Energy & Utility Skills

The effective way to recruit and train your future workforce.

Energy & Utility Skills (EU Skills), the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the gas, power, waste management and water industries has secured funding from the Growth and Innovation Fund to develop an employer-led Talent Bank.

The Talent Bank for the gas, power, waste management and water industries will bring together employers, to fulfil the latent skills demand of the sector, through new training solutions and the delivery of an increased supply of skilled people into jobs.

Research from the EU Skills Workforce Planning Model clearly shows there will be a serious skills shortage in the sector across all skills levels. This is due to the rapidly changing business demands of our industries; the advancing age profile of the sector; a much greater need for higher skills demanded by technological change; and a series of investment barriers, all of which limit the pace at which investment occurs. Built on the group training concept, the Talent Bank is a skills investment hub which will overcome barriers to recruitment by:

• Attracting employer investment through the pooling of known skills demand
• Delivering training solutions for known structural change in advance of current demand
• Creating fully trained employees into jobs in the sector

Our employers see the Talent Bank as a vehicle to collaboratively overcome future skills demands that they cannot resolve as individual companies. We have received support from across the energy and utilities sector with major companies such as; E.ON, National Grid, Scottish Power, Severn Trent and Viridor being supporters of this Talent Bank.

Tim Balcon Chief Executive of EU Skills states; "Receiving the funding to develop this Talent Bank will have a very positive impact on the energy and utilities sector. Without a resource efficient gas, power, waste management and water sector the economy, and indeed society cannot effectively function. Employers are very clear that the Talent Bank addresses issues that are common to the sector and cannot be solved by individual companies alone."

Useful downloads

> Talent Bank Overview for Employers (January 2012)

> Talent Bank Employer Journey

> Talent Bank Webinar 10 October 2011

> Talent Bank Webinar Presentation 10 October 2011

For more information on Talent Bank please contact us on 0845 077 99 22 or alternatively email talentbank@euskills.co.uk