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DEVELOPMENT OF BROSE’S EMPLOYEES AND INTERNS
CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT OF BROSE’S EMPLOYEES AND INTERNS
“Our production in Pančevo will be one of the pillars for the development of the automotive industry in Serbia and a profitable exporting opportunity, but also an opportunity for many engineers and operators to find a job in a company which offers excellent working conditions and progress.
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We offer modern professional development and training in Germany and the Czech Republic, to the best employees and quite soon, the participation in individual development programmes for employees in specialist and management positions. In 2020 and 2021, we organized professional training for
TATJANA JAKOVLJEVIĆ
Human Resources Director at Brose Group
The family-owned company Brose has been the leader in shaping the future of the automotive industry for over 100 years. Brose is the fourth-largest family-owned automotive supplier. In her interview for Diplomacy&Commerce, Tatjana Jakovljević, HR Director at Brose d.o.o. Pančevo, says the company will create 1,000 high-skilled jobs in Serbia in the coming years, with attractive career prospects. She also talks about the company working on the modern professional development of employees, how the internship programme is organized, its cooperation with the universities of Belgrade and Novi Sad, as well as about achieved milestones and implemented activities. our employees mostly in Germany in cooperation with our colleagues from Brose factories who passed their abundant knowledge and shared their substantial experiences from working in a technologically advanced company. Also, through cooperation with Klett EDU, we organized professional training in mechatronics for production and maintenance employees. Our employees now have the knowledge of mechatronics and several of them will continue their training through an advanced programme for industrial mechatronics specialists.
The factory is currently preparing 400 employees to work on state-of-the-art machinery and drives in the automotive industry. Many production technicians and operators, production leaders, shift leaders, warehouse workers, as well as industrial and process engineers, and other profiles will find their place in Brose.
The new factory will produce whatev-
er our excellent engineers design in our Development Centre and people interested in working in this industry will be given a great opportunity to find employment in Electronics, Development, Testing and other departments. There, Brose engineers will develop new products for electric vehicles to offer clients customized solutions, more safety, comfort, and efficiency.”
The company has been successfully cooperating with technical high schools and technical faculties in Serbia. You have also invested in the education and development of future engineers.
We have excellent cooperation with local schools, the University of Belgrade, as well as the University of Novi Sad, on discovering and promoting talent at an early stage and encouraging the development of joint research projects through donations of laboratory equipment and cooperation with numerous student groups. Thus, in the laboratory for digital converters and drives at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, students can easily obtain quality results when testing prototypes and their maximum improvement. Also, the members of the student group at the same faculty were provided with an increased capacity of test positions, which boosted efficiency and better prepared them for practical tasks.
In cooperation with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, Brose’s aerodynamics and acoustics experts held lectures in the field of their expertise and thus improved students’ theoretical knowledge with the latest achievements and information from modern practice.
The innovation team from the Brose factory in Germany collaborated with the students of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering on the project of developing the E-mobility programme. As a result, they created new innovative solutions. Also, project results were presented at the IAA Mobility international exhibition in Munich last year.
We are creating new opportunities for cooperation, and we are constantly expanding our opportunities to contribute to the development of young
talent and the educational institutions in the region
The Brose Company launched its first internship programme last year, which was a great opportunity for young engineers from technical faculties to obtain working experience in the company’s plant in Pančevo and different company locations in Germany.
In order to improve and contribute to a better future for our students, Brose started the first season of the internship programme in September 2021. We gave an opportunity to motivated students of technical faculties to acquire additional knowledge and skills and develop through practical work in a technologically modern international environment. The first internship programme lasted 6 months and is still taking place at Brose’s factories in Germany and Pančevo. We are one of the few companies in Serbia that send students to do the internship in Germany, thus allowing them to acquire technological and scientific knowledge through internship and mentorship, and to get acquainted with the German culture and language, a country with the most advanced technology in the automotive industry. Of course, the greatest value of this programme is the possibility of early employment for talented individuals who achieve the best results during the internship.
Brose is also involved in CSR activities in the community. Some of these activities involved expanding the capacity of Covid-19 testing for the population in Pančevo, the Plant a Tree campaign which we did in cooperation with the AHK and the Belgrade authorities, helping to upgrade the capacity of the Mechanical Engineering High School in Pančevo, providing support to the Cultural Centre in Pančevo, etc. To get closer to the local community, Brose regularly opens the doors of its factory to pupils, students and citizens, so they can get acquainted with the company’s state-of-the-art production and get to know the world of Brose.
