The current state of the economy with the decline in projects and manufacturing has resulted in a significant shift in the employment paradigm. In 2014 the profession was busy assisting in the creation of the industry scarce skills identification and listing. Within a year of that publication, we started to experience the implementation of section 189 retrenchment programmes across many levels of industry. Thus in a very short time, we changed from a visible and evident scare skills situation to a scarce jobs situation, particularly in the EPCM environment.

Those affected persons seeking new positions and opportunities are invited to list themselves here with contact details and we will see what we can do to assist them.

This could also enable us to work towards developing a select group of engineering resources that are available to industry on a short term or ad hoc consulting basis. This extends to those wishing to become Mentors for the PDP.