32-year-old Pernille Bøye Hillerup Wagner from Nykøbing Falster is the first to complete her apprenticeship at FLC. She has completed a course as an adult student in the office trainee program specializing in administration. Pernille Wagner is now a permanent employee on the project and is delighted to continue to be part of a large and international project on Denmark’s biggest construction site.
Office in the middle of a historical project
– I am proud to be part of a huge project with an international dimension and happy to be allowed to get close to some of the impressive processes on the construction site itself. It’s a unique office student space because day by day you can see it all shoot up and grow – like, for example, the huge production halls that I’ve followed since only a few poles stuck out of the ground, says Pernille Bøye Hillerup Wagner.
Helmet and safety shoes
As an office trainee at FLC on the Fehmarn project, she has been in the security department. Among other things, she has had contact with the Norwegian Working Environment Authority before and after their visit to the construction site. She is also responsible for the so-called safety inductions when FLC has guests and inspections on the construction site. This means that the office chair and computer are often replaced with a helmet, safety glasses, and safety shoes before she sets out on the construction site itself.
Safe away and home
– It has been fantastic to be instrumental in ensuring that our visitors get to and then home safe from the construction site and simultaneously see the construction taking shape up close. It suits my temperament well that the days at the office are spiced up with coming to the construction site, says Pernille Bøye Hillerup Wagner.
Dream job
– Working here at FLC is a dream job, opening up many opportunities now and in the future. I get a huge network, and at the same time, I work with some of the construction industry’s most talented people who love their job and like to share all their knowledge. It’s a spacious workplace with lots of freedom under responsibility, and then it’s also a job with an international outlook and colleagues from all over the world, says Pernille Bøye Hillerup Wagner.
The workforce of the future
FLC currently has 64 full-time students, and the number is increasing as the project progresses.
– Among our students, we have young people and adult apprentices – including people who have worked as unskilled workers and now decided to take a vocational education. Regardless of their age and profession, our students and apprentices are the raw material of the future. Which will certainly be in demand on the labour market when they are trained,” says Charlotte Lie Steen, who has overall responsibility for all apprentices on the project.
Largest apprentice clause
– Of course, in terms of our many students and apprentices, we also train labour for the project. We have the largest apprentice clause in Danish history, and the investment in the hundreds of apprentices benefits both society, the Fehmarn project and, of course, the individual student or apprentice. Undoubtedly, the experience you gain here is an attractive card on the labour market, emphasizes Charlotte Lie Steen.
