FPM SETA Careers: Design to Manufacturing. Fibre Processing and Manufacturing Careers in FP&MSETA sectors. Many of the key professional and artisan skills in the sector are in short supply both nationally and internationally.
FPM SETA Careers: Scarce skills range from design to manufacturing
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Many of the key professional and artisan skills in the sector are in short supply both nationally and internationally. Check out the latest list of registered learnerships to see how the education sector is responding to industry demands.
Most of the ageing workforce in many sub-sectors is concentrated in these artisan and professional occupations. Even though people are losing jobs here, there’s still a need for FP&M SETA to continue investing in a sustainable supply of these scarce skills.
FPM SETA Careers: New Occupations and Skill Scarcity
Designers are Wanted
New jobs are being created and immediately termed scarce skills. This is because some industries change so fast that there isn’t yet a pipeline of people to choose from for new skills. Companies sometimes have to invest in building these skills themselves.
Design is emerging as an important part of industrial growth in furniture, printing and packaging, clothing, textiles, footwear and leather. Design is therefore a key scarce skill for the sector. These “new” scarce skills are an essential focus of FP&M SETA‘s strategy.
The SETAs have been working with the Quality Council of Trades and Occupations to develop new qualifications. Take a look at some of these new qualifications across different industries:
- NQF. Level 1 and 2 for those with little or no high school and limited if any work experience.
- Awesome NQF Level 3 qualifications for those with some high school and little or no work experience.
- List of NQF Level 4 qualifications for Matriculants or experienced workers.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES: FPM SETA Careers
In order to gain access to some of these opportunities you need to be trained.
FPM SETA Careers: Clothing Sub-sector
- Patternmaker
- Clothing, Textile and Leather Goods Production Operator / Machinist
- Materials Engineering Technologist (not referring to quality advisors)
FPM SETA Careers: Footwear Sub-sector
- Manufacturing Technician / Footwear technician
- Clothing, Textile and Leather Goods Production Operator / Machinist
- Industrial Machinery Mechanic / Machine mechanic
FPM SETA Careers: Leather Sub-sector
- Pattern maker
- Clothing, Textile and Leather Goods Production Operator / Production overseer
- Production Engineering Technologist / Leather technologist
- Clothing, Footwear and Leather Processing Machine Mechanic / Sewing machinist
- Industrial Machinery Mechanic / Machine mechanic
FPM SETA Careers: Textiles Sub-sector
- Clothing, Textile and Leather Goods Production Operator / Machinist
FP&M SETA Furniture Sub-sector
- Wood machinist
- Product Assembler / Wood finisher
FP&M SETA Publishing Sub-sector
- Book or Script Editor / African languages editor
- Copywriter / Copy editor
- Translator
- Publisher / Commissioning editor
- Illustrator / Book designer
FP&M SETA Printing Sub-sector
- Sales Representative (Business Services) / Estimator
- Management accountant
- Mechanized book binder
- Electronic Pre-press Technical Worker / Pre-press operators / technicians
- Production Coordinator / Production planner
- Millwright / Printers mechanic
- Roll Label Machine Technician / Flexographic machine minder
FP&M SETA Print Media Sub-sector
- Newspaper or Periodical Editor / Editor
- Operations Manager (Non-Manufacturing) / Operations Manager
- Multimedia designer
FP&M SETA Packaging Sub-sector
- Industrial Designer / Structural designer
- Research and Development Manager / New Product Developer
- Quality Systems Manager / Quality Controller
FP&M SETA Pulp and Paper Sub-sector
- Bio-refinery specialist
- Production/operations manager
- Fossil Power Plant Process Technician
- Environmental and Occupational Health Inspector / Environmental Practices Inspector
- Industrial Designer / Design and Manufacturing Draftsperson
- Coded welders
- Wood scientists
- Chemical Plant Controller / Plant controller
- Paper and Pulp Mill Operator / Mill operator
- Chemical engineer
- Industrial Engineer / Process engineer
FPM SETA Wood Products Sub-sector
- Saw Maker and Repairer / Saw doctor
- Production Engineer / Wood Products Engineer
- Wood Processing Machine Operator / Grader/analyser
FPM SETA Forestry Sub-sector
- Forest scientists / Geneticists (foresters)
The FPM SETA career brochure summarises scarce skills as follows:
- Technological skills (technologists, including performance improvement technologists)
- ICT skills (professionals, technicians, administrators & developers)
- Production and general management skills (human resource/production/general managers)
- Machine repair and maintenance skills (mechanics, artisans, technicians)
- Operators (manufacturing/plant machine operators)
- Work study skills (work-study officer)
- Administration and marketing (sales, clerks, logistics)
- Technical training skills (technical training manager, trainers)
- CAD technician (design, pattern-making, grading, marking)
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I have N6 on Management Assistant.