These appointments come as part of the RUSAL human resources development programme focused on exchanging the best practices, enhancing executive expertise, raising operational efficiency and introducing the RUSAL production system on the Group’s production sites. Amidst the evolving economic climate, RUSAL has revised its strategy and set new objectives for the Aluminium Division, which give more responsibilities and authority to the aluminium smelters and their managing directors.
 
“One of the key challenges for the heads of RUSAL’s production sites is to transform their facility into ‘a business unit’. The new management style at the aluminium smelters and the recently adopted motivation programme will encourage the production sites to achieve the best possible performance, through a series of new opportunities such as channelling their own profit to the development of the technology and operations, as well as motivating their staff and promoting social projects for local communities,” said Alexey Arnautov, head of the Aluminium Division.

One of the key elements of increasing the effectiveness of the production process is RUSAL production system.  Its introduction as a pilot project began at KrAZ under the management of Oleg Burkatski four years ago. Today the smelter is creating an educational centre that will encourage sharing experience of production system introduction with other facilities of the company.
 
Biography

Yuri Moisseev

Born in 1959, Yuri Moisseev graduated from the Kirov Urals Polytechnic Institute as a metals engineer in 1990. In 1981 he started his career with the Bogoslovsk aluminium smelter where he completed the journey from a pot operator to deputy head of the production shop. From 2004 to 2006 he held the positions of technical director/deputy managing director at the Zaporozhye aluminium complex where in 2005 he also joined the management board as the first deputy chairman. Yuri Moisseev was appointed managing director of the Nadvoitsy smelter in 2006.

Oleg Burkatski

Born in 1965, Oleg Burkatski graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals as a metals engineer in 1987. He started his career with KrAZ where he completed the journey from a pot operator to production director and senior engineer. From 2001 he worked as the head of the aluminium administration and the acting director of RUSAL’s production and technical department. Oleg Burkatski was appointed managing director of the Sayanogorsk aluminium smelter in 2002. From 2005 he was RUSAL’s deputy CEO for business systems. Oleg Burkatski became managing director of the Krasnoyarsk aluminium smelter in 2006. Since 2008 he has worked as the managing director at the Bogoslovsk smelter.
 
Alexander Krasovitski

Born in 1975, Alexander graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Technical University as a metals engineer in 1997. Then, he continued his studies at the Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Non-Ferrous Metals (Management and economics degree, 2001). From 1997 to 2002 Alexander held various positions at RUSAL Sayanogorsk (potline manager, senior process engineer, deputy reduction director). From 2002 to 2003, he was the senior carbon area engineer at the Sayanogorsk office of RUSAL Engineering and Technology Centre, and later he was appointed head of its office (2003-2006). In 2006, Alexander Krasovitski was appointed director of the Process Efficiency Enhancement Project at RUSAL Krasnoyarsk, and since 2009 he has headed RUSAL Production System Development at the same smelter.

About RUSAL

United Company RUSAL (www.rusal.com) is the global leader in the aluminium industry, accounting for approximately 11% and 13% of global production of aluminium and alumina respectively. RUSAL employs more than 75,000 people in 19 countries, across 5 continents. RUSAL markets and sells its products primarily in the European, Japanese/Korean, South East Asian and North American markets.

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