With many businesses across the Central Coast struggling to find skilled workers, the Intercept Training Group has just launched a new Safety Training Facility in Tuggerah.
The group’s brief is to upskill residents to find their dream role right on their doorstep, with the new facility focussing on the construction industry and seeking to benefit from city dwellers moving their families from the city to the Coast.
Intercept Training Group has been running job-ready training courses on the Central Coast and Newcastle for over 23 years and the new facility will provide construction courses such as white card, enter and work in confined spaces, working safely at heights and forklift licences.
Intercept Training Group Owner and Director, John Forsyth, said the region had seen a real demand for construction qualifications.
“With the inception of big businesses and greater construction happening across the Coast, it made sense to expand our award-winning training services to cover a great skillset in this area,” he said.
“Whilst our other training locations provide facilities for learning across a wide mix of disciplines for every industry, some construction courses such as the forklift licence and working at heights, need much greater space to facilitate.
“It made sense for us to obtain a large warehouse where these courses could be provided all under one roof.”
Group General Manager, Brett Watters, said construction is no longer a male dominated industry.
“Gone are the days of all-male training sessions – we are seeing an increase in females keen to work in the construction industry and many large construction businesses are really supporting this which is fantastic,” he said.
“We wanted to create a really comfortable space with the very best equipment and trainers locally, that was easily accessible for residents from anywhere on the Coast.
“We have longstanding partnerships with hundreds of businesses and job providers and regularly achieve over 90 per cent work placement rate after someone has completed a course with us.”
Primary source: Media release, Aug 16, 2022, Intercept Training Group