Russia: Amur Shipyard Introduces New Human Resources Policy

Amur Shipyard Introduces New Human Resources Policy

Amur Ship Repair Yard introduced a new human resources policy aimed at the attraction of young professionals. From the 1990s the industrial careers have lost their appeal to the youth with an average age of employees approaching 50 years, therefore, the training and support of promising young professionals became one of the priorities for the yard and all other companies of Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center.

For the last few years Amur Ship Repair Yard has been holding the workmanship contests The Best Young Professional. For instance, the purpose of the Best Young Design Engineer (Technologist) contest is to promote engineering career, nurture professional skills, and motivate young professionals to increase labor productivity and production efficiency.

To draw young professionals to participate in the current construction projects and also to nurture a new generation of Amur shipbuilders, the human resources office is, step by step, building up a new employee relationship system designed to rehabilitate a damaged image of the national shipbuilding and to raise the prestige of its core occupations. Amur Ship Repair Yard has an active and vibrant Youth Committee that helps provide conditions for the attraction, orientation and retention of the yard’s young staff; the yard laid foundation for cooperation with the local field-specific vocational school No. 8, and the Talents Pool project is being carried out where a promising employee of a JSC FESRC’s company, from labor to management, can be included into the Talents Pool and receive education at the company’s expense.

[mappress]

Press Release, October 17, 2012; Image: dcss