Apprenticeship company by tradition

The future of a company depends heavily on how well it selects, trains and educates employees. EVVA invests heavily in training and further education. EVVA has been accepting apprentices since the 1940s. In recent decades, the company has trained numerous apprentices, e.g. in mechanical engineering, mechatronics or IT. During the reporting period, EVVA employed 13 apprentices in Vienna. We are very proud of our apprentices, who help build the company and can take on important tasks from an early stage.

Our commitment to apprentices is honoured

EVVA has been the official "Top apprenticeship company" of the City of Vienna since 2014 – a quality seal that requires meeting numerous criteria. Our company assumes an important socio-political responsibility with the training of apprentices. This is honoured by the City of Vienna. EVVA won the award again in 2022 and is entitled to carry the seal of quality until 2026. Applications for the next four years have already started. We are therefore one of the best training companies in the country. "The jury put EVVA through its paces. We were able to impress them with the presentation of our apprenticeship. The jury’s final statement was: “EVVA has now set the bar very high for the other applicants,” says Andreas Graf, Vice President of Manufacturing and responsible for the apprentices at EVVA.

Our milestones to receive the award again:

• Focus on "digitalisation": every EVVA apprentice receives a notebook; EVVA not only relies on the transfer of knowledge in the vocational school, but also checks the acquired know-how via mentors and software. Deficits are remedied together
• Focus on "future orientation": EVVA is revising its training plans and integrating further digital competence areas, which will be even in even greater demand in the future
• Focus on "lean management": our apprentices are trained at an early stage in state-of-the-art, low-waste and high-quality production methods. Lean management is not part of the standard curriculum at vocational school, but at EVVA they learn everything about it in theory and practice.

Female apprentices

EVVA has already trained female apprentices. We would very much like to take in more, but the number of female applicants is still very small. Technology is still a very male-dominated field. EVVA has therefore implemented and tested a number of measures in recent years:

• Participation in “daughter days” , which allow girls aged between 11 and 16 to get a taste of the company’s professional world. More about this under Sustainability begins at school
   
• Participation in apprenticeship fairs designed to inspire young people to pursue careers in technology. EVVA apprentices and specialists talk about their professional lives