Shoreline Power Company opens training school

In further demonstration of its commitment to Human Capital Development, Shoreline Power Company Limited, recently, announced its plan to establish a training school to develop its staff and interested members of the public.

The company’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Mr. Timothy Spong, made this known during its Long Service Award ceremony, which was planned to hold on the day when the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) awarded the company the Nigerian Industrial Standard (NIS) and International Standard Organisation Certification 9001:2000.

According to Spong: “In any organisation, no matter what people think to the contrary, personnel are by far the most important asset. We want the commerce and industry sector to recognise Shoreline Power as having a reputation of employing and training the best skilled, best trained and best motivated workforce in Africa”.

He added: “We envision a time in the not-too-distant future where we can operate an entire training school that would train both ourselves, our customers and even our competitors to the highest standard of competence in the world. This will have a knock-on effect within the power sector and industry in general and will set the tone for sustained indigenous development in Nigeria for years to come”.

Speaking earlier before presenting the certificate, SON’s Director General, DR John Ndanusa Akanya, who was represented by the organisation’s Director of Enforcement, Mr John Sule, commended Shoreline for what he described as a giant stride.

In Akanya’s word: “This is a giant stride in your pursuit of continual improvement in customer service provision. And it is worthy of commendation.”

He added: “The relevance of quality and continual improvement in the current competitive market environment, which focuses on customer satisfaction cannot be over-emphasised, being extremely important in expanding organisation’s local and export trade capabilities, raising the competitiveness of its services and goods in the market and thereby improving organisation’s image”.

The SON boss stated further:” The surest way to maintain relevance, remain competitive and gain more market share in the global market is through the provision of quality products and services, thus making the NIS ISO 9001:2000 a standard key for competition in the global market and for achieving successful business results”.

Akanya however warned the company of sustaining the achievement to avoid losing the certification. According to him, the system, having been certified would be placed on six monthly surveillance audits to ensure continuing suitability and effectiveness of the implementation of the quality system.

He said that, in the course of audit exercises, where non-conformances are observed and are effectively corrected within the specified time frame, the system would retain the certificate. However, the certificate would be withdrawn if the structures in place for certification break down and necessary corrective actions are not taken on observed non-conformances, Akanya warned.

One of the awardees of the company’s Long Service Award, Mr. Okeke Albert, the company’s sales and marketing manager, commended the management team for their insistence on quality.

Albert, who had worked in the company for 10 years, urged other employees to be hardworking and committed, noting that they will be rewarded both by the company and by the Creator.

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