MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The demand for personnel at enterprises of Nornickel's Norilsk Division on the Taymyr Peninsula was 10,000 people in 2022. To satisfy the demand, the company has been cooperating with the Fedorovsky Polar State University and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, the company's Vice President on Federal and Regional Programs Andrey Grachev told the Clean Country forum on Wednesday.
"Our demand is growing all the time as the company is moving forward, the territory develops sustainably, and the demand of only the Norilsk Division (a full-cycle key asset on the Taymyr Peninsula) was 10,000. <…> Practically the entire human resources demand complies with the company's objectives," he said. "In the Norilsk District we have about 50 facilities under construction or which are about to be commissioned. Thus we cannot speak about any excessive force - we, surely, need highly qualified people."
Nornickel's corporate university continues working, he said, adding the company had been developing cooperation with the Fedorovsky Polar State University, and Nornickel's specialists take additional training courses at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.
The company's two flagship projects - the Sulfur Program, and Norilsk's renovation - also require labor force, he added.
"The first flagship project is the "Sulfur Program", the first stage of which, we hope, will be completed by the end of this year, and we will be able to please the environmental community by our significantly reduced emissions. This program has required additional specialists - about 4,000, whom we had to bring to Norilsk, we had to build a residential town in order to satisfy this demand. The second program is the program to renovate the city of Norilsk. <...> We needed to increase the number of specialists, including high-class ones, and thus we have brought additional 5,000 people," the company's vice president said.
Norilsk Nickel is a diversified mining and metallurgical company, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper. The company also produces cobalt, rhodium, silver, gold, iridium, ruthenium, selenium, tellurium, sulfur and other products. Norilsk Nickel Group’s production units are located in the Norilsk Industrial District, on the Kola Peninsula, in the Trans-Baikal Region and in Finland.