Our Employees

Employees ensure MTU’s success

MTU’s employees are its most valuable resource. Well trained, highly qualified and motivated employees guarantee outstanding performance and ensure the company’s success. This is why MTU offers its 7,100 employees worldwide the best possible benefits and conditions: performance-related remuneration, flexible working hours, telecommuting, targeted HR development, advancement programs for young professionals and women, and a health service. The company also offers a comprehensive training program that aims to improve employees’ technical and social skills, and a retirement scheme attuned to modern requirements. The majority of company sites have sports clubs offering a variety of fitness classes and special deals with gyms to provide employees with a healthy balance to their daily work. At MTU headquarters in Munich, daycare services are also offered.

As a global player, MTU strives to maintain close contact with its business partners worldwide – particularly with the major engine manufacturers Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, and Rolls-Royce. Thanks to these relationships and its own subsidiaries in Europe, North America and Asia, the company can offer its employees attractive career opportunities abroad. Professional exchange programs with Pratt & Whitney and General Electric are integral parts of this partnership.

Occupational health and safety – A top priority

MTU places a great deal of importance on occupational health and safety. All targets, measures, roles and responsibilities are defined in a management system, in much the same way as they are for environmental protection. A special team conducts regular workplace inspections to guarantee that the prescribed high safety standards are being adhered to. Awareness campaigns are organized on a regular basis in order to prevent accidents and reduce the risk of work-related health problems. Internal and external audits regularly evaluate the effectiveness and status of all activities and identify areas for improvement.

The company takes a similarly systematic approach to health management, which operates on two fronts. A permanent medical team takes care of individual employees’ health needs and deals with all aspects of occupational medicine, preventive screening programs, as well as general, emergency and environmental medicine. These medical services are complemented by an employee welfare team, which concentrates on helping employees to develop their social, communication and intellectual skills.

MTU strives to continuously improve its health management services. Since 2004, the company has been a member of the ”Enterprise for Health“ (EfH) network, in which 19 European companies have joined forces to promote and strengthen a holistic understanding of health, which also encompasses the subjects of workforce motivation, corporate cultures based on partnership, and economic development.

A family-friendly work environment

MTU aims to provide its employees with a work environment that allows them to strike a balance between professional and family life. This is made possible through a variety of work-scheduling models, flexible working hours and telecommuting. Invaluable support is provided by the ”TurBienchen“ daycare center at the Munich site, run as a non-profit association by a parents’ initiative. The center looks after children aged between six months and six years during working hours on weekdays. The company also has a family advice service that helps MTU staff to find practical solutions to their needs with respect to child-minding and caring for sick, elderly or handicapped relatives, including an independent agency service for home assistance.

Promoting the advancement of women

MTU’s efforts to develop its employees’ potential are reflected in its comprehensive HR development activities. In addition to improving their professional skills, employees should also be able to pursue their personal development. By helping employees to obtain the appropriate qualifications and preparing them for new work content and positions, succession planning can be carried out in a systematic manner.

The company places a special emphasis on women’s professional development. In order to recruit more women, MTU participates in career fairs and workshops. One highly popular event is the annual Girls’ Day, which aims to encourage young girls to take an interest in technical professions. A foundation was set up in 2000 to support young and talented women pursuing vocational training and post-secondary education in technical subjects. The foundation offers seminars, personality training programs, taster weeks, a one-year mentoring program and international internships. As part of the ”cross-mentoring“ program in Munich, highly qualified female employees are paired up with executives from other companies. In return, MTU managers support successful women from other companies. The in-house Progetto Donna network, created in 1996, has strengthened the bond among MTU’s female employees. The network organizes discussion forums and training seminars.

Consistently investing in the future

To ensure a reliable future supply of highly qualified, specialized employees, MTU relies on internal resources including its own modern training facilities, international internships and direct contact to engineering undergraduates. The company fosters working ties with universities and professional associations or institutions such as the Association of German Engineers (VDI) and the German Aerospace Industries Association (BDLI). The aim is to share know-how and spark graduates’ and the relevant experts’ interest in the company.

In 2007, MTU provided vocational training to 295 young men and women. In addition to operating a number of apprenticeship schemes, the company cooperates with the Universities of Cooperative Education in Stuttgart and Berlin as well as Hannover’s University of Applied Sciences to offer practice-oriented courses of study in business administration, industrial and mechanical engineering. Since 2005, the new dual system of vocational training, which alternates on-the-job-training with classroom teaching, has also been included in the program.

MTU’s multifaceted commitment to its employees produces tangible benefits. The company not only has committed and motivated employees who meet and exceed MTU’s and its customers’ high quality standards on a daily basis, it also has a low employee fluctuation rate and was ranked as one of Germany’s top employers of 2009 and 2010. The ”Work and Family“ audit certificate that MTU has been awarded by the Hertie Stiftung is further proof that the company is on the right track.