Service Point Engineering Techport

Techport's ambition is to become the very first green industrial zone in the Netherlands by 2030. To achieve this, it is essential to recruit enough technically skilled workers and to retain the technical personnel already working in engineering within IJmond Techport.

The technical labor market throughout the Netherlands is tight. The IJmond-South-Kennemerland region also has a shortage of technical personnel. Given the large size of the manufacturing and maintenance industry in the region, the aging of the sector, as well as the new professions that are emerging as a result of the energy transition, it is likely that these shortages of technicians will only grow in the coming years.

At the same time, the influx of technicians from training programs is not sufficient to meet these shortages. Part of the solution lies in lateral entry. In order to reduce unemployment and labor shortages and enlarge the pool of technicians, it is necessary to look at the labor market in a different way. It is important that even job seekers without the right diplomas or experience (lateral entrants) can find their place in engineering. The skills approach offers opportunities here. By making skills (the combination of skills, competencies, characteristics and knowledge) of employees and job-seekers visible and valuing them, it is easier to determine what value people have built up for the labor market. That is value that can be deployed for the energy transition.

To achieve this, cooperation is needed. Cooperation within the labor market region and between labor market regions, between intermediaries for job seekers and employers such as Employer Service Points (WSP), UWV and the Regional Mobility Team, but also between and with public and private training providers, industry associations and training funds, governments and trade unions.

Techport wants to intensify the cooperation between parties working to increase lateral flow towards the manufacturing and maintenance industry by establishing a Techport Technical Service Point.

In the Service Point, the Techport and Smart Makers Academy campuses, Koninklijke Metaalunie, FME, Techniek Nederland, Bouwend Nederland, OOM, OTIB, A+O Metalektro, FNV, the Werkgeverservicepunt IJmond-Zuid Kennemerland, RMT IJmond-Zuid Kennemerland, UWV, ROC Nova College and House of Skills combine their knowledge, experience and network. With the aim of bringing together employers and job seekers in the manufacturing and maintenance industry.

This Service Point Technology (SPT) Techport focuses primarily on the labor market region IJmond-Zuid-Kennemerland, but is in close contact with the SPTs from other labor market regions.In the Service Point, the Techport and Smart Makers Academy campuses, Koninklijke Metaalunie, FME, Techniek Nederland, Bouwend Nederland, OOM, OTIB, A+O Metalektro, FNV, the Werkgeverservicepunt IJmond-Zuid Kennemerland, RMT IJmond-Zuid Kennemerland, UWV, ROC Nova College and House of Skills combine their knowledge, experience and network. With the aim of bringing together employers and job seekers in the manufacturing and maintenance industry.

Several projects have now started within the Service Point Technique, such as the Technique Garden IJmond and Techheroes.

Would you like to join this as a company? Or do you have a company where they think out-of-the box when it comes to attracting and retaining new employees? Then sign up at suzan.buss@techport.nl.