Companies operating in South Australia’s mining and resources sector are planning for an additional 35,000 jobs over the next 16 years, the Resources and Engineering Skills Alliance (RESA) says.
RESA released preliminary figures today from an analysis of South Australia’s mining workforce requirements in the run-up to 2030.
RESA will present the full research results, including critical areas of demand at a Resources Industry Productivity business breakfast forum at the Adelaide Convention Centre on 17 October.
“It is important to appreciate that this estimate is more than double the number in South Australia’s resources sector at present,” RESA Chief Executive Phil de Courcey, said today.
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“It poses a serious challenge of where the state sources these employees and whether we can access the right talent pool in sufficient numbers to meet this rapid growth in workforce demand for advanced mining projects,” de Courcey said.
The resources industry workforce in SA currently employs just over 15,000 staff in operating minerals and oil and gas projects.
The new longer term mining job challenge follows a RESA report earlier this year, The South Australian Workforce Scoping Study 2013 – 2020, covering the 20 operating resources projects in South Australia, which found that the number of workers employed in the sector would remain fairly constant over the next seven years, without taking into consideration the new mining projects to be commissioned.
de Courcey said today that the soon to be released full study results will show that in addition to these existing 20 resources projects, there are expected to be around 40 new mining and infrastructure projects up to 2030 that will require an additional 35,000 employees.
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