Inside K+S

In 1992, Michael Zacher started his training as a mining mechanic, as the current training profession of mining technologist was still called back then. Today, he is in charge of underground training and imparts knowledge and skills to young trainees who are still at the very beginning. Read his success story here.

Zielitz mining technologist Julian Weber and Wintershall chemical technician Luisa Rohrbach completed their training at K+S this summer with excellent marks - although they originally had other career plans. Read their experiences here.

David started his student internship in HR at the end of September. He is a senior in high school and wanted to get a taste of the practical world for two weeks and gain an impression of what career direction he might take in the future.

In 2016, Denis began his dual studies (integrated degree program) in business informatics, and today he already has his master’s degree almost finish. He didn't choose between IT or management, but simply combined the two. Read his story here.

Despite several strokes of fate in his health, Bernd Heise doesn't let it get him down and fights his way back into life and to his job. He wants to encourage other people with a disability and show that every fate also offers a chance.

Gerrit Goedecke has already been to four different continents for K+S. It wasn't planned and he didn't only have positive experiences, but he wouldn't want to miss the time. Read more about his various career stations here.

Juliane Apelt is a scientific employee at the K+S Analytics and Research Center in the Werra Valley. This place has played an important role for Juliane since her childhood. Read here what makes the Werra so special for Juliane and how K+S opened doors for Juliane for a career as a chemist.

Dr. Rüdiger Triebel, who has worked at K+S for over 25 years, is passionate about passing on his knowledge to the next generation. Now the explosives expert has been appointed honorary professor at Clausthal University of Technology.

Gaining experience abroad and advancing your professional career: At K+S, this is not only made possible but expressly encouraged. For geologist Dr. Stefan Höntzsch, the three-and-a-half year stay at Windsor Salt in Canada was a special experience in many respects.

The 23-year-old Richard is currently doing an internship at the K+S Zielitz site. Originally, he was born in beautiful Weinböhla in Saxony. He is on the home stretch of his graduate mining training and tells us in this exciting interview how his internship is proceeding and what fascinates him about mining itself.

Home office and distance regulations - important topics during the Corona Pandemic. In this short interview, Daniel will tell us how these measures work during an internship.

K+S internally, Denis was awarded for agility. Get to know our colleague a little from corporate development better and find out what agility means to him, why it is a motivating corporate value, and what the sketch paper method is all about.

We asked Svenja from the HR Marketing department six short questions, which will provide us with details and special insight into the application process for apprentices at K+S. Read more to receive interesting tipps for the online test and our assessment days.

With the appointment of Doreen Nuhn, a woman now heads the K+S youth and trainee representative council again after a long period of time. Together with her team, the mining technologist from the Werra plant is committed to the interests of young employees and trainees across sites.

Investing in Workday, our new human resource management system, is an example of how K+S responded to feedback for more modern, transparent, applicable tools. Workday is a big change for our organization! Read how the introduction of Workday at K+S changes our world of work and what it means for our teams around the globe.

In this blog post we report on a project of our department "Strategy and Innovation for Sub Sahara Africa". Together with local partners, K+S offers the EzyAgric App in Africa, which helps small-scale farmers to improve their harvests thereby raising their standard of living.

Living idea management is of great importance at K+S. In this article, we report on our employees Martin and Marchell from the power plant at the Wintershall site, who submitted their idea and made an important contribution to hand safety at K+S.

In this article, Maya reports on her exciting path from being an intern, to student worker and final thesis, to permanent employment at K+S.

Working student Lena reports on her visit to the city beekeeper on the roof of the K+S headquarters in Kassel.

Christopher is an apprentice mining technologist specializing in civil engineering. The 18-year-old is completing his second year of training at the Zielitz potash plant. In his spare time, he is also involved in the youth fire brigade.

K+S Innovation Lab is testing whether the cultivation of marine plants in a laboratory facility is possible and economically viable in Sigmundshall for one year.

Here is the third part of Kay's exciting trip to India.

Sandra talks about her new start as a prospective mining technologist in an extraordinary underground working environment.

Kay reports from his first day on his business trip to India.

In this article the mine rescue brigade introduces itself.

Kay shares his exiting business trip to India. His journey starts with bad weather conditions and train delays. Will he make his flight? What awaits him upon arrival in India? Will all go well? Read the whole story in his first blog entry.

Stefan works for us in the area of Demand to Plan & Source to Pay. In the following interview you can learn more about Stefan's work. Have fun reading!

Lars reports on his training in the field of electronics for industrial engineering. How he came to this and what exactly he finds so fascinating about this profession, he describes here.

Jürgen reports on his passion as a trainer at Neuhof-Ellers. He talks about his professional career and the activities that await him every day as a trainer.

The former intern and working student Vanessa reports on her experiences and tasks in personnel marketing and personnel development at K+S.

In an interview Jan talks about how he turned his hobby into his profession. The trigger for this was an internship at K+S.

In an interview consisting of six short questions, Mona reports on her career and everyday working life as an electrician at the Neuhof plant and on why she chose K+S.

Serak reports on his activities in the Corporate Development department and reveals what he particularly likes about his work.

Market Manager Hind reports on her day-to-day work in Market and Internal Sales Management and also talks about the advantages that K+S offers her as an employer.

In this article, Alexandra reports on her training as a chemical technician in a male-dominated occupational field.

Laura completed the Business Trainee Program at K+S. In this article, she shares with us what motivated her to do the program and what experience she has gained.