With skills shortages biting across the firm and an ageing workforce, ScottishPower identified a need to increase the levels and range of apprenticeships to provide a steady pipeline of talent.
ScottishPower is an energy company based in Glasgow and the distribution network operator for Central and Southern Scotland, Merseyside, and North Wales approximately 5,500 employees in the UK. They had labour shortages in several different roles including overhead linespersons, craft engineers, electrical engineers and project managers due to low availability of skills and competition from other energy companies. This, coupled with an increasingly ageing workforce, meant they had to focus on a sustainable succession plan.
Identify and invest in the business areas most affected by shortages
ScottishPower has a long tradition of delivering apprenticeships in the key skills areas of jointing, fitting and overhead lines. As skills shortages emerged, one of the first steps ScottishPower took was to create additional apprenticeships across the areas they needed people the most, such as in craft, power, electrical engineering, project management and Digital/IT.
The second step was to initiate a recruitment drive, ensuring it was target
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