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Skills Work Stream

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Skills Working Group

• Chair: Ruma Karaitiana

• Purpose: Look at how to improve labour productivity and skills in the sector

• Progress: BETA has been taking the lead on skills which precedes the establishment of the Productivity Partnership

• Funding: BETA (supported by the Tertiary Education Commission)

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From the Taskforce Report

• Ensuring that the sector has the skills and expertise needed to develop NZ’s economic and social infrastructure

• This requires:– being able to recruit and retain highly skilled employees to the sector

– the sector providing a rewarding career with multiple career paths at all levels, from trade/technical to management/professional

with the result that• talented employees will have incentives to invest in developing

their skills and careers• skill levels and productivity will develop in the sector over time.

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From the Taskforce Report

• Industry working with ITOs, tertiary education sector, Careers and other Government agencies at a strategic level on a sector skills strategy:– Career opportunities– Career pathways– Training opportunities linked to career structures/licensing requirements

• Supply and demand for skills and the direction of training funding– Including management/construction management skills, not just entry

level or technical trade

• Structure of qualifications and assessment

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Interim Work

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ITO Role• Legislation - Industry Leadership in matters of Skill for the

industries within their coverage

• Coverage – potentially constrains but focuses – some gaps

• Econometric Research - BETA had jointly collaborated in building an econometric forecasting model with Infometrics Ltd

• Industry Training Plans – All ITOs have developed strategic industry training plans for the individual sub-sectors within their coverage

• Investment – significant investment by both ITOs and the Tertiary Education Commission

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ITO Role Ongoing• Synergy – BETA saw the synergistic opportunity within the

Productivity work to give added context, meaning and application to its work

• Collaboration – BETA is seeking to support the productivity work but only as one collaborator and contributor:

Industry working with ITOs, tertiary education sector, Careers and other Government agencies at a strategic level on a sector skills strategy

• This forum is the next step in spreading the knowledge and understanding as well as the breadth of participation

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ITOs getting on with it!• BETA decided to pick up the initial challenge from the Productivity

Taskforce and carry out initial work

• Focused on the “Picture” work utilising the starting point from the “industry leadership” work

• Formed a Project Team commissioning the Industry Training Federation as Project Managers

• Conducted desktop research, focus groups, one-on-one interviews, consultation forum and produced initial reports and papers

• Prepared starter documentation for “Issues” phase

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Productivity Partnership

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Reconnection!

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Skills Working PartyRuma Karaitiana Chair

Chief Executive, Building & Construction Industry Training Organisation

Victoria Troake Managing Director, Troake Wall and Ceiling Services LtdPresident, Association of Wall and Ceiling Industries of NZPresident, New Zealand Specialist Trade Contractors Federation

David Nummy Co-Executive Dean, Faculty of Technology & Built Environment, UNITEC

Tom Ellis Project Manager- Building, Fletcher Construction Company Ltd, Wellington

Derek Baxter Chief Executive, Certified Builders Association of New Zealand

Doug Gorman General Manager, Strategic Labour Market Policy, Department of Labour

Jeremy Baker Executive Director, Industry Training Federation

David Fabish Managing Director, David Fabish LtdVice-President, New Zealand Registered Master Builders Federation

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Sector Reference GroupRuma Karaitiana Chair

Chief Executive, Building & Construction Industry Training OrganisationSimon Barber Managing Director, J D Barber Construction Ltd

President, Wellington Registered Master Builders Association Allan Shaw Managing Director, Atrium Homes Limited

Chairman, Certified Builders Association of New ZealandDr Andrew Cleland Chief Executive, Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ)Beverley McRae Executive Director, New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA)Neville Ward Head of School - Building Trades and Engineering, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute

of TechnologyTrevor Helm Managing Director, T J Helm Plumbing Ltd, Chair - PGDRITO

Past President, New Zealand Master Plumbers AssociationShane Taane Local Government New Zealand

Manager Building Compliance, Porirua City CouncilKen Eastwood Investment Manager, Tertiary Education CommissionDavid O’Connell General Secretary, New Zealand Building Trades UnionNeville Simpson Chief Executive, The Electrical Contractors Association of New ZealandDr. Jasper Mbachu Senior Lecturer and coordinator, Construction Programmes, School of Engineering &

Advanced Technology, Massey UniversityJack Harris Operations Manager, Fletcher Construction Company Limited Christchurch

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What have we done so far?• Reviewed all prior work

• Contextualized with a productivity focus

• Reexamined the key definitions of productivity

• Identified the big themes & tested and challenged aspects

• Considered boundary issues e.g. what is in and what is out

• Sorted issues in a matrix posting issues against sector levels

• Examined skills strategies developed within other economies

• Requested some further research and information

• Evaluated some additional tools (ongoing) Note: Futures

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Other Tools (example)

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What’s Next• Some critical decision making

– Likely final shape and style of the Strategy document

– Definitions of Productivity

– Shift from Issues identification and sorting to Options phase (possible responses and likely responsible entities)

– Futures challenge – what would 2020 look like?

– Communication strategy implementation(including awareness raising and enhanced consultation)

– Preparing final form of draft Strategy document

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Targets!

• A draft Strategy document ready for a launch by29 June 2011

•Planned and structured consultation with sector

•Underpinning communication strategy

•A finalised Construction Sector Skills Strategy launchedSeptember 2011

•Action Plan implementation phase

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Feedback on Matrix

• We will gather up all worksheets• Will email out an electronic copy to all attendees

• Will report back “Top 5” from each group• Please send any further comments / ideas /

suggestions to:

• Jenny Connor - jenny@itf.org.nz

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