Telent event celebrates International Women in Engineering Day

On Monday 24 June, Mark Warrender, Chief Engineer – Rail hosted more than 45 Telent colleagues who came together to spend the day at the National Space Centre, Leicester in celebration of International Women in Engineering Day 2024.

The special celebratory event was hosted by Telent for a second year, following on the success of our inaugural event at Statfold Narrow Gauge Museum Trust in 2023.

This year’s event kicked off with a welcome reception and opening address by Jo Gretton, CEO recognising the great work women in engineering do every day, in line with this year’s INWED theme of ‘Enhanced by engineering’.

Throughout the morning women working in engineering at Telent shared their personal experiences offering honest accounts of their career journeys and how they came to Telent. The stories encouraged some great discussion points, leading to key takeaways for the business to implement and help to continuously improve the working environment for women in engineering and the wider business.

Guest speakers from across Telent shared their personal journeys on what it has been like for them as a Women in Engineering, providing valuable insight for the group and encouraging stimulating discussions.

Updates on projects were presented from the Telent acquisition team on their continuing drive for inclusive recruitment, Telent’s QEHS team on female specific PPE, followed by the Facilities team on the provision of free period products across Telent sites.

To end the day, guests were invited to sit back and enjoy an award-winning ‘fulldome’ show at the Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium, which highlighted the great contributions of the female engineers working on the Apollo program at NASA.

Following another successful event and capturing your invaluable feedback planning for 2025 is already underway – watch this space!