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Growing together: our social commitment

Social innovation is essential in a market where SOCOTEC is often a pioneer throughout the building life cycle.

Unique expertise

Making our expertise unique and investing in the quality of the service we deliver to our customers, encouraging the transmission of knowledge between teams, and offering technical training courses throughout the year to our employees... all this enables us to offer the Testing Inspection Certification market a combination of solutions that adapt to today's complex issues, integrating advanced technologies for the transformation of the Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Industry sectors. Preserving them, growing them and passing them on is at the heart of our mission.

 

An ambitious value proposition for our employees

SOCOTEC's Human Resources policy aims to find and fidelicit skilled employees through an attractive and unique EVP (Employee Value Proposition), which also echoes the company's culture of expertise : a secure and caring work environment, healthy, stimulating and fulfilling management, diversity and equal treatment, information sharing and participation in Group ideas and projects, a welcoming and supportive team spirit, respect for work-life balance, and value sharing. All of this contributes to the positive impact we aim to have on society.
 

SOCOTEC recognized as a Great Place To Work® in 12 countries in 2024

Logo Great place to workSOCOTEC conducted its Great Place To Work® survey for the 3rd year, across its global workforce of 11,500 employees. In 2024, 12 countries out of the 26 achieved a Great Place To Work® certification, representing nearly 75% of SOCOTEC's workforce and revenues.

The certified countries are: Germany, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Ivory Coast, France, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Singapore, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. Globally, SOCOTEC has actively worked to enhance its Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and improve the overall employee experience, committing to creating a supportive, inclusive, and rewarding work environment.

SOCOTEC's commitment goes beyond just the work environment; it extends to creating jobs that have a meaningful impact on society. With its Green Trust missions delivered to clients, SOCOTEC is actively involved in supporting energy and environmental transitions of client projects, This engagement not only reinforces the company's role as a responsible corporate but also gives a deeper sense of purpose to the work carried out by its employees, aligning their professional missions with the larger societal goal of building sustainable cities.

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EVP: Employment Value Proposition

Award

Compensation

  • Basic salary and bonus
  • Rewards
  • Profit sharing
  • Pay increase
  • Fairness
  • Recognition
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Protect

Benefits

  • Healthcare
  • Life & disability insurance
  • Pension plan 
  • Time off & vacations
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Motivate

Career growth

  • Promotions
  • Career opportunity
  • Skills development
  • Trainig
  • Mobility
  • Performance management
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Attract

Work environment

  • Autonomy & responsabilities
  • Work life balance
  • Challenges
  • Job impact & interest
  • Safety at work
  • Employee experience
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Build loyalty

Culture

  • Quality of leadership 
  • Understantg og firm's goal and plans
  • Trust & team spirit
  • Common rules

Our skills development programme involves:

  • Fair treatment for all our current and future employees, without discrimination;
  • Initiatives to increase employee engagement, which we measure using an independent annual barometer (Great Place to Work) and management action plans;
  • Development of an EVP (Employee Value Proposition): a genuinely distinctive workforce- related strategy aiming to promote a culture of operational excellence and to attract and retain the best talent by emphasising what sets us apart in our industry.
  • Customised training programmes, delivered both in person and remotely, and a digital platform called 360Learning in all of our geographies.

 

Key figures for 2023

12000 employees worldwide

over 90% on permanent contracts

3.73 days of training

per employee trained during the year

12 countries certified Great Place To Work®

  • Participation rate world wide : 74%
  • Trust Index : 69 %
  • Rate of positive responses on all questions related to the Great Place To Work® model.

32 SOCOTEC CFA centres in France

since the launch of the profession's 1st CFA by the Group in 2020.

And Training Academies in some of our host countries.