13.30 - 14.30: Babcock Design & Technology

BD&T will discuss how you can be part of the team that delivers solutions for their most challenging projects. See below for more....

14.45 - 15.45: Train2Gain: Skills for Employers Workshop

Business Link will discuss the skills challenges currently facing the region and will highlight how employers can benefit from the Train2Gain service to combat these challenges and remain one step ahead. See below for more....

16.00 - 17.00: SEMTA - Innovation & Skills

An overview of the issues and possible solutions identified by the marine sector across the UK; a discussion on how they are reflected in the North East and how funding for employers could be used to implement those solutions. See below for more....

These workshops are free to attend; to register please emailinfo@marinedesigncentre.com or call us on 0191 255 1710

Thanks to our workshop sponsor SEMTA        

Location: Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne

Babcock Design & Technology

Being part of the UK’s single largest Marine Engineering organisation brings unrivalled challenges and opportunities for the team at Babcock Design & Technology. As such we are focussed on providing an environment and culture that ensures we get the very best that our people can deliver for our clients.

Our services are delivered within the Defence and Commercial markets in support of some of the most impressive projects being undertaken today. As such, our Engineers are at the forefront of an impressive array of projects from the design and construction of the Royal Navy’s new CVF carriers, to designing the largest commercial vessel in the world targeted to meet the challenges of deconstructing and decommissioning the worlds ageing offshore assets.

Currently employing over 440 engineers and technicians within the UK we are headquartered at Rosyth on the North bank of the River Forth and also have offices in Tyneside and Weymouth.

Principal Market Sectors:– Oil & Gas, Marine, Defence, Transport

Principal Specialisation:- Naval Architecture, Mechanical, Electrical, Structural & Utilities

Train2Gain: Skills for Employers

The Business Link service provides free, independent information and advice to help new businesses start and to help established businesses to learn new skills, improve efficiency and raise competitiveness. In the North East the support offered includes workforce development and training under the Learning and Skills Council’s Train2Gain service.

The Train2Gain service exists to help employers improve the skills of employees, unlock talent, and drive improved business performance.

Through Train2Gain employers can access quality-assured, impartial advice from Business Link’s skills brokers, with sector expertise, to help identify their skills needs at all levels and source the training solutions that best address business requirements.

Train2Gain will help employers access high-quality, vocational skills training, delivered at a time and place to suit them, from a wide range of providers.

SEMTA: Innovation & Skills

Sector Skills Council for Science Engineering and manufacturing is licensed by Government to provide a route for employers to discuss and influence the skills and educational needs of their sector.

This has been achieved through the creation of a Sector Skills Agreement.

Stage 1 of this workshop will present an overview of the issues and possible solutions identified by the Marine Sector across the UK, with a discussion on how these issues are reflected in the North East region.

Following discussion delegates will explore possible solutions at a regional level.

Semta are pleased to announce that they are the first Sector Skills Council to enter into a Sector Compact with DIUS which has ring fenced £65 million for use by employers in England to address some of the skills issues for their sector.

Stage 2 of this workshop will be a presentation on the key points of Compact and develop with delegates the possible solutions identified in Stage 1

These workshops are free to attend; to register please email info@marinedesigncentre.com or call us on 0191 255 1710