Technician Training for the PetroChemical Industry

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Technician Training for the Petro-Chemical
Industry DICIDA 2001 - Wilton 12 December 2001
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Keith Hunter
Managing Director TTE Management Technical
Training Middlesbrough Road East South Bank
Middlesbrough TS6 6TZ Tel [phone]
Fax [phone] Mobile 07970
564840 e-mail Keith_hunter_at_tte.co.uk
www.tte.co.uk
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Strategic TTE Management Technical Training
Partners

• Redcar Cleveland College of Further Education
• TTE Management Technical Training
• EMTA Cleveland Training Centre Ltd
• The NETA Training Group
• The Faraday Centre Ltd
• Nutec Centre for Safety Ltd
• a wide network of other specialist training and
  education providers

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TITC Introduction

• TITC - a consortium company of six Training and
  Education Organisations based in the North of
  England
• TITC offers a unique range of training and
  consultancy services
• TITC services are focussed on Engineering Oil
  and Petro-chemical industries and on-shore and
  off-shore operators and is delivered by a unique
  range of trainers and consultants comprising over
  800 academically and vocationally qualified staff
• Training is delivered to all levels from
  apprenticeships to Post Graduate levels
• Members emphasise safety competency assurance
  and external accreditation
• Current case studies from TTE Management
  Technical Training

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TITC Organisational Arrangements
Board of 6 Non-executive Directors - one from
each organisation one of whom is
chairman. Executive based at Wilton International
(major petro-chemical complex) in offices of TTE
Management Technical Training. Austin Orton
(General Manager) Suhail Mitsubsi (Business
Coordinator) supported by full administrative
team. TITC Ltd will provide client interface
around the world and student/trainee support and
will resource and contract with key strategic
partners or sub-contract for specialist provision
if required - one-stop-shop. Fully participate
on behalf of contractor as key client contact in
e.g. outward missions and pre-tender
presentations and negotiations.
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Current TITC Activities
Technical Training for Major Oil and Gas
multi-nationals Management of out-sourced
training departments for global Multi-national
companies Training of Technicians (on-shore and
off-shore) e.g. BP Exploration Shell. Academic
to Workforce Development for client refinery and
petro-chemical companies e.g. Shell BP AMOCO
Dupont BASF Agip. Off-shore/on-shore Fire
fighting and Survival e.g. North Sea
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TTE Management Technical Training Health
Safety Competency Assurance External
Accreditation

• Operates to the highest standard of Health
  Safety
• TTE has won National Training Awards and won the
  Tees Valley and North East Best Business in the
  Community in 2000
• TTE is registered to ISO 9000 quality standards
• TTE has Investors in People accreditation
• Externally recognised by a range of awarding and
  examination bodies e.g. BTeC City Guilds etc.
• Delivers competence-based technical programmes to
  Petro-chemical and engineering industry-led
  standards through close links e.g. OPITO PINTO
  and CMPNTO
• Is subject to rigorous UK Government inspections
  regimes with their reports available and
  published on the web

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Key Facts TTE Management Technical Training

• TTE Management Technical Training is now the
  UKs largest industry-based training
  organisations focussed on the process and
  engineering sector
• Established in 1990 as a not-for-profit company
  TTE has four operating locations two in the
  North-East of England and two in Central Scotland
• The organisation has a Board of Directors drawn
  from multi-national petro-chemical companies and
  the engineering industry
• About half of the companys 6m/annum income is
  derived from UK government contracts with the
  remainder being training and consultancy income
  from UK industry and international operations
• TTE specialises in the training of technicians
  for the oil gas and chemical sector in the UK
  and around the world
• TTE has trained over 2000 engineering and process
  technicians over the past 10 years in the Tees
  Valley

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Current Area of Work TTE Management Technical
Training
Shell/Nigerian LNG Ltd A 10-month long intensive
programme of training in the UK for 30 newly
recruited Nigerian Technicians in
electrical/mechanical engineering and gas process
operations for Nigerian LNG Ltd Bonny Island
Rivers State. Contract value 1.2m. Kuwait
Petroleum Corporation Project management and
training management to introduce a technician
apprenticeship for young Kuwaiti nationals in
Kuwait City to prepare them to operate and
replace ex-patriot labour. Initially for 12
months but likely to be a rolling three year
programme using OPITO competency standards. A
partnership between TTE Management Technical
Training and OPITO in Aberdeen (the off-shore
NTO). Using Tees Valley based technical
model Contract value 0.5m - first phase
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Libyan National Oil Corporation A wide range of
process safety and engineering courses e.g.
Refinery Operations Ethylene Production using
Union Carbide process and Oil and Gas Terminal
Operations involving some 100 mature Libyan
technicians studying in the UK for between 6-12
months with support via internet and tutorials in
country. Now the 6th year of these
programmes. Contract value (on-going)
4m. BP Management of training programmes
competency assurance and VQ assessment and
verification of some 170 BP off-shore
exploration refinery and downstream
Petro-chemical complex technicians in
Grangemouth Scotland. Electrical/Mechanical
engineering and process/rig operations. Total
contract value 4m.
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Chemical Technician Training for Tees Valley
Programme started in 1996 arising from a need
identified by the Chemical Employers Advisory
Group 10 Year gap since ICI had recruited for a
similar programme future skill shortages were
identified by Dr Ian Pearce working for Durham
University Business School Collaboration between
22 Chemical Manufacturing companies in area each
recruiting between 1 and 6 trainee technicians
each year TTE offers a combined programme of
academic study and vocational experience leading
to City Guilds PPO 123 and NVQ L2 and L3 The
initial group of 12 were the first to gain full
Modern Apprenticeship Certificates award by the
Chemical Industries Association 11 of the 12 now
work for a different chemical company!
Poaching! TTE takes employed status during
period of training sponsors recruit at the end
of the training period more sponsors needed and
demand from young people is high
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Future Issues for Technician Training Need to
link even more closely with schools and promote
technical careers Invest to meet future
technological demands of industry e.g Process
Simulator Deal with combined challenge of both
up-skilling the remaining workforce and
downsizing within the industry Simulate more
interest by selling the benefits of recruiting
more young people to address skill gaps in
client/contractors Promote UK competency-based
training and development of the workforce in the
chemical industry to attract future inward
investment in DICIDA regions Break down barriers
and provide new route ways into Higher Education
e.g. University of Teesside Foundation degree