The Maritime Skills Pipeline Project will develop and validate a national Maritime Skills Pipeline Model to support training pathways, accelerate seafarer supply, and strengthen maritime workforce planning.
The Maritime Skills Pipeline Project, led by Industry Skills Australia, is a national initiative to develop and validate a Maritime Skills Pipeline Model.
This model will support the implementation and coordination of initiatives to build Australia’s maritime workforce, including improving training pathways, accelerating seafarer supply, and supporting strategic workforce planning in collaboration with government and industry.
Skilled workforce shortages pose a major challenge for Australia’s maritime industry.
This project will help create an agreed national framework for mapping existing and planned initiatives, improving collaboration between the national skills system, regulators and stakeholders, and strengthening actions to address occupational shortages.
The project will design and validate an agreed Maritime Skills Pipeline Model for the Australian maritime industry.
It will identify effective approaches to attracting, skilling and retaining maritime workers, engage with employers, unions, regulators and government, and develop recommendations to better coordinate workforce development activity across the maritime skills system.
ISA is currently working closely with industry stakeholders to test early findings and develop a shared understanding about the key challenges impacting maritime training, workforce progression, and career pathways.
Feedback gathered through this engagement will inform the development of a draft Maritime Skills Pipeline Model.