Energy: Fossil Fuels
Workforce Development & Training
GP’s workforce and training support services focus on improving the skills of your most important asset—your people. Since training is one of our company’s core competencies, you can count on world-class solutions, developed around best practices and proven processes.
Benefit from comprehensive programs, all from a single provider.
When you work with GP, you’ll have the consistency, convenience, and accountability of addressing all your workforce development needs through a single, world-class source. Each of our solutions is tailored to your culture, equipment, processes, and objectives, including:
A training needs analysis identifies the current level of your employee’s knowledge and skills and compares them to your company’s needs and expectations, as well as those from other best-in-class power companies. The training needs analysis also analyzes your training resources (staffing and materials) as well as your facilities used for training. This process uncovers gaps and allows GP to prepare a training plan to align your needs with your expectations. Your TNA will identify:
- How to achieve best-in-class results
- Priorities for training program improvements
- How to sequence training interventions
- ROI calculations that address your business goals
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This analysis is a complete and thorough review of jobs and tasks performed by all job classifications at your plant. During this analysis, GP will gather data and provide your company with a report outlining each job position and all the tasks and skills associated with that job. This information can then be used to determine training program content as well as define job duties. By conducting a JTA we can determine:
- The difficulty, importance, and frequency of job tasks
- The duties and tasks that lead to successful performance of a job
- The elements that characterize a task
- The tools or resources needed to assist the individual performing each task
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We work with you to develop a blended learning (i.e. using many delivery modes) solution for each job classification within your plant. An implementation plan for structured on-the-job (OJT) is also incorporated into the program. Our qualification program typically encompasses several different aspects including:
- Job performance measures (qualification check off sheets and cards)—A uniform standard to evaluate the skills of personnel. Each step is explained and expected responses are included.
- Qualification exams to test the knowledge and skills of personnel.
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GPiLEARN is an online, web-based training portal with over thousands of power plant lessons and exams, providing “blended” (i.e. consisting of many delivery modes) learning solutions for the power industry 24/7. By using GPiLEARN, you can create curricula for your personnel including classroom courses, oral boards, job performance measures, structured OJT, comprehensive exams, as well as GPiLEARN lessons and exams. These curricula are assigned, managed, and tracked using a world-class learning management system (LMS).
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GP can work with your company to design, develop, and implement apprenticeship programs for any discipline area in your power plant. We have created numerous programs that have been approved at the State and Federal levels.
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Experienced GP training specialists can come to your site and work with contractors and engineers to gather information on new equipment that is being installed during a unit outage. They then conduct operator classroom training sessions and equipment walkdowns and work with management to complete the training with minimal impact on operator schedules. GP’s J-I-T OT allows operators to perform their critical outage work while GP chases the information needed for training operators on the new equipment.
GP’s just-in-time outage training ensures your operators know the location and purpose of the new equipment and how to operate it—prior to unit start-up, when costly mistakes typically happen. After the unit comes back on line and the new equipment is fully debugged and commissioned, GP will fill in any missing information, such as final setpoints and alarm responses, to ensure the final training materials are accurate and complete.
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Make sure your employees have the skills and knowledge needed to operate and maintain a safe and efficient plant. GP’s staff of highly experienced instructors helps your power plant personnel learn how to maximize the availability, capacity, and efficiency of your equipment and facilities. All of our power plant courses can be presented at your site and customized to suit your needs and equipment. Additionally, many of our courses are available on an open enrollment basis at locations across the US.
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Structured on-the-job training (OJT) guides are developed to address critical tasks or operating sequences needed to successfully learn certain jobs. These guides are integral to your site-specific system descriptions (SDs), operating procedures (OPs), and/or maintenance procedures. All OJT tasks are analyzed to determine the best method of learning a particular knowledge or skill.
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Power plant curricula can be developed for all your specific job disciplines. GP has designed curricula for control room operators, mechanics, chemists, technicians, and numerous other classifications of plant personnel. We recommend a blended learning solution which includes instructor-led training classes, structured OJT, oral boards, job performance measures, comprehensive exams, online training classes, and other methodologies.
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A talent management strategy is critical to attracting, managing, developing, motivating, and retaining key people in your company. Based on your needs, GP can create a world-class talent management strategy for your technical and non-technical workforce. This approach encompasses many aspects to ensure your business can run more efficiently and effectively.
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The success of any organization is highly dependent upon the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the workforce. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly difficult to attract and retain the very best workers within the power industry.
GP offers several services that enable our customers to make the critical link between people and top-quality job performance. Our process begins with an effective screening and hiring service that ensures only highly qualified candidates are considered for employment. Our goal is to help you reduce hiring costs and minimize employee turnover.
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Over 50% of the people who hold the “tribal knowledge” of your facility will be leaving in the not too distant future. Furthermore, the availability of a trainable labor pool to replace Baby Boomers is in short supply and difficult to recruit.
It is increasingly difficult for new workers to acquire the skills needed to run a complex power generating facility. This means that new methods such as online technologies—in addition to conventional training methods—are needed to develop high-performing employees. GP can help your plant capture existing knowledge through innovative processes and procedures.
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Our team can work with your plant to make sure your company is in compliance with the latest EPA and OSHA regulations.
Contact us today to learn more about GP’s workforce solutions for the power generation industry: