Energy and Utility Skills

Our role is to ensure that the industries we serve have
the skills they need to meet both current and future needs.

We serve the electricity, gas, water and
waste management industries.

Our employers expect us to help their industry with the availability of :

• good courses and qualifications,
• good skills foresight leading to capable skills planning,
• the availability of good training facilities and information,
• the ability to support the industry by encouraging skills integration through the supply chain
• the fair availability of Government funding
• and an ability to represent the industry in the skills debate with Government

Government expect us to help them:

• creating a skills system that works
• ensure there is good skills foresight and planning by the industry
• with an industry that is willing (after fair evaluation) to respond to its initiatives
• by being a creative partner in the development of its thinking

To be effective we need to:

• act as a catalyst to help our employers achieve what they need to meet their skills needs
• need to work with Government in such a way that we are able to help develop with them the creative solutions that Government needs to meet its objectives
• believe that meeting long term skills needs through industry collaboration needs to be a sustainable activity and that we should act to create it

We also recognise that it takes some time to understand the focus of this activity and much longer to build the collaborative processes and relationships to make it possible.