Breaking the mould and shaping the future at Aston Martin

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While many of the UK’s freshers enjoyed a summer off, William Savage and Gian Sebastian were at work – for Aston Martin. Not only are the two 18-year-olds among the very first cohort of grads from the WMG Academy for Young Engineers in Coventry, they are now two of the first Aston Martin employees to be signed up for the Applied Engineering Programme (AEP), delivered by WMG at the University of Warwick.

Apprenticeships are nothing new for Aston Martin. Will and Gian are two of 16 recruited this year and part of the total of 45 apprentices currently working for the luxury carmaker. It’s a coveted role - the apprentices are chosen from hundreds of applicants through a process of selection days, assessments, interviews and presentations.

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But sending employees back to university on the AEP is a new endeavour for the OEM. Just as they are settling into their new jobs, Will and Gian, along with two other Aston Martin employees, have also begun their studies to hopefully gain their BEng in four years’ time.

“This year, six of the students we recruited came from the WMG Academy, and two of them – Will and Gian – were selected for our CAD Body Engineering department where they are on a fully sponsored AEP through WMG at the University of Warwick<” said Karen Botting, senior manager for learning and development at Aston Martin.

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