News - 2022

An exciting opportunity to join national powered access provider Summit Platforms and begin a rewarding career in engineering. The company is offering a place on the IPAF Level 3 Lift Truck and Powered Access Engineering Technician apprenticeship scheme at its Glasgow depot, which provides three years of training resulting in the candidate becoming a qualified service engineer. Summit Platforms is using the programme to develop the engineering talent it needs to maintain high standards......

  Summit Platforms is acutely aware of the challenges being faced by many people due to the recent increases in the cost of living. To help our teams, we'll be providing all Summit Platforms employees with four Cost of Living support payments. The payments will start in November and continue until February. Summit Platforms priority has always been to provide a safe, enjoyable and secure place to work and develop a career, and we will continue to do all we can to support our teams.

Drivers from the Summit Platforms Birmingham depot completed a Safe Urban Driving CPC course. This course involves drivers going out on a bike for half a day to understand what it’s like to be a vulnerable road user.They took to the roads of Birmingham on Saturday 15th October to complete the course and came away with a better understanding of what cyclists must contend with when cycling around town. Driver Andrew Smith (also known as Scooby) said: “It was interesting getting out on......

“I’ve learned more in 18 months here, than in my previous five years of work. I absolutely love the job.” Jac Ellis cannot be clearer about how much he is enjoying working as a pre-delivery inspection engineer at the Summit Platforms depot in Birmingham. He joined the company in March 2021 and has benefited from a programme of structured training and mentoring to quickly become a valued member of the team, looking forward to a range of options for career development. Professional......

It’s been a great start for Georgia since joining the team at Summit Platforms Wakefield back in June 2022. She’s already proved a valuable team member helping our customers with access platform hire, telehandler hire and IPAF Training in recent months. Steve Williams, Divisional Manager, said “the success of the latest depot in our network here in Wakefield has meant we have rapidly grown our team with experienced people like Georgia – Recruiting experienced professionals......

From left to right: Catherine McCreedy from Speedy Powered Access, IPAF President Karin Nars, Megan Campbell from Summit Platforms. Photo courtesy of IPAF.   This time last week, Summit Platforms engineering apprentice Megan Campbell was out supporting the Women in Powered Access initiative at the Vertikal Days 2022 event. This initiative, launched by the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) aims to recognise and celebrate the contributions of women in powered access and support......

  Summit Platforms is significantly extending the IPAF training offering it provides with the opening of four new training centres across the north of England and Scotland. The rental company already offers a national training service – now that is being boosted with the opening of the new training centres at its depots in Glasgow, Wakefield, Haydock and Birmingham. Summit Platforms, Steve Williams said: “This is an exciting development for our national training offering. The......