A senior oil and gas engineer has pledged to help ensure industry has the skills for net zero after being named as the new Regional Chair for the North Scotland by the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board. Steve Hamilton, who is Chief Technical Authority, EMEA, with [...]
The ECITB’s Project Collaboration Toolkit has been praised as “an extremely valuable resource”, helping to reduce risk and driving value by the developers behind a major subsea project. The ECITB’s Project Collaboration Toolkit has been praised as “an extremely valuable resource”, helping to reduce risk [...]
Ten future engineers have started out on their career journeys as they study to become wind turbine technicians on the new ECITB Scholarship at North East Scotland College (NESCol). Created by Government skills body the ECITB, with support from the Energy Transition Zone (ETZ), the new scholarship aims to [...]
The UK Government’s newly published Hydrogen Sector Development Action Plan highlights the nature and scale of opportunities presented by hydrogen production, transmission and storage in the UK. The Action Plan mentions the work of the ECITB, which it states is ‘pivotal in driving forward collaboration with employers, training providers [...]
The food and drink manufacturing sector experienced fewer delays and downturns during the pandemic than other engineering construction industry (ECI) sectors resulting in fewer job losses, according to findings from the ECITB’s Workforce Census. Analysis of survey data provided by 29 ECITB-registered companies working in the food and drink [...]
Engineering construction contractors working in the UK’s chemical sector have been among the hardest hit by the pandemic with headcount almost halving between 2019 and 2022, according to a new report published by the ECITB. The ECITB’s Workforce Census provides a detailed snapshot of the engineering construction supply [...]
Contractors working in the water treatment sector saw their workforce decline by almost one-fifth during the pandemic – more than any other engineering construction industry (ECI) sector - according to findings from the ECITB’s Workforce Census. With almost half of the remaining workforce set to retire within the [...]
Engineering construction firms operating in the UK’s Power Generation sector are set to grow their headcount by a third by 2023 compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report published by the ECITB. The power generation sector includes supply chain companies involved in electricity generation from coal, [...]
The renewable energy industry has a central role in meeting the UK’s net zero targets, but the sector must address its ageing workforce to avoid skills challenges in the future according to new research by the ECITB. The renewables sector, which includes wind, wave, tidal, hydro power, solar [...]
The ECITB is celebrating the achievements of the latest cohort of mentees and their mentors to successfully complete its highly acclaimed Project Management Mentoring Programme. A total of 18 project managers from the oil and gas, subsea, nuclear, engineering, and design sectors took part in the ECITB’s Oil [...]
