Development of employees’ skills

The development of the professional excellence of employees has two basic directions – sectoral training, for which the company has created a system that assigns a specific scope of training to specific job positions, and language training, specifically English courses, which are attended by employees in technological and administrative positions.

CEPS production staff hold full qualifications required for their positions, as defined by legal and technical regulations as well as by customer requirements. Project managers responsible for large-scale construction projects are authorized professionals and members of the Czech Chamber of Authorized Engineers and Technicians in Construction (ČKAIT) — as of 31 March 2025, there are five such employees. The company’s welding system is supervised by a European Welding Engineer (EWE), and six welders are fully qualified for welding on all transmission pipelines. Supervisory production staff are certified gas equipment inspectors (13 employees), and all technicians are certified gas equipment installers (22 employees). In the field of non-destructive testing (NDT), seven employees are qualified for various testing methods. Occupational health and safety (OHS) is overseen by a specialist certified in risk prevention.

Professional qualification is also being increased by participation of our employees in a number of conferences, not only as participants but also as speakers. Our staff regularly participates in international colloquia on the reliability of pipelines, organized annually by the Czech Gas Association. Furthermore, our specialists gave lectures at major events organized by the German EITEP GmbH Hannover, Iranian Middle East Pipeline, American Tiratsoo Technical, World Simone Congress, company Gas Ltd. and the Association of Pipeline Producers (ASPP).

The company’s management puts emphasis also on the gradual transfer of experience from the older employees to younger ones. We provide university students with professional practice and opportunity to carry out diploma thesis, for which we give specific assignments beneficial for further activities of the company.

We consider long-term cooperation with universities to be one of the main forms of increasing our expertise and we will continue to do so. Some university graduates whose professional growth CEPS has been involved in are now working on leadership positions in our company.

CEPS has a stable team with a significant share of long-term professionals. At the same time, the team is continuously complemented by new colleagues, ensuring continuity of know-how and a high level of professional expertise delivered to our clients.