00:00 So there's all sorts of jobs in rail, that's the key point.
00:03 So of course we've just announced today more work at Aldridge, we've got the works in South
00:07 Birmingham, we've got the works at Walsall Wolverhampton, we've of course got the tram
00:10 works through Dudley and we've got the works of course with HS2 as well.
00:14 So there's so much going on but if you think of the type of works there are, there's all
00:17 the groundwork skills of course, there's all the engineering skills, there's the design
00:21 skills, there's the project management skills, supervisory roles.
00:26 So really this industry can create all sorts of opportunities and one thing I've found
00:30 really really inspiring is I've met people who've gone into HS2 as sort of junior and
00:34 as an already moving through the career structure.
00:37 So it's a career not just a job.
00:40 This is really about local jobs for local people.
00:43 The industry is sufficiently vibrant in the West Midlands with all of the construction,
00:46 the maintenance that there is, so we're really saying to local people through the alliance
00:50 that's been set up here with the City of Wolverhampton College, whether it be in Coventry and Birmingham
00:54 or Wolverhampton or Dudley, four places now, that local people have been brought into this
00:59 industry.
01:00 So over the last four years we've put in actually £7 million for jobs into this sector, so
01:04 it's a pretty sizeable commitment actually and you know in terms of the number of jobs
01:09 we have talked about 12,000 jobs alone in HS2.
01:12 So that talks you about the sort of scale that there is here.
01:15 Genuinely there are many opportunities.
01:17 So it's a good partnership, so of course primarily the City of Wolverhampton College, then the
01:22 NIS as a sort of training agency here and they're actually finding roles.
01:27 We sort of specify the programmes and then fund them critically, but then there's lots
01:33 of private sector employers actually who are saying we will take the people on for work
01:37 afterwards.
01:38 So it really is from the origination through to the jobs on the ground, a good alliance.
01:42 So it's pretty unique in that sense.
01:44 I can't say I always wanted to work on the railroad.
01:46 If you'd asked me to do anything of course I wanted to be the train driver or maybe the
01:49 guard, but actually the modern railway is much driven by the digital signalling as it
01:54 is by those jobs.
