Rolls-Royce SMR joined NSAN in November 2021 and this case study focusses on how the organisation has developed and used NSAN’s online Skills Assured Competency Management System, available free to all NSAN members.
Skills Assured enables businesses to assess, verify, maintain and showcase the competence and training needs of their employees, easily, consistently and confidently. The system provides an important source of evidence of
workforce competency for the GDA.
Rolls-Royce SMR is driving forward the vision to deliver clean, affordable energy for all by deploying a fleet of UK-designed factory-built Small Modular Reactor (SMR) power plants – each capable of generating 470MW of lowcarbon electricity for at least 60 years.
Rolls-Royce SMR takes well-understood technology and applies a unique manufacturing philosophy to its fabrication and assembly. The Rolls-Royce SMR offers a modularised, standardised, factory-built product that is affordable, deliverable and investable.
The Rolls-Royce SMR is progressing through the UK regulators’ Generic Design Assessment (GDA) to ensure the design meets the highest standards of safety, security, safeguards and environmental protection.
Skills Assured is one of the NSAN products already in use by Rolls-Royce SMR. Alex Bowness joined the company in 2022 and is now Learning and Skills Systems Manager. She is responsible for the development and roll out of Skills Assured across the business. To do this she is working closely with NSAN
and the software developers MKM Software Solutions.
Alex has mapped 237 job roles across three teams. She described how Rolls-Royce SMR began with the competency framework previously developed by NSAN, then drew on other sources and customised them to meet their requirements. Competencies were mapped to job descriptions with support from line
managers.
Every member of staff using Skills Assured received training where they can see how to use the system and ask questions. In total, 427 staff have been trained. Individuals then complete the competence assessment which is reviewed with their line manager. Skills Assured assessments will then be updated every 12 months, and feed into monthly catch ups and 6-monthly performance reviews.
The next planned improvement is to link Skills Assured to their Learning Management System which holds all training records.
Skills Assured is free to use for members of NSAN. If you would like more information on the system, please contact your Relationship Manager for more information.
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This document has been developed to clearly articulate to Senior Representatives within the nuclear sector (Operators and Supply Chain) the various skills development tools and techniques (Capability Model) available for implementation by member organisations of NSAN and Cogent Skills.
To assist NSAN members with the implementation of the products within the Capability Model, a self –assessment ‘Maturity Assessment Tool’ has been developed for members to use to assess their progress against the Capability Model.
To help organisations and individuals identify the appropriate products and services that meet their business needs, NSAN developed the ‘Capability Model for the UK Nuclear Industry – Good practice approach to training, accreditation and nuclear professionalism’.
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