The lack of qualified employees is a problem in the Lithuanian Automotive industry.

“The lack of quality, process and equipment maintenance engineers is felt the most. There is a critical lack of test engineers in the market – their demand already exceeds the supply, says Giedrius Valuckas, Chairman of the Board of the Baltic Automotive Components Cluster (BACC).

BACC member companies cooperate with educational institutions, appreciate the quality of studies and hope to achieve positive results in the near future.

Despite the lack of qualified specialists, the Automotive sector increased 20%, creating over 2,000 new jobs. This sector is working effectively and hope to achieve even better results!

Source: Verslo žinios 

During the Annual Conference organized by the Confederation of Lithuanian Industrialists, CIE LT Forge was awarded as the “Lithuanian Exporter of the Year 2022”.

In 2022 CIE LT Forge sales increased 35% and reached 43.5 mln. EUR, 99.5 % of manufactured products were exported.

One of the most important news in 2022 – the company entered the Scandinavian market by signing a long-term contract with a large commercial transport manufacturer in Sweden. CIE LT Forge expanded their number of customers in Poland, Germany, Hungary, Romania, France, USA, Mexico.

The effective work of the team helped to achieve the best results. The company set ambitious goals – constantly invest in process improvement and focus on robotization of production lines. Thanks to the professionalism of the team, CIE LT Forge is flexible, respond effectively to the market changes and meets needs of customers.

On 23th February, 2023 the Event – Career Day took place at Kaunas Technology Training Centre, Gauk kontaktą – pasirašyk kontraktą 2023 (Make a Contact, Sign a Contract 2023), which attracted so much attention from young and motivated students, full of energy. Company representatives had an opportunity to present their business, working conditions, open positions, and internship opportunities to all the students.

We are very pleased to see that the contacts made during the event will not only help young people to find an opportunity for an internship or apprenticeship, but also a full-time position and new career opportunities.

The Experience Exchange Forum of BACC Quality Managers took place at “Hella Lithuania”!

We are happy to have the opportunity to gain more experience about the Product audit and LEAN from “Hella Lithuania” professionals – Visvaldas Kasperavičius, Donatas Vlasov, Ričardas Stasiūnas.

Nowadays standards for quality in the Automotive sector are very high because it has the direct connection with people’s safety, health or even lives.

During the Forum, we deepened our knowledge, got acquainted with trends in the field of Quality Management and observed how it is implemented in one of the largest companies in the Lithuanian automotive industry.

It is planned that the Experience exchange Forums of Quality Managers would also be held in 2023. We believe that these activities will help specialists to deepen their knowledge and gain new competences.

Yesterday, the Event “The future belongs to engineers: Lithuania 2030” was held at the Kaunas Technology Training Center for the students of this educational institution and companies in the manufacturing sector.

The purpose of the meeting was to present the general trends of the Lithuanian engineering industry, challenges and opportunities faced by companies in this sector, as well as to discuss the necessary competences of future employees. During the event, the perspectives of attracting and retaining talents in the automotive industry companies were analyzed.

During the meeting, a discussion panel was organized, where Darius Lasionis, Director of LINPRA – Engineering and Technology Industries Association of Lithuania and Executive Director of BACC, Paulius Čepas, director of Kaunas Technology Training Center, Evaldas Rimša, CEO of Baltec CNC Technologies, Linas Tuskevičius, Co-owner of UAB Autoinovacijos and Rasa Žalneravičiūtė, HR director of CIE LT Forge were invited to share their insights. The discussion was moderated by Gintaras Serafinas, Editor of the Magazine “Reitingai”.

The participants of the discussion talked about the importance of professional training in the future labor market and necessary skills for specialists.

We hope that the event was useful for the students of the Kaunas Technology Training Center, as they had the opportunity to learn from business representatives about attractive working conditions and career opportunities in industrial companies.

In the future, the collaboration between educational institutions, industrial companies and students could encourage young people to choose technical professions, creating their personal and Lithuanian Automotive industry growth.