High Load,
Short Supply
Bridging the gap to 2030
PSO’s Workforce Plan for the energy sector
PSO’s Workforce Plan for the energy sector
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Queensland
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Proposed Actions
PSO’s Workforce Plan includes nearly 40 actions addressing
- Apprentices and Apprenticeships
- Diversity
- Pathway attraction and awareness
- Renewables and new technologies
- Training workforce, infrastructure and products
Student capacity needs to grow by an additional 22,000 places.
Mature apprentices account for 37% of commencements.
Female participation has only grown 2% over the past decade.
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Case Studies
Energy
Energy Queensland
“Diversity brings different ideas, different methods. If a workplace isn’t growing and adapting, it’s not going to survive.”
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Energy
Ro Lyon –
Electrotechnology Apprentice
“The problem is there isn’t any availability... it took them 12 months to get me booked into my first block of classroom training.”
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Energy
Ian Crowhurst –
Transitioning Eraring Power Station
“It has been a balance of reskilling and upskilling people whilst managing a critical operation.”
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Energy
Stuart Diepeveen
“We’ve had funding for adult apprentices which has really helped us get these candidates up and running.”
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Energy
Duncan Burck
“The challenge for Net Zero businesses is that nothing currently exists to sell or create awareness of the sector to young learners today.”
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Energy
Aarti Seksaria
“We really wanted to find a way to make contributions to the communities we worked in. We also recognised there was a gap in quality education resources for renewable energies.”
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Developed in collaboration with the energy sector
This Workforce Plan is based on the diverse choices of hundreds of
representatives from employers, training organisations, trade unions, jurisdictional and federal government, professional and industry bodies, and energy sector employees and apprentices.
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