OREANDA-NEWS. March 23, 2016. Once again, DTEK has been named among the best employers in Ukraine. According to the 2015 Best Employer Survey conducted by EY, the Company has been ranked first among the industrial companies and named among the five most attractive employers by students of field-pertinent universities.

Respondents with some work experience named DTEK as their preferred employer because of the opportunities offered by the company for personal and professional development, career growth, salary level, the company’s market position, working conditions, corporate culture and training programmes. The undergraduates who took part in the survey also valued highly the employment with DTEK in terms of career growth, salary level and possibility to gain some international experience.

According to DTEK HR Director Aleksandr Kucherenko, the company has earned its right to be named among the best national employers once again. DTEK has prepared a Personnel Management Strategy up to 2030, the vital part of which is a training and development system. “We pay special attention to training and developing our employees,” says Aleksandr Kucherenko. “Our corporate university, DTEK Academy, creates conditions for continuous professional and personal growth on the basis of advanced practices and DTEK’s unique experience and corporate values. We develop talents both inside and outside the company as for so long, our group has been a talent foundry for the national energy sector. We create an innovative environment and each year train dozens thousands of people providing them with a wide range of possibilities: from training sessions and e-learning courses to corporate MBA programmes designed in accordance with the best global standards. We have our internal career management programmes such as TOP 50 and Talent Pool and executives’ module programmes Power of Knowledge and Energy of Leader. All our employees are aware that working for DTEK they can find ways for development and self-actualization.”

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DTEK is a strategic holding company that manages three operational sub-holding companies with the assets in the coal production, thermal energy generation and distribution as well as alternative energy and gas production. It is part of the financial and industrial group System Capital Management (SCM). The shareholder of the group is Rinat Akhmetov. Maxim Timchenko is the Chief Executive Officer of DTEK. Currently, DTEK employs 118 thousand people.

The assets portfolio of DTEK in coal production, thermal generation and distribution sectors is represented by 31 mines and 13 coal processing plants; ten thermal power plants and two combined heat and power plants with 18 GW of total installed capacity; and six electricity distribution companies, which provide services to over 4.4 million customers. The alternative energy sector is represented by one wind farm with the designed installed capacity of 200 MW. The proven reserves of natural gas (С1, С2) at three fields amount to 26 billion cubic meters.

In 2015, DTEK’s companies generated 38.3 bln kWh, including 634 mln kWh generated by the wind farm, transmitted 45.1 bln kWh of electricity, and produced 28.7 mln tonnes of coal and 1.3 bln cubic meters of natural gas.

For more information, visit: http://www.dtek.com.

To learn about the social partnership projects in progress in the towns and cities of DTEK companies’ operations and get a detailed status report on their implementation, visit http://spp-dtek.com.ua/.