Thursday, 21 September 2023
Skills gaps across the infrastructure industry have been compounded by the global pandemic, supply side factors and rising demand. In the wake of these exacerbating factors, Austroads’ latest workforce capability project assessed the skill shortage facing Australia and New Zealand’s transport agencies over the next decade and explored ways to address them.
Austroads has released the Australia and New Zealand Roads Capability Analysis 2022 – 2023 undertaken by Oxford Economics Australia. The analysis provides an estimate of the skills and capabilities required by Austroads member agencies to continue delivering their service objectives, identifies potential and emerging workforce capability gaps and provides agencies and related stakeholders with potential solutions to meet these gaps through future development, national training and capability initiatives.
“With infrastructure investment in road construction and maintenance expected to continue across Australia and peak in New Zealand over the next few years, the insights and solutions contained in the capability analysis provide a clear picture of the realities of the industry, as well as a clear plan on how to address these skills and capability gaps in the workforce,” said Geoff Allan, Austroads Chief Executive.
Download AP-R699-23 Australia and New Zealand Roads Capability Analysis 2022-2032
Data Dashboards
The quantitative data used in the study is available through interactive dashboards which allow users to focus on specific skills and occupation profiles in each jurisdiction. The dashboards will be updated with new workforce data and forecasts through 2024 and 2025.
Webinar
Join us for a webinar on Friday 22 September 2023 at 1 pm AEDT with Adrian Hart and Thomas Creevey of Oxford Economics Australia, moderated by Geoff Allan, Austroads Chief Executive. The webinar will detail a summary of the results and findings of this research, finishing with a live Q&A session to answer audience questions on the future workforce skills required by road agencies, and how they can prepare now for this transition.
No charge, but registration is essential.
Can’t make the live session? Register and we’ll send you a link to the recording.