Prysmian Group launches the “Make it” recruitment program for engineers with manufacturing experience

The Group is dedicating over €160 million to industrial investments and operates 11 plants in North America serving the telecom and energy markets 

Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, is launching the “Make It” recruitment program, aimed at engineers and technical staff with manufacturing experience. The company is seeking process, maintenance, design, and quality engineers, as well as other technical specialists, to cover key roles in the manufacturing area in one of the company’s centers of excellence located throughout the world. Requirements include a degree in engineering or equivalent, three to five years of work experience obtained in similar positions in a previous professional context, and outstanding leadership qualities.

The Group is aiming to identify and develop the manufacturing sector’s best talents, offering them the opportunity to make full use of their skills and expertise. Through a four-year professional pathway, “Make It” offers a top training program involving the Prysmian Group Academy, which will focus on further developing the skills essential for the career of the candidates selected. The program will include two weeks training in the Milan headquarters and two weeks in the new Manufacturing Academy in Mudanya (Turkey), a specialist center due to be opened in January 2016 in one of the Group’s major plants, allowing highly specialized personnel to be trained.

Prysmian’s constant quest for continuous improvement and success are linked to the quality and skills of its resources. Ongoing learning, training, and opportunities for concrete professional development are the key elements underlining the company’s philosophy and an extensive human capital development strategy. “The ‘Make It’ program embodies the pronounced emphasis that Prysmian places on development of its people. We have a personal passion for people and manufacturing alike, and we are incredibly excited to launch a program that cultivates training, growth, and stability. The institution of ‘Make It’ is a testament to the organization’s belief in the value of human capital,” states Christina Trainor, VP of Human Resources and Organization.

With 89 plants and various centers of excellence distributed throughout 33 countries, Prysmian Group represents an organization committed to ongoing industrial investments – amounting to €163 million ($170 million U.S.) in 2014 — which makes it a world leader in its sector, particularly in key submarine cable and optical fibre segments.

Prysmian Group is world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry. With more than 130 years of experience, sales of nearly €7 billion in 2014, some 19,000 employees across 50 countries and 89 plants, the Group is strongly positioned in high-tech markets and offers the widest possible range of products, services, technologies and know-how. It operates in the business of underground and submarine cables and systems for power transmission and distribution, of special cables for applications in many different industries, and of medium and low voltage cables for the construction and infrastructure sectors. For the telecommunications industry, the Group manufactures cables and accessories for voice, video, and data transmission, offering a comprehensive range of optical fibre, optical and copper cables, and connectivity systems. Prysmian is a public company, listed on the Italian Stock Exchange in the FTSE MIB index.