The Skills Champion will be named at the Manufacturing Champions Awards this December and honours the employees behind the most impressive site training and development initiative.
The award, sponsored by JTJ Workplace Solutions, follows persistent problems finding suitably skilled production and engineering personnel reported by frontline operators.
Almost 90% of manufacturing managers reported suffering from a skills shortage in WM’s 2015 People & Productivity report.
The Skills Champion Award recognises those that have taken pro-active steps to address the skills gap and up-skilled their employees.
Max Gosney, WM group editor, said: “We want to hear from trailblazing site teams who have kept one step ahead of skills shortages by growing their own talent. The award is open to any factory team that has taken a considered look at its workforce’s skillsets and looked to enhance their capabilities through committed training and development.
“You could have coached up apprentices, operators or FLT drivers- job titles don’t matter: we want to hear about training that has changed lives.”
If you have coached or developed your workforce talent then enter for theSkills Champion Award now.
The Manufacturing Champions Awards are held on 8 December and celebrate the people whose pride and professionalism help British factories compete with the best in the world.
