MANUFACTURING WORKFORCE PLAN 2024
THE MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE MANUFACTURING WORKFORCE PLAN 2024
This Workforce Plan is drawn from extensive work undertaken to identify the critical workforce and skills issues in the context of an economy-wide skills shortage, with the tightest labour market experienced in 50 years.
This Plan builds on the 2023 Initial Workforce Plan and provides an overview of manufacturing in Australia, including the current and emerging sub-sectors within Australian manufacturing.
Through extensive consultation across the manufacturing sector, the Workforce Plan analyses four key challenges facingthe manufacturing sector over the next five years: Attraction and increasing the pipeline of apprentices; Lack of diversity; Ageing workforce; and Emerging skills, occupations and industries.
WORKFORCE PROJECTS
Building a defence manufacturing workforce
In Australia, the demand for skilled labour in the manufacturing sector is expected to surge, with suggestions the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine project alone will require 20,000 new skilled jobs.
Better manufacturing apprenticeship outcomes
The Manufacturing Alliance’s Initial Workforce Plan has highlighted concerns about the completion rate of people entering apprenticeships across manufacturing.
Aviation maintenance skills pathways
The Civil Aviation Authority (CASA) has made changes to licensing regulations that are likely to impact the skills challenges facing the manufacturing industry.
OUR WORK
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES ARE AS BROAD AND DIVERSE AS AUSTRALIA ITSELF
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