{"id":283290,"date":"2018-08-29T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=283290"},"modified":"2018-08-29T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:00:23","slug":"highly-technical-skills-necessary-to-cuc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/highly-technical-skills-necessary-to-cuc\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Highly technical skills necessary to CUC\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_283291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283291\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Gary-P.-Camacho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-283291\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-283291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camacho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Commonwealth Utilities Corp. executive director Gary Camacho understands the importance of all their workers\u2014whether local hire or those under the CW-1 program\u2014that help maintain their power and water facilities.<\/p>\n<p>CUC is one of the two agencies that has \u201ccritical occupations\u201d that Gov. Ralph DLG Torres asked U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services should prioritize with their CW1 permit applications. The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. is the other agency.<\/p>\n<p>Torres asked USCIS to reserve 60 CW-1 permits in fiscal year 2019 for occupational categories related to CUC\u2019s operations that include water\/wastewater engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and trades technicians.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview during Monday\u2019s ribbon-cutting of the As Terlaje 1-million-gallon water tank, Camacho said that most of the work that\u2019s being performed at CUC is highly technical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to understand that the work being performed at the power plant, not only CWs but all employees, and the other areas of this corporation is highly technical. It is highly dangerous for the most part. It requires a lot of experience and a lot of understanding of the work,\u201d said Camacho.<\/p>\n<p>He added that they need the right people as they try to get more power engines back online while replacing the older ones. \u201cIt is highly technical and highly complicated. It is extremely sophisticated. We need to have some of these people. \u2026We\u2019ve had some of these guys for multiple years, with 20-plus years of experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Camacho said he\u2019s pleased with the efforts to prioritize their personnel involved in power and water maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rate of the economic growth we\u2019ve been having in the last few years is extremely challenging on any infrastructure. But like anything else, we\u2019re committed to doing the best that we can and to take on these challenges,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m fortunate to have a wonderful group of people in all levels and areas of these corporation to be able to assist and put their hand in providing the best utility service, a modern and more effective efficient utility forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Torres, in his letter to USCIS, said CUC has labor demands that\u2019s specific to engineering and trades occupations, that\u2019s why maintaining their services should be a priority. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Utilities Corp. executive director Gary Camacho understands the importance of all their workers\u2014whether local&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":283291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,67,50,244],"class_list":["post-283290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cuc","tag-people","tag-power","tag-utility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}