People
Technical workers, ratings, fitters, welders, crane operators, cadets, supervisors, and career shifters.
About Technical Skills
Turning instruction into workplace capability.
COMPASS Technical Skills connects foundational knowledge with supervised practice, safe work habits, task repetition, and evidence of performance.
One COMPASS DirectionOne ecosystem for competence, safety, and technical performance.
The Technical Skills Role
Applied trade capability within the COMPASS ecosystem.
Technical Skills extends the COMPASS ecosystem into applied trade capability, equipment-based practice, and workforce skills validation.
It serves technical workers, ratings, fitters, welders, crane operators, cadets, supervisors, career shifters, companies, institutions, and government agencies requiring practical skills development or validation.
People. Tasks. Systems.
Built around real work requirements.
Tasks
Welding, machining, pipe fitting, rigging and lifting, surface preparation and painting, shipboard maintenance, and practical safety.
Systems
Permit-to-Work discipline, hazard controls, quality checks, course assessment, trade testing, and qualification pathways.
Evidence
Programs are documented against the training, assessment, trade test, or qualification evidence each pathway provides.
BU Profile
Download the updated Technical Skills profile.
The profile includes the Technical Skills role, course portfolio, learning progression, assessment positioning, facilities, and workforce pathways.