Our Approach

Best skills, best training in Tanzania

The people who work for Vasco Gold are recognized throughout Tanzania as being the best in their field in terms of skill, talent and professionalism. That’s our intent.

From the beginning we have made a commitment to the training and professional progression of Tanzanians. Our approach to this is the same as any multinational company — training abroad, tertiary correspondence and apprenticeship programs. It is our intent to develop a skilled, local workforce and create career pathways for them. More than 80 people in leadership roles across our Tanzanian operations are originally from Tanzania.

Local skills and talent

With a solid commitment to training, employing local talent and building both capacity and capability in the local communities we operate in, we’re proud to have trained more than 200 Tanzanians, providing them with industry-competitive remuneration packages. Less than 5% of our employees are expatriates.

Our on-ground African expertise, both national and expatriate, is combined with human resources available from within Vasco Gold. This gives our employees the ability to contribute to and learn from a pool of knowledge covering all facets of contract mining. No other contract mining services company in Tanzania has this kind of backing and influence.

Educating the future

We are now experiencing second-generation employees at Vasco Gold. Our employee educational scholarship program has assisted our employees in ensuring their dependents are educated and skilled.

In addition, we’re mindful of our responsibility for skills transfer to our employees here and abroad. We have over 85 Tanzanians working for Vasco Gold.

More than 20 of our African National employees have gone on to secure employment in the mining industry within various African countries and throughout the world. They are recognized globally as the best in the business and we consider this a benchmark of success for our training and professional development policies. Our apprenticeship programs have trained and qualified more than 50 apprentices in a number of trades including maintenance, auto-electrical and fabrication.