UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 10, 2015. Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant hosted this year’s last meeting of the job competence committee which is in charge of giving appraisals to managers as well as white- and blue-collar workers after one year in a particular job position, the company press service reports.

The committee checked whether the employees’ qualifications and skills were relevant for their job position. The appraisal procedure involved workers from the Maintenance Department: the leading expert, senior engineers, and the legal counsel. The department’s head Sergei Kaisin provided detailed references for every examinee.

‘The examinees had to prove their knowledge of their particular field, their ability to detect and solve problems, analyze, and offer solutions to improve the production process in their department. The job competence committee comprises different members depending on the type of the examinees’ jobs, so this year, the team was chaired by the plant Director-General Anatoly Barabanov, who offered questions on the changing market and legal situation. He wanted to know how the appraisees could cut logistics and maintenance costs and use existing legislature to detect unscrupulous potential contractors,’ the press service says.

In fact, Deputy Director-General for Maintenance Vladislav Shadrin contributed to this discussion as well.

All of the examinees received the committee’s approval. This year, around forty people starting their second year of service – foremen, department heads, technicians, computer programmers, designers, economists, accountants, and lab engineers – have undergone appraisal procedures.