Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST
Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST

The Fraunhofer IST as an employer

The Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST drives forward innovations for competitive products and production systems. With our highly qualified employees, we tap the potentials and synergies of process engineering, process technology and production engineering. Based on the guiding principle of sustainability, the entire product life cycle is taken into consideration: from materials and individual processes, through process chains and entire factories, and on to a circular economy. The focus of our scientific activities and contract research is directed at solutions for automotive construction, plant and mechanical engineering, aerospace, the energy industry, optical applications, medicine and pharmaceutical process engineering, as well as environmental technology.

As part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the world’s leading organization for application-oriented research, we are closely networked within industry and science - both regionally and internationally. With its focus on future-relevant key technologies and the exploitation of results in business and industry, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft plays a central role in the innovation process. As a guide and driving force for innovative developments and scientific excellence, it is helping to shape our society and our future.

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Team spirit

Collaboratively driving forward applied research brings us closer together. Working enthusiastically together on exciting projects and utilizing the strengths of the individual employees effectively can have a significant impact on the success of our work. Each individual member of the team is important and essential for our success. 

Balancing family and career

Assistance for parents

 

 

In cooperation with a nearby daycare center, the Fraunhofer IST offers places for the children of employees. In addition, the Fraunhofer IST enables the temporary establishment of a mit-Kind-Büro (office with child) at the employee’s own workplace, e.g. in the event of the unavailability of the childcare provider or the daycare center.

 

Furthermore, a cooperation exists between the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the pme Familienservice, where employees can obtain fast and unbureaucratic help in emergency situations involving family and personal matters.  

Balance between career and leisure time

Compatibility of career and private life

 

To ensure an optimal work-life balance for our employees, their weekly working hours can be flexibly organized and scheduled within the flextime framework.

 

At the same time, we offer various part-time models that provide employees with the possibility of adjusting the number of hours to suit their own individual needs, thereby ensuring a healthy balance between career, family and leisure time.

Dual-career couples in the focus of employers

Dual Career Network

 

 

With increasing frequency, the occupation of someone’s life partner plays a significant role in their own choice of career location. As a member of the Dual Career Network, we support and advise partners of newly recruited employees in choosing their new place of work and residence in our region.

 

For more information, please contact the office of Allianz für die Region GmbH:

Dual Career Network SouthEastLowerSaxony (GERMAN)

Advantages for employees

Benefits

 

 

At the Fraunhofer IST, we offer our employees numerous benefits: In addition to a company pension plan (Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder, VBL) and capital-formation benefits, there are numerous offers and discounts for Fraunhofer employees.

 

Various types of allowances, which employees can receive under certain conditions in addition to their basic remuneration, are a further incentive for choosing the Fraunhofer IST as an employer.

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Opportunity to complete a doctorate

A doctorate is not only an important building block for a career path, but also a driving force for excellent research at Fraunhofer. We offer doctoral candidates a mix of application-oriented basic and contract research as well as continuing education.

 

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Fairness for everybody

Equal opportunities

The promotion of equal participation and development of women and men at all hierarchical levels is an integral component of our strategy and a clear corporate goal at Fraunhofer.  

Equal opportunities

Promotion of talent and potential

Personnel development

 

 

Only when we recognize and promote the potential and competencies of our employees can our institute continue to develop. Through targeted development measures, we can strengthen the talents of each individual, thereby increasing the motivation to shape project and corporate processes even more effectively.

 

Our strategic human resources development includes measures for promoting and training our employees and managers. This targeted development and expansion of technical, methodological and social skills is designed to provide our employees with the opportunity to successfully complete their tasks and take on new challenges.

Qualification and career development

Career mentoring

 

 

Our employees can decide whether to take the path of a specialist career or a management career, depending on their skills and professional expertise. Furthermore, the career development of female scientists and female managers is a focal point in the area of career mentoring at the Fraunhofer IST. The TALENTA career program, which promotes structured career development, provides an important contribution towards increasing the proportion of women in management positions. In addition to TALENTA, we also offer further development programs for career advancement.

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