LIBERTY Ostrava – Take on more than one hundred apprentices

Every year LIBERTY Ostrava in the Czech Republic gives apprentices from Ostrava’s vocational schools the opportunity to get hands on experience in real work environment.

Last week the Ostrava team welcomed 105 apprentices, from five local schools, to start their internship across the seven separate plants at the mill. The practical training, which runs under the supervision of the plant’s most experienced experts, focuses on mechanics, machine setting, electromechanics, machining and railway transport.

The long term goal of the project is to help enhance the studies at technical schools and make the steel industry and associated trades more attractive to the young generation.

As the economy of tomorrow will rely on science, technology and engineering skills, but as the demand for these roles increases, it will get harder and harder to attract the very best into our industry. So, we need more young people, from top-quality engineers to those with more operational mindsets, to come into our industry to help develop more sustainable production methods and rethink our assumptions about how industry uses and re-uses resources.

As Jakub Juříček, the recently appointed HR director of LIBERTY Ostrava, said about the launch of this year’s programme: “This cooperation is an opportunity for both parties. Apprentices gain important, career-enhancing skills while we can encourage and attract the high-quality workforce we need for the future. The support of technical and apprentice education is important for us because its results are lined to the future of our business.”

NB. The photograph was taken before COVID 19