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now requiring system engineers, which if you go back 10 years ago was a rarity but now it’s quite common for them to re- quire those skills.
When you have a look at the workforce numbers required and the capacity within the market, I think it would be churlish to say that workforce isn’t going to be a chal- lenge across the naval shipbuilding enter- prise. I think everybody understands that.
But what is that challenge? For me there’s two parts to it. There’s having the skills and there’s having the right experience. And there are two parts to this as well. There is es- tablishing the initial team to start the work and then the sustainment of that team.
The Naval Shipbuilding Enterprise Primes have been working together now for over 12 months looking at the work- force demand and supply across the ship- building enterprise. At this stage we’ve got a really good understanding of the workforce demand.
There’s work ongoing now is analysing the demand data to see how and where that demand could potentially be met from Aus-
tralia and to identify any gaps. Early indications are
that there are areas where there are some quite signifi-
cant gaps. The next body of work will look at the work- force pipeline design solu-
tion that will these fill gaps
and then we will implement
that solution to deliver the skills and experience to the enterprise in the right timeframe.
In practice there’s a short term challenge and a long term challenge to meeting the de- mand. The short term challenge is probably the most concerning because when you have a look at the numbers at the moment, I think it’s fair to say that Australia does not currently have all of the skills and experience it’s going to require to meet these program needs. So there’s got to be more work done to deal with the short term problem.
In the longer term it’s really a question about the pipeline and making sure it is fat enough in order to bring the volume of skills and experience through. There’s al-
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ADM: How do you engage with various organisation at those different points to make sure that pipeline is fit for purpose? DAVIS: We have the Naval Shipbuilding College (NSC) – it’s the conduit by which industry can bring all the components to the table and they can be integrated so we can get a holistic view. But in terms of the demand, the shipbuilding primes have col- laborated to define their requirements using a common taxonomy, the way in which we
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