Gateway

Working as part of a small team within our warehouse

Gateway Electronic Components seeks a motivated and talented CNC programmer to join the CanDo team. The Gateway Machine Shop specializes in machining ferrite material, this material is difficult to machine and presents many challenges. The machine shop is the only dedicated machine shop within the UK with the ability to machine custom geometries from blocks of ferrite material, it has positioned itself as a market leader and supports some of the largest companies in the world on new and emerging technologies.

To assist the sales and customer services function in a dynamic and friendly sales office, working as part of the team the customer services apprentice will need good communication and organization skills to ensure that the Gateway “Cando” spirit is maintained and that our business continues to exceed customer’s expectations.

For many years at Gateway we have offered value added services to our customers based on their drawings and requirements, but recently, as the skills and size of our technical team have grown we been able to get involved in assisting customers with redesigns or finding bespoke solutions to real world problems.

The role of the Machining Apprentice is to work to support the day-to-day running of the machine shop.

The UK left the EU on 31st January 2020, and on 1st February 2020 it entered the transition period that will end on 31st December 2020. From 1st January 2021 there will be new rules that govern life outside of the EU that will apply to, amongst other things, citizenship, travel and business activity.

The internet was starting to show its world changing potential. Money didn't appear as just coins, notes and, cheques.

In 2017 Gateway opened the doors to apprentices. Marketing, IT and Engineering staff welcomed young professionals into their teams to learn and grow in the workplace.

Preparations were underway ready for the grand opening day, painting, building, and stacking shelves of stock for what I didn’t expect to be the next 20 years and more of my career.

So where were we 20years ago? We had just “survived” the millennium bug without planes falling out of the sky. Big Brother aired for the first time, Kylie was making her comeback with “Spinning around” and Sir Steve Redgrave won his 5th gold Olympic medal; and in a warehouse on the outskirts of Crewe, a small team started trading as Gateway Electronic components Ltd for the first time.