A contest ground has been organized in a pit "Manushkino" in Koltushi suburb. Ten people took part in the contest competing for two nominations - "The Best Excavator Operator" and "The Best Loader Operator".
The professional skill contest has taken place with assistance of the Construction Committee of the Leningrad Region and the St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region Labor Union Branch of Construction Industry and Construction Materials Industry. The Construction Resource Union was the general sponsor.
The theoretical part of the contest included questions on occupational safety and operation of excavating machines. The practical part included execution of three tasks for each nomination. Excavator operators have to dig a ditch, stack pipes in a pyramid and close a matchbox by an excavator’s shovel bucket. Loader operators have to load sand precisely, carry a bucket with water and make a drawing by the loader.
Apart from the main part of the contest program Vladimir Kazakov, an excavator operator of JSC UAT has shown his masterly control of excavator, managing to pass a thread through the eye of a needle by the shovel bucket of the excavator. Judges have awarded the first place to him in the nomination "The Best Excavator Operator".
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The Holding “Titan-2” is the largest in the North-West group of companies, erecting the most important objects of the nuclear industry and energy. The organization performs a full range of construction and installation works from engineering to commissioning.
The Holding “Titan-2” is one of the main contractors for the construction of power units No. 1 and No. 2 of the Leningradskaya NPP-2. Main organizations of the company perform 30% of general construction and 80% of installation works on the site. Specialists of the holding are engaged on the objects of the Leningradskaya NPP-2 first and second power units. The works are being performed in the buildings of the reactor, turbine, electricity, water, heating system and other structures of power units.