Roger Connell

Roger Connell is Kelston Sparkes Training School’s first ever trainer who joined us in 1999 when we first established our training offer. Over 24 years later, he’s still fully involved in training and testing on all our popular plant courses and is also an NVQ Assessor.

Roger’s knowledge is second to none and with such a wealth of experience under his belt, he is a fantastic asset to the training school.

Andy Statham

This is Andy, one of our qualified CPCS testers and trainers. He started training in August 2019 after working on site as an operator. He has since become a CPCS tester on rollers, forward tipping dumpers, articulated dump trucks telehandlers and wheeled loading shovels. A bit of an all-rounder you could say.

He’s also become a competent trainer in various other plant and equipment too.

This year he will be expanding his repertoire even further by expanding his tester card and joining our NVQ team. He’s a great asset to the Kelston Sparkes training team and always receives great feedback from our candidates

Sam Jones

Sam Jones joined us in May 2022. An experienced site operator, Sam has worked hard to become a qualified CPCS tester for forward tipping dumpers and articulated dump trucks. He also became a competent training instructor for various other items of mobile plant and continues to add categories to his tester card. Up next is the roller card, with wheeled loading shovels straight after. He’s already proving to be a fantastic addition to our three-strong team of employed testers and is receiving fantastic feedback from candidates.