Environmental Scan 2017: Human Capital Issues within the Medical Devices Sector
More than half of the full time jobs within the surgical/medical gloves segment are for job
category stationary plant and machine operators, followed by science and engineering associate
professionals 23% and assemblers 10%.
The workforce in other medical consumables segment is mainly made up of semi- / low skilled
workers, with 25% of the full time employees working as stationary plant and machine operators,
25% as assemblers and 21% as manufacturing and transport labourers.
In the non-consumables segment, 21% of the full time employees are assemblers, followed by
stationary plant and machine operators 19% and science and engineering associate professionals
14%. This segment tends to hire more skilled workers (39%) as compared to the other two
medical consumables segments (21%-27%).
Figure 3-7: Breakdown of full time employees by job category (MASCO 2013, 2-digit), Dec 2016
(n=68, representing 19,951 employees)
Others, 10%
83. Drivers and mobile plant
operators, 3%
Skilled:4%
Semi-skilled: 5%
Low skilled: 1%
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