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t is expected that over 250,000 construction jobs are set to be created throughout the UK in the next five years.
Construction is back with strong investment in commercial and infrastructure and growth in private housing, construction is the industry to be in. Even with Brexit construction still seems to be holding its own. The latest report by the housebuilders association shows the expect fall in housing projects hasn’t materialized at all.
Over the next 5 years some of these major projects will see a huge investment in construction equipment and therefore an equal investment in Operators. With these 250,000 jobs expected to be created over the next five years, of which a good 50,000 are expected to be equipment operators demand for construction workers is high and skills shortages are emerging. It’s never been more important to attract, train and retain the next generation or workers. With the new apprenticeship levy due in 2017 the government hopes this will focus employers in the right direction to train the staff they need no what the training providers want to throw out. In theory this may help, but reality is industry is spending huge resource reinventing the wheel and this only covers apprentices it doesn’t cover upskilling the current workforce with new technologies and equipment. CITB have launched their new initiative ‘Go Construct’ a new web portal showcasing all of the great career opportunities available in our sector, which is positive but what it will still come down to is who will fund the many who would enter our industry but no one is willing to cover the training costs? This edition we focus on training and some of the initiatives in the industry to upskill the current workforce. Look out over the coming months as UK Plant Operators will be looking to raise monies to put 10 persons through s series of machine tickets to highlight the skills shortage we currently have.
Mark McMoran, editor
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This issue’s main story: We talk about Machine Control Simulation & training See pages 20-21 Index of advertisers Ashtead Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Operator Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Volvo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Topcon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 L-Lynch Plant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 IHRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 UKPO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Plant Operator Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 NFPEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 RHL Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Executive Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Plant Operator Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 JuvaPro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Plant 2 Sell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 McMoran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Lynch Plant Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Compliance Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Ashtead Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Marubeni Komatsu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 JCB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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