Technical Assessment Centres

We have carried out maintenance development centres and recruitment engineer assessment centres on over 2,000 candidates since 2005.

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 two thousand candidates since 2005.

Technical Trainer, Mark Everson explains the benefits of Maintenance Development Centres.

We work with well-known companies across the food, drink, pharma, and car manufacturing sectors providing maintenance skills assessment and development programmes. The Technical Assessment Centre provides an extensive practical assessment of technical staff. The outputs support the candidates’ 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. We can also explore other areas using a tailored professional interview.

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, centrifugal 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

Benefits include:

  • Formal evidence of competence of technicians

  • Notification of training needs

  • Third party assessment by experienced assessors

  • Improvement in safety standards following training

  • Uplifted performance of maintenance team following training

  • More motivated technicians following training

Technical Assessment Centres are available onsite. For more information on this:

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