Training as a
success factor
Knowledge creates value – when it is applied. That’s why hands-on learning is at the heart of Geberit’s innovative training concept.
Geberit passes on specialist knowledge to trainees and accompanies them every step of the way to successful completion of their training. In Geberit’s training concept, a strong awareness of social and environmental issues is just as important as professional competence and nurturing individual potential.
One way we do this is through an open learning culture. Certain days or weeks are set aside for exchanges which give trainees an opportunity to get to know their colleagues in other Group companies or to take part in one of our social-aid projects in developing regions, where trainees are regularly on hand to gain experience in the field. Since 2008, for example, young people from Geberit were in action in Ecuador, India and Serbia.
These experiences teach them to take responsibility for their own actions – in the fine detail of product installation as well as the global context of the company’s operations.

Christoph Zimmerer, apprentice industrial mechanic at Geberit Pfullendorf (DE), doing a combined course in mechanical engineering.
Development project in Serbia – all-round assistance for reconstruction
Kraljevo, a city with a population of about 100,000, is in the center of Serbia. The earthquake in November 2010 affected many schools. In June 2011, Geberit sent a team of eleven – nine of them trainees from Germany, Austria and Switzerland – to Kraljevo with the task of completely renewing the sanitary facilities. Geberit undertook all the planning, financing and realization of the project.