Engineering & Manufacturing
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The Engineering & Manufacturing Deep Dive has explored the specialised and transferable skills needs for the sector and there is significant detail to be found in the Engineering & Manufacturing Evidence Base Report. We have summarised the findings below to provide a high-level snapshot of those skills needs.
Specialised Skills
- Quality and compliance
- Revit / AutoCAD / Dialux
- Decarbonisation skills
- Emerging technologies / IT based automation
- Leadership and management
- Software engineering skills
- Electronics
- CNC machining and G-Code programming skills
- Robotics
- Plant specific skills
- Welding
- Tool making and tool setting processing
- Electrical and mechanical engineering
Transferable Skills
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Detail orientated
- Analytical skills
- Willingness to learn
- Communication skills and customer service
- Self-motivation and drive
- Career aspirations / innovation
- Common sense
- Good work ethnic
- Good numeracy, literacy and digital skills
Read our Engineering & Manufacturing Deep Dive reports here
For further information, please see our annexes from the main report
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