Capability categories

Skilled trades and technical capability

Poachd is a capability discovery and workforce mobility platform connecting companies with proven skilled trades and technical professionals based on what they can actually do, where they are and their availability.

These are the capability categories Poachd models across Australian critical infrastructure. Each one is a real body of work with its own licences, systems and scarcity - not a keyword. Start with the capability you need, or the one you hold.

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Capability categories

What the capability covers, where it is required, what companies screen for, and how it appears on a Passport.
  • Electricians - Licensed electrical workers installing, terminating, testing and energising power systems on critical infrastructure projects.
  • Electrical supervisors - Leading hands, site supervisors and electrical leads who run crews, sequence electrical work and carry the quality and safety load on site.
  • Instrumentation and controls - Technicians who install, terminate, calibrate and prove the control and monitoring systems that make plant behave predictably.
  • HVAC and mechanical - Mechanical trades installing, connecting and commissioning the air and water systems that keep critical plant within temperature.
  • Refrigeration - Licensed refrigeration trades working on chillers, heat rejection and refrigerant systems that critical facilities depend on.
  • Fitters - Mechanical fitters who install, align, maintain and repair rotating and static plant to tolerance.
  • Boilermakers and welders - Fabrication and welding trades producing and repairing structural and pressure work to a qualified procedure.
  • Technicians and commissioning - Test, commissioning and specialist technicians who prove that installed systems perform the way the design says they will.

Industries competing for these people

Scarcity is not evenly spread. It concentrates wherever several programmes need the same licensed capability at the same time.
  • Data centres - Hyperscale and colocation campuses need licensed electrical, mechanical and commissioning capability in volume, on fixed energisation dates.
  • Electrical infrastructure - Substations, grid connections, protection and HV systems depend on a small licensed pool whose work cannot be substituted.
  • Construction - Major construction programmes are increasingly constrained by trade capability rather than by design, funding or approvals.
  • Infrastructure - Water, transport, tunnels and public assets need technical trades who can work inside live systems and strict approval regimes.
  • Energy - Generation, transmission, storage and renewables are all building at once, drawing on the same licensed electrical and mechanical capability.
  • Rail - Rail systems work needs technical trades who can hold rail-specific competencies and work inside possession windows.
  • Mining and resources - Resources sites need maintenance and shutdown-hardened technical trades who will work a roster in remote conditions.

Understand the model

Capability is the differentiator

Companies search proven capability directly. Tradespeople record what they can actually do and stay private until they choose otherwise.

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