ETA MELCO Elevator Training Centre another milestone

ETA MELCO ENGINEERING (PTE) LTD. which is a Joint Venture with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, established in Sri Lanka in 1983, and the first elevator company in Sri Lanka to be awarded with ISO 9001:2008 certification, is conducting courses for NVQ III level certification in the field of elevator engineering with a fully-fledged Training Centre, in collaboration with National Apprentice & Industrial Training Authority (NAITA).

Roshan Jayaweera, Senior Sales Consultant, Wurth Lanka, Prasanna Mayadunne, Area Sales Supervisor, Wurth Lanka and Benjamin Shwamin,Wurth On Line World Germany at the launch

This Training Centre is equipped with all modern-day facilities, to impart training to students in the field of installation, maintenance and safety of Elevators & Escalators.

Due to the excellent training facilities and skills available, ETA MELCO would have been the right choice of the facilitator for the students who are interested in this field, and they will be given theoretical training and field experience both in the installation and maintenance work.

ETA MELCO already has ground record of supplying over 2700 Elevators & Escalators in Sri Lanka and over 450 Elevators & Escalators in the Rep. of Maldives, and they will be recruiting the 2nd intake of trainees in March 2013 in the field of installation and maintenance of Elevators and Escalators. The demand for persons to be trained in this field has gained great importance due to the boom in the construction activities in Sri Lanka and also due to the large number of orders they have secured in this field.

The students after successful completion of the training will be awarded NAC/NVQ level III certificate by NAITA. The Training Centre is equipped with a competent lecture panel, comprising of qualified Engineers, Administrator and skilled Supervisors/Technicians who have been trained by the principals, Mitsubishi. The students will be taken through a complete training process, commencing from theory classes, practical demonstrations, job site training and other requisites.

This is the second batch of trainees to be selected, and the first batch of 25 students has already commenced their training sessions from September 2012.

The selected candidates will be given various attractive allowances, medical benefits, and accommodation for outstation students during this training period of two years.

National Apprentice & Industrial Training Authority (NAITA) will be conducting in parallel personal development programme and providing language (English) practice for the students. Moreover, supervision will be done by them throughout the period of two years and separate record books will be maintained for each student for evaluating them periodically on the effectiveness of the course, and they will be providing guidelines for the lecture panel and conducting train-the-trainer sessions time to time.

ETA MLECO has its operations in 23 countries, including U.A.E., Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, C.I.S. Countries, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Maldives, India, Bangladesh etc., and the trainees are assured of employment in Sri Lanka or in overseas branches after successful completion of the training.