To the master with love
To the master with love
Learn the story of Jorge, 58, son of Dona Eunice, father of four daughters, passionate about cars and bicycles, and an electrician from Neoenergia Coelba.
Jorge Henrique Oliveira, 58 years of age completed last October 10. 34 years of Neoenergia Coelba. All of them as a substation maintenance electrician. Born in Senhor do Bonfim, a city in north-central Bahia, 375 km from the capital, Salvador.
Capital where he, along with many young people from the interior of the state, went to try his life. I wanted to serve in the Army. She turned to her mother, Mrs. Eunice, and said, “Mom, get my clothes ready, and I'm leaving.” She cried, but she fixed it. As he always did, as he was always by his side. “Many times, I would arrive from the 'world' late, she was tired of a whole day of dealing, she would heat up the food and put a plate for me”. Because of this affection and care, already a grown man, married with children, traveling around the north of Bahia, he never stopped going to see her: “If I went to Senhor do Bonfim in a single day, ten times I would see my mother, ten times”, she recalls with emotion.
But Salvador wasn't easy. He was unable to join the Army due to an excess of contingent. As he always enjoyed mechanics, learning how machines work, assembling and disassembling equipment, he sought a job at a car dealership, where he worked for a while. He tried a vacancy at the airport, wanted to study and work with aircraft mechanics, but it didn't work. He put what he had inside and on top of a little beetle, including his “campaign bed”, and returned to Senhor do Bonfim.
Capital where he, along with many young people from the interior of the state, went to try his life. I wanted to serve in the Army. She turned to her mother, Mrs. Eunice, and said, “Mom, get my clothes ready, and I'm leaving.” She cried, but she fixed it. As he always did, as he was always by his side. “Many times, I would arrive from the 'world' late, she was tired of a whole day of dealing, she would heat up the food and put a plate for me”. Because of this affection and care, already a grown man, married with children, traveling around the north of Bahia, he never stopped going to see her: “If I went to Senhor do Bonfim in a single day, ten times I would see my mother, ten times”, she recalls with emotion.
But Salvador wasn't easy. He was unable to join the Army due to an excess of contingent. As he always enjoyed mechanics, learning how machines work, assembling and disassembling equipment, he sought a job at a car dealership, where he worked for a while. He tried a vacancy at the airport, wanted to study and work with aircraft mechanics, but it didn't work. He put what he had inside and on top of a little beetle, including his “campaign bed”, and returned to Senhor do Bonfim.
It's because your destiny, your story, was going to be traced and lived inside. And at Neoenergia Coelba. Upon returning to the hometown, it became known that the energy distributor was going to tender for various positions (when public, access to the company was through tenders). Did it and it passed. That's at 25 years old. Since then, she has been working with substation maintenance. Initially, in Senhor do Bonfim itself, where he stayed for two years. Then, Juazeiro, where it still is today, a city 507 km from the capital, embedded in the semiarid region, on the edge of São Francisco. The city of Carrancas, located on the right bank of Velho Chico, with a strong country culture, born in the protective shade of the tree considered the mother of the hinterland, the Juazeiro.
And it was under a caustic sun, which gave his skin a constantly coppery tone, and enduring almost desert temperatures, that Jorge built his life story, his story at Neoenergia Coelba. He married, got married, had children (two girls and a boy, now adults, who live and work in Bonfim). Because of his experience, the knowledge acquired over the years, and his knowledge of a substation like the back of his hand, Jorge is a reference in Neoenergia Coelba and, especially, in the Juazeiro Regional.
Young electricians surround him in search of information, tips, shortcuts, solutions. Affectionately known as “Jorge Careca”, he became a father surrounded by love by the “children” he acquired at Neoenergia Coelba. “I teach whenever I can and am always alerted about safety,” says the veteran electrician.
And it was under a caustic sun, which gave his skin a constantly coppery tone, and enduring almost desert temperatures, that Jorge built his life story, his story at Neoenergia Coelba. He married, got married, had children (two girls and a boy, now adults, who live and work in Bonfim). Because of his experience, the knowledge acquired over the years, and his knowledge of a substation like the back of his hand, Jorge is a reference in Neoenergia Coelba and, especially, in the Juazeiro Regional.
Young electricians surround him in search of information, tips, shortcuts, solutions. Affectionately known as “Jorge Careca”, he became a father surrounded by love by the “children” he acquired at Neoenergia Coelba. “I teach whenever I can and am always alerted about safety,” says the veteran electrician.
Inventive, Jorge, who works with compressors, paints, and Munck trucks, is also known for the solutions and improvements he develops on a daily basis at the maintenance workshop. As a kind of “nursery” to protect capacitor bank and adaptation of 69 kV switches from dishware insulators to silicone. Inventiveness that permeates your leisure: tinkering with cars from the 70s, riding and repairing bicycles. So today he has two Corcel, two Gurgel, one Parati and five bicycles that, during the hours he is not working, he spends the day “riding”.
Jorge, passionate about maintenance, work, and the company: “I really like Neoenergia Coelba, what I do, how I work. That is the force that drives me: doing and doing well, with quality, of doing the best”.
Fortunately, for Jorge, for Neoenergia Coelba, for the young maintenance electricians, that the Army was overstaffed at the beginning of the 70s.
*Photo credit: Robson Lima Oliveira
Jorge, passionate about maintenance, work, and the company: “I really like Neoenergia Coelba, what I do, how I work. That is the force that drives me: doing and doing well, with quality, of doing the best”.
Fortunately, for Jorge, for Neoenergia Coelba, for the young maintenance electricians, that the Army was overstaffed at the beginning of the 70s.
*Photo credit: Robson Lima Oliveira