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Nicki Sutherland: Electricity Engineer Association CEO on the report finding the energy sector is understaffed · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: New report this morning, warning we need a lot more
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  Speaker 1: workers in the energy sect and pretty quickly too. Workforce
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  Speaker 1: needs to grow from about eighteen thousand presently to more
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  Speaker 1: than thirty twenty forty. Biggest problem is not just hiring workers,
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  Speaker 1: but how long it takes to turn new employees into
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  Speaker 1: fully competent workers. And they need to be competent to
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  Speaker 1: do the job, don't they. Nicki Sutherland Electricity Engineers Association
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  Speaker 1: CEO of ME this morning, Hey, Nicki, Hey, good morning, Awning,
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  Speaker 1: good thank you. I was reading in this report that
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  Speaker 1: we currently demand exceeding supply for electrical engineers. So if
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  Speaker 1: we want a job, we just got to become an
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  Speaker 1: electrical engineer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Well, the outousy sector takes people from
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  Speaker 2: all different walks of life and all different polls of talent,
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  Speaker 2: so electrical engineers by all means, but we want people
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  Speaker 2: from right across the spectrum.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it growing, Why the need to go from
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thousand to thirty thousand plus.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is about electrocution electrification, but it's also just
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that the electricity sector is becoming now
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  Speaker 2: about powering the economy, and about the key and apor
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  Speaker 2: to prosperity full stop. We should be very proud of
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  Speaker 2: our electricity sector. We're one of the most innovative and
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  Speaker 2: most renewable on the planet. So it's an attractive case
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  Speaker 2: that people come to work, and we just need more
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  Speaker 2: people for today and for the future.
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  Speaker 1: Is the problem attracting them to the idea of working
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  Speaker 1: in the energy sector or is the problem training the
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  Speaker 1: people up that you've got to be good enough.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a mix of both really, and the reason
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  Speaker 2: that we're looking at this now is it's about future
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  Speaker 2: proofing the industry that we're realizing increasingly is fundamental to prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: We're saying there's no crisis now, so we've identified the
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  Speaker 2: issues that we need to get ahead of and putting
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  Speaker 2: a plan in place.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate your time this morning, Nicki. Thank you. Nicki Sutherland
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