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
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