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Engineering and technical personnel of the Fuel and energy complex through the prism of sanctions
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12 Jan 2023
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The demand for personnel from oil and gas companies has increased by 92% this year. According to the study hh.ru Operational engineers, technical support specialists, production line operators, and chief project engineers were particularly in demand. At the same time, other fuel and energy companies also felt the shortage of personnel. The EPR editorial board learned from representatives of universities and energy companies about the changes in the personnel policy of the engineering and technical staff of the fuel and energy complex in 2022 and what tasks the power engineers are now solving.

Competition for personnel

Sanctions and the departure of foreign companies have significantly affected the labor market in 2022. However, according to Tatiana Mikhailova, Head of the Department of Personnel Recruitment, Development and Corporate Culture at PJSC T Plus There were other equally significant factors.

"The situation on the labor market has intensified competition for personnel in many sectors of the economy. Moreover, we are talking about all categories of personnel — from highly qualified to line specialists. And despite the fact that the government is introducing support measures in terms of personnel training, it takes time to achieve an effect.

This year, the need for critical work specialties for power plants, heating networks and repair services was especially acute. We are currently aiming to attract new employees in key areas in other businesses such as IT, energy marketing and motor transport. The increased competition for talent and youth in 2022 has significantly affected our focus on the employer's brand and internal communications."

At the same time, T Plus clarified that they did not have any special need to increase the number of engineering staff. And to improve the work of existing employees, the company has launched several programs aimed at minimizing negative background and reducing stress levels.

The training has remained the same

But there have been no critical changes in the training of workers this year. As explained by Alexey Kozinov, Deputy General Director of NTC EDS LLC their company is still sticking to the plan outlined earlier.

"Despite the fact that in our field it is always necessary to train specialists, including annual knowledge checks, we do not see the need for additional education now. The departure of foreign companies did not entail any changes in the training of our personnel. There was no need for new skills or for employees to learn other technologies.

The training is conducted as planned. We also did not observe a shortage of employees this year. We are optimizing the number of employees in the same way as in previous years. Our plans for this year, despite all the events, have not changed in any way."

Teach as early as possible

Today, energy companies are mainly solving the tasks of digitalization and robotization of processes, the introduction of intelligent control systems, import substitution of their production facilities and improving overall efficiency. And so that employees can solve these tasks, they begin to train them as early as possible, he explained. Artem Korolev, Director of the Reliable Change Foundation.

"Enterprises need to steadily replenish their staff with graduates of universities and colleges, motivated young workers who are ready to quickly integrate into the team and solve real production tasks with minimal adaptation costs. Companies interested in promising young people are actively training their staff at the earliest possible stage, working directly with universities, colleges and even schools.

Companies are expanding their work with schoolchildren across the country in order to select the most motivated, guide them through their educational formats and prepare them for university admission. Also, according to our observations, enterprises began to actively enter regional universities with bright youth projects. For example, together with ALROSA at Ural State Mining University and Irkutsk National Technical University, and Rosneft at Ufa State Petroleum Technical University, we held intensive and stylish career days where students solved cases on real tasks, communicated with young specialists and HR representatives. As a result, the resume databases of potential candidates interested in working in companies were formed."

Requests to graduates

At the same time, the requests for university graduates have not changed much this year, he said Head of educational programs in the field of nuclear energy, Senior Lecturer at the Higher School of Atomic and Thermal Energy of the Institute of Energy of St. Petersburg State University Maxim Konyushin.

"Graduates are mainly required to understand technological processes and use modern tools in the field of fuel and energy. Due to the imposition of international sanctions and the withdrawal of foreign companies, it was necessary to use domestic software resources wherever possible. But our graduates have broad qualifications and extensive fundamental knowledge, so they can quickly adapt to changing conditions.

We are also trying to modernize educational programs to meet current challenges. However, making changes is a lengthy process, conditioned by the requirements of educational standards and legislation. As a quick response to the current circumstances, at the Institute we organized the training of students in the additional educational program "Problems of import substitution and sustainable operation of energy and electrical equipment in a special period". It was launched as part of the Priority 2030 program, where representatives of leading fuel and energy industry organizations tell students how import substitution and equipment work under the current conditions, what difficulties organizations have faced and how to overcome them."

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