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Roundtable: Transferable skills transforming delivery
October 11, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Free
The ongoing skills shortage is an issue that is widespread and impacting every discipline, especially in the delivery of construction and infrastructure projects across the UK. Many of the contributing factors are outside of the control of project professionals, (such as an ageing workforce with few new entrants) though significant efforts are being put forward to respond to these factors including coordinated industry efforts to attract young people into apprenticeships and early starter programmes.
This is one aspect of the approach to resolving the challenge, however, we want to look at it from a different perspective – as the rate of change in skills requirements accelerates, how can we build flexibility into our teams to meet those challenges? What do those transferable skills look like in practice and how are they key to delivering within a complex environment?
Join us on Tuesday 11th October for a roundtable discussion exploring these themes further! We are delighted to have Rose McArthur, Director for Transport and Highways at Cheshire West and Chester Council join us and share some of her experience in developing and applying those transferable skills on her career journey from a primarily technical role to using a broad set of skills to lead a diverse infrastructure portfolio.
Speaker: Rose McArthur
Director for Transport and Highways
Rose has over 20 years of experience delivering strategic transport programmes across the globe. She joined Cheshire West and Chester Council in 2021 from Mott MacDonald where she was a Technical Director. She has delivered projects that include the transport strategy behind the last two Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the Gold Coast as well as the movement strategy behind the build of the Sydney Light Rail and Melbourne Metro. She has worked as a strategic advisor to the DfT engaging with all 79 Local Transport Authorities across England to develop their covid recovery strategies for transport.
She was heavily involved in the surface access strategy development for Heathrow airport. As the new Director for Transport and Highways, she manages a hugely diverse portfolio that includes Strategic Transport, Transport Commissioning, Public Transport, Active Travel, Flooding, Highways and Fleet amongst many other areas, developing teams who work hard to deliver what it takes to keep Cheshire West moving.