Technical Assessment Centres
We have carried out maintenance development centres and recruitment engineer assessment centres on over fifteen hundred candidates over the last 17 years
Technical Assessment Centres
Corporate liability legislation underpins the need for technical staff to be properly trained and competent to work safely. MCP has carried out maintenance development centres and recruitment assessment centres on over fifteen hundred candidates over the past 17 years.
MCP works with a number of well-known companies across the food, drink, pharma and car manufacturing sectors providing maintenance skills’ assessment and development programmes. The Technical Assessment Centres are established within the organisation and provide an extensive practical assessment of technical staff and support their skills development programmes, including health and safety awareness.
We have extensive experience in providing competence assessments or trade tests for both your existing staff and new recruits. We customise the assessment to meet your requirements.
Working with the customer we select the best assessments for the plant and equipment in the business. If existing skills-based assessments are not appropriate we develop additional skills-based and/or task-based assessments.
The practical competence approach includes:
Communication sessions
Task analysis – vocationally competent maintenance engineers walk the job with the technicians, listing key tasks that the maintenance technicians undertake.
Identification of core competencies
The design of assessments – to ensure the assessments fit with best practice and company procedures.
Delivery of assessments
Report on individual/shift/department performance
Recommendations to develop staff
Sourcing and scheduling of training
Delivery of training
Job roles and profiles
A suite of standard assessments has been developed for maintenance skills. These include:
Electrical safe isolation
Electrical fault finding using instruments
Inverter set up and commission
Basic programmable controller fault finding
RCD testing
Earth loop impedance testing
Pneumatics practical
Belt or chain alignment and tension
Mechanical safe isolation
Pumps; hydraulic, diaphragm and peristaltic
Electro-pneumatic fault finding
Calibration
Temperature sensors
Pressure sensors
Stroking control valve
I to P converter
Professional interview
Reading drawings electrical and mechanical
Mechanical Theory
Electrical theory
Robotics theory
Numerical assessment
Scenario-based interview