Sunderland
Cranfield
Maple Cross
With thousands of roles across a multitude of departments and functions, Nissan UK is brimming with the opportunity to progress. Diversity is one of our workforce super powers and we thrive on helping employees to experience as much of Nissan as possible through learning and development opportunities. Career pathways are wide and varied, with cross-functionality, lateral and upwards progression and the support and learning tools you need to get there.
Jacqui has worked at Nissan for almost 20 years, working across various roles in HR. As someone who did not necessarily want to work for people, rather work with them, Jacqui has enjoyed focusing her talent with people on cross-functional projects and workstreams.
As well as international travel, she has been able to rotate and move laterally to learn about different areas of the business and develop new skills and knowledge – developing her career in a way that suits her goals and personality.
We create a culture where people want to do well and get on because they are rewarded and supported in doing this. More rounded employees with enhanced skills and knowledge means that we can depend on our internal talent to fulfil roles here at Nissan.
It is our job to create the chances for employees to learn all aspects of the business both within their daily project work, but also by offering formal learning and training courses. All employees are encouraged to ask for additional training and learning and we will support wherever possible.
Using the link below to download our training brochure where you can find full details of all training on offer.
Our classroom training is all done on-site by qualified trainers, covering areas such as:
including appraisal skills, presentation skills, line manager courses, resilience and wellbeing, communications courses, coaching and leadership courses, team building and grievance & discipline skills.
including Kaizen School, Try-Z, TQM and standard ops training.
including robot programming, PLC/HMI programming, pneumatics, and hydraulics.
Our Learning at Alliance platform is linked to our employee IT systems, meaning it is accessible anywhere with a works computer. Course availability is tailored to the functions and roles within the business, with some available from the very first day on the job. With over 30,000 pieces of learning content there is a wealth of education available on the platform, from book excerpts and podcasts, to knowledge article and videos, plus the opportunity to build a training profile and book training courses.
Our PushFar mentoring app allows our employees to tap into mentors tailored to their particular goals and circumstances. Individuals can also make themselves available as a mentor to others. We are currently piloting this technology and it is already proving highly successful.
At Nissan you can also be identified as having potential to take part in a range of nominated courses. You own your career path, and opportunities for development are always available to those who work hard and seek to progress.
We also offer non-standard with external providers. If an employee has a certain need for training that can not be fulfilled on-site, then we will always consider and investigate alternative training for them.
Finally, our on-the-job learning can be found everywhere at Nissan. From project work to simple, daily skills enhancement, our ethos of continuous improvement stretches to our employees also.
We have numerous learning facilities across our sites, including our dedicated Learning Hub at Nissan Sunderland and our access to the on-site £3m SASMI (The Skills Academy for Sustainable Manufacturing and Innovation) training centre.
We also have Basic Skills Areas and safety training dojos set up across our production plant zones, where employees can learn in real situations how to apply their new skills and knowledge.
