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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