My work
to the horizon

I would like to see my son in his place, to continue my work

Sergey Kozlov, EVRAZ ZSMK industrial training instructor, developer of methodological programs for professional development, three times recognized as the "Best Young Worker

"I am a drill operator by profession, but I have been working this way for only two years. My career at EVRAZ started in 2004 as an electric fitter. Gradually I improved my qualification and became a shaft sinker. And when the system of machining system at the enterprise changed, I decided that I could master new technologies, and this happened. I believe that a person of any age needs to learn: every day, every hour.

The profession is hard, but I like my job. For me it is more than just a living, more than a craft: I am a third-generation driller, a sinker. I enjoy my work. It requires character, It requires character, determination: you have to set a goal and achieve it. I am used to seeing things through to the end. I would like to see my youngest son in his position. I want him to continue in the business.

I think the mine environment itself attracts young people: you work underground, you are a miner, and this is one of the most risky professions. Of course, there shouldn't be any extreme in the work, but the adrenaline is all the same. but the adrenaline is still there. So people come to try their hand at a real man's job. And the salary is attractive, of course.

People come in different ways: some have bright eyes, and some, on the contrary, are afraid at first. But I work with everyone - in any case, I make sure that the person becomes a professional, gains experience and does his or her job as a I make sure that in any case a person becomes a professional, gains experience, and does his job as a master. Sometimes it happens that the person cannot endure the pace and the workload. I think it happens everywhere, in every profession. But it is literally a few in a hundred.

The transfer of experience happens in the following way: I have been taught something, I have developed something myself and taught others, all this gradually accumulates, and people begin to do more and better work. And with more more quickly and with more interest, too. So the main thing is interaction. At our company, managers always listen to experienced workers - I think you need to listen and be able to choose the golden mean.

If I notice that a person looks at things differently than I do, we sit and talk and come to a certain result. To do some work more effectively. It's not just a monthly or annual plan. There is not only monthly or yearly plan - by the way, we have a strict observance - but there is also ambition. We want to give a little from above".

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Maria Tsaregorodtseva, leading engineer of the central laboratory of EVRAZ ZSMK

I came to the company after the institute: I got my degree and within a month I was already at the plant. I got a job as a laboratory assistant for chemical analysis, worked for three years and became a leading engineer. The WorldSkills competition helped: at the I came second and six months later I was promoted. Now I supervise laboratory assistants, I ensure that the equipment is in good working order and I am responsible for I am responsible for the timely delivery of tests.

The task of our laboratory is to ensure incoming inspection. We check the refractories that are used to repair various refractory linings at the plant. If the report on the refractory mass is good, the scheduled repair the scheduled repair schedule is postponed. Or take the Blast Furnace Shop: the refractories are used to build the furnace. In addition, we analyze ferroalloys - they are added to steel and give it the required properties. We also implement new analysis techniques if the customer needs elements which were not determined before.

In addition to regular work, I prepare employees for participation in EVRAZ's corporate WorldSkills championship. It consists of several stages: first the competition inside the central laboratory, then the interdepartmental one, where different laboratories of the plant take part. Then a divisional competition, where we compete with other EVRAZ ZSMK and Raspadskaya Coal Company employees. Finally there is the championship, where we compete with our colleagues from Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant and Raspadskaya Coal Company. We meet our colleagues from Nizhny Tagil. This is a great chance for young specialists to show themselves - to demonstrate that they can work in stressful situations and perform analysis better than others.

In general, the company does everything to interest young people. We have a Council of Young Specialists that involves employees in various events. For example, a large scientific and technical conference. В This year we have also invited the students of SibGIU to participate: the guys gathered in teams and solved problems related to the problems of production. Then the defense of the projects took place, and the managers chose the best ones. The logic The guys have solved some problem of the workshop - we need to have a closer look at them and invite them to join us. Good development prospects for young people.

In addition, we have a trade union, we have KVN, in which I take part with pleasure. There is a tourist gathering and many sports events like the high-five race. In the winter we have skiing competitions and snowboarding on Sheregesh. I talked to the guys who took part: their emotions were off the scale. We also organize different intellectual games - I can't list them all. So you don't have to live a boring life. "Work-home-work" life.

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Azad Samedzadeh, Hydrometallurgical technologist EVRAZ Vanadium Tula

Before coming to EVRAZ, he was a professional boxer and kickboxer, competed for the Tula Region and studied at the same time. After graduating from the institute, I decided to tie my life to a job that would offer I decided to tie my life to a job that would give me a growth prospect and a steady income. I saw a vacancy at EVRAZ Vanadium Tula, had an interview and in 2015 I got a job as an apparatus operator in the metallurgical shop. From the first steps I decided that I had to to raise my level, to learn.

I worked in one area, then transferred to another and realized that I needed to do something to get higher and become a foreman. I started to study hard, to learn the technological process. I went from one section to another, trying to gain maximum experience everywhere to become a person who can work in all the sections. I think this is in line with the direction of the company, which is constantly evolving: you also shouldn't stand still. You shouldn't stand still either, you have to improve, you shouldn't be afraid of change and responsibility.

Our HR department works very well, so if a person wants to, if you see a prospect in him, you can always come and ask to be trained in this or that program. There is no problem with that. Most of my education I have diplomas from chemical plants and different courses that allow me to work in a higher profession.

EVRAZ likes to develop its employees, and this seems to me to be one of the biggest pluses. For example, the "New EVRAZ Leaders" program, of which I am a graduate, is a whole system, for which a lot of money is spent. Not every employer is prepared to pay so much for the development of the competences of middle-ranking employees - but EVRAZ does. It is a very interesting program: you train for half a year and then you have to come up with initiatives all the time, Six months of training you constantly have to come up with initiatives, offer ideas. There is a clear objective: you have to show results. You get an idea, assemble a team of 10 people and in half a year you have to improve production in the area which you have never seen before. As a result. you become a different person: bolder, more decisive in your steps.

I judge by our staff: young people are slowly coming back to the enterprises. There are a lot of young specialists, and every year there are more of them. In the past it may have been thought that young people didn't want to go to but it's not like that anymore. We have a large social package, mortgage assistance, social vouchers - what not. The company cares about people and their development.

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Andrey Zubkov, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department at EVRAZ's IT Center

It was a "pre-coronavirus" time, when I finished a project for a previous employer and rejected offers for several months. Either startups or "just a developer" positions were being called. Developers", and I wanted to jump in over my head. I was already thinking about working abroad when a recruiter from EVRAZ called me: they were looking for a team for the new office in Novosibirsk. They immediately offered to meet the future I was immediately offered to meet the future head of the company in person, almost right away. After the meeting I realized that I had found exactly what I was looking for.

The tasks that needed to be solved were multidisciplinary and fairly complex. It turned out that I was at the origins of a large Data Science division: it opened up the possibility of building processes and forming standards, and this is exactly what attracted me. The number of tasks - you can't recycle them, and you'll leave them for your grandchildren.

The tasks can be divided into three large classes: first, there is the optimization of production stages (we call them "redesigns"). In general, specific units are already steeply optimized - take the blast furnace: the technology has been practiced for 200 years. But a bunch of units with 10-15 operations, a bunch of control parameters and non-linear interaction is room for machine learning. Humans are not very good at that.

An example of a task of this class: optimization of coke production - how to obtain coke of sufficient quality for blast furnaces from cheaper coals? The project has already been implemented at EVRAZ NTMK and EVRAZ ZSMK. We are We have already implemented the project at EVRAZ NTMK, EVRAZ ZSMK, and we have built the first model in Russia that works not in a laboratory but in real production, which amounts to tens of thousands of tons of products daily. Now we are thinking about how to make the solution into a universal Now we are thinking about making this solution into a universal technological "box" that would save money all over the world.

The remaining two classes of tasks are less common, but no less important: predicting breakdowns and downtime and video analytics. We use the latter in particular for production safety: let's say we put a camera and look at the conveyor belt. If there is a person behind the fence, the automation signals "Hey, you're doing something wrong! In those situations, we really save lives, because if someone gets caught on a belt that's dragging piles of coal at 70 kilometers per hour, it's a pain in the ass. Of course, the system is not an absolute. There still has to be an industrial safety engineer who periodically checks that everything all right.

The focus on ecology and industrial safety is a characteristic feature of EVRAZ that "caught" me the most. I was surprised when I came to Nizhny Tagil that the air was almost cleaner than in Novosibirsk. And from the point of view of And from the point of view of production safety EVRAZ was the first company where if a person is overloaded they unload him almost by force. Because, as one of my colleagues says, "EVRAZ is a marathon, not a not a sprint!

I also noticed that any questions, if necessary, are taken to the level of the president of the company. And you learn by his example to pay attention to the important and ignore the insignificant details. After all, something can go wrong, but if the strategy is right, everything works. So if you want to learn how to lead, delegate, and make strategic decisions, there is something to learn from.

My modeling skills at the company have grown tremendously, even though I came out of science, and they're really good at it. Those very optimization tasks are level 4 analytics! Very rare in freelancing, startups, and even science. But in our country it is very common. In short, if you want to be a specialist who can solve problems from all sides, not only at the software level, but understand the context: what sensors collect information, how to install the camera If you want to understand the context: what sensors collect information, how to install the camera correctly, so that the recognition goes without a hitch, then there is a lot of room for professional growth at EVRAZ. And we are proud to say that we set aside time for this: the Data Science team Data Science team spends 4 hours a week on exchanging experience and personal development. And another 2 for courses common to the whole team. I have never had such a budget for development and training before in any company.

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