The EEF has appointed Christine Chapman to manage its multi-million-pound Technology Training Centre in Aston, Birmingham, which was purpose-built to train the UK’s manufacturers and engineers of the future in world-class facilities.

She will work alongside technical training director Peter Winebloom and his team. Ms Chapman started out
as an apprentice at Rolls-Royce, going on to gain a degree in mechanical engineering and a masters degree in business administration.

Since leaving Rolls-Royce, she has held a number of senior-level roles in engineering companies, and she has worked at Dudley College for the last two years.