Platform, step three
What is missing once the target role stands.
Only when today's level sits beside the required level does a need emerge that a provider can answer.
The gap belongs to the role, never to a person
Digital quality technician
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5
1
Machine vision
Statistical process control
Reading production data
Illustrative scenario, not the recorded skill levels of real employees.
Two target roles in full
Today against target, skill by skill
Part of what these teams can do carries over, another part is not there yet.
Automation technician
Sets up automated lines, programmes sequences and clears faults on controls and robotics.
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| Skill | Field | today | target role | level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control systems | Automation | low | high | |
| Robotics | Automation | none | high | |
| Fault diagnosis | Engineering | medium | high | |
| Industrial communication | Automation | none | medium | |
| Occupational safety | Organisation | medium | high |
Digital quality technician
Runs camera-based inspection stations, assesses results and maintains test programmes.
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| Skill | Field | today | target role | level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metrology | Quality | high | high | |
| Machine vision | Quality | none | medium | |
| Statistical process control | Quality | low | high | |
| Reading production data | Data | low | high | |
| Test programmes and equipment | Quality | none | medium | |
| Test and process documentation | Organisation | medium | high |
The remaining target roles
Skill gaps across the whole initiative
Individual skills reappear across the target roles. That is what later makes one cohort instead of seven half-filled courses.
Smart maintenance technician
- Sensors and condition monitoring
- Reading production data
- Control systems
- Sensors and condition monitoring
High-voltage specialist
- High-voltage technology
- Occupational safety
- Metrology
- Test and process documentation
- High-voltage technology
Digital production technician
- MES and control station
- Reading production data
- Control systems
- MES and control station
Production data specialist
- Reading production data
- Data visualisation
- Statistical process control
- Reading production data
Test systems operator
- Test programmes and equipment
- Fault diagnosis
- Test and process documentation
- Test programmes and equipment
The gap belongs to the role, not to the person. Blur that line and you do not get a better programme, you get a co-determination procedure.
What the skill model follows
Classification: ESCO, O*NET and the German Qualifications Framework
A skill model invented in-house can be compared with nothing. Behind the names sits an open classification.
3,039
occupations in ESCO, plus 13,939 skill concepts
28
languages in which the same skill carries the same reference
1,016
occupations in O*NET, with activities, requirements and tools
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levels in the German Qualifications Framework
ESCO supplies the shared name.
So that the same skill stays the same skill across two providers and two sites.
O*NET describes the activity in finer grain.
We draw on it where a job title is too coarse to capture an actual task.
The DQR describes qualifications, not roles.
It states the level of a qualification, not what one skill needs inside a role. That confusion is the most common flaw.
Inside a role: four steps, deliberately coarse.
None, low, medium, high. A finer scale suggests a precision a role description does not have.
Co-determination
Why roles are described here and not people, Section 94 BetrVG
Section 94 BetrVG puts assessment criteria under the consent of the works council. A skill profile kept per employee very probably falls under it. That is a decision about architecture, not about rollout.
The requirement hangs on the role.
Skill levels describe a target role and a role cluster. They are not an assessment of individual employees.
Nothing is kept per person.
No profile per employee is built inside the Company Workspace, neither visibly nor in the background.
Things become personal only at registration.
Even there it is about participation and dates, not a rating. Going further means going through co-determination.
Next step
From the gap to a programme that fits
QualiShift searches for programmes covering exactly those skills, and shows which ones they leave open.