1. The Issue – Shortage of Engineers in the Food Industry
John Griffiths, Engineering Director, Princes Ltd

2. Agenda Introduction Engineering Demographics Princes MEOSI
2013
2017
Princes MEOSI
Skill Assessments
Headline Shortage
Why are we doing this?

3. Introduction – John Griffiths
John Griffiths – Engineering Director Princes Ltd (Chairman of the Engineering Trailblazer Group)
Started career in 1983 – As an Apprentice Toolmaker at Marconi (GEC at the time)
Progressed through vocational route to Post Graduate level qualifications Transcended Sectors - Brown/White Goods, Automotive and FMCG

4. Engineering Demographics – Example Princes Ltd 2013
96 Engineers looking to retire in 10 years
191 in next 20 years
Current intake12 Apprentices per year
It will take 16 years assuming no other natural wastage to plug the gap!!!
Apprenticeships are a long term sustainable way of maintaining continuity of the required skills to run our businesses efficiently and effectively and here to stay!!!

5. Engineering Demographics – Example Princes Ltd 2017
Apprentices
114 Engineers looking to retire in 10 years - 3% attrition per year
223 in next 20 years - 65% of workforce
Apprentice intake 4%
Attrition - 3% Retiring 6% Leavers
We have a gap in supply and demand
Need to understand end game No's & skills

6. Princes MEOSI What is MEOSI?
MEOSI is a process that looks at a team/shift of Engineering Technician’s and identifies the skills required to provide a balanced shift to cover the following aspects:
Mechanical skills
Electrical skills
Operational aspects – HSE, Manufacturing, Quality, Business Processes such as SAP
Site Services and Utilities skills
Instrumentation/PLC/SCADA and some aspects of quality in the technology
Skills assessments for all Engineering Technicians will look to benchmark individuals against their current role and identify training needs and skills gaps that will provide the business with a relevant training needs analysis by individual, shift and site.

7. Princes MEOSI

8. Skill Assessments against MEOSI
Sites engaged with skill assessments – Pilot:
4 Sites
70 Technicians

9. Skill Assessments Selected – Typical

10. Skill Assessments Results – Example
Strength – Mechanical
Weaker – Electrical
Weakest – Control Systems

11. Headline Shortage
Professional engineers earn a higher average salary than other professionals. (£45,367 compared with £33,689).
To keep pace with demand, engineering companies will need to recruit over 56,000 engineering technicians per year between 2014 and 2024
Filling the skills gap:186,000 the number of people with engineering skills needed per year to 2024.
2.65 million engineering jobs will need filling by 2024 (234,000 new positions combined with 2.42 million leaving engineering).
The most positive projection of graduates entering into engineering is still 20,000 fewer than needed.
Source Engineering UK

12. The Journey to World Class Asset Management
Arms will lead both elements
Maintenance task review
Erith has a well documented maintenance system – time based
The maintenance system has evolved as all do
Current plans uploaded into Isograph work bench software
Current criticality will be questioned and FMECA will be adopted
Outputs – maintenance tasks scenarios can be run in the software and costs/reliability evaluated/optimised
Minimising costs
Meeting Safety and Environmental Goals
Meeting operational goals
Results uploaded directly into SAP
RCM training will be provided during the project
Works Management
The development of the business processes that enable the delivery of an asset management program

13. The Maintenance Iceberg
A holistic approach to Asset Management excellence should be pursued rather than a narrow pursuit of maintenance cost reduction.