The Kazan Helicopters hosted the sectoral professional skills competition among metal cutting process engineers. To participate in the competition, the best representatives of Russia’s aircraft enterprises competed in two categories: up to 30 years old and over 30 years old.
In the category of up to 30 years, the first place was won by a process engineer of Kazan Helicopters, Sergey Shipigin. А representative of KumAPP Maria Semavina ranked second. Other prizewinners were representatives of Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies (KRET), Tekhnodinamika, and Concern VKO Almaz-Antey.
The competition gathered 42 participants from the largest aircraft industry enterprises located in 17 regions of Russia. The mission of the competition is to raise the prestige of blue-collar and white-collar jobs, to promote the development and continuous growth of personnel qualification in keeping with prospective tasks. The competition makes it possible to assess the practical and theoretical knowledge of the process engineers.
According to the organisers, participation in such competitions would give young people an awareness of the importance of the professions they chose and would improve their professional standards.