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Training and Competence Matrix
Who can do what, at what level, on which shift: twenty skills against your people on a five-level scale, with coverage counted for every skill, single points of failure flagged, and a training plan that closes the gaps.
- Excel
- fillable PDF
- Worked example
- Your logo on it
- Aegis Insights
Page 1 of the PDF. Every resource includes a fully worked example.
The problem it solves
Most shops can produce training records; far fewer can answer the questions that matter on a Tuesday night: who on this shift can set up that machine, release a first piece or stamp final inspection? Training files sit in HR, the real picture sits in the supervisor's head, and the gap shows up as a setup done by someone not ready for it, a lot held until morning, or a finding when the auditor asks to see the competence of the person at the machine. This matrix puts every skill that touches the product against every person on one page, on a scale that means the same thing everywhere, counts how many people can do each skill on each shift, flags the skills held by one person, and turns each gap into a dated line on a training plan.
Who uses it
Quality managers, production and operations managers, supervisors and HR, together.
When
Set it up once, update a person's levels whenever training is assessed or a role changes, review coverage monthly, and bring the summary to management review as the competence input.
Free to use, change and copy, in your own organization or with your clients; add your own logo, keep the Aegis credit. Part of: Workforce Competence Kit. Clause references: 7.2 (with 7.1.2, 7.3, 8.5.1) (numbers only; use your own licensed copy of the standard).
A management aid, not certification or a registrar audit. Using it does not by itself show conformity to AS9100D or any other standard.
How to put it to work
Chapters of our free guides that use this tool.
- What is in the kitThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 2
- The competence systemThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 3
- What an auditor will ask, and where the answer isThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 18
- Running the systemThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 20
- Setting it up in thirty daysThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 21
- Quick reference for supervisors: one pageThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 24
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