The winners of the League of Young CIS Specialists from Gomel improve the knowledge of their colleagues

A year ago, RUE Gomelenergo established its own youth council, which brought together the most active employees of the company's branches and divisions. Among the mass of projects proposed by the board of management, a new principle of studying young workers – yesterday's graduates of universities and colleges, which was observed at the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" deserves special attention. The chairman of the Youth Council, Yuri Lapeto, and his colleagues told about it in more detail.

Yuri Lapeto joined RUE Gomelenergo in 2016 as a distribution specialist after graduating from the Belarusian State University of Transport. His specialization involved the diagnosis of wheel sets on the railway, but it was quite correlated with the work that was carried out at the enterprise in its own laboratory of metals of the power engineering. Only in this case, it was a question of diagnosing pipes and detecting defects in them.

During his seven years in the energy industry, Yuri Olegovich has changed several positions. After the laboratory, he worked as a maintenance engineer for boiler and turbine equipment. And now he is a leading engineer of the heat engineering service and concurrently chairman of the youth council of the enterprise.

"As soon as I came to work for power engineers, I immediately began to be interested not only in working moments, but also in how they live in general. He joined the local volleyball team, participated in all competitions and tours. And when the youth council appeared in Gomelenergo a year ago, I was offered to head it," says Yuri Lapeto.

No one had an understanding of how the new public structure would work, its chairman admits. But on the other hand, there were specific projects that were proposed by the active youth of the enterprise, and they began to promote them together. And if at first people had to be invited to the council, now there is no shortage of those who want to become a part of it.

"The company employs more than 3,000 young workers. Many of them are not averse to participating in public life, but it takes years, not even months, to study the abilities and capabilities of so many people and to understand where it is better to apply their forces. Considering that young people are also rocking for a long time now, they cannot decide what they would like to do more. That's why we came up with a project for the new ones that allows us to reveal all their qualities in a short time," Yuri Olegovich goes on to the main point.

Its essence is to give every young specialist a real brainstorming session. To set him a task in the field of energy and aim at its non-standard solution. But at the same time, the result should be fully operational and applicable in local conditions. The idea was spotted at the League of Young CIS Specialists of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", where teams had to offer three environmentally neutral technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, reduce the greenhouse effect, and slow down the global warming process.

It is planned to gather young specialists for a week in the departmental sanatorium "Cornflower", where they will be divided into teams, and the curators from the youth Council will give an introduction. They will also monitor the stages of the task. To diversify their leisure time, young people will also be offered sports activities and competitions.

Yuri Lapeto believes that this is how you can see the abilities of each young specialist and evaluate them in a short time. The old method, when young people from all over the region who came to the enterprise were gathered in Gomel for a day to get acquainted with the management of the enterprise and take a tour, is far from being so effective.

"In our project, every new young employee will receive a characterization at the exit. An appropriate questionnaire has already been developed that will tell you in which area he is most talented and where his abilities can be best applied. We plan to start such brainstorming sessions this summer," Lapeto shares his plans.

Today, the youth council consists of 36 employees of Gomelenergo. As originally planned, there are representatives of all branches and divisions of the company. The work in the new structure was divided into three sectors: sports, information and scientific and technical.

The council even has its own uniform – blue hoodies with a logo. An own website is on the way, where all important information about the work of young people at the enterprise will be accumulated.

An important feature of the association, its chairman emphasizes, is that it does not duplicate the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, which also exists at the enterprise.I'm a professional, but I'm planning my own projects and areas of work.

Alexander Kovalenko: "The jury was surprised by unmanned airships"

Alexander Kovalenko, head of the Northern District of Heating Networks and a member of the Youth Council, is one of the four winners of the League of Young CIS Specialists of the International Engineering Championship "CASE—IN", in which Gomel power engineers participated for the first time and immediately took second place.

"We understood that all the teams would focus on technology, so we decided to impress the jury with something unusual. As a result, they came up with unmanned airships, which hooked the experts. The main thing is that it is quite possible to make such a dream come true. Our project is based on a scientific basis," Alexander shares the details. "All the technologies that participated in the competition, in principle, had to be economically sound, take risks into account, and be applicable to local realities with the prospect of implementation by 2030."

The Gomel team's airships were designed to transport hydrogen, and this is only part of the power engineers' project, which is much broader in its entirety. It is connected, as already mentioned, with technologies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. By the way, Homelites were the only ones who used the capabilities of the neural network, which also impressed the jury.

As a result, the Gomel team passed the national selection, where it took the second place, losing to the team of RUE BELTEI. And already in the finals in Moscow, she beat the teams of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan and lost to only one team from among the hosts of the tournament.

"I am not engaged in purposeful scientific activity, but I keep my finger on the pulse of innovative technologies and even offer innovative ideas to the management. And participation in such a prestigious competition has become a kind of professional development, only many times more interesting than standard lectures, and at the same time an invaluable experience. Now we intend to apply it at the enterprise," says Alexander Kovalenko about the plans.

The Youth Council activist sees the new structure as a kind of ecosystem that cultivates and develops the best qualities of power engineers. And also — creating a positive image of working youth.

"In the council, we are promoting, if you will, a promising young power engineer who benefits the company and, consequently, the country in which he lives. He is smart, purposeful, proactive, charismatic. In general, everyone wants to join such guys. With us, anyone can grow above themselves, the main thing is desire," Alexander is sure.

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