Develop your strengths

Dräger encourages the recruitment of people with a wide variety of backgrounds, skills and talent in order mirror the population as a whole. We believe that under the positive environment created at Dräger, everyone can grow both personally and professionally. The Company encourages employees to develop their strengths alongside the daily work routine, with various advanced training programmes and projects.

Every day, people around the world entrust their own lives and the lives of their patients or employees to our technology. Our products are life saving and protecting and we are constantly look at ways to improve our products further. We strive to be the best in our fields of expertise and therefore, we need the best Managers, Project Leaders and Specialists who can keep pace with the high demands of our customers. These employees thrive on challenges and are responsible for shaping our Company’s future. Dräger invests heavily in our employees to allow them to grow and develop as individuals within their role. We believe in recruiting the best and providing the best development for our Managers, Project Leaders and Specialists.

At Dräger our Managers, Project Leaders and Specialists are supported with three different Management Development Programmes, these are abbreviated to –MD levels 1, 2 & 3. The MD programmes focus on specific areas of management development such as business skills, management style and organisational skills. The courses are specifically designed to compliment the working practices within Dräger and support the corporate culture promoted within the organisation. The programmes develop knowledge in the specific areas of entrepreneurship, change management, financial accruement, leadership and marketing.
The MD programmes also open up the opportunity for employees to expand their professional and personal network within our Company and closely exchange ideas with other Managers at Dräger on the international stage.

Our main priority is discovering the particular strengths of an employee, helping our Managers to develop new ideas and forming their own management style. We seek feedback via a Global employee Survey worldwide every two years to honestly evaluate the performance of our Managers based on our core values. Such feedback helps us to foster an environment of continual improvement.

The Dräger LEAD mission statement encompasses all the values that the Company believes are required to make an excellent Manager. The LEAD mission statement reflects our high quality expectations that all Managers should aspire to. LEAD stands for “Leadership Excellence At Dräger” and encompasses the five core competencies: Role Model, Focus, Drive, Passion and Guide. These five core competencies are the standard and benchmark we use to assess the performance of our Mangers - worldwide.

Teamwork is an integral part of the Dräger Corporate culture. Not only is this important to the Company but also our employees and this is shown repeatedly in our Global Employee Surveys. Teamwork within Dräger translates into working in environment, on a daily basis, that is friendly and where cooperation exists within a trusting atmosphere. Cooperation normally takes place within the working environment as part of a project team or as an essential link in an internal process. This usually involves employees from different departments, functions and even countries working hand in hand to achieve a common goal. Dräger encourages employees to grow and has developed activities outside the normal working environment to challenge employees to develop their teamwork skills in environments outside their normal comfort zone. Dräger have therefore developed the Wilderness Experience which takes place in Scandinavia.