Benefits

Benefits

What we offer our people

At Uniper, we provide a wide range of attractive additional benefits and promote the personal and professional development of our employees.

Training & Education

Training & Education

Attractive career models for both specialists and managers through seminars, professional and personal development opportunities and much more.

You want to continue your education? It doesn't matter whether you want to study alongside your job, take part in professional training courses. Training grants. We find solutions individually tailored to our employees.

We support lifelong learning because we are convinced that technological and social progress are equally important for our employees.

The experience of experts is passed on through coaching. This transfer of knowledge is important for us so that we have the expertise within the company to be able to act successfully in an entrepreneurial way.

Work & Life

Work & Life

Flexible working at Uniper means that our teams decide for themselves how, when and where they work. We have created hubs for collaboration and networking in our offices and we provide our employees with the equipment for a modern and healthy workplace at home. We also offer geographical flexibility and various flexible working models. This means you can do your work from different locations and shape your job to fit your personal lifestyle, so you can balance your work and private life perfectly. 

To give you a deeper insight into the flexible working experience at Uniper, we have created a dedicated page where you can learn more about our flexible working models.

More information about FlexWork at Uniper

FlexWork

We cultivate an open and appreciative corporate culture and respect the needs and wishes of our employees. For us, this is the basis for creating a pleasant working atmosphere in which our employees can feel comfortable and where well-being and productivity can be guaranteed in equal measure.

Choose how, where and when you want to work in coordination with your team and the requirements of your job. Each team defines its own working mode. By doing so, we achieve an optimized team performance and enhanced individual flexibility, while ultimately increasing business productivity and reducing our carbon footprint.

Open spaces & flexible seating, when working in our offices, teams sit together in their home zone. Employees can book a workspace via our digital booking system. At home we also provide a modern and healthy workplace at home. At Uniper, the classic office workplace and the home office workplace are regarded as equal options.

We support our employees in balancing their private and professional life by offering sabbaticals, part-time options and various family service (e.g. child and elderly care).

Blog Job Sharing 1

More than just reducing work hours

Job sharing at Uniper: Part 1

Close collaboration results in a better work-life balance and personal development

Job sharing will soon become a major aspect of working life at Uniper, according to both Jenny Banczyk and Nikola Feldmann. They have been…

Blog Job Sharing 2

You're never alone with a partner

Job Sharing at Uniper: Part 2

Having a job-share partner means that you have someone by your side who can provide security and contribute new ideas

"I often have the feeling that many do not yet understand the added value of job sharing," says Dr. Lars Wiese…

Blog New Norman

NewNorman

The Compact Solution for Working at Home

Our trainees have developed a space-saving alternative to the traditional desk in just six months

The coronavirus pandemic has caused lasting changes in the world of work. Here at Uniper, many employees have been working from…

Health & Safety

Health & Safety

Care by occupational health services, barrier-free workplaces, ergonomic equipment with height-adjustable desks, computer glasses, many preventive care offers, insurance benefits, flu vaccinations and screening for bowel cancer and preventive medical care.

At many locations, we offer a wide range of healthy and balanced meals through our canteens. When preparing the meals, we not only pay attention to taste, but also always to health. In addition, we offer nutrition programmes that are subsidised by health insurance. 

Through our training programmes, we offer a variety of seminars and further education with a focus on health, well-being and safety.

Our employees have a variety of opportunities to keep fit at Uniper. With the "moving break" during the lunch break, with colleagues worldwide in the virtual sports community, in the fitness centre in the offices at the main site in Düsseldorf and with many other sports offers that we make available to our employees. 

Blog virtuelle Sportgemeinschaft

Uniper's virtual sports community

We enable flexible working time models and actively care about the health of our employees

At Uniper, we are proud that more than 200 of our employees and alumni have joined forces in a virtual sports team, which consists of…

Blog supporting a healthy lifestyle

Supporting a healthy lifestyle

How the local Health Team at Karlshamn power station motivates their co-workers to exercise

Health is very important to Uniper and we support our employees in every way we can. A good example can be found at Karlshamn power…

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Team Rynkeby — Cycling for a Good Cause

Respect, responsibility and dedication: values the team shares with Uniper

Team Rynkeby— Hohes C has a mission: Improving health and fitness while also helping children with cancer and their families in times of need. The…

Mobility

Mobility

Through our partner Jobrad, we offer the option of leasing a bicycle. It doesn't matter whether it's an e-bike, mountain bike or racing bike. With the subsidies, we promote the willingness to switch to a bicycle.

* Currently only available for employees in Germany with a permanent contract

At almost all our locations, we offer our employees the possibility of charging electric or hybrid cars.

There is no need for a stressful search for a parking space. We provide our employees with free parking spaces at almost all of our locations. At our main location in Düsseldorf, we even have a comfortable underground car park directly under the office building in the media harbour. A special feature: we also have a bicycle garage there with lockers and shower rooms for our employees.