About Skill M&E

Skill M&E consists of four skills competitions that search for the best of the best mechanical and electrical engineers from the building services engineering sector: SkillELECTRIC, SkillFRIDGE, SkillPLUMB and (new for 2009) SkillPIPE. 

Everyone benefits from competition as it ensures the constant development of technology, quality of goods and skills provided. For the individual, the rewards can be fantastically self satisfying. For employers, highly adept employees contribute to the success and profitability of the company.

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Why get involved?

• Employers
• Competitors
• Colleges and training providers
• Sponsorship opportunities

Winners of the competitions also could have the chance to become truly world-class at WorldSkills, the largest international skills competition in the world, managed by UK Skills. Find out more about UK Skills

Why get involved?

Employers:

• Enhance your reputation as a business and an employer as well as improving the skills of your workforce
• Instill mutual pride in the job and your company
• A huge PR opportunity
• Inject ambition and aspiration
• Promote world-class skills

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• Go beyond the normal expectation of your education and training
• Master your skill
• Experience the excitement of competing
• Gain a deeper understanding of quality you would normally share
• Gain recognition for your exceptional skills
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Colleges and training providers: 

• Maximise on great PR opportunities
• Inject dynamism and excitement into training
• Inspire students and apprentices to show what they can do
• Demonstrate the quality of your processes and output Inspection reports often pick out involvement in skills competitions as evidence of striving for excellence

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Sponsorship opportunities:

Skills competitions can offer significant benefits to everyone who enters and supports them.  Becoming a sponsor for one of the skills competitions that SummitSkills organises can offer your organisation:

• UK wide brand recognition
• Excellent PR and marketing opportunities
• Networking opportunities with employers, manufacturers and key industry bodies
• Public recognition of your support
• Government recognition in industry & skills departments
• The opportunity to develop the calibre of young people entering the building services engineering sector
• The chance to improve the quality of the sector's skills

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Skill M&E is organised by SummitSkills, the sector skills council for building services engineering.