Food manufacturing employers are facing significant skills deficiencies in areas such as supervisors/managers, technical roles, machine operators craft skills. A minimum of 56,000 employees are forecast to retire in the next eight years from the sector. The number of young people entering the workforce each year is falling. (Improve Food & Drink Sector Skills Council)
Undoubtedly, upskilling existing workforces is vital to ensure the next generations of team leaders, supervisors and managers are able to take over and do as good a job as their predecessors.
Industrious will work with your business to assist you in development and succession planning for your multicultural staff. We realise that releasing staff to undertake training is often a time and overhead expense issue. Having fully understood your pressures and constraints, we will make sure the solutions we offer are bespoke to your business and the development programme is directly linked to raising productivity and Health & Safety standards in your workplace.
