Their thinking and actions shape the image of Krones
Regardless of whatever we do for our customers' satisfaction, their productivity and their competitive ability, we never lose sight of one decisive factor, and that is the people of our company and their creative force. Their thinking and actions shape the image of Krones. With regards to our customer, they are eager to meet the requirements and wishes of our customers even more.
More than 15,000 people worldwide are working for Krones. Alone in Germany about 10,000 men and women work in our five plants in Neutraubling, Nittenau, Rosenheim, Freising and Flensburg. We mainly produce in Germany. However, we are present also everywhere where our customers operate. All around the world, we have a network of more than 100 sites.
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Workforce grew above the 15,000 mark in 2017
Our people are the bedrock of Krones’ long-term success. In order to exploit the great opportunities our market offers, Krones further increased its workforce in 2017, especially in our customers’ locales abroad. The company employed 15,299 people worldwide at the end of 2017, which is 856 employees or 5.9% more than in the previous year. The company’s workforce in Germany grew from 10,061 to 10,366. The workforce outside Germany expanded by 551 to 4,933 people. The share of employees outside Germany rose from 30.3% to 32.2% at the end of 2017.
The company intends for workforce growth in the emerging markets to be stronger than overall workforce growth in the future since that is where Krones has for years generated more than half of consolidated revenue. In the reporting period, Krones added 288 new employees in the emerging markets, for an increase of 13.1% to 2,488 people.
Krones is counting on their own skilled professionals
We have a high level of academic standards for our staff and plan on increasing it even more. Krones is investing a lot in well-qualified skilled professionals. Nearly all the members of our staff in the German plants have gained qualifications from vocational training. Almost a quarter of the staff are specialised merchants, technicians or master craftsmen. 20.7% of our employees are post-graduates compared to 19.6% of the previous year. In order to attract young qualified staff, Krones is counting on profound career working with young talents in-house. The company provides attractive offers for young motivated people who manage to start working at Krones with their training, internship or research papers.
Customised additional training for staff members and managers
The high qualification of our employees and managers is a decisive factor for the success of Krones. Therefore, the human resource development department is permanently keeping an eye on additional training and support for all employees.
Every employee has individual skills and areas for further skills developments. This is why the human resource development department is concentrating on measures that are customised precisely to the needs of the individual participants. The professional skills as well as the social skills and methodical skills are supported here. Altogether, the offered seminars comprise more than 450 topics. These topics include IT and language courses just as much as special field seminars as well as communications and method training. In addition to external specialists, also our employees carry out training sessions. Having internal knowledge, they can pass on this valuable know-how directly on other colleagues. In addition to the traditional training, we also offer eLearning modules thus providing the option of doing individual trainings without the pressure of time and location.