Kahuna Skills Manager
Validate Frontline Skills
The days of navigating spreadsheets, siloed systems, and outdated processes to manage skills and competencies are over. Now you can see workforce readiness in real time, validate critical skills, and close gaps before they impact safety, compliance, and performance. Kahuna Skills Manager helps you build a more efficient and increasingly agile workforce with one centralized, advanced skills management solution.
Turn Skills & Competency Frameworks Into Actionable Data
Bring your skills and competency frameworks to life with real-time, validated skills insights. From onboarding and orientation to annual skill assessments, audit readiness, and workforce planning, Kahuna Skills Manager helps you make data-driven decisions that keep teams and operations running smoothly.
Centralize Disconnected Data
Unify skills, training, and compliance data on one platform. Kahuna reduces the administrative burden and supports smarter workforce planning and development.
Reduce Risk and Costly Rework
Close skills gaps with targeted development to build true proficiency. Advanced skills management helps decrease safety incidents, costly rework, and wasted training time.
Simplify Compliance and Audits
Make audits a checkpoint, not a crisis. By using a compliance and audit readiness tool to keep skills data current and traceable, you’re always ready to pass inspections.
Enhance Agility and Resilience
Adapt to shifting demands, even under pressure. The ability to reassign, reskill, and redeploy talent helps you put the right person in the right role at the right time.
Accelerate Time to Competence
Build proficiency faster across roles. Kahuna Skills Manager supports role-based training to reduce ramp-up time and ensure role readiness across the frontline.
How It Works
Optimize Workflows With Skills & Competency Management
Managing skills and competencies requires more than tracking certifications. It requires a connected, dynamic process. Kahuna’s advanced skills management platform simplifies this process into four key steps to help you build, maintain, and act on critical workforce data.
Curate
Assign
Assess
Develop
Purpose-Built Competency Management Software for the Frontline
From automated assignments to dynamic workforce insights, Kahuna’s advanced skills assessment software empowers you to manage and validate frontline skills and competencies across every role, shift, and work environment.
Flexible Skills and Assessment Frameworks
Customize assessments and skill pathways to fit your business needs. Capture skill complexity with configurable workflows, validation methods, equivalencies, and prerequisites to match the level of rigor each skill requires.
Automated Skills and Competency Assignments
Take the manual work out of skills management. Assigning skills, competencies, and training automatically based on job role, location, job code, or any custom field gives you peace of mind, knowing that the right requirements are tied to the right people.
Team Matrix in a Single View
See what your teams can do, all in one view. Kahuna’s skills and competency tracking tool helps you understand the full competency profile of your team to quickly spot gaps, manage assignments, and search for workers with specific skills across shifts and locations.
Employee Dashboard
Keep employees engaged and in the loop. Give frontline workers a clear view of their skills, required actions, and career progression with a personalized dashboard to understand the skills required to accomplish tasks in current and prospective job roles.
Talent Finder
Find the right person for the right job at the right time. Search your workforce to instantly find individuals who meet specific skills or competency requirements. Fill roles, cover shifts, or staff projects based on validated, real-time skills insights.
Capability Planning
Build workforce readiness for future roles, projects, or business needs. Model the skills required for any initiative, identify who’s truly qualified, and uncover gaps to optimize staffing, succession planning, and resource allocation.
Analytics & Reporting
Turn data into clear, actionable skills intelligence. Real-time dashboards and flexible reporting provide visibility into workforce capabilities for compliance tracking, skills gap analysis, succession planning, and strategic decision-making across the organization.
Download the Mobile App
Real-Time Skills Data Anytime, Anywhere
Manage skills, assessments, and validations anytime, anywhere. With offline capability, Kahuna’s Maui Mobile App supports shared device use and stays fully synced with the web platform so nothing gets lost in the field. Available on iOS and Android.
Integrate Seamlessly Across Your Tech Stack
FAQs About Skills & Competency Management Software
Advanced skills management software helps organizations track, manage, validate, and develop the skills and capabilities of their frontline workforce. Kahuna Skills Manager digitalizes skills and competencies on one electronic platform, replacing spreadsheets, binders, and disconnected systems to streamline validation, skills mapping, and skills gap analysis. The platform helps you verify that employees are qualified for their roles and prepared to meet operational demands.
Kahuna supports organizations that operate in complex, operationally intense environments such as healthcare, energy and oil, field service, and manufacturing. Kahuna Skills Manager is used by hospitals and health systems, refineries, field services, and production facilities where frontline workforce readiness, safety, and regulatory compliance are critical.
Organizations use advanced skills and competency management software to make faster, more strategic frontline workforce decisions. The advantages are many:
- Streamline operations by reducing manual tracking, centralizing data, and better aligning skills, roles, training, and business needs.
- Improve decision-making with real-time visibility into frontline employee skills and workforce capability.
- Speed time to competency through targeted and strategic role-specific training.
- Improve workforce agility by quickly deploying qualified employees when and where needed.
- Increase engagement and retention with clear development paths and career visibility.
- Raise productivity and decrease downtime by placing the most qualified individuals in the right jobs.
Kahuna Skills Manager integrates seamlessly with your existing systems through flat file uploads or application programming interface (API) connections, offering options that complement your existing tech stack. These integration paths help reduce manual effort and support consistent, reliable data flow between systems. Designed to minimize disruption, they allow you to get started quickly while aligning with your current workflows. Kahuna’s Customer Success team is available to support you throughout setup and implementation.
Most LMS and HR systems track training completions or employee records but don’t use skills testing software or skills inventory software to show whether someone is actually qualified for the job or take into account different facets of proficiency. Kahuna Skills Manager is designed specifically to manage and validate skills for the frontline workforce. You can use the platform to define role requirements, assess skills in real time through multiple assessment methods, and validate job readiness to make confident decisions about staffing, development, and compliance.