Brazil Needs to Train or Upgrade 10.5 Million Industrial Workers

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil will need to qualify 10.5 million industrial workers by 2023 to meet the demand for technology-related occupations. The conclusion is included in the 2019-2023 Map of Industrial Labor, launched by the National Industrial Learning Service (SENAI) to guide the institution’s course offerings in the coming years.

According to the survey, most of these 10.5 million professionals linked to the industry will need to go through retraining or skill upgrading courses, both to cope with the modernization of existing positions and to replace existing openings for workers who will retire or leave their jobs. However, the study found the potential for generating 33,453 jobs related to technological changes.

In absolute numbers, the largest job generation will occur for installers and repairers of electrical, telephone and data communication lines and cables (14,367), operators of milling machines (5,356) and mechanical technicians in machine, systems and instruments maintenance (3,560). These functions require a technical level or qualification of over 200 hours.

In terms of percentage rates, the higher growth in the number of employees over the next four years should benefit the higher-level robotic process drivers market (22.9 percent). Next, there are technicians in vehicle mechanics (19.9 percent) and two higher-level jobs: environmental and related engineers (19.4 percent) and engineering and technology researchers (17.9 percent). The performances are higher than the estimate of 8.5 percent job increase in industry between 2019 and 2023.

Transversality

Regarding the overall need for workers’ training (current and new employees), SENAI found that transversal functions, which allow professionals to work in industries in any area, will require the greatest demand for professional training. Of the 10.5 million workers who need to be qualified, 1.7 million work in this category, which includes research and development professionals, production control technicians and industrial designers, among other careers.

The other occupations that will require professional training in the coming years are metalworking (1.6 million), construction (1.3 million), logistics and transportation (1.2 million), food (754 thousand), information technology (528 thousand), electronics (405 thousand) and energy and telecommunications (359 thousand). Although these occupations are based on industrial knowledge, these workers can operate both in industry and in other sectors.

In higher-level jobs alone, the areas that will most need qualified professionals by 2023 are information technology (368,000), management (254,800), construction (81,000), metalmechanics (56,400) and production (40,300). On the technical level, demands are centered on logistics and transportation (495,200), metalworking (217,700), energy and telecommunications (181,400), electronics (160,400), computers (160,000) and construction (120,900).

Source: Agência Brasil