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Creating the Skills Supply Chain for a Nuclear New Build. Matt Tudor Director of Business Development & Enterprise, Bridgwater College. Building New Nuclear.
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Creating the Skills Supply Chain for a Nuclear New Build Matt Tudor Director of Business Development & Enterprise, Bridgwater College
Building New Nuclear • ‘Significant training will be required for the UK to benefit from new job opportunities. Initiatives like the energy centre in Bridgwater College are encouraging, but stronger leadership from Government about the future role of nuclear could help to encourage more people into this area of work’ Energy and Climate Change Committee Building New Nuclear the challenges ahead: Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2012–13
Coalition of Colleges in Somerset • excellent reputation both regionally and nationally as a highly successful provider of education and training. • international community, with students studying from over 35 different countries. • leading providers of business training to employers across the South West of the UK
The Opportunity • Create an innovative training model for large scale infrastructure projects. • Develop and maintain an agile and extensive talent pool of UK personnel • Gear up further UK infrastructure projects • Export UK brand Nuclear New Build success • Change lives by creating life chances
The Challenge for the College’s • How do we respond to • 25,000 will employed over the duration of the project • Over 5600 workers at peak • 25% of workforce from Somerset • 35% from with a 90 minute commute • Further Education colleges interfacing a responding with commercial business
Concrete Steel Fixers -Challenge • Re- skill and up-skill the existing labour force to Nuclear Concrete standards • Qualifications and training out-dated • Reinforced concrete on the critical path • 1000 needed at peak and up to 200 new apprentices • Intervention to secure ‘on-time’ concrete and steel
Concrete Steel Fixers - Solution • Tri-party approach • Lead College • Tier 1 Contractor • Awarding organisation • Result: fit for purpose qualification with ‘Nuclear Behaviours’ • Training & skills underway
Summary • Innovation and Development • Meeting Nuclear Standards • Pre-Training and brokering into the talent pool • Removing barriers to entry to new entrants • Recycling the workforce through the project • Co-ordinating and managing a coalition of providers