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Alumar, in partnership with Senai, will train 50 women to work at the company's unit in São Luís. The required courses are electromechanical technician and aluminum process operator
The Alumar Consortium entered into a partnership with the National Industrial Learning Service (Senai) to train and expand the number of women in its workforce, including in the manufacture of aluminum and alumina, a traditionally male environment. Training by Senai will take place through the Women in Alumar Reduction project, whose mission is to train 50 professionals in São Luís, for the Smelter operation area. The activities will start in April this year.
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Alumar and Senai have been partners for over 30 years
Present at the virtual meeting that sealed the partnership, held last Friday (07) by Senai, were Rogério Garcês, Coordinator of Professional Education, Technology and Innovation at Senai Maranhão, Gilberto Lopes, manager of Technology and Innovation Management, and José João Fonseca, Acting Manager of CEPTI – DI. Beatriz Costa, from the Alumar Training Center, and Raiane Oliveira, Alcoa's HR manager, also participated.
Rogério Garcês remembers that Senai has been Alumar's partner since its arrival in São Luís, more than three decades ago. Now, the challenge for training and inserting women in the production line is yet another proof of the credibility relationship between the two entities.
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Garcês points out that Senai demonstrates, with its experience in successful partnerships and training along these lines, that it only contributes to Alumar, a large production company. Senai has its doors open to leave the legacy of doing its best to train women in São Luís on the production line, scheduled for April this year.
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Gilberto Lopes, who works in innovation and technology management at Senai, has been at Alumar for several years and has always observed an effort to encompass diversity in the company's operations, and confirms that there were already several women working in the instrumentation sector and also in the area soldering.
Lopes says that Alumar has been trying to break paradigms once again and expand opportunities for women in São Luís, through training, in one of the most complex areas. According to Lopes, Senai has the responsibility, due to the trust placed by Alumar in terms of training women, to show the rest of the country the essentiality of engaging in a program of this level.
Training will be aimed at former Senai students
Raiane Oliveira stated that Senai's choice for training women in São Luís is due to the historical competence that the body acquired as a professional education center. The manager claims that the company values offering excellent education and, over the years of partnership, Senai has shown its commitment to student training, which impacts on the quality of professionals who enter the market.
During the meeting, measures and deadlines for creating the schedule of project activities were discussed. The 50 women will be chosen from the pool of former students formed by Senai. The courses demanded by the company in São Luís will be for the aluminum process operator and electromechanical technician sectors.
