KUKA as an employer

The development of KUKA as a company has been remarkable: founded in 1898 by Johann Josef Keller and Jakob Knappich as the Augsburg Acetylene Factory, the company is now the market leader in the production of industrial robots and automated systems and plants.

The KUKA philosophy 

KUKA employs around 12,000 people in more than 30 countries. They all have one thing in common: their passion for KUKA as a company and its technological innovation. KUKA employees do not simply perform a role. They are enthused by the new aspects of their tasks on a daily basis, showing that they quite literally have “orange blood”.

Despite the size of the company, KUKA has the characteristics of a medium-sized company. The company’s hierarchies are flat and responsibility at KUKA rests with a wide range of individuals. KUKA has been successfully making its mark as a global player since the mid-1990s. That being said, strengthening our locations in Germany is very important to us. For this reason, we invest in modern workstations here on a continuous basis. The best evidence for this is our new Development and Technology Center in Augsburg, which was completed at the end of 2015.

Accolades for KUKA as an employer

KUKA is an attractive and responsible employer – it’s not only our employees who think that. We are proud of various certificates we have received from independent inspection bodies, including the following awards: Universum: Ideal employer in Germany, Universum: Germany’s most popular employers, Trendence: Top 100 employers and Trendence: Top 100 employers in IT.

Since 2010 we have held the “berufundfamilie” (work/life balance) audit seal of approval for our family-oriented staffing policy. KUKA also places great importance on responsible staffing policies and is a member of the Fair Company Initiative. 

As a company with a real sense of tradition, we at KUKA regard it as a matter of course for every colleague to be professionally encouraged and supported in their personal and professional development. At the same time, we attach particular importance to work/life balance – and thus retaining our employees for as long as possible.

Your income at KUKA is defined by collective agreement. We also offer our staff numerous social benefits such as a company pension, profit-sharing and a subsidy for rail tickets.

If you choose to work for KUKA, we offer you the best conditions from the very start:

• Vocational training:
  
  At KUKA, school students and university students are trained to become highly qualified employees by instructors with many years of professional experience. We take numerous measures to ensure every apprenticeship and training course is as well-founded as possible.
• KUKA Academy:
  At our academy, we offer all of our employees an extensive and varied range of technical/methodical and personal further education courses. These include, for example, language courses, project management training and courses for specialist and managerial staff. 
• Coaching:
  One-to-one coaching sessions afford KUKA employees the opportunity to further themselves on a personal level. Furthermore, we offer team coaching sessions to promote sustainable development within teams – in keeping with our forward-looking corporate culture.