240124 – AHC & CEC submission – Jobs and Skills Australia 2024-25 Work Plan
1. Engage with industry to determine the workforce, skills and training required to build Australia’s hydrogen industry.
2. Support the National Hydrogen Strategy’s workforce skills and training objectives.
Julian McCoy: [email protected]
The hydrogen industry is in a state of flux, and there is enduring uncertainty around workforce demands across the supply chain in fields such as engineering, operations, maintenance, and safety. The Workforce, Skills and Training Working Group’s primary objective is to identify the occupations, skills and competencies required for the industry’s workforce of the future, and to provide advice on addressing extant barriers to workforce development.
The working group will meet quarterly to discuss the latest developments in the hydrogen workforce research. The group will also hear from various stakeholders to gather information on the current state of the workforce, identify gaps and opportunities for improvement, and inform advocacy efforts to address them.
Two key priorities have been identified for WG 9. The first is to inform the skills and training component of the NHS that has been handed to the New South Wales government. This work has two outcomes: a capacity study, and the development of a modelling tool that serves as a single source of truth for workforce planning of hydrogen projects across the supply chain in Australia. This modelling tool will require industry input to validate and maintain assumptions regarding the occupations, skills and competencies required at each stage of project development.
The second is to shape and inform the revision of the National Hydrogen Strategy (NHS) to ensure workforce considerations are adequately addressed in federal planning and objectives. This includes consideration of education requirements and standards, training, portable entitlements, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
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An extensive network of global leaders, government representatives and industry stakeholders from around the world to focus on evolving the hydrogen industry in Asia-Pacific.
12-13 September 2024 | Brisbane, Australia
Level 20, 180 Lonsdale Street,
Melbourne 3000 Victoria