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TRAINING AND RETRAINING
Shymkent Oil Refinery offers its employees both professional and individual training and development to ensure better productivity and to ensure the Company achieves its production objectives; and also, to improve the skills employees need to perform their work safely, reliably and effectively.
Staff training is an investment to the future of a company. Capital investment in professional development helps create a favorable team climate, increases employee motivation and loyalty to company, and ensures management succession.
Using annual results of personnel performance planning, appraisal and development, as well as production requirements and any changes in the production process (including the implementation of new techniques, the development of new projects to improve employee qualifications and skills), the training department offers all PetroKazakhstan units training in health and safety, environmental protection; guarantees the reliability and improved abilities of managers, supervisors and other company employees.
Professional development has a positive impact on employees themselves. By improving qualifications and obtaining new skills and knowledge, employees see new career growth prospectives. This is especially important in today’s rapid development of technology and production processes.
The mission of all PetroKazakhstan training department units is to help the business flourish and increase the prosperity of the company by training and developing personnel.
Training and retraining
The main stages of personnel training and development include
- Defining training objectives in accordance with the Company"s mission, business objectives and key competencies.
- Identifying training requirements.
- Выявление потребностей в обучении.
- Defining short-term and long-term training goals.
- Choosing types of training that rely on objectives and economic feasibility: inter-firm training, training with outside providers.
- Creating an annual training budget and forecasting costs for the coming year.
- Searching for and selecting providers, holding talks and drafting service agreements.
- Organizing the training process within internal training frameworks, sending employees on training to training centers.
- Assessing the effectiveness of training.
Internal company training is carried out directly on the company’s premises by engaging leading Company specialists as instructors. This form includes providing technical training in various professions and various targeted courses.
Training with involvement of external providers. Over the years the PetroKazakhstan training and personnel development units have built effective long-term relations and worked with training centers that provide manager and specialist training services.
There are the following types of training in the Company:
In-house training with the involvement of the Company”s specialists in the training process. This form of training is used in mandatory areas such as “Safety and labor protection”, “Fire Safety Basics” for field workers, “Electrical safety” for operators
In the corporate format with the involvement of specialized training centers for mandatory programs such as “Industrial Safety”, “Safety and Labor Protection”, “Fire Safety”, “Electrical Safety”, “Safety and Well Control during Gas and Oil Spills at Hazardous Production Facilities”, etc., as well as for technical and highly specialized courses and advanced training.
By visiting specialized training centers in order to improve skills, learn about innovations and changes in rules and regulations and improvements in technology and software. Over many years Shymkent Oil Refinery”s personnel training and development departments have established effective long-term relations and cooperation with training centers, such as the Almaty Institute of Power Engineering and Communication, Kazakhstan Research and development institute of Power Engineering named after Academician Sh.Ch. Chokin, Abiroy Technical Training LLP, Information and Analytical Center for Environmental Protection, Institute of Professional Accountants and Auditors, Almaty Management University, SoftLine LLP, High Level LLP, ZES-Capital LLP, Profi Education LLP, PROFIT Training LLP and many others.
Employees Dependent Children Scholarship Program. As it recognizes the value of higher education, Shymkent Oil Refinery provides its employees’ children with financial support in the form of covering tuition fees. This program is implemented annually in the business units of «PKKR» JSC and PKOP LLP.