Best Design Engineers Announced at “Krasny Kotelshchik”
PJSC «The Taganrog Boiler-Making Works “Krasny Kotelshchik”» (TKZ) held professional skills competition “The Best Design Engineer of the Year. The competition was held in strict compliance with the anti-COVID restrictions being in force; winners were determined through remote voting.
10 employees of the Design Bureau (DB) of “Krasny Kotelshchik” nominated themselves to participate in the competition. These are the design engineers both from Taganrog, and Barnaul. Before they were invited to the competition each of them passed a preliminary qualifying stage at his own division having proven his specific achievements by the results of 2020. That is why only the worthiest employees of the DB were allowed to participate in winner selection.
The winners were chosen in three categories: “The Best Design Engineer of the Year”, “The Best Young Design Engineer of the Year”, “Experts’ Choice”. In two of the above categories the competition participants were assessed by heads of divisions of the DB of “Krasny Kotelshchik”. In the third category the winner was chosen by TKZ employees. The voting was held at the corporate Internet portal and all TKZ employees could participate in it.
Competition participants were assessed on the basis of the information specified in their personal questionnaires. Both specialized issues were assessed, for example the number of components designed by a candidate or the R&D works being carried by him, as well as related aspects like participation in teaching activity and professional development programs, use of the tools improving the company technical image: contributions to trade papers, reports at Russian and international conferences, etc.
By the results of the competition the winners were determined as follows:
- Categories “The Best Design Engineer of the Year”, “Experts’ Choice”: Valeriy Dotsenko, leading design engineer of TKZ DB;
- Category “The Best Young Design Engineer of the Year”: Aleksandr Manyshev, design engineer of TKZ DB.