Marine Sector Skills Agreement
The Sector Skills Agreement for the Marine sector was
completed in May 2007.
The Sector Skills Agreement, Summary and Action Plan can be
downloaded below:
Marine Sector Skills
Agreement
Summary of Marine Sector
Skills Agreement
Action Plan for Marine
SSA
The Sector Skills Agreement process revealed
the following employer skills priorities:
Management and Leadership
- Development of managers and leaders.
Productivity and Competitiveness
- Supply chain development.
- Continuous process improvement.
- Reduction in New Product and Process Development and
Implementation (NPPDI) time.
Technical Workforce Development
- Upskilling from Level 2 to Level 3.
- Improving craft supply at Level 3 through
recruitment and upskilling of current workforce.
- Meeting the demand for craft/technician
(Technician Engineer) development.
Manpower Planning and Recruitment
- Tackling the inadequate supply of recruits to
meet industry requirements due to demography and attractiveness of
the sector.
Actions
Actions on skills priorities set out in the Sector Skills
Agreement include:
- Developing programmes to help managers become best in class in
key skill areas.
- Improving strategic and commercial leadership.
- Expanding the capability of team leaders and first-line
supervisors.
- Closing any gaps in the marine National Occupational Standards
(NOS).
- Extending NOS in Business-Improvement Techniques (B-IT) and
generating relevant qualifications.
- Increasing the capacity of providers to deliver and assess B-IT
qualifications.
- Embedding lean manufacturing processes in the supply
chain.
- Supporting the government’s Supply Chain Groups
Initiative.
- Upgrading marine skills, retraining and redeploying
operators.
- Increasing the number of adults and young people on Advanced
Apprenticeship programmes.
- Providing sandwich placements and work experience in marine
companies.
- Strengthening employer links with universities on technology
transfer.
- Stepping up efforts to recruit women and people from ethnic
minorities.
- Researching ways of making the marine industry more
attractive.
- Supporting employers’ training initiatives such as the Marine
Schools Challenge.
- Developing workforce-pooling schemes and manpower planning
tools such as Skills Passport.
Sector Skills Agreements Highlights Winter
2007
This brochure features key employers who are leading the way
within their sector networks. Find out from them how
investing in skills can improve productivity and performance.
Highlights also shows the contributions our partners are making and
tracks progress towards achieving our key aims of:
- Optimising employer and public investment in skills.
- Securing public funding for priorities identified in the
SSA.
Download from link below:
Marine SSA Highlights -
Winter 2007