Yinson Annual Report 2020

90 NATURAL SOCIAL & RELATIONSHIPS ORGANISATIONAL MANUFACTURED HUMAN FINANCIAL Yinson Holdings Berhad SECTION 4 OUR CAPITALS Ghana Graduate Trainee Programme Ghana’s Graduate Trainee Programme has been in place since the project phase of FPSO JAK. The first batch of 20 trainees underwent training from 2015 to 2017, in six different countries. Ghana Safety & STCW courses, riser production and module stools China FPSO conversion Vietnam Production manifolds Singapore FPSO integration Indonesia Process modules fabrication Norway FPSO Front End Engineering Design (“FEED”) development and ICSS system At the end of the two years, 15 trainees were identified for offshore assistant positions and five for onshore positions. As at FYE 2020, 10 of the 15 offshore trainees have been promoted to full time positions, while the remaining five are still being assessed through our succession planning programme to take up full time roles. All five onshore trainees have been promoted to permanent positions - four are in based in Ghana as Operations Engineer, Maintenance Engineer and Cost Controller; and one is based in Oslo as Asset and Reliability Engineer. This trainee programme has now evolved to be included in our offshore crew training programme. Hiring a local workforce Hiring local workforce has been a focus area for our base offices. For Ghana and Nigeria, such a practice is a part of the local content requirement. We aim to adopt the same practice across the Group as part of our commitment to creating a sustainable local workforce. Personal and professional development (pg 86) For our Ghana office, the contractual agreement is to reach 80% localisation by mid 2022, five years after commencement of operations. As at February 2020, our Ghana office consisted of 33% expatriates and 67% locals, with the local figures including 28 outsourced crew.