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Vocational training center in Mexico
Training facility serves as an example to the whole industry
The girl in blue overalls concentrates on the slide gauge she is using to measure the wall thickness of a pipe to the exact millimeter. A few steps away, some young men are working with a complicated tangle of cables and switches. One floor higher, a group is studying how various colored liquids react with one another. Vocational training at Bayer — not in Leverkusen, however, but in the Mexico City suburb of Santa Clara.
There Bayer has run the Centro de Capacitación para la Industria Químicia (CECIQ) — a modern vocational training center — since 1986. At CECIQ young Mexicans receive a three-year specialist training in various occupations according to the standards of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Bayer places great importance on German standards, not just in safety and environmental protection, but also in the training level of employees.
The training for prospective chemical technicians, process control systems operators, mechanics and technical/pharmaceutical plant operators is divided into three stages: one year of basic training, one year of specialist training and a final year of training in the respective area of specialization, including a final exam.
Numerous Mexican companies — and not just from the chemical industry — are sending their employees to Bayer for continuing education. Bayer now reserves a large part of its capacities for the continuing education of employees from other companies. More than 6,500 training hours are offered each year at CECIQ. The quality of instruction is so highly regarded that some companies train their entire workforce at the Bayer school.
There Bayer has run the Centro de Capacitación para la Industria Químicia (CECIQ) — a modern vocational training center — since 1986. At CECIQ young Mexicans receive a three-year specialist training in various occupations according to the standards of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Bayer places great importance on German standards, not just in safety and environmental protection, but also in the training level of employees.
The training for prospective chemical technicians, process control systems operators, mechanics and technical/pharmaceutical plant operators is divided into three stages: one year of basic training, one year of specialist training and a final year of training in the respective area of specialization, including a final exam.
Numerous Mexican companies — and not just from the chemical industry — are sending their employees to Bayer for continuing education. Bayer now reserves a large part of its capacities for the continuing education of employees from other companies. More than 6,500 training hours are offered each year at CECIQ. The quality of instruction is so highly regarded that some companies train their entire workforce at the Bayer school.
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