National Occupational Standards

Semta is responsible for developing and maintaining the National Occupational Standards in the science, engineering and manufacturing technologies sectors.

Semta works closely with industry to identify and define the skills and knowledge requirements for the various occupations, across the different performance levels, within the sector.

The National Occupational Standards have a number of uses, including recruitment, appraisal, promotion, identifying training needs, succession planning etc, but their main use is for the development of nationally recognised qualifications such as National or Scottish Vocational Qualifications (N/SVQ’s)

The standards are available free of charge HERE

Part of the Skills for Business network of 25 employer-led Sector Skills Councils