The main goal of Training & Development (T&D) is to improve professional qualifications, improve technical skills and implement modern approaches to work. This is a systematic approach to employee training and development, which we apply within the Lean TPM system at Enzym Group.
The mentors at these trainings are the employees themselves, who know the area of work perfectly and can teach others this.
The leader of the T&D column and HR manager Liana Mashchenko is one of those who “hunts” for opportunities for people’s development and looks for those who are ready to use them/
“Today, there is a shortage of personnel in the labor market, in particular, due to the war. We must be ready to become interchangeable. The Training & Development column helps us with this.”
According to her, the training started at the end of March 2025, they began testing this practice at one of the Enzym Group’s production facilities – Linkcell. They assembled a team, one representative from each department: production, quality service, technical service, labor protection.
The T&D team worked on creating a Skill Matrix — a tool that allows you to assess the level of skills and abilities of employees. The group leader in each department evaluates the employee’s work on a scale from 0 to 4 points. If a person has high results according to all criteria, he can become a mentor for others, but only according to his processes.
“Assessment does not take place thanks to some test, like in school,” emphasizes the leader of the production department Margarita Bondarchuk. “Whether a person understands the processes can be found out by the results of work and during direct communication.”
Stories of experience and growth
An operator at Enzym Group, Andriy Vasyuta, shows excellent results in training — this is evident from his high scores in the matrix. He is an excellent trainer not only for operators, but also for senior operators.
“Training takes place at the production itself. I take an employee and we go through all the stages together, I explain, answer questions. Then he works under my supervision, and then independently. I am always there to help. The main thing in training is talent and desire. It is very valuable when a person is actively interested and asks a lot of questions.”
Oksana Chekh, a packaging machine operator, has been with the Enzym Group team for 25 years. The woman worked on a conveyor line, packing 100-gram pressed yeast. When she was offered to master a new machine, she happily agreed: “I am interested in learning. At first, it was scary, I was afraid to press something wrong, but it was still done in computer mode. Leonid Vlasyuk, the packaging machine operator, helps me in training. I really enjoy working with him. He explains everything beautifully and in an accessible way”.
Oksana is currently training on a Bock&Sohn machine, which packs pressed yeast in 1 kg packages into corrugated boxes. There, you have to constantly watch the line, select the waste, and move packaging materials. When Oksana successfully completes her training, she will move from the position of a machinist to the position of a packaging machine operator.
Another T&D participant is Pavlo Rudko, who joined the team this year through the referral program. At first, the guy worked on a Bock&Sohn packaging machine, but he wanted more. Thanks to the training, he became an operator of a Prokonor machine: “When they told me about training at Prokonor, I didn’t mind. The training lasted about a month.”
The experience of our colleagues once again confirms that the strength of T&D is in continuous development, openness to knowledge exchange, and mutual support. Some take on the courage to teach, others take on the desire to learn, and together they prove that initiative and team unity make production better every day.
