AKE Employs Young Engineers After MEP Trainings

AKE Elevator & Escalator opened its doors to newly graduated engineers, adding 16 young engineers to its staff last month within the scope of the Vocational Training Project (AKE-MEP), which they started four months ago.

The company, which opened its doors to the newly graduated young engineers and cannot fulfill the “experience” requirement in job applications, has trained 18 newly graduated engineers within the scope of AKE-MEP project.

The young engineers received a total 276 hours of theoretical and practical training, including 90 hours of welding, 27 hours of machining, 45 hours of general manufacturing, 6 hours of paint shop, 90 hours of installation, 16 hours of plain transformation, and two hours of personal development training for business life, in order to gain experience in these fields. Following the completion of the training program, company officials employed 16 engineers who wanted to continue working in AKE.

Certificate Ceremony at the Factory

The Certificate Ceremony of the Vocational Training Project, which was organized together with ISKUR, was held in AKE Elevator and Escalator factory in the Antalya Organized Industrial Zone. The ceremony was hosted by AKE Chairman Çetin Keskin, Vice President Canan Keskin Gürkan, and Ali Bahar, chairman of the Antalya Organized Industrial Zone; Şaban Tat, Chamber of Electrical Engineers Antalya branch manager; İbrahim Atmaca, Chamber of Mechanical Engineers Antalya branch manager, Elçin Ekici Öztürk, Young Organized Industry Association president; Veli Tekkanat, ISKUR Anlatya provincial director; İlhan Metin, Antalya Organized Industry Zone regional director; Dr. Aylin Tümay, Antalya  Organized Industry Zone Technopark president; and ISKUR officials. It was attended by AKE personnel and young engineers.

Shouldering Responsibility

Canan Keskin Gürkan, vice president of Ake Elevator and Escalator, stated that AKE-MEP was organized in order to offer solutions for young engineers who have difficulties in finding jobs due to a lack of experience, and for  employers who have problems in finding competent personnel. Gürkan said, “In most of the job postings, we see the phrase ‘Looking for experienced engineers.’ Therefore, most of the young people make efforts for gaining experience while they are studying.  Based on these facts, we wanted to shoulder responsibility for both making our profession popular among the young generation, and making contributions for the future of our young engineers. Our profession is based on engineering, expertise and technical skills. One of our purposes is to learn the profession on the factory floor and to train engineers who have a good command of workflows and who have a perspective in business relationships.”

Second Phase in January 2021

Gürkan said they will continue working with 16 out of 18 engineers who attended the training program, and said, “16 friends will start working in R&D, elevator production, escalator production, quality and aftersales and services departments. The second phase of the project will start in a very short time and we will again provide trainings for the inexperienced engineers graduated from the electricity, electronics, machinery and mechatronics engineering departments, and then employ them or help them to find a job.”