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People first, for a future-fit supply chain workforce.

At Industry Skills Australia, we believe in a “people first” culture where a skilled workforce is about better jobs, increased productivity and creating opportunity.

Draft 2024 Workforce Plans are now available for your feedback

Development of a national Workforce Plan for each of our key industries is central to our role as a Jobs and Skills Council, and critical to our goal of building a world class supply chain workforce.  

Each Plan sets out the workforce development challenges and opportunities facing the industry, and serves as a roadmap for the future by identifying what industry, the national skills system and governments need to do to build an agile, highly productive and resilient workforce.   

With no single stakeholder having the resources or remit to effect the volume of change required, these Plans are essential to establishing a common vision, clear roles and a way forward. 

We’ve purposely prepared a separate Workforce Plan for each industry to optimise their relevance to stakeholders, and to ensure that they are short in length and sharp in focus.  These draft Plans are the result of significant stakeholder engagement, combined with qualitative and quantitative research, and guided by the direction and leadership of each industry’s Strategic Workforce Planning Committee. 

Consultation with industry stakeholders is essential to ensure each Plan truly reflects the needs and priorities of our industry.  Now available for review and feedback, we’ve streamlined the process using a simple and quick feedback form below.

The deadline for responses is the close of business 5 April 2024 AEDT.

We very much look forward to hearing from you. If you have any queries, please contact our Industry Engagement Managers: 

Solving the Challenges Together

As the new Jobs and Skills Council for the nation's transport and logistics sectors, we will be bringing together business leaders, unions, governments, industry organisations and training providers to understand the real issues and collaborate on high impact solutions.

We’re committed to building a world class supply chain workforce to lift the nation’s productivity and create better jobs and careers for Australians. To secure this future we’ll need to tackle many challenges.

Whether its finding ways of getting more skilled truck drivers into the cabs of trucks to keep Australia’s supply chains moving.

Or sourcing a workforce to ensure the $155 billion pipeline of rail projects can be built and operated safely. Or building a strategic fleet to enhance our sovereign maritime capability and creating jobs for Australian seafarers.

Or figuring out how we ensure new workers are skilled to meet the challenges of increasing demand for aviation services. Or building the workforce for our emerging space transport and omni-channel logistics sectors which are both set for strong growth this decade.

Great ideas to address these challenges and many more can come from anyone and anywhere. Whether you’d like to collaborate with us, share your ideas, get involved in our activities or simply stay informed, get in touch now to join us on the journey.

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Australian Digital Capability Framework (ADCF)

The impact of digital technology on our daily lives and the pace of digital transformation has become impossible to ignore. The digital capability challenge impacts all industries in our economy. The Australian Digital Capability Framework will assist in describing the broad digital capabilities required by the Australian workforce. Using common, easily understood language, and a simple, intuitive structure, the Framework can be used for multiple purposes, thereby aligning and strengthening a wide variety of efforts to build the digital capability of the nation's workforce. Find out more about the need for an Australian Digital Capability Framework.

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