Water Industry needs people

Future Water has initiated a regular  ‘Taking the pulse of the water sector’ Health Check.

A routine “check in” so we can reflect on the challenges that the industry is facing and work with regulators, utilities and the supply community to explore how best to meet those challenges.

We started the check by asking:

Paul Horton, CEO, Future Water added:

What is obvious at the present time is that access to people represents one of our biggest challenges. Not only do we need to cover off existing roles but we need to ensure new people come into the industry in sufficient number and from a range of backgrounds.

I hope that the first of our health checks have highlighted an area that needs immediate attention.

Melissa Harrison-Crowley, Head of Partnerships, added:

Every sector is having trouble recruiting staff in the UK currently. With over one million open vacancies in the UK, there simply aren’t enough skilled people to fill the jobs. The water sector needs to urgently address its own skills shortage now and in the future by working together, to make the sector a destination employer. To Help tackle the issue Caraffi in partnership with Future Water has created #TheWave.

 

#TheWave is a movement and action group set to transform the water sector as a whole into a destination employer. Because careers in the water sector are the best-kept secret. A sector with strong purpose and the first to pledge to go netzero by 2030. Collaboration is the key. We need to do this together. We’re overcoming the sector’s talent challenges through innovation, collaboration and momentum.

Facilitated by Caraffi, with the support of Future Water, our founding members across the sector, we will build and deliver on a plan to overcome talent challenges through innovation, collaboration and momentum. Our mission is to attract diverse talent to choose the water sector.

The call to action is to join the movement.