League of Working Specialties Case-in: new opportunities for working youth!

Last week, the Khabarovsk Territory hosted the League of Working Specialties Case-in competition, a technical competition attended by 70 students from 12 colleges in the region.

League of Working Specialties Case-In − this is a practice-oriented project aimed at popularizing working professions and the mining industry, selecting the best students from institutions of professional educational organizations and attracting them to employment in SUEK JSC.

In greeting to the participants, the Director of Production Operations of JSC SUEK Vladimir Artemyev underlined"SUEK is actively developing, and we are interested in attracting young people who are active and interested in their development. We support the International Engineering Championship Case-in and its League of Working Specialties since its foundation, and we note its effectiveness in attracting students' interest in working in the mining industry. This year, twice as many participants gathered here, who will not only solve cases in their professional fields, but also apply their solutions in practice. I am convinced: League of Working Specialties Case-in It will help working-class youth to be closer to innovative production, and help them find interesting and exciting jobs."

Advisor to the Director of Personnel of JSC SUEK Anatoly Fomin noted: «I am very pleased that the League of Working Professions is growing and developing. By participating in the League, you will see how the leaders of the Russian mining industry work, learn how this region lives, and be able to find yourself in one of the largest mining companies in Russia.".

The League of Working Specialties is held within the framework of the International Engineering Case-In Championship, the only Russian federal case Championship for fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes.

The project is organized by JSC SUEK, the Reliable Change Foundation and the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders.

Co-organizers: Chegdomyn Mining and Technology College and JSC "Urgalugol". The project is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Khabarovsk Territory.

Marina Mikhno The director of the Chegdomyn Mining and Technological College, where the League of Working Specialties traditionally takes place, welcomed the students: "May the League of Working Specialties leave indelible vivid impressions in your life. In our championship, everyone will be the winner, because the championship allows you to gain a lot of professional experience!". 

Students of 12 technical schools of the Khabarovsk Territory took part in the competitions of the League of Working Specialties, including:

• Amur Polytechnic College
• Vyazma forestry College named after N.V.Usenko
• Governor's Aircraft Engineering College of Komsomolsk–on−Amur
• Komsomolsk-on-Amur Construction College
• Mykolaiv-on-Amur Industrial and Humanitarian College
• Soviet-Havana Industrial and Technological College
• Solar Industrial College
• Khabarovsk Highway College
• Khabarovsk Road Construction College
• Khabarovsk Engineering College
• Khabarovsk Industrial and Economic College
• Chegdomyn Mining and Technology College

During the competition, students in teams proved their professional knowledge and skills, leadership qualities and ability to work in a team.

The competitions were held in four professional areas: "Technical operation of lifting and transport, construction, road machinery and equipment"; "Technical operation of electrical and electromechanical equipment"; "Driver of a bulldozer and excavator"; "Mineral concentrator".

Technical cases became the basis of the educational program of the project. developed based on the materials of JSC "Urgalugol" JSC "SUEK" specifically for the League of working specialties. In accordance with the assignment of the cases, the participants solved the task of diagnosing and organizing maintenance and repair of quarry equipment: the BelAZ – 75306 dump truck, the KOMATSU D375 tracked bulldozer and the explosion-proof PVC type mine starter, as well as developing a consistent plan to eliminate the identified violations at the Chegdomyn processing plant.

After defending themselves before the expert commission, the participants tested their solutions in practice, which took place at the production sites of JSC Urgalugol: at the Bureinsky − 2 mine, at the Chegdomyn plant, at the site of the Energogol SNU. 

During the practical part, the participants showed the procedure for the maintenance of the BELAZ 75306 dump truck and the Komatsu D375 bulldozer; during the operation of the FLSmidth radial thickener and the WX-3.0G6 belt filter press; actions to detect current leakage "to the ground" in a three-phase electrical circuit using a multimeter. 

The educational part of the program was complemented by team sports, team-building and creative events.

In the direction of "Technical operation of lifting and transport, construction, road machinery and equipment", the winner The Cool Mechanic team (Khabarovsk Industrial and Economic College): Nikita Gunkov, Nikolai Zemtsev, Alexander Kiikov, Ilya Chausov.

In the direction of "Technical operation of electrical and electromechanical equipment", the winner The "Under tension" team (Mykolaiv-on-Amur Industrial and Humanitarian College): Sergey Volkopyalov, Vladimir Coca, Vyacheslav Kostyuk, Konstantin Finyushin.

In the direction of "Mineral concentrator" won The "Geniuses of Enrichment" team (Chegdomyn Mining and Technology College): Viktor Berezyuk, Yana Maksunova, Vladislav Bolokan, Daniil Goncharenko.

In the direction of "The driver of the bulldozer and excavator" won The Sila team (Chegdomyn Mining and Technological College): Pavel Afanasyev, Yuri Bylin, Vadim Wenzel, Denis Dobychin. 

The winners of the League of Working Specialties had the opportunity to participate in the youth educational forum "Miner's Shift", which will also be held in Chegdomyn in June 2017. 

For reference

International Engineering Championship "Case-in" It is a competition in which student teams solve an engineering case based on materials from leading industry companies in ten days and defend their ideas before an expert commission consisting of representatives of industry companies, scientific and educational organizations.

The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Change Foundation and the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders Non−profit Partnership. The League on Electric Power Industry is co–organized by the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems CIGRE, and the League on Oil and Gas Industry is co−organized by Tyumen Industrial University.

In 2017, the national partners of the Championship are five federal ministries − the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, as well as the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to promote new projects.