UK automakers sound alarm on skills shortages, unfilled engineering roles

Apprentices, Bentley

The pace of electrification is getting ahead of the time taken to train the engineers with the skills needed for an auto industry transitioning to producing EVs.

Professor Jim Saker, Director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University told Automotive Manufacturing Solutions that the skills shortages would take at least several years to address as education and training realigned with the industry’s new priorities.

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