TMK’s Personnel Training Departments run various courses in each of our plants using custom-tailored programmes combined with our 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 employees 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, ensuring progressive career growth.
TMK’s plants pay particular attention to specific training associated with the modernisation of its production methods currently being carried out.
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 undergone 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 in one of Germany’s largest metallurgical companies. Employees of the Resita Metallurgical Combine (Romania) are currently sharing knowledge and experience with employees of the Volzhsky Pipe Plant. The goals of this training are to become acquainted with various production process systems used at the Company’s plants and to acquire the skills necessary to work on modern metallurgical equipment.
An important goal of personnel training is to develop staff to meet future operational skill requirements.
TMK’s staffing policy is to prioritise youth talent and to 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 experience and internship possibilities for students of higher educational institutions and technical schools. This reinforces their acquired knowledge and helps them develop the skills needed in the Company’s different 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 its annual competition, “Gold Nugget”, in order to increase public awareness in the Company’s social development efforts and staffing needs.
“Gold Nuggets” are exceptionally talented young graduates, some of whom not yet decided on their future professional career path.
The contest is an example of how big business can attract and recruit young, creative graduates and emphasises its interest in qualified specialists.
