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Our client, the Defence Contractor Tier 1, is the world leader in Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC). Our client assists companies throughout the lifetime of their assets, products and infrastructure, helping them assure quality, reduce costs, increase productivity and foster a more responsible, sustainable culture. Our client operates in Australia and New Zealand in 39 offices with more than 1800 employees.
In early 2021, the Australian Defence (Navy) initiated a review of issues and concluded that the existing DEF(AUST) 5000 Maritime Material Requirements Set (MRS) was unfit-for-purpose. As a result, the Australian
Department of Defence asked the Tier 1 Defence Contractor to help rewrite the entire framework and create the new Australia’s Naval Classification Framework (ANCF).
To support this project, The Tier 1 Defence Contractor opened a new office with dedicated teams in Adelaide. To expand its team in Australia, The Tier 1 Defence Contractor sought the help of Easy Skill to find the right talent to realise this project. There were a number of challenges to overcome, in finding the right people.
First, the shortage of skills in the area. It was necessary for the client to have highly specialized skills in compliance within the field of system engineering.
Secondly, location was another challenge. Experts must be based only in Adelaide or Sydney to work on client sites. It’s a big constraint because though these areas have an abundance of talent, the demand is extremely high. Another challenge was the need for security clearances for the experts which is the case for all projects within
defense. Hence, due to the requirement for security clearance, most of the candidates had to be Australian citizens.
Seaworthiness experts
Easy Skill found around 12 talents for our client,
specialized in seaworthiness engineering. These
talents are able to understand how to write
rules and regulations around systems being
used on navy vessels. The system is anything
from combat system, flotation system, any
system used on a ship that needs regulation to
be written.
The goal is to write the rules in a single library.
So anyone in the navy supply chain (to supply
combat or communication equipment) can
find out the specifications and they can supply
the equipment accordingly. When you go to the
complexity of the system, you realize the skills
needed are quite advanced.
An innovative approach to mitigate risks
As well as finding talent and to make sure
the project is successful, Easy Skill decided to
test with our client a risk mitigation approach.
When talents were found, consultants started
the first 3 months with a technical assistance
contract with Easy Skill. After 3 months, if both
the client and consultants were happy with
their collaboration, the client offered a full-time
contract to the consultants. It was the first
time to test this hybrid model for Easy Skill. But
it allowed us to validate the recruitment and
to mitigate the risks between Easy Skill and the
client