Santo Domingo.- With the interest of training its employees in technical careers, the Dominican Electricity Transmission Company (ETED) signed an inter-institutional collaboration agreement with the National Institute for Professional Technical Training (INFOTEP).
Through the agreement, signed by the general administrator of the ETED, engineer Martín Robles Morillo and the director of INFOTEP, Rafael Santos Badía, the parties undertook to develop a project aimed at promoting the professional technical competence of the personnel of the aforementioned electrical entity.
The project will benefit administrative personnel, technicians, auxiliaries and linemen who work with medium and high voltage networks, through preventive and priority areas, such as: network maintenance, substations, high voltage control and protection, expansion projects of high voltage networks, design, installation and repair of fiber optic networks, among other things.
For its part, INFOTEP is committed to joining forces for the design and implementation of such an initiative, in order to provide the participating personnel with the technical and managerial skills necessary to raise the quality of the services provided by the company.
The parties also agreed to promote the technical, social and administrative skills of the participants, according to the rules and procedures established in each institution, as well as the available budget. The term of the agreement will be three years.
They also committed to designing and updating training actions in favor of ETED’s collaborators, in accordance with the rules and procedures established by the aforementioned institute and to provide the validation service to all the candidates presented.
While the ETED undertook to provide INFOTEP with the assistance of specialists and the information required for the detection of needs, the implementation of the agreed work plan and the design of training updates, as well as providing materials and supplies to develop the activities of agreed training.
Another point agreed by the ETED is to support INFOTEP in the process of the National Consultation on the Future of Vocational Technical Training, through its structures, as a way of contributing to the development of the country’s productive sectors.
Other obligations agreed upon by the ETED consist of covering the costs of the hours of instruction through the transfer of resources, promoting and managing internships or job placement for the participants who have graduated from INFOTEP.
The parties also agreed to manage spaces or workshops for the development of training actions, to be implemented within the agreed framework; promote dual training programs for high-voltage transmission line technicians, following annual planning and available budgets, in accordance with current regulations and applicable guidelines.
