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Staff development
The Personnel Training Departments at TMK’s plants run various courses using our own licences and our own highly qualified team of instructors. Two-thirds of the Company’s personnel undergo various training programmes every year. Currently the Company’s training and personnel development departments are preparing and implementing a training programme for personnel to work on custom-built equipment. They are also developing and implementing an integrated approach to personnel training with the underlying principle of matching each employee’s skills and experience to his or her position and ensuring a progressive career growth. TMK’s plants pay particular attention to specific training relating to the modernisation of production methods currently being carried out by the Company. To ensure that the Company’s specialists have skills that will be required in the future, employees of Taganrog Metallurgical Works and Seversky Tube Works have completed training on the continuous casting machine at Volzhsky Pipe Plant. They have also received theoretical training and acquired practical skills for working on the machine at one of Germany’s largest metallurgical companies. Employees of the Resita Metallurgical Combine (Romania) are currently exchanging their experience with employees of Volzhsky Pipe Plant. The goal of this training is to become acquainted with the production process systems at the Company’s plants and acquire the skills necessary to work on modern metallurgical equipment. An important aspect of personnel training is to develop staff to meet future skill requirements. Expenditures on professional training of personnel at TMK in 2005 were approximately USD 2 million. A high priority of TMK’s staffing policy is to support talented youth and develop a mutually beneficial collaboration with educational institutions of various levels. TMK is taking steps to motivate students in the cities where its plants are located and to orient youth towards working in the industrial sector of the economy. TMK’s plants provide good practical placements for students of higher educational institutions and technical schools to reinforce the knowledge they received during their training and help them acquire skills in demand at the Company’s plants. At TMK’s plants, students can take all kinds of practical courses (production or pre-diploma), prepare diploma projects on topics that are topical for the plant or Company and participate in the plants’ youth events. In 2006, TMK held the its annual competition, “Gold Nugget”, in order to increase public awareness of the social development and staffing needs of the Company. “Gold Nuggets” are exceptionally talented young men and women who are recently graduated, some of whom have not yet decided on their path of future professional development. The contest is an example of the intentions of big business to attract young, creative graduates and emphasises the interest of big business in qualified specialists. In 2006, 19 graduates from schools in the Sverdlovsk Region won prizes at the contest. They will be added to the Company’s potential future employee list upon their enrolment in institutions of higher education.
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