MIKHAIL PAVLENKO
GENERAL DIRECTOR
WorldSkills Internatioal Expert
IWE (International Welding Engineer)
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Gold Medal World Competition WorldSkills Kazan 2019
- Gold Medal European Competition EuroSkills Graz 2021
- Gold Medal European competition EuroSkills Budapest 2018
- Medallion of Excellence International competition WorldSkills 2017
- Medallion of Excellence European competition EuroSkills 2016
EDUCATION
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Department of Welding (MT-7), Specialty: Equipment and Technology of Welding Production, Qualification - Engineer
International Welding Institute (IWI), Diploma "International Welding Engineer"
Training
Center for Professional Development and Retraining (TC PPR), Certificate
"Manual Arc Welder" and "Automatic and Semi-Automatic
Welder"
ABOUT MYSELF
I was
born in Vladimir and was always interested in technology and construction.
After finishing school, I had to choose a profession. Engineering subjects came easily to me, and I liked them. There were many options, but Bauman Moscow State Technical University attracted me the most because of its high reputation, rich history, and student traditions. That's how I started studying in Moscow at Bauman University to become a welding engineer.
I wasn't given a dormitory, and by the third year, I had to choose between providing for myself or going back home. Luckily, I got an internship with the Finnish welding machine manufacturer, Kemppi. Of course, my grades suffered, but by the third year, I was already working with advanced welding machines and technologies, going on business trips, flying on helicopters to Sabbeta, overseeing technology control in Skovorodino, testing equipment at -51 degrees Celsius in Yakutsk, and participating in quality control system development. By 2016, it had become routine work that posed no challenges. At that moment, Kemppi became a partner of the championship movement WorldSkills. I was entrusted to work with the expert community and the National Team.
By that
time, I had seen many factories and welders and believed that with enough
diligent training, we could become the best in the world. Once again, luck was
on my side, and I was strongly recommended to go to Taiwan and learn about
their training methods. Seeing their level of expertise and technology, I
realized that my goals were not on the same scale.
I realized that championships were not on the same level of quality as production. We needed to find ways to reach a fundamentally new level, one that was leaps and bounds above the average production level. From then on, I started to gather a team of those who wanted to become the best and were genuinely interested in welding, those who didn't want to settle for being just good enough. This is how we began to unite as a team.
In 2019, we stopped thinking only about championships, as it became clear that there was a catastrophic shortage of universal and highly skilled welders in the industry.
We decided that we needed to train specialists for factories and installations. Then we realized that we could count on our fingers those who were capable of doing this, and we knew them all from our training sessions and trips. It became clear that this was the task that the industry needed, but which few were engaged in, and which we could easily handle. This is how the RWT company was born.
Now we
are happy to collaborate with anyone who makes the welding world better. Those
who produce equipment and are ready to help people learn how to use it, those
who are willing to train welders rather than just wait for professionals to
come to their production site, those who organize championships and teach welders.
I hope that this will find support among professionals.
