Career and education

MOE makes it possible

We want to support all our colleagues in their journey, regardless of their career intentions. Here, four employees tell the story of their unique career paths and their experiences with MOE as employer.

Jens Kastvig Business Manager Fire Safety Engineering Copenhagen Elena Pérez-Rebollo Project Director MOE Tetraplan Copenhagen

Fire safety certifications In 2012, Jens Kastvig began working in MOE as our first full-time fire safety consultant. A business area that in 2020 became its own business unit. Additionally, Jens was the first fire safety consultant in MOE to be certified. An experience he has subsequently used to guide several other colleagues through the process of certification.

I offer my help to others, who wish to be certified in the hope that I can support them and make the process feel more safe. A certification is something that is connected to a fair share of prestige and, similarly, it might be a bit of a defeat, should you not succeed. It has been important to me that no one feels unnecessary pressure or nervousness. It should be a safe process.

In MOE, we also contribute to the certification system itself. As members of the steering committee, we help form the new certification system and write the rules, while we help prepare new guides for timber constructions. Together, we work to expand our knowledge both nationally and internationally for example through collaborations with Artelia. There is a big demand for our consultancy services and I dare predict that within three to five years, we will have grown to 150 employees.

A MOE manager Elena Pérez-Rebollo works with city and traffic planning. She started working in MOE a little more than 10 years ago, and since then she has gone from being a design engineer to project manager to project director. Before she became a project director, she participated in our intense, one-year educational programme, as part of MOE Management Talents.

We live in a result-oriented society with increased focus on career advancement. However, MOE Management Talents also focused on personal growth and the ability to define your own needs and desires for career development. In more ways than one, it was a personal journey that led us to locate our own motivation. Consequently, not everyone will leave the course determined to eventually possess a top management position.

As a company, our primary resource is people. Thus, it is necessary for us to be good at working with and understanding people. The management course provided me with some useful tools to meet different personality types and to better handle different professional challenges. Moreover, I learned valuable lessons regarding motivational management.

Thomas Wiil-Andersen ICT Consultant Building Installations Copenhagen Vivi Nyehuus Andersen Technical Director BIM-Revit Aarhus

At the top of his game Constructing architect, Thomas Wiil-Andersen, started his career in MOE as a novice student assistant on his second semester of school. Thomas went from being a professional football player to ICT Consultant in MOE. With his Bachelor project, Thomas received and was nominated for two prestigious Danish awards.

In MOE, I have the opportunity to work with issues I am very dedicated to. I get the help and support I need, and I continue to learn with help from my mentor, who is an expert in his professional field.

MOE is forward thinking, not just digitally speaking, but also in terms of sustainability and other specialist skills. They keep up with the times and, already as a student, you are invited in and involved in the decision-making processes. I have always, like MOE, wanted to stay at the top of my game.

With BIM on the mind Vivi Nyehuus Andersen has worked in MOE since 2009, back when she believed that MOE was merely a temporary stop on the way. Now, more than 10 years later, she has come to acknowledge that she, in fact, fits well into the engineering world with her dedication to BIM and ICT. Initially an autodidact in these areas, she has since begun passing along her skills as a tutor at MOE Academy.

I poke my nose in everything that has anything to do with BIM and ICT, in MOE. I want to teach everybody the things I know, and I feel strongly for optimisation in particular. Processes and standardisation can lead to automation which will eventually lower costs.

Digital building modulation is something a lot of businesses in the industry compete at. However, with our standardised processes, we have come far. We implement and introduce all new employees to our programmes and we make sure that everybody is up to date.