Germany
Employment
Bulletin
March 2011
Welcome to the Employment Bulletin
On behalf of the Career Transition Partnership (CTP), welcome to the Germany March Employment
Bulletin. It will provide you with the latest jobs and business news from across the country. It will
also highlight the latest vacancies on our job site, RightJob.
Here is a selection of the latest vacancies on RightJob in Germany.
Please log on to RightJob to view the full details of any of these jobs. There is a
quick job search box on the home page which allows you to search for vacancies
using the unique Job ID number shown.
Your login details should have already been issued to you, but if you have any
difficulties, please contact the Central Employment Team on 0121 2360058.
Job Title
Location
German
language
skills
Closing
Date
Starting
Date
Job ID
Galileo Constellation
Shift Operator
Wessling –
Germany South
basic
28 March
18 April
34198675030
NDT-Technician
Germany North
basic
23 March
1 April
34198674371
not required
4 April
29 April
34198674357
desirable
31 March
4 April
34198674652
Vehicle Mechanic
Telecoms Engineers
Germany/Italy/
Romania/Bulgaria
Germany
contract work
New Employer Contacts
Insyen AG is based at the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) in Oberpfaffenhofen, 25 km west
of Munich, Germany. We currently have 42 employees and provide engineering services related to
manned and unmanned spaceflight operations in the areas of project and subcontractor management,
ground systems engineering and management, LAN and WAN design and implementation, system
security and data encryption, system databases, command and telemetry systems, voice and video
systems, system management and operation, spacecraft systems monitoring and control and real-time
space operations (vacancy on RJ)
Vogt Ultrasonics – is based in Burgwedel. We are a developer and producer of ultrasonic testing
equipment , but also a sales partner to well-known manufacturers. Non-destructive testing has been at
the heart of our company for decades. Vacancy for NDT Technician is on Right Job.
Recruitment
The companies below have been in touch with us directly, or recruited in the
media in the last month. These employers are likely to be good recruitment
prospects as they are actively recruiting new staff. Some are smaller regional
companies, other big national companies with sites all across Germany. Unless
otherwise stated, please apply using the respective company websites.
A company are looking for a Fuel Relief Site Manager to their northern sites in Afghanistan. The
candidate must have fuel experience and be able to speak German. German speaking/reading at a
medium level. No demands of German skills in writing skills from the contractual point of view. If you
are interested, please send your CV/c over letter to aschedding@ctp.org.uk or
Another contact is looking for Diesel Mechanics, working on US Military Equipment, in the
Kattersbach/ Nürnberg Area. German skills not required as working on US base.
Duration is ongoing, six months, rolling contracts. 40 hrs per week possible 8 hrs overtime.
If you are interested, please send your CV and cover letter to aschedding@ctp.org.uk
Senior Management Position in Denmark with the option of a possible move to Germany
after 1-2 years – Head of Health & Safety, engineering and health and safety background
required, strong leadership skills and experience in project management (minimum rank
required Staff Sergeant). Language skills – German/Dutch/Danish desirable but not required. If
you are interested, please send your CV and cover letter to aschedding@ctp.org.uk
After not having been very active last year, Rolls Royce have now started recruiting again.
We are still working on establishing a good contact, but until then please apply with them directly:
http://www.rolls-royce.com/careers/current_vacancies/germany/
Over the next 20 years the world’s airlines will need more than 24,000 new aircraft, which must be
greener, cleaner, quieter and smarter than ever before. That’s why Airbus needs the best team in the
world to help design, build, support and, ultimately, recycle its aircraft.
Even though we now have a first really good contact, please go to the website first, and look at the
vacancies. Airbus still want candidates to use the usual route, i.e. apply through the website. If we
have another direct vacancy, we will immediately get in touch with you.
http://www.airbus.com/work/experienced-candidates/
GLSU JOBS – Since January, the GLSU have not advertised any vacancies on their website. However,
there still are some vacancies, but through networking only. We also do not know how long these jobs
will remain here in Germany. Please bear this in mind when looking for jobs on the military net.
Speditionskaufmann mit Schwerpunkt IT in Solingen
This is a completely German advert, so please do not apply if you do not speak sufficient German. The
job is through an agency, but the contract will be directly with the employer, not with the agency.
They are looking for somebody with a logistics and IT background, but at a normal level. No degree
required.
http://www.jobscout24.de/templates/StellenanzeigeDetailansicht.aspx?IDV=839083
Focus on Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy Development in Germany
This market is still not as regulated as others when it comes to qualifications and
experience. Employers in this sector tend to be more open to so-called Quereinsteiger.
On 28 September 2010, the German Government presented its new energy plan which puts
renewable energy in a central role in the future energy mix of the country. The Government wants
to raise the share of renewable energy sources in power generation from the current 16% to 80%
by 2050. In October, it was reported that Germany added 660MW of new wind capacity in the first
six months of 2010, raising the country’s total to 26.4GW. Compared with installations totalling
802MW in the first half of 2009, this represents a reduction of nearly 18% and is “lower than
expectations,” according to president of the German wind energy association.
The German offshore wind sector, however, received a major boost in October, with news that
Sweden’s state-owned utility, Vattenfall will invest in excess of €1b in a huge new offshore
wind farm in the North Sea. Vattenfall has entered into a JV with German utility Stadtwerke
München to build the DanTysk project, which will have an estimated installed capacity of 288MW
and is due to start construction in 2012.
In September, the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced it was considering a loan of up to
€500m for a 288MW German offshore wind farm, to be developed by EnBW Energie BadenWurttemberg AG at a total cost of €1.2b.
Global Player Solarvalley Mitteldeutschland
Even if your German is not perfect, please have a look at the links to employers in the sector, which you
can find at the end of the article!
Mitteldeutschland ist eine der international führenden Regionen in der Photovoltaikbranche. Angesichts
der hohen Wachstumsraten und bereits mehr als 2.500 Beschäftigten sprechen Experten vom
Solarvalley Mitteldeutschland. Mit seinen zahlreichen Herstellern und Dienstleistern wird der gesamte
Produktkreislauf von der Siliziumproduktion bis zum Recycling abgedeckt. Gut 18 Prozent der weltweit
im Jahre 2007 produzierten Solarzellen (rund 90 Prozent der gesamtdeutschen Produktion) wurden in
mitteldeutschen Unternehmen gefertigt. Und diese Führungsposition soll in den kommenden Jahren
weiter ausgebaut werden. Das renommierte Forschungsinstitut EuPD Research in Bonn prognostizierte
für die mitteldeutsche Region sonnige Aussichten: die Umsätze der Solarfirmen Sachsen-Anhalts,
Sachsens und Thüringens sollen bis 2020 von derzeit knapp drei Milliarden Euro auf mehr als 20
Milliarden Euro steigen; im gleichen Zeitraum sollen knapp 50.000 Menschen zusätzlich Arbeit in
Unternehmen der hiesigen Solarbranche finden.
Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) unterstützt seit Anfang 2008 die
länderübergreifende Initiative aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft in der mitteldeutschen Region. Das BMBF
bescheinigt dem Solarvalley Mitteldeutschland (einer gemeinsamen Initiative von 27 Solarfirmen und
zwölf Forschungseinrichtungen der Photovoltaik aus den Bundesländern Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und
Thüringen) ein überdurchschnittlich hohes Entwicklungspotenzial im richtungweisenden Zukunftsmarkt
der Photovoltaik . Neben dem Fraunhofer-Centrum für Silizium-Photovoltaik CSP als Forschungsinstitut
in Halle sind in der Initiative Solarvalley Mitteldeutschland unter anderem namhafte Photovoltaikfirmen
wie ErSol Solar Energy AG (Erfurt), QCells (Thalheim), Roth & Rau (Hohenstein-Ernstthal), SolarWatt AG
(Dresden), SolarWorld AG und Deutsche Solar AG (Freiberg), sunways, Wacker Schott Solar (Jena) und
von Ardenne (Dresden) eingebunden.
http://www.wind-energie.de/en/The German wind energy association
http://www.ampair.com/ampair/jobs.asp Jobs
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/magazine magazine
http://www.lowcarbon.com/ jobs
http://www.environmentjob.co.uk/ jobs
http://www.environmentjobs.co.uk/ another job site
Settling in Germany
Advice on living and working in Germany
ADVICE FROM A SERVICE LEAVER WHO HAS JUST FOUND A JOB IN GERMANY
The main advice I would pass to people is that it is just as valuable to let a company see you and
experience what you could 'bring to the table' just as much as being able to show you have some
qualifications behind you (to show CPD).
For those people that are thinking about staying in Germany, my main advice would be for them to get
in to speaking German and also writing the odd e-mail in German as well. Most of the time I have to
write and communicate in
German but I do also have to translate back in to English for our partners and investors in UK. I think
that anyone getting out and going in to a management role will more than likely (in this day of open
markets) have to prepare themselves for much of the same scenario.
BRITISH VETERANS’ INSTALLATION ACCESS PASS
HQ UKSC is pleased to announce that the Under Secretary of State and Minister for Veterans has
agreed that this HQ can issue BFG Installation Access Passes to British Veterans living in Germany.
Veterans may begin the application process immediately and will be allowed access to certain BFG
facilities from 1st April 2009, subject to the necessary security checks having been completed
successfully.
http://www.bfgnet.de/BFGVets_News/vets_access_pass.html
http://www.bfgnet.de/Community/docs/BFGVeterans/BFG%20Form%2028E.pdf
SALARIES IN GERMANY
With all or most advertisements asking you about your “Gehaltsvorstellungen”, salary
expectations, here are some useful links to help you with your research, and also a
Brutto/Netto calculator:
http://www.gehaltsvergleich.com/
http://www.tarifregister.nrw.de/
http://www.personalmarkt.de/gehaltscheck/ga.gehalt.jsp
www.dgb.de German National Trade Union Confederation
I got a job!
Have you been
dreaming about
saying those
words?
Well, here is a
selection of
Service leavers
that found work in
Germany
Rank
Job Title
Land
SSgt
Recruiter
Niedersachsen
Sgt
Airfreight Handler
Hessen
Cpl
Self-employed/Franchisee
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Sgt
Chef
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Sgt
Range Warden
Nordrhein-Westfalen
This Bulletin has been prepared by the Regular Forces Employment Association’s
(RFEA) Consultant in Germany who delivers the CTP’s Employment service in the
country. If you need any further advice or assistance please contact us direct.
Contact Us
Employment Consultant
Germany
Anne Schedding
Tel: 0049 5221 995 3895
Email:aschedding@ctp.org.uk
Regional Employment &
Training Manager
Germany
Andrea Uemann
Tel: 0049 5221 995 3675
Email: auemann@ctp.org.uk
RightJob & Employment
Helpdesk
Tel: 0044 1212360058
Useful Website Links
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Career Transition Partnership
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and employment support to leavers of
the UK Armed Forces
Regular Forces Employment Association
Through-life job finding help for Veterans
Officers’ Association
Officers’ Association Scotland
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