The executive director of the MARAEY tourist-residential complex, David Galipienzo, and the mayor of Maricá, Fabiano Horta, accompanied by the director of Sustainability of the enterprise, Luciana Andrade, signed this Thursday (25), at the Expo Maricá 2021 event, an agreement of great socioeconomic impact for the municipality. The document provides for the hiring of local construction workers both in the construction and in the operation of the undertaking. Works are scheduled to start this year.

According to the economic impact study developed by the company, during the construction of MARAEY, more than 50,000 jobs will be generated and, when it is fully operational, the offer will be 36,000 jobs. It is also estimated that the project will generate more than 1 billion dollars in taxes per year.

The project will decisively contribute to the creation of new and better employment opportunities in the municipality. The undertaking, in collaboration with the Maricá City Council, will increase the local labor market, encouraging and participating in the creation of new employment opportunities, including agreements with private initiatives and professional training policies together with qualified institutions. The mayor of Maricá celebrated the fact that the signing took place at Expo Maricá, an event that brings together the best businessmen for the benefit of the municipality.

“Expo Maricá has always had a sense of resilience of integrating our business community, which has played an important role in this edition, to seek awareness beyond the city center. Today we took an important step with MARAEY, the signing of the protocol, which endorses this commitment to hire local labor in the construction of the enterprise. This gives us security and references to build a public policy”, says Horta.

Galipienzo sees the agreement as the beginning of a strategic alliance that will contribute to the transformation of the city: “EIt is important to say that MARAEY is Maricá. This agreement is one of the many commitments that the company has proposed to assume in the coming years with the municipality and, above all, with the population of Maricá. We are going to work together for an increasingly prosperous and sustainable future for the city.”

Luciana Andrade explains what the priority hiring process for local labour will be like. “The locals of Maricá will be an absolute priority in the project to fill the positions. We will work side by side with the municipality in this process of hiring local professionals. The City Council will be responsible for selecting professionals according to the profiles of each one, through the Secretaries of Labour and Economic Development. The companies that provide products and services, located in Maricá, will also have preference at the time of hiring”, explained the director.

It is also important to remember that, in order to train the population of Maricá, MARAEY and the Maricá City Council have already signed agreements with some renowned institutions such as Senac RJ. In the area of tourism and gastronomy, two actions are already planned: a technical training centre, in collaboration between MARAEY and the City Council, and a hotel and haute cuisine university within the enterprise.

The Maricá City Council will also invest in the construcion of training and professional development centres in the area of civil construction and work safety, among others. Some of the courses contemplated for the construction phase will be: site manager, bricklayer, carpenter, plumber, electrician, painter, cabinetmaker, hardware supplier, safety and environmental technicians to name but a few.

In order to encourage the employees of the construction period to make a transition to the operation phase of the undertaking, MARAEY will develop a continuous training program. Over the years, it is planned to train employees through different courses, so that they can occupy future positions offered by the enterprise, in areas related to the main activities of the project, such as hotels, tourism, commerce, education, health, gastronomy, leisure and sports.