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DOOSAN BABCOCK ENERGY
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2007
Our People
Here at Doosan Babcock our people are absolutely vital to our
success and there’s never been a better time to be an employee
of the Company. We are enjoying a period of dramatic and sustained
expansion, which means the number of opportunities we can offer
continues to grow. This growth is taking place in our core technical
offices and various site operations throughout the UK and across our
offices around the world.
We successfully attract the best skills and expertise in the industry
and recruit our new talent from all corners of the globe. Our campaigns
over the past 12 months have targeted Western and Eastern Europe,
India and South East Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.
International mobility of staff is increasingly important and we factor
this into our development plans by encouraging movement between
our various office locations, projects and businesses including our
parent organisation Doosan Heavy in Korea. Being a seamless, global
organisation is one of our key goals. To support this we have sent
over 120 of our top management and technical staff on familiarisation
programmes in Korea, enabling them to understand and experience
the diverse cultural and professional environments of our organisation.
Across the UK our extensive Branch Network facilitates efficient
communication and operations across the thousands of staff and
labour deployed on the sites we support.
In fact growing and developing our future leaders and technical
experts is a key part of our strategy. The full range of career options
are available across all disciplines and supported by world class
management development and career coaching programmes. We sum
this up in an approach we call our ‘2G’ Virtuous Cycle – ‘Growing the
Business by Growing our Staff’.
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In the highly competitive and successful Energy sector we face the
challenge of a skills shortage, and we play our full part in replenishing
skills through our renowned Graduate Trainee and Apprenticeship
schemes, now taking record numbers of new entrants and training
them for the future.
Those on the Graduate schemes develop their knowledge and
competencies by following structured programmes which take them
through a series of placements in different functions and locations,
including the opportunity to experience working overseas. These
schemes are fully accredited by the Chartered Institutions, which means
we can continue to grow our pool of recognised, professional experts.
As an organisation we ensure we extend our support to the local
communities in which we operate. We have partnerships with schools
and universities so we can share some of our knowledge and time
with the next generation.
An example of this was our sponsorship of an Energy Workshop
at Imperial College, London. Here teams of students from various
secondary schools engaged in activities to look at energy and
environmental issues affecting the world. We also support local
charitable organisations, teams and individuals to ensure others
outside the organisation can benefit from our resources and staff.
Indeed with all of the opportunities for growth and development
ahead of us, our diverse and talented workforce can enjoy the highest
technical and professional job satisfaction and look forward to the
brightest of futures with Doosan Babcock.