Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (President Geewon Park) held a ‘ceremony to inaugurate the Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Vocational Training Consortium’ at the Learning Center in the company’s Changwon Plant. In attendance at the event were heads of major subcontractors and Doosan executives and staff members.

The consortium, which is approved by the Ministry of Labor, is a vocational training project that supports vocational training of workers at subcontractors and suppliers. Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction will operate the consortium jointly with its affiliates, Doosan Engine and Doosan Mecatec.

Through the vocational training consortium, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction will conduct 23 training courses, including those on design, quality management, and welding techniques, which are required mostly in planting engineering projects.

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction will offer training programs starting with 214 companies in the South Gyeongsang Province and Busan region from among its 340 subcontractors and suppliers, with which it formed partnerships. The company plans to expand the scope of the beneficiary companies, and eventually train 4,000 employees per year.

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction expects the training consortium will enable subcontractors to deploy their new employees after improving their basic skills and capacity, which in turn will help boost Doosan’s own corporate competitiveness by enhancing vocational competence of its partner firms.

Kim Myeongwoo, executive managing director (chief of the Vocational Training Consortium) at Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, said, “By making the most of technology and facilities that we have built up in the plant engineering field, we will provide specialized vocational training,” adding, “Through these efforts, we will continue to build up an exemplary partnership of co-prosperity between a conglomerate and subcontractors.”