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Land-based Engineering Skills Needs

Working with you to find what skills you need.

 

Basic skills

We know you are more hands on than academic but you still need the basic skills in English and maths to do your job effectively.

Specialist technical skills

68% of employers need staff with specialist technical skills more than anything else.  The development of the Landbased Technician Accreditation Scheme is a nationally recognised way of benchmarking, monitoring and assessing the competence of technicians.  This will make it easier to find the people with the specialist technical skills required or identify the training needed.

Customer care

You often tell us you lose customers because your employees don’t have the people skills needed in today’s competitive market place.  Whether you are a large multi-branch franchise or a small independent dealer your level of customer care can make or break your business.

Business and management skills

Land-based engineering businesses need to develop their business and management skills. The success of the industry is based on people with a passion for land-based engineering who have high technical skills however there is a need to have skills in all areas of the business including planning and finance.

Access to training

You told us that you want more flexible ways to train your staff. With 80% of businesses having 10 members of staff or less, you find it difficult and expensive to spend large periods of time on training courses and want more options, such as bite-sized industry training.

Clear guidance on sources and access to funding

We have been listening. You said it was complicated and time-consuming to find funding and support for you and your business. We have created a special tool that does some of the hard work for you and points you in the right direction.

To find out more about Fund Finder and all the ways we can help you, read more.