ST.PETERSBURG. April 30 (Interfax-AVN) - Defense industry enterprises located in St. Petersburg suffer from an acute personnel shortage, a source in the administration of the Federal Employment Service's St. Petersburg department told Interfax- Military News Agency on Wednesday.
"Both workers and engineers are wanted badly," the source stressed.
In particular, the Special Machine-Building Design Bureau reporting to the Russian Aviation and Space Agency is among the enterprises that suffer the most. More than half of its 200 vacant posts are assigned to engineers.
The situation is the same at the Krasny Oktyabr plant. Though over 50 graduates of the Baltiysk Technological University and Polytechnic University got a job with the plant last year, the enterprise still needs about 50 engineers and 100 workers.
"The Baltiysky Zavod shipyard has several dozen vacancies, and many other plants can be mentioned on the list of St. Petersburg-based defense industry enterprises that need personnel badly," the source said.
At the same time, the number of vacancies in the database of the St. Petersburg department of the Federal Employment Service has fallen from 83,000 to 63,000.
"However this can be attributed to full-scale preparations for the celebrations of the city's 300th anniversary, when companies and organizations are trying to recruit workers as quickly as possible and offering high salaries," the source said.
"Defense industry enterprises do not have resources for increasing salaries," he noted. An average salary of a worker with a defense industry enterprises amounts to RUB10,000 (USD321.37) per month.
"That is why the stress is laid on closer connection with colleges of professional training and on the creation of training centers organic of enterprises. This path is followed by Admiralteiskiye Verfi, which provides for regular graduation of specialists properly trained for work in the ship-building industry," the source concluded.