KC also offers continual training programs for employment opportunities with its subsidiaries in construction, drilling and camp catering and housekeeping. KC fulfils its obligation to identify, train and onboard Kitikmeot Inuit candidates to support labour requirements for its businesses that provide labour intensive services. Sometimes this requires creative solutions, such as moving its annual driller training programs from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, to its operating partner’s facilities in Prince George BC. “Our partner, Geotech Drilling Services, can now deliver more applicable and focused operational and safety training to our Inuit candidates,” says Forlin. “Trained candidates are then deployed to the Hope Bay mining operation in Nunavut, where our subsidiary Geotech Ekutak has a three-year contract to provide exploration drilling services to Agnico Eagle Mines.” “These changes to the training environment naturally improve effectiveness and confidence for candidates as they are deployed to work the rigs, and ultimately improves retention once they’re there,” says Forlin. “We’re also currently in the implementation stage of an initiative that we’re calling the Kitikmeot Inuit Employment Readiness Project. The objective of this project is to improve Inuit employment opportunities and engagement, particularly with respect to the more skilled and Nuna Logistics Grading Eureka Airstrip 9
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