Blue-Collar Jobs for the Arctic is a comprehensive approach focused on improvements to the blue-collar workforce training system through joint training platforms set up for Top 30 trades on Yamal needed for the ambitious infrastructure projects in the Arctic.

The project introduces organizational, management and financial procedures (investment in setting up corporate resource training centers (CRTCs)), ensuring that both the business and the government are interested in providing talent for the economic growth of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Practice implementation methods:

The Human resources policy council under the Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug was strengthened by the heads of major corporations located in the region. The growth points are the corporate resource training centers to be jointly set up and used by vocational schools and partner companies to train students and retrain current staff using high-tech equipment.

The regional project participants are 10 fuel and energy companies: Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy, Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, Gazprom Dobycha Nadym, Gazprom Dobycha Noyabrsk, Severneftegazprom, Noyabrskneftegaz-Gazpromneft, RN-Purneftegaz, ROSPAN INTERNATIONAL, Yamalneftegaz (LUKOIL), TARKOSALENEFTEGAZ-NOVATEK
3 CRTCs have been set up.
A corporate resource training center (CRTC) is a platform combining resourced for hands-on training of students and corporate staff in the environment close to industrial at the vocational training facilities.

In Muravlenko multi-purpose vocational school, by Noyabrskneftegaz-Gazpromneft and the Government of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, specialty: “Oil and gas deposits development and operation” (2017), in Tarko-Sale vocational school, by TARKOSALENEFTEGAZ-NOVATEK and the Government of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, specialties: “Oil and gas production operator”, “Operation and service electrician (industrial)”, “Control and measuring devices and equipment mechanic (industrial)” (2019), in Novy Urengoy multi-purpose vocational school, by Gazpromneft-Yamal, for various professions and specialties in the oil and gas industry (2020).

Setting up a CRTC at the in Novy Urengoy multi-purpose vocational school is underway, involving cooperation with Gazpromneft-Yamal in order to start training for the following specialties: “Oil and gas production operator”, “Oil and gas deposits development and operation”, with Rosseti-Tyumen for the specialties: “Operation and service electrician (industrial)”, “Operation and service of electrical and electromechanical equipment (industrial)”; in Yamal multi-purpose vocational school in cooperation with Yamalavtodor for the specialty “Road and construction machinery operator”, with Noyabrsk school of professional and information technologies, in cooperation with oil service companies (Rimera, Vangeborg, Novomet, etc.) for the specialties: “Welder (manual and partly mechanized welding and build-up)”, “Machinist” and including new specialties: “Fully mechanized and robot-operated welding operator”, “Combined laser welding and machining equipment operator”, “Selective laser smelting operator”.
In the context of the “Young professionals (vocational education competitiveness improvement” Federal project (the Education national project), in 2019 10 workshops from the Federal workshop network were set up in two Yamal vocational schools.
A workshop is platform for training based on WorldSkills international standards.

Yamal multi-purpose vocational schools established workshop in the “social life” field, Noyabrsk school of professional and information technologies - in the “service industry” field.

In 2020 Noyabrsk school of professional and information technologies - the winner of the Federal workshops competition - kept setting up workshops in 9 more “information and communication technologies” fields.

Regional partner projects: “Specialized competences center implementation in a corporate resource training center” (Muravlenko multi-purpose vocational school, Muravlenko city), “Corporate resource training center” (Tarko-Sale vocational school, Tarko-Sale city), “Gazprom class: energy of the future” (School No.7, Gubkinsky city), Digital competences development center for school students (School No.3, Nadym, Nadym district), “Startuy v start-up” project (Muravlenko multi-purpose vocational school, Muravlenko city).