hand Tools and Mechanical type courses as well as designing bespoke courses for industry. Stephen provides advice on apprenticeship standards and upskilling of workforce employees to further develop training strategies within organisations.

Previously, Stephen served an Engineering Apprenticeship with Gullick and Dobson specialising as a CNC Machine Operator before moving into Apprenticeships with Wigan Borough Partnership and ProCo NorthWest before joining the Waterside Team in 2006 until 2010 when he joined Heinz for a short time as Apprentice Training Manager before re joining the Waterside Team in 2012 as Training Manager. Stephen is responsible for all commercial training and can advise on any training needs your business requires.

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Testimonial

Vanderlande are proud to be partnered with Waterside Training as our principle training provider in the Northwest to deliver technical training to our teams, especially the Mechanical Maintenance VRQ L2 programme.

The mixture of technical knowledge and practical elements which our delegates have received over the course of the year combined to make a fulfilling experience. The course was engaging with many opportunities to participate and lots of relatable examples that we were able to bring back to site. This was found after a full site tour by the Waterside team to expertly devise the best course to deliver our teams with knowledge of the process and equipment on site.

We have now trained at least half of the Engineering Support Operatives across our four shifts with all the teams and site reaping the rewards in maintenance completion and system performance through the continued support given and putting into practice the skills they learnt. The tutorship given is professional with tailored delivery to the differing knowledge of the attendees on each course, which ultimately shows how diverse the styles of teaching are at Waterside Training.

This has set our Engineering Support Operatives on an Engineering and Technical pathway to offer hands on support for our teams of Service Technicians to deliver planned and reactive maintenance across the largest warehouse in both Vanderlande’s and Asda’s UK portfolio.

We look forward to upskilling our single trade Service Technicians in the near future with expertly tailored courses to have a truly Multi-Skilled Engineering team at our disposal.

— Josh McCormack, Service Operations Manager, Vanderlande