Lewis Beddall, is an apprentice engineer with E.ON UK, one of the largest integrated power and gas companies. He joined E.ON's four-year apprenticeship scheme in September 2006 after completing his GCSE's. "I had my heart set on doing an apprenticeship. I wanted to be a part of a big and growing company and do something useful at the same time - E.ON perfectly combines these two."

Lewis started his training at E.ON's Engineering Academy. "I spend a lot of time here at the training centre learning about electrical controls and instrumentation engineering. My job involves maintenance and repair works on things from small voltage transmitters to big 3.3Kv circuit breakers."

"At the same time, I'm trying to focus on studying at college and completing my courses at a training school. I want to specialise in electrical control and instrumentation engineering and become an EC&I fitter. I'm also thinking about taking up a degree course at university after finishing my apprenticeship scheme. E.ON is keen to support me in achieving this goal, which is very helpful."
 
Lewis adds, "I am just coming to the end of my second year as an apprentice at Ratcliffe Power Station and haven't regretted one minute of it. All of my colleagues are great friends as well as great mentors and I am ready to go into my third year and to progress my knowledge even further to be the best EC&I fitter I can be. I would recommend apprenticeships to anyone!"