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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: ForestWorks, Solutions ???? Attract following to industry • School leavers • Job seekers, Solutions ???? • Promote required qualifications to advise on timber, Barriers ???? *Offshore supply of estimation and detailing services, Solutions ???? Promotion of the industry at a tertiary level, student visit to timber advice and display centres and other timber organisations, Solutions ???? • Promote mechanical harvesting simulators for training, Solutions ???? attracting Job seekers with high level applied technical aptitudes, *Timber Merchandising occupations in skill demand • Timber product advisors and managers • Internal and external sales people with timber product knowledge • Trained yard staff ( for timber ordering) • Mobile equipment operators • Logistics and transport officers Emerging Skills • high level timber and wood specific knowledge and application (comapred to other products like steel etc) ???? Barriers, *Forest Growing and Management Occupations by skill demand • Professional foresters • hydrologists, • entomologists • Front line and middle management, • supervisors • Production and operations project managers • Silvicultural and harvesting coordinators • cultivators • tree planters • nursery workers • plantation establishment managers • lecturers, trainers, researchers Emerging Skills • Strategic communication, particularly community engagement • Inventory activities Mapping and GPS • carbon trading • Indigenous forest management practices ???? Solutions, Barriers ???? • Sector lacks the capacity, willingness or funding systems in VET to support enterprise training efforts, Solutions ???? • Shift employees to formal skill development, Solutions ???? • Gain interest from farmers with underutilised labour resources, Forest Works Overview There are five key characteristics that continue to shape the industry’s engagement and investment in skills development: • Training for the vast majority of learners occurs in the workplace across the seven industry sectors • High cost to deliver Registered Training Organisation (RTO) based training in the industry due to factors of regionality, low participant numbers and high equipment costs • Low volume of enrolled participants in Vocation Education Training (VET) by this industry in any particular skill area and industry engagement with training providers is still limited • If an employee is made redundant, the current Job Services Australia (JSA) model of services does not appear to sufficiently assist workers in making the transition to new employment • Skill delivery is at risk of market failure due to a low demand on RTOs leading to lack of investment by RTOs, leading to lack of delivery capacity and options and a lack of demand by industry ???? *Timber Merchandising occupations in skill demand • Timber product advisors and managers • Internal and external sales people with timber product knowledge • Trained yard staff ( for timber ordering) • Mobile equipment operators • Logistics and transport officers Emerging Skills • high level timber and wood specific knowledge and application (comapred to other products like steel etc), *Forest Growing and Management Occupations by skill demand • Professional foresters • hydrologists, • entomologists • Front line and middle management, • supervisors • Production and operations project managers • Silvicultural and harvesting coordinators • cultivators • tree planters • nursery workers • plantation establishment managers • lecturers, trainers, researchers Emerging Skills • Strategic communication, particularly community engagement • Inventory activities Mapping and GPS • carbon trading • Indigenous forest management practices ???? BArriers, Barriers ???? • Regional/rural location of mills where this sector competes with other resource industries from the same labour pool, Solutions ???? • Conversion of informal to formal skill development and recognition, Solutions ???? • Up-skilling of existing workers, *Wood Panel and Board Production occupations by skill demand • Electricians • Plumbers • Maintenance fitters • Machine operators Emerging Skills • Experts in quality control of continuous production processes • Timber properties knowledge • Technically skilled operators able to use sector-specific new technologies ???? Solutions, *Sawmilling and Processing occupations by skill demand • Wood machinist (trade) • Saw doctors (trade) • Saw operators • Trade skills e.g. electricians, fitters and machinists, boiler attendants • Production technicians • Timber coordinators and managers • Transport logistics officers • Maintenance engineers • Timber graders • Timber drying/kiln operators (WA, SA Vic) • Timber production operators Emerging Skills • New timber drying techniques • biomass energy implications • Experts in chemical use and handling • Experts in operating computer based equipment ???? Barriers, Solutions ???? • Implement up-to-date handling of chemical use and timber treatment, Solutions ???? • Promote forestry training to second year science students