EVENT REVIEW
INVESTING IN CAREERS IN OFFSHORE WIND
IA special event was held on Thursday 3 November in Whitby, North Yorkshire which saw education and training providers from across the region come together to discuss the significant opportunities for future employment that the offshore wind and potash mining industries could bring to the area.
JOB PROSPECTS
With tens of thousands of jobs predicted to be coming to the region in the next five to ten years in offshore wind and through the planned establishment of a new potash mine in North Yorkshire the message is clear, ‘the region needs to match its people, skills and training provision to the requirements of the industry if the regional economy is to truly benefit’. The event hosted by Scarborough Borough Council was a huge success with over 80 representatives from schools, colleges, training providers, further and higher education establishments throughout the Yorkshire and Humber Region met with industry representatives from the Crown Estate, Forewind, Mainstream Renewable Power, The National Skills Academy for Power and York Potash attending the event.
Matthew Parsons, Employment and Skills Manager at Scarborough Borough Council organised the event: “The day was about raising awareness of the opportunities on the horizon and starting the process of ensuring education and skills providers and employers are working together to meet the needs of the industry. It’s our job to facilitate this and ensure the best deal for the region.
“Both renewable energy, particularly offshore wind and potash mining offer the biggest employment and economic opportunities we have seen for a generation. Conservative estimates propose that over 50,000 jobs will be directly created in these industries, predominantly in the areas of engineering, manufacturing, and the sciences at all levels. If we get it right these jobs will offer well rewarded careers for life”.
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER PARTNERSHIP
The event follows on from the recent formation of a Yorkshire and Humber partnership which is concentrating on bringing together all of the local authorities in the Yorkshire and Humber to work in partnership and to place the region at the heart of the renewable energy industry.
WESTMINSTER VISIT
The partnership visited Westminster to discuss issues relating to skills, infrastructure, consenting and grid connection for the renewable sector. As a result MP’s undertook to establish an ‘All Party Parliamentary Group’ to take forward the issues raised. The partnership then followed this up with a joint exhibition stand at the RenewableUK conference in Manchester where authorities stood shoulder to shoulder in promoting the Yorkshire and Humber region to inward investors.
Only last week it was announced that York Potash and East Riding of Yorkshire Council would receive over £29m of Government funding in support of education, skills, research and development initiatives within the region.
Cllr Derek Bastiman, Scarborough Borough Council’s Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and Regeneration said: “This was an excellent event bringing together educators and industry in one place to discuss the way forward.
“In order to maximise the employment and economic growth opportunities throughout our region we must work collaboratively, putting aside politics and local authority boundaries and place ourselves at the heart of the renewable energy sector. Only then will we match the skills needs of industry with our local communities”.
Steve Clarke from Mainstream Renewable Power, who presented during the event also enthused, “Underpinning every aspect of the supply chain growth needed to deliver large scale offshore wind farms and the Supergrid, is the need for sufficient quantities of manpower with a range of skills and qualifications from manual and vocational levels, right the way up to degree and post graduate level. The great news is that the forecast industry build programmes still allow us to grow a good deal of this talent locally.”
Scarborough Borough Council
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