Bryan Otto’s story is just one of many success stories of real struggle from growing up in highly rated crime settlement in an urban center where peer pressure is the main gravity pressing in all direction.
Otto struggled between his studies, poverty, peer pressure to get to where he is today.
After completing grades 1-8 at Holy Spirit Primary school in Madang from 1990 -1997 and grades 9- 10 at Tusbab High School from 1998-1999, Otto was selected to attend Moresby Technical College to study Auto Electrical from 2000-2001.
But after the two years, the course Otto studied at Port Moresby Technical College ended and seeking employment was another problem for him and he struggled for sometimes doing few things here and there.
In 2012, he received a massage from a source inside Ramu NiCo that the company needed an Auto Electrician. That was his chance and Otto made the first move next morning to the Ramu NiCo head office.
Ramu NiCo’s glass building was now constructed and towered high above the Newtown area and people have begun to call it the glass house. It was a new mining company’s head office in town and many people with trade skills were applying for different jobs to go work in the mine’s mining and refinery areas.
Clutching his certificate in Auto Electrical, Otto walked into the huge glass house praying silently that God would have mercy and allow him to get a job.
“Of course it’s a huge glass house and there will be plenty of jobs in it but am I qualified,” he thought as he admired the structure that stood firm and tall and welcoming him.
Otto was recruited on the spot because at that time Ramu NiCo needed his skills and he started work right away at the Madang head office.
In 2016, he was sent to the Basamuk Refinery where he worked till today.
Otto is small in size but many employees respect him because he is one of the long serving employees of Ramu NiCo.
Seeing his commitment and good character, the company selected him to be part of a 22 men team who are undergoing heavy equipment fitter and light motor trainings separately.
“I am very happy with Ramu NiCo for seeing my need to further and upgrade my working skills with this training, “he said.
“I walked into Ramu NiCo with a small level certificate but now the company is training me to get a higher certificate and make me a skilled tradesman and I will now have a certificate to prove that, “Otto said.
“Truly Ramu NiCo doesn’t recruit on best qualification people have but recruits them on the ability they have to work hard, learn along the way and produce positive results.
Otto thanked Ramu NiCo for employing him. Being employed by Ramu NiCo also helped him serve and cater for his family’s expenses since 2012.
