Chemtech opens Corporate University
“Education cannot simply be considered important; it has to be a priority”. With this comment UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) professes the importance of education. Bearing that in mind Chemtech has just opened the Chemtech Corporate University.
Since it was established, the company has been organizing in-company courses and stimulating the participation of interns, technical, administrative, and operational employees in training opportunities, conferences, and seminars. The company also grants financial help for post-graduation, MBA’s, master’s and doctor’s degrees. This help also comprises technical courses, language courses, behavioral, and managerial courses.
Chemtech has currently decided to join all its investments in professional education in a Corporate University, a major trend among companies that wish to link even further the apprenticeship programs to the strategic goals and results, and offer a competitive advantage to the companies. As a result, and as it was already done before, many of the training courses are being offered to the public in general at the Corporate University.
“The Corporate University is a successful instrument that provides people with qualification to act in their professional environments, apart from offering a motivating factor that ensures the quality of services in companies, enabling them to achieve the planned objectives”, declares Simone Menezes in an article disclosed by ABT (Brazilian Educational Technology Association).
The schoolroom is placed in the very company that offers physical space for courses, provides all the necessary resources, and also offers correspondence training that takes place at Chemtech by means of the EAD, a correspondence education website created by the company to provide learning opportunities in addition to the attendance courses.
The Corporate University is officially opened at Chemtech and has already started to present some results. The in-company MBA in Project Management starts today, and it is exclusively for employees. From October 9 to 11, there will be an Emergency Shutdown Systems Project Training open to the outside public. According to the Corporate University program, there will be courses taking place every single week.
Chemtech believes in constant training and development to enable its employees perform their every-day activities and be ready to face new challenges.
About Chemtech
Chemtech (www.chemtech-siemens.com) was founded by three chemical engineers, in Rio de Janeiro, in 1989. It is specialized in services and IT solutions for process industries (oil & gas, petrochemical and chemical, metals and mining, paper & pulp) and food & beverages. In March 2001, the company became a member of the Siemens group and it is now part of the IP (Industrial Plants) division of the I&S (Industrial Solutions and Services) group. Since then, Chemtech has started to interact with other Siemens divisions and to offer more complete and sophisticated solutions to its clients.
Chemtech has its head office in Rio de Janeiro and support offices in São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, and Houston.
Among Chemtech clients are Exxon Mobil, Saudi Aramco, and Petrobras. It also works with the 10 largest companies in the petrochemical and chemical industry in Brazil, with the 5 largest paper companies, the 4 largest mining companies, 3 of the 5 largest steel companies, and 4 of the 6 largest consumer product companies, according to the ranking of Exame magazine.
In 2006, Chemtech was chosen the 3rd best company to work at in Brazil, ranked among the 30 best companies for women, and among the three best in companionship by the Great Place to Work Institute and by Revista Epoca. It was also ranked, for the third consecutive year, among the 150 best companies according to Guia Exame – Você S/A, which also chose Chemtech as the 3rd best company in technology.
