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SKILLS CAPACITY BUILDING FOR THE ENERGY SECTOR ACROSS THE HUMBER
In Rotterdam, STC (Skills Training Centre) was launched to pull together fragmented training provision for the Harbour and Maritime operations sector across a Region. In Ilford near London, the TUCA (Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy) was set up to support the key skills required to work in tunnel excavation, underground construction and infrastructure projects.
TRAINING
facilities, on-site healthcare and gym the basic infrastructure is in place.
There is land available for development between the Freedom Centre and the Sentamu Academy, a state-of-the-art High School next door. The training facility will be developed in phases with employability and assessment services launched within the existing framework and capacity increased to meet stringent industry sector standards as needed over time.
BUSINESS MODEL
The business model will be to open up the facilities and the equipment to be used by a number of qualified and committed training providers giving them a chance to compete with and learn from the best-in-class.
Tom Bremer of Oil Tech Solutions has been a frequent visitor to the area: “We develop and supply high tech energy sector training equipment to training providers all over the world and have our own centres in Stavanger, Norway and Houston, Texas. We work with other OEMs and training providers like Kongsberg and Maersk Training.
KEY ROLE
Both of these training centres play a key role in the development of qualifications and setting performance, Health & Safety standards across their core sectors. These are amongst the key benchmark models we have used to develop a model for a Skills Capacity Building Centre to support the energy industry in the Humber.
SKILLS CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME (SCBC)
The idea is to establish a Skills Capacity Building Programme across the Humber with one centre located a walk away from Green Port, Hull and the other close by the fast developing offshore services in Grimsby.
As Geoff Groom of Hull Freedom Centre puts it: “These centres are located in the heart of communities; they are more accessible and can make a tangible difference to an understanding of jobs and skills in areas where long term unemployment has been a reality and work experience in short supply. Our vision is for local people to have the skills to match the jobs on offer.”
HULL FREEDOM CENTRE
The Hull Freedom Centre is a £50 million community centre that has become the hub for the local community of over 10,000 households. With cafeteria, conference
Research from employers operating in the UK’s energy and utility markets will need to attract a further 200,000 workers over the coming nine years. This is a huge requirement
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“We are impressed by this focus on communities across the Humber – it is the way to go. First you answer local needs and then, you can generate surplus from providing mandatory courses for projects all over the world. After all, the Humber is well located and local costs for transport and accommodation are significantly lower than for Aberdeen and Norway making training courses cost effective.”
NORTHERN GATEWAYS PROJECT The Skills Capacity Building Centre is a project that has been featured in the Northern Gateways project geared to developing the Humber Mersey trade corridor as a catalyst for inward investment, business and job opportunities and sustainable communities.
Launched last November, Northern Gateways has strong backing from Lords Prescott and Heseltine as well as support from David Higgins, the CEO of HS2 and many more businesses from Atlantic Gateway on Merseyside all the away cross country to the Humber.
TOP OF THE AGENDA
Skills needs are top of the agenda and a mobile concept is being developed to make state-of-the-art equipment available across the corridor.
as the average age of skilled operators is over 50 and, tough economic conditions had played havoc with succession planning.
HUMBER SKILLS CAPACITY BUILDING CENTRE (HSCBC)
A Humber based Energy Skills Capacity Building Centre (HSCBC) makes sense and a Northern Gateways catchment area as well as a mobile solution opens these centres up to a 17 million catchment area across the North of England.
The HSCBC is a facility and not a training organisation. It provides leading edge simulators for any other training organisation (school, college, private training company, business, etc.) to use to assist the delivery of their programmes.
CENTRE FOR DIGITAL INNOVATION (C4DI) Like the soon to be completed C4DI (Centre for Digital Innovation), this facility will act as a hub to harness global expertise and experience to grow local capacity and opportunity. Simulation is the proven best way to assess, train and provide advanced training. It is the key training tool for: commercial pilots; for military operations; for F1 drivers.
There are many case studies proving the cost effectiveness of simulator based training. It has not yet broken into the UK market due to the perceived high capital cost of the simulators. The HSCBC will allow these costs to be converted from a capital cost into a variable cost – pay for what you use.
SKILLS CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME – BEYOND THE UK The SCBC can be a catalyst beyond the UK. Working with Northern Gateways – a drive to develop a trade route from the Humber to the Mersey and use this expertise to support trade corridors in places like Ghana; Kurdistan and elsewhere.
The Humber SCBC can build the capability to train the trainers in these emerging markets and use digital technology to support skills development and the whole enterprise could help to build multiple trade links across the trade corridors.
Rob Bell | Archomai ED’S NOTE
We will be featuring the SCBC/ Northern Gateways in more detail in future editions.
HULL & HUMBER SPOTLIGHT ON
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