RTITB seeks new director-general
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• A 235,000-a-vear directorgeneral is being sought for the Road Transport Industry Training Board to succeed Eric Tindall, the present incumbent, who retires at the end of this year.
Tindall, who is 62, has been director-general since the RTITB was founded in 1967.
For the four years before that, he held training posts with Leyland, first as Leyland Motors' training manager, then as the Leyland Motor Corporation's group training manager for UK and overseas plants and offices.
His entire career has been spent in training. After graduating from Leeds University in 1948, he became an assistant education and training officer with Pilkington Brothers, the St Helens-based glass manufacturer.
He moved after three years to join the English Steel Corporation in Manchester as a training manager and in his 11 years there graduated to become its labour manager.
In the period immediately before he joined the RTITB, Tindall served on Engineering Industry Training Board committees as chairman of the working party on craft skills for the vehicle engineering branch; as chairman of the working party for foundry technologists; and on the policy and joint committees.
The board is looking for an honours graduate aged 35 to 55 and with management and training experience to succeed Tindall. The job carries responsibility for a staff of more than 400 and the Motec training centres in Shropshire and West Lothian.