Employee Representative Jurijus Katvickis Joins the Altra Board

As of 15 October, Jurijus Katvickis has joined the Board of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, the state-owned enterprise operating under the Altra brand, as an employee representative. His candidacy was previously assessed by the Employee Representative Eligibility Assessment Commission, established by the Ministry of Energy. His term of office will run until the end of the current Board’s term on 22 April 2028.

Mr Katvickis has worked in the nuclear energy sector since 1998. He currently heads the Verification and Calibration Laboratory within Altra’s Laboratory Testing Division. During his career, he has worked in the Nuclear Safety Department and the Thermal Automation and Instrumentation Unit. He has also headed structural units within the Radiation Safety and Maintenance Services. For more than 11 years, he has overseen metrological support activities, and he has headed the Verification and Calibration Laboratory since 2010.

The new Board member has more than 16 years of management experience in long-term operational planning, budget and cost management, process optimisation, risk management, and the implementation of organisational and technological change.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kaunas University of Technology and a diploma in Nuclear Power Engineering from Obninsk State Technical University for Nuclear Power Engineering, where he qualified as an engineer-physicist.

The Altra Board currently consists of four members. Following Mr Katvickis’s appointment, it will comprise five members. The current Board has been in office since 23 April 2024.

Mr Katvickis was nominated to the Board as an employee representative by the company’s Independent Trade Union.