The Capability Development Group (CDG) is a pan industry, innovative, inclusive, and trusted group that provides engagement, leadership, coordination, collaboration with industry to support and enable sustainable capability development in engineering, asset management, technical and safety.
The CDG works with the electricity supply industry and other key stakeholders to connect the industry across Aotearoa, New Zealand to understand needs and opportunities solve health and safety issues, share knowledge and promote standardisation.
Objectives
- Provide a focal point that supports, informs and influences decision makers and stakeholders.
- Collaborates, coordinates, leads and promotes knowledge, quality, and good practices in capability development in the NZ electricity industry.
- Provide advice and guidance to improve industry capability development including understanding issues, decision making, planning, learning processes and practices, and quality benchmarking.
- Identify current and future capability needs – collaborate with industry, learners, training providers and Government to understand current and future skill, knowledge and professional development needs in the electricity supply industry.
- To enhance the value and uptake of skill development for engineers, technical and safety professionals, engineering technicians and trades people who are part of the electricity supply industry.
- To create support and/or implement delivery of relevant and quality learning and development programmes to meet industry needs.
Delivery
The CDG objectives will be delivered through:
- The development of courses and guidance use of standards by the electricity supply industry and other key stakeholders
- Facilitating professional development opportunities including workshops/forums
- Responding to industry queries
- Monitoring New Zealand and overseas trends.
- Liaising with Government agencies, and other local and international organisations
- Benchmarking best practice in education and training
- Disseminating relevant information to industry.
- Undertaking other matters as determined by the EEA Executive Committee.
Members
- Michael Whaley (Chair), Consultant
- Andrea O’Brien, Northpower
- Andrew Renton, Transpower
- Brad Rooney, Electronet
- Rachel Masters, Unison
- Rob McCrone, Consultant
- Stuart Johnston, EEA
CDG advisor and projects manager is Hayley Head – EEA Principal Advisor Health and Safety.