Havyard Group Gets New Training Manager

In order to further strengthen Havyard Academy, Havyard Group has now appointed Pergunn Gjerdsbakk as the new Training Manager.

She will be responsible for improving the Academy, its programs, and to motivate and follow up competence development of its own employees.

Technology development and innovation ability are the most important strengths of the maritime cluster on the west coast of Norway.

“In order to develop competitive technology and products we depend on having the cleverest and most motivated co-workers in our industry,” said Senior Vice President HR/QHSE Frank-Levi Kvalsund of Havyard Group ASA.

“Our ability to manage and develop our own competence, including attracting competence from external sources, will become important competitive advantages and success criteria for Havyard in the future. Havyard Academy works on competence development through recruitment and training of employees and we use a mixture of internal and external sources in order to accomplish our competence programs,” added Mr. Frank-Levi.

Pergunn Gjerdsbakk has a versatile background both in terms of her education and work experience. She is an interior designer but has formal education within economics and marketing. Pergunn has worked as a teacher, in banking, she has run her own business, and is now leaving her position as Commercial Property Manager for Ulsmo Eiendom (Ulsmo Property), where she has worked since 2006.

The purpose of establishing Havyard Academy is to organize a structured competence development, as an offer but also as an expectation for the employees. Through identifying, describing and defining key qualifications as well as describing and defining what is needed to maintain and develop such competence, we attain several benefits.

Havyard Academy is focused on resource-planning based on future need for qualifications, development (both on organisational and individual level), the transfer of competence, maintenance, competence based recruitment activities, and mapping of qualifications.

The Academy offers following:

• Management Development programme (target group; managers on a strategic level in the organisation)
• Trainee programme (target group; newly educated people within different fields of study)
• Apprenticeship programme
• Youth introduction course (target group; local / regional youths aged 18 – 19 years)
• Summer Internships (target group; students, primarily from Maritime Subjects)

The following programmes are currently being developed and implemented:

• Basis course (target group; all of our own employees)
• Project school (target group; all employees involved in a project role)

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havyard, April 10, 2014