Following on from National Apprenticeship Week last week, Punchline-Gloucester.com is continuing our campaign to champion apprenticeships from across the county.

Oliver Smith is head of operations at Ontic, which has 400 employees at sites at Staverton and Bishop's Cleeve. Ontic offers Level 3 and Level 4 apprenticeships in the electronics sector, working closely with Gloucestershire apprenticeship provider, GET.

Ontic is a global aerospace company, which buys the licence of aircraft parts and manufactures those parts and makes repairs to them. It manufactures over 7,500 different products.