As part of its efforts to advance the qualifications of young Saudi graduates, Sadara Chemical Company has welcomed a number of Saudis who recently graduated from Jubail Industrial College and Jubail Technical Institute, as trainees in various technical and engineering disciplines. The trainees will go through an on-the-job training (OJT) program, which will continue for periods ranging from six months to a full year. Beginning in December, the training will continue into 2021.
Sadara said that this specialized training aims to enhance the skills of young Saudi graduates in vital areas, including the chemical industries, operating skills in advanced industrial environments, and optimal handling of industrial tools and processes that ensure the highest levels of productivity related to the quality and efficiency of production.
The company said that the number of Saudi trainees totaled 40 from various industrial, technical and engineering specializations in the diploma programs, and that it has adopted a training plan that qualifies these young Saudis to fulfill the requirements of the industrial labor market, including the need for high quality, considering the intense competitiveness of the market.
Sadara also affirmed its continued support for training programs for newly graduated Saudis, and its keenness to provide opportunities for the largest possible number of Saudi men and women by enrolling them in the OJT and other related programs, in coordination with all academic institutions in Jubail.
Sadara is a joint venture developed by Saudi Aramco and the Dow Chemical Company. It is a multibillion-dollar world-scale chemical complex in Jubail Industrial City II in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. Comprising 26 world-scale manufacturing units, the Sadara chemical complex is the world’s largest to be built in a single phase and is the only chemical company in the Middle East to use refinery liquids, such as naphtha and natural gasoline, as feedstock. By using best-in-class technologies to crack refinery liquid feedstock, Sadara aims to enable many industries that either currently do not exist in Saudi Arabia or only exist through imports of raw materials. The adjacent PlasChem Park, a unique collaboration between Sadara and the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, will create more value downstream, generating unprecedented investment, innovation, economic growth and thousands of jobs.
