GLOBAL SKILLS THINKING
DEMAND LED SKILLS TRAINING Skills training has to be demand led and this means that it has to deliver an impact on operating performance and individual’s pockets. I am on the Advisory Board of AMET Maritime University in Chennai, India and nearly all graduates receive a job contract with their degree certificates.
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For example, the global mining industry is set to invest over $20 billion in renewables by 2020 to cut costs and clean up its act to operate sustainably. We face skills shortages not just in the renewables industry but lack the functional skills and flexibility to staff the industries of the future. After all, they say that 50 per cent of the jobs of the future have yet to be invented.
FRONTIER MARKETS Archomai works in emerging and frontier markets - places lacking world class training resources and where literacy levels may lag way behind the technologies that will be deployed by emerging industries like offshore oil, gas and wind, or the ports and logistics sectors that support them.
Where skills training provision in the UK tends to be supply side focussed – here’s the course we have and this is the qualifications ladder – frontier markets have different demands.
For example, long courses are rarely fit-for-purpose where the economy is informal. Firms are small and people can’t afford to take time off work.
We need to design courses that can be short and delivered in different ways. I was speaking to a cab driver in Mumbai recently. As he waited for passengers at the airport he was listening to an English course on his mobile. Each module lasts three minutes.
We need innovation in learning to parallel innovation in the world of work. Here’s how Archomai works and how we fit with the wind energy sector.
SKILLS GAP ANALYSIS Archomai have worked in ports and trade corridors worldwide to model skills needs along the sector specific supply chain.
For example, working with DPW (a top 5 port operating company) we mapped port operations from the quayside to the port gates highlighting equipment such as quayside cranes, container reach stackers and trucks.
For oil and gas we added process, bulk and project cargo handling skills to the mix. Looking at offshore wind, the gap analysis highlights heavy lifting from manufacturing and assembly to installation offshore whilst a study of crane operators highlights an average operator age over 50 that has to be tackled.
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Mapping the supply chain provides insight into the engineering skills required to assemble, operate and maintain wind turbines out at sea. Tough conditions and health and safety regulations make the Offshore Passport supplied by the likes of HOTA as key.
Operational and maintenance skills need the same focus and HETA apprenticeships are setting a standard. Going forward, the industry must anticipate increased use of digital technologies such as remote monitoring systems for all equipment out at sea.
The days of a maintenance fitter making periodic checks are gone. Condition monitoring and response using sophisticated digital technology will require a new breed of individual.
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