3-AD006.00 SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT WAIHI NORTH PROJECT Oceana Gold New Zealand Limited WSP June 2022 37 The calculation of local workforce participation presented in Table 10 is conservative and is based the following: • Managerial, professional, technical, and supervisory roles reflect only 13% of the total workforce requirement. Waihi town has a lower number of people in managerial occupations than the local, regional and national context. Whilst numbers of people in managerial occupations is higher in the local area, these individuals are more than likely employed. It has been assumed that these roles will be filled from outside the local area. • The most common occupations in Waihi town are labourers, and technicians and trade workers. Skills for these roles are easily attainable. It has been assumed that 25% of trades and general labour will be sourced locally. • Skilled operator roles in the context of the WNP are very specialised and it is unlikely that these skills will be available within the local community, and they take time to develop. A small percentage of the more junior skilled operator roles may be filled locally with the provision of adequate training. Based on an understanding of the skills profile required to support the mine, it has been projected that 54 new roles associated with the WNP workforce will be hired from the local area, with the remaining 296 workers migrating into the area (Table 10). There is no recognised method to determine how many additional family members a new employee will bring with them. A conservative approach has been taken and it has been assumed that each migrant worker will have immediate family, with an average household size of 2.7 (New Zealand average). The direct influx to the local area is therefore conservatively estimated to be approximately 800 people. It has been forecasted that the WNP will result in indirect employment from the purchase of goods and services from suppliers and jobs within the wider economy. The calculation of indirect employment is based on a multiplier and this calculation does not distinguish between how many of these jobs are existing and where these jobs are located (i.e. local, regional, national or international). For this reason, this SIA has not considered the social implications of indirect population influx. The above calculation of direct local workforce participation in the WNP and the anticipated influx of population into the local area is key to informing the assessment of potential community-based social impacts described below. 6.2.1 SOCIAL UPLIFTMENT FROM REDUCED LOCAL UNEMPLOYMENT In the context of this SIA, social upliftment refers to the enhancement in a persons’ social environment or the conditions in which they live and is strongly linked to socio-economic improvements. Based on 2018 census data, the unemployment rate in the town of Waihi was 5.0%, this being between 1% and 1.6% higher than the national regional and local rates. Recent data shows a sudden upward trend in the regional and national unemployment rate during 2020 and 2021, most likely as a result of COVID-19 disruptions. The percentage of people aged 15-24 years who are Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) in Waihi town and the Hauraki District was higher than in the regional and national context in 2018.
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