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The Minister of Employment and Training, Sotoca Constantine, accompanied by the director general of the Regional Employment Service and Training (SEF), Ginés Martínez, met this morning with the mayors of Cartagena and La Union, Pilar Barreiro and Francisco Martin, as well as with the presidents of the Cartagena Chamber of Commerce and the Confederation of Organizations of Cartagena (COEC), Mariano and Diego Rosique Illán, respectively, to address the channels of collaboration with these institutions to implement the 'Plan of Employment and Training the Repsol refinery expansion in the Valley of tailings. "
At this meeting, which was also the director of Repsol in Cartagena, José Francisco Vázquez, the Minister stressed that his department wants to make these institutions partners, through their guidance services (networking with the Regional Employment Service and Training), the process of incorporation of workers who participate in the construction of new facilities.
Sotoca Constantine explained that "the plan address the needs of human resources and training that will involve the construction and subsequent commissioning of the expansion of oil facilities."
In this regard, he recalled that his department has spent months working on this Plan, to determine the skills requirements and articulate the mechanisms for attracting and training workers to meet the needs of staff of subcontractors who have to undertake the works.
The result of this work, the Ministry has designed a forecast initial training until next March with 35 courses, which will train 525 unemployed in September Sotoca occupations described as "loss of skilled labor," such as editors, assistants assembly, pipefitters, welders and instrumentalists.
An initial estimate, in the words of director "shall be subject to variations that determine the implementation process of the construction phase of new facilities."
Early polls
As for the selection of candidates, the employment minister has assured that the Regional Employment Service and Training (SEF) is already in preliminary surveys to determine what jobseekers have availability to work on the project.
After these surveys, will start conducting interviews, through the tutorial, that will determine how the unemployed are qualified to undertake the tasks that require the extension of the factory, prior to joining a job that will be subcontractors available to Repsol.
More than 6,000 workers
According to data provided by the Minister of Employment and Training, the studies made so far by his department on employment needs in the expansion of the Repsol refinery, reveal that of the 6,000 workers involved in construction in peak periods will require more than 4,000 skilled workers in occupations such as fitters, fitter of metal structures and equipment, welding steel pipe carbon steel pipe solder alloy steel, instrumentalist or electrical connections.
The market gaps remaining unfilled for lack of skilled workers will determine which occupations should be training by the Regional Employment Service and Training.
Source: CARM
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