Promoted content: How Babcock is investing in future skills

As we are about to reach the end of 2024 and start a new chapter in 2025, I’m taking the time to reflect on what we at Babcock International have achieved over the past year and what we can expect to see  as an engineering community in the coming months.

One of the continuing areas the engineering industry, and our partners, will need to invest in is skills. Skills to create, build, develop and deliver the critical and complex programmes companies like ours manage.

That skills ‘pipeline’ includes the whole gamut of engineering skills, manufacturing skills, digital skills and traditional industrial skills – whether that is recruitment, upskilling or reskilling. It remains one of the biggest challenges in our industry and across the defence sector, as we plan and prepare for the years and decades ahead.

How does this impact crystal ball gazing for technology? Simple. We cannot invest in technology without investing in people. Certainly for 2025 and beyond, this is going to be a continued focus area for Babcock and our partners.