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Figure 2: Direct jobs and departments
Those directly employed to deliver the project: these include, but are not limited to:
Site roles
Figure 3: Indirect jobs
Secondary opportunities for businesses and organisations. These include, but are not limited to:
Secondary business opportunities
Formwork gangers
Crane operators
Security
Steel fixer gangers
Tunnel boring machine (TBM) operators
Plant fitters
Concrete gangs
Van drivers
Electricians
Telehandlers
Loading shovel drivers
Welders
Store managers
Banksperson
Steel fixers
Ground workers
Joiners
IT/digital support
Contract management
Design/building Information modelling (BIM)
Human resources
Accounts
Project management
Communications
Logistics management
Health, safety & wellbeing
Data analyst
Cleaning
Retail
Catering
5. Objectives - Deliver a skills legacy
Approach Skills demand
previous National Highways projects and
workforce numbers. This showed that we
Site supervisors
Rig operators
Traffic marshalls
The Lower Thames Crossing will take thousands
training standards for building world-leading low- Create a higher-skilled community and improve carbon infrastructure. Objective Summary
Plant operators
Pipefitters
To understand the demand, we have used
labour demand, and opportunities to upskill
local people.
Social value
Quality control
Consents
Logistics
Leisure
Accommodation
Facilities
Manufacturing
of people to build it, creating a significant demand for a skilled workforce for the construction of the
project. The scale of opportunities is huge and
to leave a lasting legacy not only for the region,
but also for the wider construction industry.
comparable infrastructure schemes to calculate
Conduct regular monitoring and refinement
of skills and labour forecasts as construction
will engage more than 22,000 people during
construction, including 10,000 jobs at peak. This
is made up of both direct and indirect jobs with
roles varying from lower to higher skill levels.
There are also indirect opportunities for skills
the project.
Form workers/carpenters
Tunnel operatives
Tower crane operators
Surveyors
Pick-up drivers
Pump operators
Trucks/dumper drivers
General operatives
Labourers
Steel erectors/cladders
Document control
Quantity surveying
Engineering
and employment opportunities arising from
Business administration
Estimating
Stakeholder and community
engagement
Procurement & buying
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Chain operators Auto-electricians
we’re committed to changing industry standards
Understand the skills gaps and availability of the delivery partners to addressing skills and existing skills within local communities.
Ensure a coordinated approach amongst
Slingers
Surveying Environment
Office supplies
and operational plans develop and mature.
Prepare annual Employment and Skills
challenges are addressed throughout the
Plans to ensure new and emerging
delivery of the project.
Upskill project workforce with industry training
Provide local communities with new industry
to support career progression and enable
them to do their job more sustainably.
related training to develop local skills and
create better access to higher skilled jobs.
Provide an early careers programme
including opportunities for apprenticeships,
traineeships, and jobs for newly-qualified
Understand and update the current training
curriculum and standards by incorporating
graduates.
more carbon and green skills information.
Develop a carbon culture from the ground up.
Office departments
