Armed Forces could plug low carbon vehicle skills gap
Green skills and training news – by GreenWise staff
8th September 2011
The automotive industry is looking to the Armed Forces to help plug a skills gap the industry is facing in low carbon vehicle technology.
In the first initiative of its kind, today will see the launch of an
Industry Awareness Day to recruit
ex-Service personnel to join the growing
low carbon vehicle sector. The new initiative aims to tap into an expected upsurge in personnel leaving the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force over the next six to 12 months and looking for civilian employment.
The Government announced this month it would make 930 RAF and 920 Army redundancies with the figure expected to rise to 22,000 over the next four years.
"There exists within the low carbon vehicle sector some very exciting employment opportunities, requiring the kind of skills and experience offered in abundance by many of those leaving the Forces," said Brendan Connor, chairman of the UK's Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Technologies (Cenex) which is organising today’s event in conjunction with the Forces' Career Transition Partnership.
Skills shortages Cenex envisages could be filled by ex-Services personnel include those working in vehicle technology development and manufacturing, infrastructure deployment, and engineering maintenance and support.
Today’s Industry Awareness Day is being held at the UK's Low Carbon Vehicle event (LCV2011) at the Rockingham Race Circuit in Northamptonshire.
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