March 4, 2025
CAREER @ KNDS DE
Corporate culture at KNDS Deutschland
Protection and safety are what everybody talks about. You can play an active role in shaping them.
You’ll find we have a value-oriented corporate culture. We demand a great deal, but also have a lot to offer. As an attractive employer, it is our principle to reward performance and dedication accordingly: with a pleasant work climate, open communication and good opportunities for promotion and development. A modern workplace, the technological infrastructure, individual development opportunities and a positive work climate create room for ideas, dedication and enthusiasm.
Innovativeness and tradition are not a contradiction to us – “Future needs heritage” is one of KNDS Deutschland guiding principles. At the same time, we continue to think, feel and act as a family-owned company. Our attention isn’t aimed at the next quarterly report, but at achieving long-term success. The goal is to have customers and employees who are satisfied – and stay that way.
“What do we offer?”
We offer exciting and multifaceted activities in a collegial environment. We are a high-tech company and a manufacturer at the same time. This brings highly interesting, complex and challenging tasks along with it. At the same time, we deliberately set ourselves apart from mass-producers. And our employees appreciate this – in development, production and management alike.
We successfully unite innovativeness with tradition and long-standing experience. Our company’s long-term orientation provides our employees with security, allowing them to passionately focus on tasks together. Advanced training and personal development are very important to us.
Our company is committed to a collective wage agreement and offers pay to match, including holiday and Christmas bonuses, as well as 30 days of leave a year.
What other attractive conditions do we have for you?
- Flexible working hour arrangements
- Company cafeteria
- Additional subsidised company pension scheme
- Promotion of further qualifications, such as technician training, courses of studies
- Regular company health management events, such as skin cancer screening, health awareness days, back training courses, etc.
- Care from our company physicians
- Children’s daycare subsidy
- Service anniversary bonus
- Bike leasing
- Financial support of the “Bahncard”
- Financial support of “Deutschlandticket”
- Company celebrations, such as Christmas, jubilee and retirement parties
- Additional site-specific social benefits
Apprenticeship at KNDS Deutschland
Are you about to finish school and looking to launch your career? From industrial business representative to automotive mechatronics technician to vehicle painter and many other professions, KNDS Deutschland regularly offers apprenticeship positions. And since we firmly believe that a strong team comes from successful youth employment, you have good chances of being accepted if you meet the requirements. All of the important information about the prerequisites and application procedure can be found here.
Dual studies at KNDS Deutschland
There are combinations that simply make sense. For example, making an ideal combination of vocational practice and theoretical knowledge. You can do it with us!
Internship, Bachelor’s thesis and Master’s thesis
KNDS Deutschland regularly offers internship positions. You also have the opportunity of writing your final thesis with us. Find out about the details here.
Personnel development
The sustainable development of technical, managerial, personal and social skills plays a major part in the company’s success
Based on site selection through educational needs planning and individual two-year further development plans for every employee, we offer professional and personal qualifications in cooperation with external educational institutions as well as in-house training as needed. In addition to specialist development and qualification in project management, we identify potential for taking on more challenging responsibilities at the company and for filling management positions from our own ranks. Every two years, a young talent promotion group is formed in a selection process in cooperation with our highly experienced division managers which determines your need for further training concerning managerial tasks and will take you through special modules for the development of leadership personalities over the course of one year.
For managers with initial experience, we offer a two-day workshop for familiarisation with KNDS operative management subjects in the “Principles and Instruments” seminar. For experienced managers, we work with external specialists on continuously improving the operative management and on situational management skills in the form of role-playing.
Company health management
KNDS Deutschland has created binding structures and procedures for company health management.
Preventive health promotion measures are a central element of our health management – before illnesses even have the chance to appear. We regularly conduct health programmes and hold events with varying focuses, such as back training courses, skin cancer screenings, nutritional advice, etc. Our workplace design and work sequences are also important preventive measures.
If an employee is suffering from a long-term illness, we, together with the employee representative and company physician, will explore measures as to how to overcome the incapacity for work and prevent it from recurring in the future. For example, the employer will support you in retraining measures, changes to work hours, promotion of external work sites, workplace reconfiguration, etc.
