NEW YEAR PLANS for younger engineers

[centralheatking]

50% of all GSR engineers are over 50 years of age. 10% of these engineers are intending to retire in the next decade. There is an impending skill shortage. Mix in there will be a massive scheme to convert existing domestic natural gas appliances to hydrogen enhanced natural gas there will be massive demand for new engineers.
My uncles did the town gas to natural gas conversions years ago with 'Press' they all paid off their houses
in a couple of years. I am too old. centralheatking

 

[Scott_D]

There doesn’t seem to be a shortage of gas engineers.
Every other van has the logo on

 

[centralheatking]

50% of all 'Registered Professional Gas Engineer' engineers are over 50 years of age. 10% of these engineers are intending to retire in the next decade. There is an impending skill shortage. Mix in there will be a massive scheme to convert existing domestic natural gas appliances to hydrogen enhanced natural gas there will be massive demand for new engineers.
My uncles did the town gas to natural gas conversions years ago with 'Press' they all paid off their houses
in a couple of years. I am too old. centralheatking

Keele University has launched a 20% Hydrogen Enhanced Natural Gas Supply on its campus for all cooking and heating....the revolution is just begining. centralheating

 

[CHRISX]

50% of all 'Registered Professional Gas Engineer' engineers are over 50 years of age. 10% of these engineers are intending to retire in the next decade. There is an impending skill shortage. Mix in there will be a massive scheme to convert existing domestic natural gas appliances to hydrogen enhanced natural gas there will be massive demand for new engineers.
My uncles did the town gas to natural gas conversions years ago with 'Press' they all paid off their houses
in a couple of years. I am too old. centralheatking

Hello centralheatingking,

The most surprising statistic that I read about the age ranges of Gas Engineers / Gas Installers was from Gas Safe last year where they stated that only 5.9% of registered Gas Engineers / Gas Installers were under 35 years old.

Chris

 

[OffshoreGas]

I don't think there is ever really a skills shortage in any trade, its generally that people aren't willing to work for what the big companies are willing to pay.

 

[CHRISX]

I don't think there is ever really a skills shortage in any trade, its generally that people aren't willing to work for what the big companies are willing to pay.

Hello OffshoreGas,

The Gas Safe statistic of only 5.9% of Gas Engineers / Gas Installers being aged under 35 is obviously correct because it came from an audit of the Gas Safe register so that is a definite indicator of a future Skills shortage in the Gas Industry.

That obviously means that over 94% of registered Gas Engineers / Gas Installers are over 35 years old.

In the HVP online magazine article [October 2019] where I read the 5.9% statistic a paragraph also stated that a survey found that many Gas Engineers are having to retire at around the age of 55 years old due to the physical demands of the job and that apart from the 5.9% of under 35`s young people are not entering the industry to replace those retiring.

Chris

 

[centralheatking]

Hello OffshoreGas,

The Gas Safe statistic of only 5.9% of Gas Engineers / Gas Installers being aged under 35 is obviously correct because it came from an audit of the Gas Safe register so that is a definite indicator of a future Skills shortage in the Gas Industry.

That obviously means that over 94% of registered Gas Engineers / Gas Installers are over 35 years old.

In the HVP online magazine article [October 2019] where I read the 5.9% statistic a paragraph also stated that a survey found that many Gas Engineers are having to retire at around the age of 55 years old due to the physical demands of the job and that apart from the 5.9% of under 35`s young people are not entering the industry to replace those retiring.

Chris

This will have massive impact on any governments plans to green up especially borders are closing to free movement of labour. This next decade is going to be fascinating. centralheatking

 

[OffshoreGas]

Hello OffshoreGas,

The Gas Safe statistic of only 5.9% of Gas Engineers / Gas Installers being aged under 35 is obviously correct because it came from an audit of the Gas Safe register so that is a definite indicator of a future Skills shortage in the Gas Industry.

That obviously means that over 94% of registered Gas Engineers / Gas Installers are over 35 years old.

In the HVP online magazine article [October 2019] where I read the 5.9% statistic a paragraph also stated that a survey found that many Gas Engineers are having to retire at around the age of 55 years old due to the physical demands of the job and that apart from the 5.9% of under 35`s young people are not entering the industry to replace those retiring.

Chris

Some interesting stats, GasSafe published a report a while ago which basically showed the age profile was largely staying the same, those competent to work on gas appliances have always tended to be older. If anything by the graph in it they are getting slightly younger

https://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/media/2490/decade-review.pdf

I still think the number of people in any occupation is governed by wages. You could have a fairly big influx of people from related trades if wages were high enough to attract them.

 

[OffshoreGas]

This will have massive impact on any governments plans to green up especially borders are closing to free movement of labour. This next decade is going to be fascinating. centralheatking

Do you not think they will de skill a lot of the green energy stuff? In the same way when the big companies were rinsing solar PV they employed some electrically competent people but far more semi skilled labour.

 

[centralheatking]

Do you not think they will de skill a lot of the green energy stuff? In the same way when the big companies were rinsing solar PV they employed some electrically competent people but far more semi skilled labour.

I think your analysis is correct, de-skilling might well be the way fwds. I am coming across many more
factory produced component buildings which are essentially just plugged in on site, when a component fails eg Boiler they just dis connect replace and it goes where ever .....back to the robot factory to be dis assembled. I think we will be ok for next decade or so as there are about 20m legacy systems in the UK alone hanging on walls. Its still going to be exciting being involved. CHKing