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Manufacturing
Future Skills
Projects
• Net Zero
• City Centre
• Blue Eden
• FLOW
• Transport
Manufacturing currently makes up around 5% of
the labour market in Swansea however, with the
Blue Eden plans for battery manufacturing, the
demand for compound semiconductors, Freeport
and initiatives to ensure local circular economy
material supply chain demands, this sector is set
to grow in Swansea and the surrounding
counties.
Ensuring the county can keep supply chain,
manufacture and innovation local and reducing
the emissions of the county’s 3rd largest emitting
sector all require an investment in skills
Future Skills Mapping
• Welders / Fabricators Pipe fitters
• Engineers
• Battery and Energy Storage
• Digital literacy, basic to advanced /
Automation
• AI
• Metal workers
• Production operatives
• STEM
• Materials
• Sustainability / Circular economics
• Planning
• Problem solving
• Supply chain management
• Robotics 3D printing / AR / VR
• Energy storage and carbon capture
• Renewable Energy
• Decarbonisation
• Project Management
• R&D
There are opportunities to:
✓ Reduce the gender and diversity gaps and
encourage a more diverse workforce into
manufacturing
✓ Promote the opportunities within communities and
throughout the educational system, both for higher
educational roles are skilled trade roles.
✓ Raising the profile of this vital sector and its
ambitious targets.
✓ Continue to offer the excellent full range of training
for this sector, with neighbouring counties
✓ Collaborate with SME’s for adaption to smarter
industry 4.0 working practices.
Digital, STEM and Engineering skills for this
sector are predicted to increase significantly as
industry look to streamline processes and
increase productivity within the confines of a
tightened labour market.
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