MOBILITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPLY AND DEMAND RESEARCH ANALYSIS

Workforce Solutions serves as the backbone organization in collaboration with CapMetro and Austin Transit Partnership for a new regional workforce effort known as the Workforce Mobility Industry Sector Partnership. The purpose of the Industry Sector Partnership is to increase demand-driven education, training, and programming for the Central Texas mobility industry. On behalf of the Industry Sector Partnership, Workforce Solutions is requesting a cluster analysis to examine the workforce needs of the local mobility and infrastructure industry. This analysis will focus on high-demand, middle-skill occupations in trades, construction, and mobility, and provide critical information needed to help guide the Partnership in its efforts to address the workforce readiness needs of future mobility workers and upskilling needs of the existing workforce through demand-driven education and training initiatives. Specifically, to focus on the estimated 11,366 middle-skill transit and related construction jobs that require less than a bachelor’s degree but more than a high school diploma in the Austin metro region, and provide critical information needed to help guide the Partnership in its efforts to address the workforce readiness needs of future workers and upskilling needs of the existing workforce through demand-driven education and training initiatives. This study will benefit public and private employers, with the majority of construction and transit employers impacted by the study deriving from the private sector. These private sector companies employ 84,718 workers in construction and transit related jobs in the Austin Metro Area, or 81% of this industry’s workforce (source: JobsEq data for 2022Q3). The private sector is projected to employ 116,481 workers, or 73% of this workforce, in the next 10