Vitesco Technologies launches “career map” project to prepare its employees for Industry 4.0

Vitesco Technologies, a leading international provider of drive technologies and e-mobility solutions, has piloted “Career Map”, an innovative project that has already been rolled out at 14 locations worldwide. It offers open access and easily traceable overview of possible career paths in production and logistics, setting out the necessary qualifications as well as the specific requirements for further progress to a next-level position.

“With the Career Map, we can ensure that our employees in production are always up to date with the latest information,” explains Hans-Jürgen Braun, Senior Vice President Operations at Vitesco Technologies’: “The increasing digitalization and automation of production systems will mean that the areas of responsibility will undergo increasing change in the future. With the Career Map, we’re creating a high level of transparency regarding opportunities for further education, so as to prepare our employees for the future and Industry 4.0.”

Based on a pilot project in Brasov, Romania, a team of junior employees and professionals from various disciplines has spent several months working on rolling out the Career Map system as a global standard. They analyzed the various different qualification systems and industry standards and compared them with the target in order to determine the need for adjustment in each case. Since the locations sometimes differ greatly from each other with regard to the products manufactured there, the location-specific Career Maps also vary – with different job profiles and requirements for expertise and qualification.

After 15 months, the first wave of implementation has been successfully completed and the career map is in use at 14 locations: in Pune (India), Juarez (Mexico), Wuhu, Tianjin and Changchun (China), Debrecen (Hungary), Amata City (Thailand), Frenstat and Trutnov (Czech Republic), Pisa (Italy), Icheon (South Korea), Boussens & Foix (France), Seguin (USA), Brasov (Romania). Further locations will follow in the coming months.

The company also wants to document and measure how the Career Map is helping employees to develop in one of the four areas – leadership, technology, quality, and logistics. For example, by recording how many production employees followed the Career Map to obtain further qualifications, and how many of them were able to gain a higher-quality vacant position as a result.