Together towards a sustainable future

Welcome at SMA

Working for us means feeling every day like you're at the right place - and being part of something that is of fundamental importance to us and future generations.

If you ask us, there are few things more important than helping to shape the energy transition and making the use of renewable energies more efficient, simple and effective. And to work on this with the right people. People you can count on. With whom you share a common goal. A task where you can be proud to make a valuable contribution.

But to really understand what we mean by that, you probably need to become part of it too. Part of this feeling that unites us all.

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Zwei Personen, eine Frau und ein Mann, stehen in ESD-Kitteln in der Produktion.

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Mehrere Personen sind zu erkennen. Fokus liegt auf einer Frau, die lächelnd an der Kamera vorbeischaut.

This is important to us

We are united by the common goal of helping to shape a more sustainable future and preserving a world worth living in for future generations. To achieve this, we are doing everything we can to make a significant contribution to a fully renewable energy supply.

This is particularly important to us:

Diversity and openness

We want to give everyone a voice that counts. We value each other and are open to diverse opinions and ideas. This applies regardless of origin, gender identity, faith, age, disability or sexual orientation. With us, everyone is allowed to be who they are.

By joining the “Diversity Charter” in 2011, we committed ourselves to creating a working environment in which all employees have equal opportunities for development. In particular, we have set targets to increase the proportion of women in the overall workforce and in management positions and promote gender and cultural diversity within the company. Our queer and women's networks, which openly promote these values, also play a major role in this.

Man sieht eine große Pride-Flagge, die von außen an einem Parkhaus befestigt ist.

Flexibility

Circumstances change, sometimes very quickly. We offer solutions so that we can react to them.

We rely on trust, modern workplaces, flexible working hours and part-time solutions – so that you can balance family and career.

We also create the necessary freedom in our day-to-day work so that we can make the best possible use of our individual skills and strengths. Trust and mutual respect promote self-determined thinking and action. We facilitate innovative learning and knowledge sharing as part of the internal SMA University or at breakfast with the Management Board.

Drei Personen in einem modernen Büro. Zwei sitzen auf Schaukeln, eine spricht vor ihnen. Im Hintergrund ein Bildschirm mit "SMA is driving change". Links eine Pflanze, rechts ein Dartboard.

Active participation

Your energy can unfold with us. Make a committed, courageous and goal-oriented contribution to change.

At SMA, you can actively help shape things. Think in new ways and inspire others with your ideas. Our constructive cooperation promotes team spirit and brings out some unexpected talent.

And performance pays off. Talent management, development opportunities and a transparent remuneration system - for us, encouraging and challenging go hand in hand.

Man sieht zwei Personen. Eine Frau steht an einem Whiteboard zur Kamera gewendet und schreibt dort gerade etwas. Eine zweit Frau steht mit dem Rücken zur Kamera und schaut auf das Whiteboard.

Team spirit & cohesion

We think and act in a cross-divisional, goal-oriented and international way.

Since the company was founded, annual events such as the summer party and the joint Christmas party have been an integral part of our SMA corporate culture. We also maintain contact with our retired colleagues. You can regularly meet our Sunny Seniors at their old place of work.

We stick together, trust each other and are there for each other - even when things get difficult.

Mehrere Personen, die Warnwesten tragen. Der Fokus liegt auf einem lachenden Mann, der an einem Stehtisch steht und eine Frau anschaut.

Passion

We love what we do. It motivates us every day to move forward together. We identify strongly with our omnipresent goal of making the world more sustainable with our technologies.

In doing so, we do not think in familiar patterns and categories, but have the ambition to boldly break new ground.

Together and with passion.

Ein Mann arbeitet an einer Werkbank in einer industriellen Umgebung. Sie hantiert mit Werkzeugen und Ausrüstung. Im Hintergrund sind Maschinen und andere industrielle Elemente zu sehen.

Benefits

We want to actively shape the future, but at the same time we live in the here and now.

That's why we create a working environment that enables us to achieve our goals. We don't have a dress code or rigid formalities - instead, we focus on open communication at eye level and shared responsibility.

We also offer numerous benefits to make your life easier. Take a look and discover what awaits you.

For a high degree of flexibility
  • Flexible work schedule models
  • The ability to work flexible
  • Thirty vacation days
  • Special options for time off
  • Lifelong working-time accounts
  • Mandatory company holidays during the Christmas season

For your family
  • Support for homeschooling: digital teaching aid for kids free of charge
  • Support for parental leave or family caregiver leave issues
  • Vacation daycare for kids / vacation playscheme
  • Emergency childcare
  • Kid’s meal for €1.20 at our cafeteria
  • Besides the legal regulations + 5 days of paid vacation for sick children

For an attractive workplace

For your health
  • Fitness room
  • Health courses
  • Corporate health and rehabilitation management

For your mobility
  • Zuschuss zum Jobticket
  • E-Bike Leasing
  • 50 Ladeplätze für E-Autos
  • Kostenlose Mitarbeiter Parkplätze
  • Überdachte Fahrradständer
  • Öffentliche Fahrradverleihstation auf dem SMA Gelände
  • ÖPNV Haltestelle vor dem SMA Gebäude

For fair pay and financial relief
  • Transparent compensation system
  • Christmas bonus
  • Financial participation in the success of the company
  • Vacation pay
  • Daily cash subsidy for sick days
  • Company contributes to pension plan regardless of work schedule model
  • Anniversary payments
  • Discounted group insurance offerings
  • Discount schemes
  • Laundry service

Stories

At SMA, you make the difference.

We count on people who put their heart and soul into shaping the energy supply of the future. Be inspired by the stories of our employees and find out why they chose us and what contribution they make.

Portrait einer Frau mit dunklen Haaren, die eine gelbe Bluse trägt.

Anata Uges

Ambitious goals that make you happy.
When the lights go on in the tents of remote villages in Israel in the evening, Anata knows that she has done everything right...

To the story

Zwei Personen stehen nebeneinander. Der Mann trägt ein schwarzes Polohemd und eine Brille, die Frau ein gelbes Oberteil und Jeans.

Andreas Strusch und Mandy Werner

A passionate driving force.
Green for solar power. Red for electricity from the grid. Actually quite simple, thought Mandy and developed an idea ...

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Portrait einer lachenden Frau mit dunklen Haaren, die eine Jeansjacke trägt.

Joanna Marienhagen

Letting clever minds do the work.
Joanna experiences the change that makes her job at SMA so unique every day. The industrial engineer leads a team ...

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Ein Portrait eines lachenden Mannes, der nach links schaut und ein grünes Polo-Shirt trägt.

Saleh Said

The first smile in the morning.
SMA is like a big family to Saleh. And when you look at him while he says that, you immediately believe him ...

To the Story

Portrait einer dunkelhaarigen Frau Frau, die eine weiße Bluse und eine Jeansjacke trägt. Sie hat lachend die Arme vor der Brust verschränkt und schaut nach rechts.

Sandra Deisenroth

Knowledge advantage for change.
Relationships are built in very special moments. In moments when networking and knowledge sharing ...

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Zwei Personen stehen nebeneinander und schauen freundlich in die Kamera. Ein Mann hat ein schwarzes Hemd an. Eine Frau steht rechts daneben und trägt eine rote Bluse.

Tim Mau und Melissa Weber

Arrived. When ideas find a home.
Melissa and Tim both studied in Cologne: Melissa studied media technology and Tim electrical engineering. Their paths crossed ...

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Ambitious goals that make people happy

Anata knows she has done everything right when in the evening lights turn on in remote villages in Israel. Where before there was either no or limited access to electricity, it was too expensive or produced by a noisy generator — there is now solar power. Anata, who herself has Indian roots, is currently responsible for the Israeli market as a key account manager at SMA. Her projects bring change to life — in both little and big ways while always with the clear goal in sight of being a part of this change.

When she enters a room, Anata’s personality and determination shine through. Listening to her, you know right away that she means business. With a background as a bilingual secretary, she joined SMA as a sales assistant in 2011, studied for her MBA on the side, became a junior sales manager and then became a key account manager. She arrived at a company where her talent was recognized and encouraged — with targeted coaching, training courses and mentoring as part of SMA’s Talent Program.

Anata has ambitious goals, which perfectly fit the market needs in Israel, where the proportion of renewable energy generated is set to rise by 10 percent by 2020. Its targets like this that make her job so special, and they become tangible when solar power and storage systems are used to enable kibbutz residents to generate electricity in a more self-sufficient way, Palestinians to become more self-sufficient and schools to be supplied with electricity long term. When butter does not have to be beaten by hand in Israeli villages and children can do their homework in the evening. This is precisely when Anata’s plan for happiness takes shape. Her very personal contribution to change. The change that makes SMA so special as an employer. What could be better than being part of this?

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Initiators driven by passion

It’s actually quite simple, green for solar power, red for electricity from the utility grid. Mandy came up with and developed the idea of an intuitively simple and understandable display for the self-consumption of solar power so that you always have an overview of the energy in your home, when solar power is purchased and energy costs can be saved.

So when the assistant to the vice president was asked whether she would like take part in the Innovation Kickbox pilot project, she immediately accepted. Asked. Done. Pitched. Successfully. Product Manager Andreas welcomes new ideas, such as Mandy’s. As change and innovation do not always have to come from Development and Product Management. And that is exactly what SMA promotes.

As platform manager, Andreas has implemented many ideas at SMA himself. With ennexOS, he and his colleagues created a platform for holistic, intelligent energy management. A major milestone for the energy of the future. Mandy’s intuitively simple system is a great addition to the product portfolio, and a perfect example that at SMA it counts what you do and not what is written on your business card. Just do it. And that is exactly what we want — to inspire initiators driven by passion like Mandy and Andreas.

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Let brilliant minds do the work

Every day, Joanna experiences the change that makes her job at SMA so unique. The industrial engineer heads a team that is responsible for product management at the Residential & Commercial business unit at SMA. Here everything focuses on inverters for smaller PV systems up to 12 kW, as well as products and system solutions that are used worldwide and need to be managed. It’s all about identifying trends, enforcing regulations, producing road maps, simplifying installations, defining features and reducing system costs. In short: shaping technological change. And Joanna’s part of this.

Joanna and her team are the beating heart of the product portfolio. They are the driving force in being the first. The first in Japan when it comes to introducing inverters that withstand the harsh climate. The first in the U.S. with the introduction of transformerless inverters. The first in Germany with the introduction of a customer service process based on automated system monitoring. They make people’s lives sunnier, with the knowledge they’re also making a valuable contribution to others.

To Joanna, her job is more than a workplace. It is approaching life with a smile on your face. One in which every individual on her team is part of the big picture. This is why here is exactly where “I am the change” meets “We are the change.”

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The first smile that welcomes you in the morning

SMA is like one big family for Saleh. And if you look at him as he’s saying this, you’ll immediately believe him. Saleh is from Egypt. It is a country full of warmth, respect and zest for life. And that’s exactly what Saleh feels every day at SMA’s reception desk.

Saleh doesn’t have to be told what needs to be done. He just does it. Whenever he sees that something can be done better, he reflects on how to achieve it. From central management of all office supplies to single-handedly creating and installing signs on doors, Saleh identifies optimization potential and implements his ideas. However, his greatest contribution to change is himself. Saleh can brighten the mood of SMA employees and visitors with his unique character and warmth. Anyone who has gotten up on the wrong side of the bed will have their day brightened after being welcomed by Saleh at reception.

His last name “Said” translated from Arabic means “happy”. And that’s Saleh. He feels completely at home at SMA and passionately passes this positivity on to others. As for his first name, that means “good.” It’s so good that we have you, Saleh.

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An edge in knowledge to help drive change

People build relationships in particularly special moments. In moments when trust and getting a head start with information come from networking and sharing knowledge. At least this is what Sandra does — and pretty successfully. Sandra is the face of the SMA Partner Program. This is a program that turns solar power professionals into partners, on an equal footing, and thus shines the spotlight on those who know exactly how the market ticks, as well as on what we need to do to keep up with the changes in the photovoltaic market.

Sandra has been in the networking business for a long time. In mid-2006, she welcomed the first solar power professional into the Partner Program she created and, in turn, became a great source of support to sales. While SMA sells to wholesalers, the work Sandra and her department do eliminates a step by taking care of those closer to the market.

She incorporates them into innovation workshops and into process and product development. She thereby makes a valuable contribution to gathering information to help implement change.

Sandra networks knowledge. Interdisciplinary work without blinkers. This is exactly what is possible at SMA. And while the solar power professionals give valuable input, Sandra and her team support them with creative marketing services, VIP service benefits, exclusive training courses and new customer acquisition. It is a clear win-win situation to help drive change — and Sandra is a valuable part of it.

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“You’ve arrived,” when ideas find a home

Melissa and Tim both studied in Cologne. Melissa studied Media Technology and Tim Electrical Engineering. However, their paths crossed for the first time at SMA — where they each did an internship and then wrote their thesis. For both of them, it was the perfect transition from studying theory to putting it into practice.

Melissa has since been working as a software developer at SMA. Tim has found his calling in product management, and particularly appreciates the flexibility at SMA. As after he wrote his master’s thesis in Predevelopment, the plans he had for his future changed direction, product management instead of development. That was the right path for Tim.

Melissa’s and Tim’s clear message to students is — take the practical path. Ideally, where you are a part of the change you desire in this world. Where you can write a thesis that is really needed. For the change in the energy industry.

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Our roots are in Germany. But we have long since grown beyond national borders. After all, the climatic challenge we face is also a global one.

That's why our branches are located all around the world. Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller. Everywhere our employees make a valuable contribution to our goal. Every one of them counts.

Eine Weltkarte mit mehreren markierten Orten auf verschiedenen Kontinenten. Die Karte hat ein Farbverlauf von Rot oben zu Orange unten

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Ein großes Produktionsgebäude ist zu sehen. Es ist Abend und das Gebäude wird mit Regenbogenfarben angestrahlt.

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