JV "GM-AvtoVAZ": everything is on schedule

February 12 construction site of a joint venture "GM-AvtoVAZ" visited Togliatti Mayor Nikolai Utkin, President - General Director of JSC "AvtoVAZ" Vitali Vilchik and First Vice-President - Deputy General Director Yuri Stepanov. From management joint venture was represented by CEO John Milonas and production director Marik Penza. Guests and journalists were given the opportunity to visit a housing assembly "Chevrolet Niva", where February 11 was first pouring of concrete floor, as well as to observe the process of building paint shop, shop acceptance of the body, an office building. On the construction and layout of equipment placement involved two general contractor. This is a firm "QattroGemini LTD" (Finland), responsible for the erection of buildings and supply the necessary networks and firm "Eisenmann" (Germany) - General Contractor on the technological part. Project management and engineering support by the American firm "Hanscomb", which oversees many construction projects around the world. In the Russian market "Hanscomb" is already present in over 30 years. Also under construction involved more than 20 companies Togliatti. On the course of pre-production car "Chevrolet Niva" said in a brief presentation by Robert Hartwig, an engineer company "Hanscomb". In September 2002, will start assembly shop and the assembly line joint venture will do the first car "Chevrolet-Niva", in March 2003 will be started with Paint Shop equipment company "Eisenmann". All work is carried out in accordance with the schedule. After four to six weeks to begin delivery of the equipment from abroad, and therefore the representatives of the SP asked the city authorities to find a way to organize a bonded warehouse for temporary storage of equipment. The total amount of investments made in Togliatti is 104 million euros (2, 74 billion rubles), of which already really involved 32.5 million euros. General Director of JV John Mylonas told about the personnel policies of joint ventures and quality policy. To date, received some 6000 summary. During the interviews, selected by senior and middle managers, is now implementing a set of workers. The total number of already accepted a job in the joint venture is 90 people, by the end of the year will bring this figure to 500. In general, the number of enterprises will not exceed 1,200 workers. Selection was carried out in accordance with such criteria as education, work experience, English skills, team work, state of health. As the GM intends to introduce a new philosophy of quality, in a joint venture will be a unique one-off training. All employees of the joint venture, even not directly related to production, will be in three weeks to work on an assembly line. This three-week training and expects suppliers (they will learn to set their own parts in "Chevrolet Niva"), as well as dealers, with a three-week training for the dealers will become a regular. The purpose of training - to provide an understanding of each employee overall goals and objectives of the enterprise. As a staple of joint venture - a car, every employee must know about it all the way up to industrial dimensions. In his speech, General Director of JV again emphasized the fact that for the first time in its history, "General Motors" puts on a production car is not his, but purely vazovskuyu development, which indicates a high level engineers and designers of AvtoVAZ. Svetlana Lysyakova