In a short series of blogs, our Head of Technical Training, John Saysell provides some customer examples of how tailored Assessment and Development Centres can provide a much needed structure when looking to make improvements within your maintenance department. The second blog looks at an example of recruiting competent maintenance staff.

How do I recruit competent maintenance staff?

A large distribution centre was opening. They had the requirement to recruit tens of maintenance technicians with specific skills. Experience of opening other distribution facilities had led to many technicians being recruited but with large skills gaps.

Recruitment Assessment Centre

MCP worked with the customer to develop a recruitment assessment centre. The assessments we developed included:

Safe isolation of 3 phase supply
Fault finding using electrical instruments
Inverter set up
Generic programmable controller fault-finding
Using electrical drawings as a fault-finding aid
Strip and rebuild a pump
Mechanical theory
Belt or chain tension and alignment
Electro-pneumatic fault-finding
Scenario based interview
Computer networking theory

Recruited technically competent staff

We carried out the Recruitment Assessment Centre and recommended staff who had achieved an agreed standard. The customer then carried out their own interview process, prior to recruiting a proportion of the required technically competent staff.

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Read more about Assessment Centres:

Mind the Gap

In our most recent blog we look at why a drinks manufacturer decided to assess its technical operators to help them close the skills gaps to achieve better success.

Assessment Centres - Assessing Skills

In a short series of blogs we provide some customer examples of how tailored Assessment Centres can provide a much needed structure when looking to make improvements within your maintenance department. The fourth and final blog looks at an example of skills assessment.

Assessment Centres - Safety

In a short series of blogs we provide some customer examples of how tailored Assessment Centres can provide a much needed structure when looking to make improvements within your maintenance department. The third blog looks at an example of safety in the workplace.

Assessment Centres - Recruitment

In a short series of blogs we provide some customer examples of how tailored Assessment Centres can provide a much needed structure when looking to make improvements within your maintenance department. The second blog looks at an example of technician recruitment.