This year the number of jobs on freight railways and outsourced companies should overcome the mark of 30 thousand, 50 % more than the total existing in 2002 (when there were 20.215 working positions). In 2004 only the growth was of 32 %, and the number of outsourced jobs – for maintenance mostly – more than doubled, according to the National Association of Railway Companies – ANTF.
The upsurge in demand for railroad service produced a shortage of skilled workers –mostly engineers — and led the operators to multiply the agreements with training center or to improvise in-house training, in both cases getting away from their natural focus. MRS RR, to mention an example, manages three institutions: an engineer school with Senai (National Service of Industrial Learning) and FIEMG (Manufacturers Federation of the State of Minas Gerais); a management school with the Dom Cabral Foundation and the PUC Minas University, and a specialists’ school with IME (Military Institute of Engineering).
The skilled work scarcity got worse with the non renewal of the agreements that the state owned railroads kept with Senai before the concession. 10 year ago there were 21 railroad training centers in nine states, each one with 120 to 150 apprentices students, all minors. After three years of study these minors could leave school as mechanic or electric maintenance technicians. Today only one school survives, the James Stewart Technical School, in São Paulo, dedicated to train workers for CPTM.
The issue started to be rediscussed in the first semester of this year, when a protocol was signed between the Science and Technology Ministry, CBTU, Senai and Sesef (Railroad Social Service) foreseing the creation of training and development programs for the metro sector. Soon after it arose the project of creating in Rio de Janeiro, at the Baron of Mauá station, today disabled, a railroad technology center. The idea is defended by the Planning director of CBTU, Raul De Bonis, who is talking to BNDES (the National Bank for Economic and Social Development). Recently Simefre, Senai São Paulo, Brazil Railroads and MRS initiated a series of meetings aiming at rebuilding the Sena network adjusted to the needs of the private operators.
The problem and the solutions will be discussed during the “Professional Training Seminar for the Development of the Railroad and Subway sector` that Revista Ferroviária is going to organize at BNDES, in Rio de Janeiro, next September 27, with ANTF’s Sponsorship and Firjan/Senai support. The entrance is free. Check out the program and do your registration.
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