Australia needs engineers.

A recent article in Guardian Australia’s free email newsletter by Jane MacMaster, the chief engineer at Engineers Australia, said the looming skills shortage was raised by many speakers at an energy transition summit in Sydney last week.

“It’s a fantastic time to be an engineer but it’s also a very busy time,” MacMaster said. “There’s definitely a challenge in the supply of the engineering workforce at the moment, and it’s pretty much across all sectors and almost all disciplines of the profession.”

MacMaster said the IRA was drawing US engineers home as well as those from elsewhere. Several nations were considering launching countermeasures that could further challenge the appeal of working in Australia.

“Australia is competing with other countries [and] our states are competing with each other,” she said. A confluence of national priorities – from transitioning to net zero emissions, to building up sovereign manufacturing capability including for nuclear submarines – was stoking the need for engineers and other technology workers.

?“We need 60,000 more graduate engineers in the next 10 years just to replace … the engineers that we think will retire”, MacMaster said. Local universities now only produce about 7,500 four-year graduates annually, many of whom get snapped up by banks or management consultancies.

Major projects that are under way, he largest infrastructure projects include:

§? WestConnex (NSW), $16 Billion

§? Sydney Metro (NSW), $12 Billion

§? Melbourne Metro Tunnel (VIC), $11 Billion

§? West Gate Tunnel (VIC), $10?Billion

§? Melbourne Airport Rail Link (VIC), $10 Billion

§? Melbourne to Brisbane Inland Rail (National), $9.3 Billion

§? Bruce Highway Upgrade Program (QLD), $8.5 Billion

§? Cross River Rail (QLD), $5.4 Billion

§? Western Sydney Airport (NSW), $5.3 Billion

§? Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan (NSW), $4.4 Billion

§? METRONET (WA), $3?Billion

§? M80 Ring Road Upgrade (VIC), $2.25 Billion

?With so many major infrastructure projects under way across Australia, it is squeezing limited resources,” a Transgrid spokesperson said.

“As the demand for clean energy continues to grow, the ongoing transformation of our energy system requires an urgent focus on upskilling tens of thousands of workers to address skills shortages,” he said.

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