Competenz's Strategic Training Plan 2010 - 2015

Introduction
All industry training organisations (ITOs) in New Zealand must, as part of their skills leadership role, identify skill needs in the industries they serve and develop strategic training plans to assist industry in meeting those needs. This role entails ITOs taking a helicopter view of skill needs. This plan identifies the skill needs of the industries Competenz serves, and Competenz's strategic response to those skill needs.

What it covers
Competenz broadly covers food and beverage manufacturing, machinery and equipment manufacturing, other manufacturing, and related industries such as rail and maritime operations. The scope of this plan includes all the industries within Competenz's coverage except rail and maritime operations. The manufacturing sector is complex. Each industry has its own distinct drivers and trends. In addition, many occupations found in manufacturing can also be found in other industries.

This is a high level sectoral plan, which means that some of the broad strategies identified are more relevant to some industries and occupations than others.

This plan takes a wide view of "skills" and "training", as well as the manufacturing sector. Many of the skill needs identified here have implications well beyond Competenz. So, as well as actions for Competenz, implications for the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC)) - Competenz's government funder, education and training providers (providers) and the manufacturing sector itself are also identified.

More detailed Individual sector plans will be uploaded over the following few weeks.

Methodology
This plan draws from a rich evidence base which Competenz has compiled over the last few years - both qualitative and quantitative research and other evidence. The most recent research studies have included interviews with manufacturing employers, providers and other stakeholders. This plan also reflects current tertiary education priorities.

Click here to download Competenz's Strategic Training Plan.

Competenz has used a tool provided by the Industry Training Federation (ITF) to create a large number of profiles of our industries. Much of the data comes from the 2006 Census, updated with data from Statistic NZ's 6-monthly Business Demographic Database and the Linked Employer/Employee Database(LEED).

Please note that that the Australia New Zealand Standard Industry Categories (ANZSIC) do not neatly align to Competenz's industry sectors and that the occupations (ANZCO) identified in the data also do not necessarily align to all the occupations that companies have and/or for which Competenz designs qualifications and unit standards.

Should you wish to run profiles of your own, a copy of the tool can be obtained from Competenz - please contact Mary Kingsbury: m.kingsbury@competenz.org.nz.

Attached are summaries which provide information on several of our industries on the following:

· Growth - over the last 5 years

· Gender

· Ethnicity

· Age

· Migrants

· Regional data

· Skills

· Types of work & conditions

· Income

· Hours worked

· Comparison with Australia