KOSTAL as an employer – prospects and why you will fit in

We value personal development

Teamwork runs in the family. We consistently pursue a target of zero errors. This is an ambitious challenge that will awaken your ambition too. You will soon be given responsibility. At KOSTAL, a wide range of career opportunities is open to you. As well as traditional career paths, we offer individual specialist and project-based opportunities in Germany and abroad. To help you develop your soft skills and technical skills, we offer tailor-made development opportunities such as our management assessment centre. This important component of our human resources strategy is designed to fill our management positions with our own people.

Challenging and encouraging

Long-term collaboration is the defining feature of our family. The large number of employees who celebrate long service anniversaries and the very low turnover rate speak volumes about the quality of the working environment at KOSTAL. Many of our employees started their careers as trainees in our company and now hold management positions in Germany and abroad. To be a successful part of our world-leading company, you must continually be on the search for optimum solutions and new ideas.

As a technology leader, we invest around 7% of our turnover every year in research and development. This is both a powerful statement and a solid basis on which to tackle challenges successfully as an effective team. We support your personal development through individual needs analyses and tailored training measures.

As a family-owned company now in the hands of the fourth generation, we understand the importance of the right balance between work, family and leisure. We expect performance, passion and a high level of commitment, but as a KOSTAL employee you are always part of a big family in which values like fairness, integrity and being down-to-earth are very important.

In addition to the attractive extras included in your individual contract, we offer a whole range of opportunities designed to help you achieve the right work-life balance.

These range from company parties and anniversary celebrations to team-building activities, such as participating in company sports clubs (including a group of keen cyclists). Regular international football tournaments help to build our team spirit while encouraging global networking.

There are also informal gatherings (known as a 'Stammtisch') for different groups (students, trainees, expats, etc.) to enable people to make friends within the KOSTAL family.

Your family will feel at home with us too, because our three biggest German locations are situated in the heart of North Rhine-Westphalia: a region with something for everyone, from the recreational area of the Sauerland to the Ruhrgebiet, the first region to be designated a European Capital of Culture.

As well as discovering the local area, your family can even see how and where you work. KOSTAL organises Technology for Kids days where your children can visit the company and find out what you, and we, get up to! Good performance is rewarded at KOSTAL, because here fairness runs in the family.

Shared values form the basis for a long-term, sustainable and successful future.

Abiding with the law and acting with integrity are not policy at KOSTAL, but rather what we have been doing for generations.