BU Pow­er Sys­tems trains stu­dents for World­Skills Lyon 2024

The 47th World­Skills Cham­pi­onships will be held in Lyon, France, from 10 to 15 Sep­tem­ber 2024. More than 1,500 par­tic­i­pants from 5 con­ti­nents and 89 World­Skills mem­ber coun­tries are expect­ed to com­pete in more than 60 skills. Lyon will be host­ing the World­Skills Cham­pi­onships for the sec­ond time since 1995. The organ­is­ers are expect­ing around 250,000 vis­i­tors and around 2,500 vol­un­teers to sup­port the event.

We are proud to have been able to accom­pa­ny two Pol­ish stu­dents in their prepa­ra­tions for the com­pe­ti­tion. The eigh­teen-year-old Jakub Net­ter, who passed his Pol­ish “Matu­ra” this year and is plan­ning to start stud­ies in a tech­ni­cal field at Uni­ver­si­ty of Life Sci­ences in Poz­nań, Poland, in Octo­ber, qual­i­fied to take part in the cur­rent World­Skills Lyon 2024 in the ‘Heavy Vehi­cle Tech­nol­o­gy’ cat­e­go­ry. Here, tech­ni­cians for the main­te­nance of heavy vehi­cles are expect­ed to be able to work with com­bus­tion engines and com­po­nents. This requires knowl­edge of a vari­ety of spe­cialised tools such as heavy equip­ment and pow­er tools to diag­nose prob­lems, make adjust­ments and repair faults. The work often needs to be car­ried out quick­ly and to strict safe­ty stan­dards if vital pro­duc­tion time is not to be lost. The tech­ni­cian often works alone and is the link between the employ­er, the cus­tomer and the man­u­fac­tur­er and may involve a degree of senior­i­ty at the high­est lev­el of performance.

Marek Wiącek, Jakub’s train­ing coor­di­na­tor, is already an expe­ri­enced com­peti­tor at both EuroSkills and World­Skills. At the last World­Skills in Salzburg, Aus­tria, Marek achieved 7th place in his cat­e­go­ry and was only a few points behind 3rd place. Marek is now the coor­di­na­tor sup­port­ing Jakub at the World­Skills Cham­pi­onships in France.

In order to pre­pare for the high require­ments of the com­pe­ti­tion, Jakub and Marek com­plet­ed a train­ing at BU Pow­er Sys­tems Pol­s­ka at the end of August. Our train­ing includ­ed the dis­as­sem­bly of a Perkins 900 series engine, advanced mea­sure­ments of select­ed tech­ni­cal para­me­ters and the reassem­bly of the engine. ‘All work was car­ried out in accor­dance with Perkins’ tech­ni­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion and under the super­vi­sion of expe­ri­enced BU Pow­er Sys­tems ser­vice tech­ni­cian Tomasz Łow­czyk. I believe that such ini­tia­tives are very good and deserve some time to be devot­ed to them. The pos­i­tive atti­tude and com­mit­ment of young peo­ple should be recog­nised; as well as the desire to gain knowl­edge and new and prac­ti­cal skills in the tech­ni­cal field and beyond,’ says Mar­iusz Kowalews­ki, Ser­vice Man­ag­er at BU Pow­er Sys­tems. ‘The two of them have done a great job and I am con­vinced that they will be well pre­pared for the com­pe­ti­tion. We’re keep­ing our fin­gers crossed,’ says Tomasz Łowczyk.

Fol­low Jakub here:  https://worldskills2024.com/en/skills/heavy-vehicle-technology/