Stockport businesses encouraged to access fully-funded training for logistics, transport and warehousing staff

Stockport businesses in the logistics and transport sector are being encouraged to take advantage of fully-funded training for staff through the Skills for Growth programme.

Delivered by Seetec, the programme is aimed at plugging skills gaps identified by the region’s employers across the logistics, transport and warehousing sectors, and SMEs are particularly encouraged to take advantage of training available.

Courses, ranging in length from 11 to 26 hours of content, cover a broad range of topics suitable for workers at all levels within the sector, from operatives to management and senior leadership, as well as back-office administrative positions. Each learner is assigned a personal tutor with industry experience to not only deliver the course, but to act as a coach to the learner.

Courses are taught through a blended approach of online and in-person training, and cover the following 17 topics:

• Provide leadership for your team in logistics operations
• Supervise the receipt, storage or dispatch of goods
• Take responsibility for health, safety and security in your team
• Allocate and check work in your team in logistics operation
• Manage your own professional development in logistics operations
• Improve performance in logistics operations
• Recruit, select and keep colleagues in logistics operations
• Build and manage teams in logistics operations
• Schedule logistics operations to meet customer requirements
• Arrange the transportation of goods using multiple transport modes
• Organise the preparation of documentation for the transportation of goods
• Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements in logistics operations
• Optimise the use of logistics resources
• Respond to problems in logistics operations
• Minimise the environmental impact of logistics operations
• Apply technology in logistics operations
• Manage the traffic office

Further details about content of each course on offer can be found via the brochure downloadable using the link below.

This training has been made possible thanks to Greater Manchester Combined Authority securing funding from the European Social Fund in order to deliver its three year Skills for Growth programme, however, businesses only have until September 2023 to access the training before funding expires.