Mark Pearce

Background

About Mark Pearce

My first employment from school was trainee joiner(woodworking) which only lasted 12 months. I then managed to get employment into the garage trade and eventually became very good at panel beating & paint spraying, during 1977 left the garage trade to join GEC as a sprayer, unfortunately this only lasted 2 years because of industrial action which resulted in a 9 week strike, I left during the strike and returned to a garage trade till 1984. I then decided on a complete change and started working for a family run business in Birmingham as a nationwide delivery driver, I was with this company for 24 years during which time I took my class 2 HGV license, in 2008 I had a chance to join Areva (now GE) starting as a service technician refurbishing Eurostar train transformers, a job which I thoroughly enjoyed, but after the TMST contract came an end I was move to the hydraulic side of circuit breaker refurbishment, some of which we are still working on. I am also currently involved in some assembling and testing of motor control modules.