Strategic Workforce Planning​

Strategic workforce planning helps your organisation identify its people requirements and develop the plans needed to ensure your demands are met.

Workforce Planning

With an ageing workforce and shortages of technical and engineering-related skills in the labour market, forecasting future demand and supply of talent is one of the most critical strategic challenges facing organisations within the energy and utilities sector today. 

A longer-term, strategic approach to talent attraction, retention and redeployment is required in order to maximise the potential of all available talent pools and ensure a resilient and sustainable skilled workforce.

  • Understand the dynamics of your existing workforce
  • Manage your workforce to avoid skills shortages or over-supply
  • Manage the redeployment of people
  • Put your talent requirement into a wider context
  • Develop appropriate resourcing strategies / scenarios
  • Algin your HR, strategic, business and finance plans
  • Gain added value from the process of internal engagement and consultation
  • Maximise your Apprenticeship Levy returns
  • We can deliver strategic workforce planning training to your at a time and place to suit you
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Why Energy & Utility Skills?

  • Energy & Utility Skills has more than a decade’s experience supporting UK industry in identifying and achieving their workforce planning strategy ambitions – working with both individual companies and sector-wide collaborations.
  • Our workforce planning consultant has a unique approach to generating intelligence that can inform your organisation of the likely impacts of both internal and external factors on skills and labour acquisition and retention. Enabling your organisation to be resilient to structural and cultural changes, better positioning itself for the future.
  • Our strategic workforce planning consulting includes a range of products and services designed to meet your individual requirements, circumstances, timescales and budget.

Organisations that have benefited from our unique approach

“Rob’s insights and experiences were much appreciated and valued. The insight that this has given us to create plans to address our potential workforce gaps will make a big difference to our business.”
- Southern Water
“The scope and thoroughness of the workforce planning reports we requested from Energy & Utility Skills have impressed far and wide within SGN. Robert Murphy impressed us greatly with his willingness to pull out all the stops to help us achieve deadlines. The entire project exceeded my expectations.”
- SGN
“Significant value has been created for our organisation over this eight-year period by getting Energy & Utility Skills involved with National Grid’s price control submission”
- National Grid

Contact Us

Contact us if you’re looking for a trusted, reputable and high quality partner to support the training and upskilling of the energy and utilities sector workforce.

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