Job/Task Analysis: Enhancing the Commercial Building Workforce Through the Development of Foundational Materials.

摘要

For many commercial building operation job categories, industry consensus has not been reached on the knowledge, skills, and abilities that practitioners should possess. This raises concerns about the future numbers of qualified, skilled workers who will be available to provide the energy efficiency solutions needed in this sector. Although multiple educational programs currently offer industry practitioners broad access to training, program curricula often differ in terms of content and how job roles are defined. This makes it difficult to identify which training programs fulfill job competency requirements, and prevents wider penetration of effective training programs into the commercial building space. To lower this barrier, job/task analyses that identify (1) all the major tasks performed in a given job; and (2) the knowledge, skills, and abilities that define the minimum requirements necessary to adequately perform those tasks, have been developed for six commercial building-specific job categories: energy auditors, energy modelers, commissioning/retro-commissioning authorities, energy/sustainability managers, facility managers, and operating engineers/building technicians. Our goal is to provide a basis for developing and comparing new and existing training programs, help practitioners identify opportunities to enhance their professional skills, enable industry to identify an appropriately skilled workforce, and enable training providers to deliver the highest quality product possible. This paper presents an overview of the project drivers, job/task analysis development specifics, a comparative analysis of the material contained within the job/task analyses, and how the job task analyses will benefit commercial building training programs.