What did you do before worked at NESS?
After my apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer, I worked for various machine and plant manufacturers in the region.
Why did you decide to work for NESS?
Since I didn’t really feel at home anywhere, I sent an unsolicited application to Ness & Co. as a plant engineer in 1993. At that time, Ness & Co produced cooking and smoking systems for the meat processing industry and butchers. The managing director was our senior boss Eduard Ness. I was then invited to an interview and had a look at everything. But it didn’t really meet my expectations. I immediately conveyed this to Mr. Eduard Ness. He said that if I didn’t like it, he had something new in his drawer. Then he started to tell me about the company Ness Wärmetechnik and about process heat supply systems and whether I wanted to join them… the rest is history – I’ve been with the company for 29 years and still feel really good.
What is your working day like at NESS? What are your daily tasks?
Almost everything that arises in the area of customer service. This includes calculations for projects; audits or training courses at customers’ premises; taking stock at customers’ premises in order to create the corresponding documentation; planning assembly work; sometimes even carrying out assembly work myself.
What do you like best about your job? What task do you enjoy the most?
What I like best about my job is that I can largely organise my own working day and, of course, the contact with customers all over the world.
I enjoy planning pipeline installations the most. The more difficult the better.
What has been your best moment at NESS?
I often have the best experience. Whenever I walk through our production and think about how we started here with three men as young (unsuspecting) boys and what has become of it.
What qualities do new work colleagues at NESS need to fit into the work culture?
There are the standard texts such as the ability to work in a team, work independently, etc., but in my opinion they can also be a little out of the norm, if not eccentric.
How do you describe the atmosphere at NESS?
I can describe the working atmosphere as very good. Especially all the young and wild people who have joined in the last few years have really spiced up the working atmosphere.
What makes NESS as an employer special to you?
A very reliable employer who stands by you in good times and bad. And of course the very flat hierarchies and the direct, uncomplicated line to the management.
Describe NESS in 3 words
Familiar, fair, innovative
