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Your job at the Centravo Group
Are you looking for a new professional challenge in a modern and sustainable company? The Centravo Group offers a wide range of jobs and career opportunities in the areas of manufacturing, logistics, technology, administration, and the food industry.
As Switzerland’s leading corporate group in the sustainable circular economy, our employees make an important contribution every day to the security of supply and the use of resources in Switzerland. With modern workplaces, secure prospects, and meaningful responsibilities, we create a working environment that fosters our employees’ long-term development.
Find out about the Centravo Group.
At Centravo, we multiply value – by recovering high-quality base materials and products from organic waste materials. Watch our video to find out who we are, the areas in which we do business and how our work improves many people’s day-to-day lives.
Leadership principles
Our six leadership principles were developed through cross-departmental collaboration between our business segments. Each principle was linked with a metaphor to make them more relatable. Using these as our inspiration, we then developed a six-part series of creative, entertaining video shorts that we presented to our staff. These principles have shaped our day-to-day collaboration ever since, helping us to strengthen and support one another and be successful together.
Social skills
Social competence connects people through respect, trust, and empathy.
Social competence forms the core of good leadership, because it connects people at a real, sustainable level. It begins with respect and a positive attitude towards others as well as one basic mindset: You have to like people. Leaders who embrace this approach build trust and treat those around them with genuine empathy; they listen to and understand the needs of their people. Appreciation is demonstrated through day-to-day actions, recognition of achievements and open collaboration. It gives rise to relationships in which people feel connected and can grow together. Social competence therefore not only means managing tasks but also empowering people and creating a culture in which success is built on trust, respect, and humanity.
Leadership
Picture a climbing party on its way to the top of the Matterhorn.
Everyone is connected by rope and shares a clear goal: reaching the summit. In this scenario, executives play the part of an experienced mountain guide: They provide orientation, set the course, and ensure that everyone progresses safely. At the same time, they recognize the personal strengths, needs, and limitations of each individual, and respond flexibly to changing conditions, such as the weather or the terrain.
Like in a climbing party, they need clear agreements and motivation so that everyone can play their part. Trust and empathy are crucial; the only way for the group to remain stable is if each individual member can rely on the rest of the team. Equally important is the principle of support and challenge: Executive leadership provides support, establishes safeguards, and creates the right framework conditions, but it also demands that each member of the team take responsibility, concentrate, and focus on the goals.
Sustainability
Sustainability is a responsibility of leadership, and we consciously embrace it at the Centravo Group. Our “Sustainability Tree” visualizes this stance. Our values are at the root of everything we do. They provide support, create trust, and unite us as a team. The branches represent our thoughts and actions: responsible, reflective, and focused on the future. For us, leadership means moving ahead with foresight and showing that we care: about employees, about the environment and about our partners. This is how we live sustainability – day in, day out – and play an active role in shaping society.
Customer focus
True customer happiness comes not from external possessions, but from responsible actions, trust, and collaboration.
Entrepreneurial mindset and actions
Embracing an entrepreneurial mindset and actions means taking responsibility and actively shaping the future. It starts with a clear vision that provides guidance, defines the direction and makes it clear to everyone in the team what they stand for. Together. This is how true accountability comes into being. Not merely for individual tasks, but for everything as a whole.
Successful entrepreneurial activity thrives on strong teams in which experience and curiosity go hand in hand. Roles are assigned according to individual strengths so that everyone knows how they can contribute to joint success and can do so effectively.
Long-term success also calls for foresighted planning and responsible use of resources. This includes the ability to make decisions appropriate for the situation at hand – sometimes courageously and decisively, sometimes thoughtfully and prudently.
Finally, an entrepreneurial mindset is always focused on learning. Growth comes from experience, not only from successes but also from mistakes.
Anybody willing to keep learning and continue their development on an ongoing basis will lay a solid foundation for sustainable success.
Information & communication
“Information & Communication” is a leadership principle that is grounded in an honest and open mindset. Information is shared responsibly and communicated both clearly and confidently. Communication takes place both verbally and non-verbally, both directly and in person as well as digitally via our CenTraNet, always appropriate to the situation and addressee.
Our employees communicate respectfully and appreciatively, take intercultural differences into account and promote open dialog. Awareness of 360-degree communication ensures that honest feedback flows in all directions and that transparency, trust, and collaboration are strengthened over the long term.
Work with purpose
At the Centravo Group, you can look forward to exciting job offers, multifaceted activities, and secure jobs in a systemically important Swiss industrial group. Whether experienced professionals, specialists, apprentices or career changers – we’re looking for enthusiastic people eager to help us shape the future of a sustainable food and circular economy.
Our employees collaborate daily across different areas of expertise and make an important contribution to the Swiss food industry.
Your apprenticeship at the Centravo Group: A good foundation
Choose an apprenticeship with the Centravo Group to build a solid foundation for your career and learn a profession at a company that attaches special importance to sustainability. We have strong regional roots and are a key partner to many essential industries. We also attach great importance to operating in a way that ensures that Switzerland continues to be a place worth living in for future generations.
Our apprentices benefit not only from bonuses for good school grades and a competitive apprentice salary, but our Experience Days program also gives them an opportunity to expand their skills in other departments and companies. Sounds good? Then find the apprenticeship that suits you and help us multiply value!
What the Centravo Group has to offer
Salary and benefits
We offer salaries in line with the market, a 13th monthly salary plus attractive additional benefits. We also cover the social security contributions for the 13th monthly salary in full as a voluntary employer benefit.
Growth and further training
We value our employees’ personal and professional development. That is why we provide generous support for training and development and encourage them to take advantage of individual development opportunities.
Stability in the event of absences
As a systemically important Swiss corporate group, we offer secure jobs and long-term prospects. In the event of longer absences due to illness or accident, employees’ salaries will continue to be paid in full for a maximum of 730 days.
Vacations and recreation
Our employees benefit from generous vacation policies with up to 35 days of paid time off – based on age and years of service.
Insurance payments
We cover a large part of the insurance payments and cover a significant portion of the premiums for accident and daily sickness allowance insurance.
Family and career
We promote a work/life balance by offering attractive benefits, including 16 weeks of maternity leave at full pay.
Allowances
Employees enjoy a wide range of benefits including family allowances, gifts for service anniversaries and retirement, rewards in the form of Reka vouchers as well as Christmas and birthday gifts.
Join us in multiplying value
Apply now for a job at the Centravo Group and work for a company that embraces accountability, builds on sustainability, and prioritizes quality.