GU-713 – Graduate Development Program (GDP) – PDO

This document defines the structure of the significant training and development guidelines for the Operations skill pool Graduates Development Program. This program is technically adopted from the Shell Graduate Program Framework, which was launched across Shell Operating Units worldwide and adopted by PDO.

This GDP was an evolution of the EMPDS (Engineers Monitored Professional Development Program) and had governed those graduates recruited in 2014, and those recruited prior to 2013 were governed by the EMPDS program. Most of the graduates in the EMPDS program have now graduated, leaving the new recruits in the GDP.

The GDP is designed to build knowledge and skills to a minimum competence level expected of a technical professional at Job Group 5. As a principle, the program ensures that the depth of parent discipline skill is developed, whilst also enhancing the breadth of awareness and knowledge of cross-discipline/cross-business competencies. The end result is to build capable, mobile, and robust professional engineers, ready to take on bigger responsibility via an accelerated development process.

The main objective of this guideline is to specify the processes and controls necessary to ensure effective implementation of the GDP.
The implementation of the program shall demonstrate compliance with established standards, such as the GU-874.