Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Semirara fills in 900 jobs for coal operations



Published November 28, 2016, 10:01 PM By Myrna M. Velasco

Semirara Mining and Power Corporation (SMPC) will widen the base of employment opportunities for Filipinos as it announced roughly 930 job vacancies for the rehabilitation of the Panitan pit as well as the commercial operation of its Molave and Narra mines.
The company said it will be hiring dump truck and shovel operators; and will also be needing workers for additional safety, mechanical, civil works, geodetic and maintenance personnel.
According to SMPC President and Chief Operating Officer Victor A. Consunji, the company “will prioritize the hiring of qualified applicants from the host community.”
He further qualified “if there are residents who need additional training in order to qualify, we can also help with that.”
Consunji said their mining operations turned out to be “the single biggest employer in the area because majority of our workers come from Semirara and Caluya.”
Last year alone, he emphasized “our direct and indirect labor costs in the mine site amounted to over a billion pesos.”
Tapping workers from its host community had already been an institutionalized practice for Semirara Mining – firmed up via the establishment of its Semirara Training Center, Inc. (SCTI) in 2006. The company said the training center enabled locals and workers’ dependents to “develop marketable skills.”
With SCTI’s accreditation as technical and vocational school with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), the training center had been allowed to offer certificate courses on automotive servicing, industrial electricity and metal wielding. (MMV)

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