Senari Synergy inks MoU with Sarawak Skills to integrate IR4.0 technologies

SEDC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Husain (second left) presenting the certificate to an employee of Senari Synergy witnessed by Jefri (left).

KUCHING, Oct 7: Senari Synergy today entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sarawak Skills to collaborate further in the development of Industry 4.0 retrofitting.

This will enable the company to increase and enhance further its efficiency especially in its terminal management and operating services that is currently rendered to the major oil companies of Petronas, Shell and MyGaz Sdn Bhd.

Following the signing of the MoU, both parties will also work closely on the integration of Industry Revolution 4.0 technologies into existing equipment (Legacy Equipment) at Senari Synergy.

Commenting on the MoU, Senari Synergy Group Managing Director Jefri Ahmad Tambi highlighted that plans are in the pipeline for staff members of Senari Synergy to embark on a host of industry-relevant training courses provided by Sarawak Skills under the category of upskilling, reskilling and multi-skilling courses.

As Senari Synergy is also a member of Sarawak Skills and part of Sarawak Skills Strategic Committee, students from the Sarawak Skills Group of Institutions will be able to undergo on-the-job training or participate in internship programmes at Senari Synergy.

Jefri (right) exchanging MoU document with Sarawak Skills executive director Hallman Sabri witnessed by SEDC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Husain (centre).

Simultaneously, Senari Synergy today also witnessed the graduation of seven of its employees who had completed their Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning (RPEL) programme.

The programme was conducted in collaboration with Sarawak Skills which enables employees to gain paper qualifications by providing evidence of relevant learning through experiences obtained from their workplace.

Senari Synergy believes that a motivated workforce is one of the key enablers to realise its aspiration of becoming the State flagship for the provision of oil and gas facilities by 2030.

Under its motivated workforce, the company has embarked on three key programmes of which they are Change@Synergy, Tranquility@Synergy and Fit@Synergy.

RPEL is one of the initiatives under Change@Synergy which aims to inculcate the core values of uncompromising integrity, exceptional performance and mutual respect.

“Today marked another milestone for Senari Synergy Sdn Bhd and its subsidiaries when seven of our employees had completed their Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning (RPEL) program and received the certificates from Sarawak Skills. The RPEL Certification will be a good start for our non-executive employees to pursue their dreams of getting their certificates, diploma and degree.

“With RPEL their competency is now officially being recognised by the Ministry of Human Resource. It will certainly be an important pathway for our employees to go for higher qualification that would facilitate the advancement of their career and life goals as the company move forward,” said Jefri. — DayakDaily