1 September 2011 // Press centre Metinvest Group
Metinvest, a vertically integrated mining and steel group of companies will provide jobs at PJSC "AZOVSTAL IRON & STEEL WORKS" to about 150 graduates of
Priazovsky State Technical University, Donbass State Technical University, Mariupol Mechanical and Metallurgical Technical School and Mariupol Metallurgical Vocational School. Presently eighty 2011 graduates have been provided with jobs, and about seventy more are expected to be employed by the end of September. Totally over 630 Mariupol graduates have been provided with jobs for the past three years.
Among young professionals there are 26 students of Priazovsky State Technical University that have been trained under Azovstal's educational project "School-University-Azovstal". The major purpose of the project is training of highly qualified specialists adapted to
present-day production environment, formation of prospective talent pool at Azovstal. Over 100 graduates of main educational institutions - Mechanical and Metallurgical Technical School and Mariupol Metallurgical Vocational School – will be employed at Azovstal after their recent on-the-job training.
This year the graduates will join the work staff of Azovstal's production shops: Ironmaking Plant, Basic-Oxygen Furnace Plant, Plate Mill, Rail Mill and other shops and departments.
All company's young staff will have an opportunity to participate in the corporate programs implemented within the scope of Azovstal's youth policy. Thus, "The Young Professionals School" is conducted at Azovstal to help the graduates in their adaptation process, where the young professionals familiarize themselves with the plant's structure, history, processes etc. One more instrument of young professionals' adaptation is their job placement on the positions of managers and specialists according to the company's demands.
"All Metinvest Group's plants, Azovstal among them, aim at achieving new strategic targets, fulfillment of complex production tasks. The effective production requires effective
specialists with innovative thinking that could contribute to the company's successful
development. Therefore, we give special focus to training of qualified specialists and their high quality education", noted Enver Tskitishvili, General Director of PJSC "AZOVSTAL IRON & STEEL WORKS".
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PJSC "Azovstal Iron & Steel Works" is a modern high-tech enterprise manufacturing a wide range of steel products: slabs, bars, shapes, railway rails, rail fasteners, square billets, plates and products of metallurgical slag.
Production facilities of the enterprise allow producing over 5.5 mln. t of iron per year, over 6.2 mln. t of steel per year (with the purpose of reaching 7 mln. t of steel per year), and more than 4.4 mln. t of rolled products. Design capacities for rail fasteners production are 285 thousand t per year, milling balls - 170 thousand t per year.Metinvest is a vertically integrated mining group of companies owning assets in each link of the production chain from iron ore and coal min-ing and coke production through to manufacture of semi-finished and finished steel products, pipe rolling and coils as well as other value-added products. Group consists of mining, iron and steel companies, located in Ukraine, Europe and USA and has a sale network covering all key world markets. The major shareholders of Metinvest are SCM Group (71,25 % ownership) and Smart-Holding (23,75 % ownership) partnering in Company’s management.
METINVEST HOLDING, LLC is the managing company of Metinvest Group.