A dream job
Vladimir, trainer in Balti, Moldova, has been working at DRÄXLMAIER since 2011
What career steps have you already taken at DRÄXLMAIER?
In 2011, I started my career as a production operator and was able to climb the ladder quickly via various positions in production to team leader and trainer in production. Since January 2020, I have been working as a trainer in professional education. Here at our location in Balti we are five trainers for the different occupations and one manager. My tasks include collaboration with professional schools where our trainees come from.
Our dual education system consists of 70 percent practice and 30 percent theory. After the trainees have had their lessons with their theory teachers from the professional school, they come to the DRÄXLMAIER workshop where I prepare exercises for them based on the theory. As their mentor, I guide them through the exercises, check the results, and create customized training plans for them based on their results. In addition, I’m part of a team responsible for checking their final exams.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
Sharing my experience. It is really my dream job. During my work at the training department in production I realized that it is easy for me to explain complex things to new coworkers. In 2020, I became trainer for professional production operation and after a year and a half I changed to Electromechanics.
Today I not only work with trainees. We also provide training for workers and we are planning to do much more. Right now I prepare helpful lists for my coworkers to perform their tasks even better, to understand how the equipment works and how to handle it, how to troubleshoot and so on.
Do you have any hobbies, passions, and talents you would like to tell us about?
My passion is electronics. I’m good at designing electronic circuits, especially in audio amplifiers. In my free time I like to build new gadgets for my car like portable speakers and subwoofers, a backup camera, and Bluetooth wireless music.
Electronics has been my passion since my childhood. Whenever I saw something like a photo camera or lights and batteries I wanted to disassemble it and understand how it works. This was the reason why I chose my profession. When I wake up in the morning I look forward to the day and the tasks that are waiting for me. I am fortunate that I have a job where time passes quickly.
I made my hobby my job and I think this is the main secret of success. But recently things have changed for me when I became a father. Now everything is about my daughter.
Which of your qualities are you particularly proud of?
I’m a very fair person. For example, when two trainees come to me with an issue, I analyzed the situation, listened to both and came to the right conclusion. And I handle my duties and responsibilities with enthusiasm, always looking for continuous improvement.
For example, I played an important role during the improvement of the final exams for the trainees. I developed an equal project style exam for all trainees. In their project all the skills required by trainees are checked starting from metalworking to electrical pneumatic connections and PLC programming. This makes it easier for us to find out if a trainee is skilled or not.
We already see that they are more skilled and reach higher positions directly after their exams. This is a great success for me personally. I’m very proud of them, and for the company it’s great to employ staff who have been trained within the company. We do something to keep the good people.