Empowered people

Our employees are our capital.

At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent retirement provision and health promotion for their determination to actively help shape the future energy transition. You can also expect an appreciative working culture that offers plenty of scope for creative and innovative ideas. With our New Normal agreements, we enable various workplace models, which we additionally support with mobility packages and equipment for home or local office.

Training & Education

Training & Education

We encourage training and education.

Our quality promise as Uniper: We qualify our employees for responsible tasks and offer long-term development prospects through professional and personal development and training. The best qualification of our workforce contributes not least to our ability as Uniper to achieve our corporate goals quickly and effectively.

 

Seminars and trainings

Attractive career models for both specialists and managers through seminars, professional and personal development opportunities and much more.

Study and further education

You want to continue your education? It doesn't matter whether you want to study alongside your job, take part in professional training courses. Training grants. We find solutions individually tailored to our employees.

Lifelong learning

We support lifelong learning because we are convinced that technological and social progress are equally important for our employees.

Coachings

The experience of experts is passed on through coaching. This transfer of knowledge is important for us so that we have the expertise within the company to be able to act successfully in an entrepreneurial way.

Work & Life

FlexWork

Flexible working at Uniper means that our teams decide for themselves how, when and where they work. We have created hubs for collaboration and networking in our offices and we provide our employees with the equipment for a modern and healthy workplace at home. We also offer geographical flexibility and various flexible working models. This means you can do your work from different locations and shape your job to fit your personal lifestyle, so you can balance your work and private life perfectly. 

To give you a deeper insight into the flexible working experience at Uniper, we have created a dedicated page where you can learn more about our flexible working models.

 

Work & Life

Our way of working.

The many social and economic changes of the past years are increasingly creating different working conditions - a balanced work-life relationship is therefore becoming more and more important.

Culture & values

We cultivate an open and appreciative corporate culture and respect the needs and wishes of our employees. For us, this is the basis for creating a pleasant working atmosphere in which our employees can feel comfortable and where well-being and productivity can be guaranteed in equal measure.

Flexible working

Choose how, where and when you want to work in coordination with your team and the requirements of your job. Each team defines its own working mode. By doing so, we achieve an optimized team performance and enhanced individual flexibility, while ultimately increasing business productivity and reducing our carbon footprint.

Work place

Open spaces & flexible seating, when working in our offices, teams sit together in their home zone. Employees can book a workspace via our digital booking system. At home we also provide a modern and healthy workplace at home. At Uniper, the classic office workplace and the home office workplace are regarded as equal options.

Family

We support our employees in balancing their private and professional life by offering sabbaticals, part-time options and various family service (e.g. child and elderly care).

More Than Just Reducing Work Hours — Job Sharing at Uniper: Part 1

Close collaboration results in a better work-life balance and personal development

Job sharing will soon become a major aspect of working life at Uniper, according to both Jenny Banczyk and Nikola Feldmann. They have been sharing a single job position at Uniper since 2016, initially as Head of Product Management at Uniper Energy Sales.

You're never alone with a partner — Job Sharing at Uniper: Part 2

Having a job-share partner means that you have someone by your side who can provide security and contribute new ideas

"I often have the feeling that many do not yet understand the added value of job sharing," says Dr. Lars Wiese, Head of Power Plant Group West at Uniper, a position he shares with his colleague Thomas Preußler. The pair have previously run power plants independently of each other, Thomas in Datteln and Lars in Scholven. 

NewNorman: The Compact Solution for Working at Home

Our trainees have developed a space-saving alternative to the traditional desk in just six months

The coronavirus pandemic has caused lasting changes in the world of work. Here at Uniper, many employees have been working from home for months, which is why we launched the NewNormal project to look at the positives resulting from the pandemic and what more flexible, hybrid working may look like in the future. "We wanted to support our colleagues by providing ergonomic furniture while they are working from home. 

Health & Safety

Health & Safety

We care for health and safety.

The health of our employees is a central topic of our corporate philosophy at Uniper. We underline our ambitions with a comprehensive range of different health measures.

Health care

Care by occupational health services, barrier-free workplaces, ergonomic equipment with height-adjustable desks, computer glasses, many preventive care offers, insurance benefits, flu vaccinations and screening for bowel cancer and preventive medical care.

Healthy nutrition

At many locations, we offer a wide range of healthy and balanced meals through our canteens. When preparing the meals, we not only pay attention to taste, but also always to health. In addition, we offer nutrition programmes that are subsidised by health insurance. 

Healtcare and safety seminars

Through our training programmes, we offer a variety of seminars and further education with a focus on health, well-being and safety.

Sports and fitness

Our employees have a variety of opportunities to keep fit at Uniper. With the "moving break" during the lunch break, with colleagues worldwide in the virtual sports community, in the fitness centre in the offices at the main site in Düsseldorf and with many other sports offers that we make available to our employees. 

Uniper's virtual sports community

We enable flexible working time models and actively care about the health of our employees

At Uniper, we are proud that more than 200 of our employees and alumni have joined forces in a virtual sports team, which consists of amateur athletes from more than 70 different cities and locations in six different countries. 

Supporting a healthy lifestyle

How the local Health Team at Karlshamn power station motivates their co-workers to exercise

Health is very important to Uniper and we support our employees in every way we can. A good example can be found at Karlshamn power station in Sweden. In the beginning of 2022, electrical engineer Mattias Kheller and the local Health Team at Karlshamn came up with an idea to make their own gym more attractive. As the existing one was in need of refurbishment and located at a remote area of the power station, it was not used by many. 

Team Rynkeby — Cycling for a Good Cause

Respect, responsibility and dedication: values the team shares with Uniper

Team Rynkeby— Hohes C has a mission: Improving health and fitness while also helping children with cancer and their families in times of need. The European charity cycling team was founded in Denmark and has been organizing cycle rides to Paris to coincide with the start of the Tour de France for the past 20 years — all to raise money in support of  children suffering from severe illnesses. This year's tour was once again a roaring success, with over 9.5 million Euro raised so far. 

Mobility

Mobility

We provide mobility for our employees.

Thanks to our range of mobility benefits, our employees are mobile while on the move and are also compensated financially.

Car leasing*

We offer our employees the opportunity to lease a car through Uniper in the form of deferred compensation. With this motivational leasing, we want to provide financial benefits as well as improved mobility and flexibility - both professionally and privately.

*Currently only available for the locations in Germany

Job bike*

Through our partner Jobrad, we offer the option of leasing a bicycle. It doesn't matter whether it's an e-bike, mountain bike or racing bike. With the subsidies, we promote the willingness to switch to a bicycle.

*Currently only available for the locations in Germany

E-charging

At almost all our locations, we offer our employees the possibility of charging electric or hybrid cars.

Free parking

There is no need for a stressful search for a parking space. We provide our employees with free parking spaces at almost all of our locations. At our main location in Düsseldorf, we even have a comfortable underground car park directly under the office building in the media harbour. A special feature: we also have a bicycle garage there with lockers and shower rooms for our employees.

Awards
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Uniper is Pride Champion

We are proud to have received the Pride Champion Seal in Gold as part of the UHLALA Pride Audit. It is awarded to companies that actively promote the interest of LGBTIQ+ employees and the topic of diversity.

At Uniper, we have a strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and undermine this by numerous activities. Our DEI communities, e.g. the Pride community, are an important part of our engagement. We offer DEI trainings for all employees and leaders, foster inclusive HR processes, and constantly improve the accessibility of our physical and digital workplaces.

Fair Compensation

A gender-equal workplace is the basis for employees being able to develop without experiencing discrimination or other disadvantages due to their gender or other characteristics. We take action at various points to promote diversity, ensure fairness and promote inclusion. This ranges from the recruitment process and the opportunities for flexible working as part of FlexWork to parental leave and job sharing, supported by a wide range of support offers and training opportunities. 

Equal pay for women and men is also an important aspect by which we are measured. In Germany, we received the "Fair Compensation" certification last year. In 2023, an independent body, Dr. Vogt Consulting GmbH, in collaboration with the Association of Compensation and Benefits Experts (acbe), carried out an analysis of pay equity between women and men based on the salary data of all employees with an employment contract in Germany. The analysis was carried out in accordance with a recognized certification procedure, in which both qualification-related and job-related characteristics of remuneration were taken into account. As a result, the adjusted salary difference for Uniper in Germany was well below the relevant tolerance threshold of 5%. The "Fair Compensation" certificate awarded to Uniper is valid for three years. There will be further audits in 2024 and 2025 to maintain the certificate.

The "Fair Compensation" certificate encourages us to continue our activities with regard to fair pay in order to counteract the wage gap.

Fair Compensation Zertifikat
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Uniper: One of Germany's most attractive employers

As part of a study to determine the most attractive employers, Uniper was named one of the "World's Best Employers - Germany" for the first time.

We are delighted to be able to underline our attractiveness as an employer with the award as "World's Best Employer Germany". At Uniper, we offer both exciting and meaningful work in an environment characterized by team spirit and diversity. Our arrangements for mobile working enable the greatest possible flexibility and therefore a good work-life balance. The variety of further training opportunities and attractive benefits for our employees also speak in our favor. 

The beating heart

Participate in the energy transformation of tomorrow.

We have two major goals: Firstly, we continue to see ourselves as a reliable global energy supplier. Secondly, we see ourselves as an important part of solving global CO2 reduction. For this, we go step by step along an evolutionary path. Come along with us!

Our global presence

We continue to strengthen our presence in key markets, develop innovative solutions and acquire companies in prioritized areas. Uniper solutions are sold to over 100 countries and we currently operate in over 40 countries.