Local Employment

UEP contributes to local development and welfare through job creation.

UEP’s Operator Training programme enables young people from the company’s concession districts to get the best in class on-the-job training. Advertisements are placed in local language newspapers once the selection phase for this programme is about to start, to ensure transparency and to select on merit from a wide pool of candidates. Applicants undergo a rigorous exam and interview process and only the top-scoring candidates are selected.

Once selected, recruits are paid a salary and signed on for a two-year training schedule as Field Production Trainees. Post-completion of the contract period some Production Trainees are retained, conditional upon headcount availability. While others successfully pass out with a certificate, enabling them to secure employment in other reputed companies both in Pakistan as well as overseas.

Several senior positions at UEP are occupied by employees inducted through this programme.