After spending two years as a product manager in my home country of Brazil, I moved to Germany with my family to take on a fresh career challenge. It was something of a culture shock. So many things were different from home. At lunchtime we had meetings with nothing but sandwiches to eat instead of a proper meal, and people didn‘t even stop working when the German football team was playing! My Brazilian colleagues and I quickly learned to make the most of the cultural differences, and today I can say without a shadow of doubt that the years I spent in Germany were the best time of my life. When you come into contact with other cultures and use different ways of thinking to broaden your horizons, you can achieve the unimaginable.

I live for mechanical engineering. A good reason for applying to join MAN after obtaining my doctorate. I was on my way to the interview when I saw these impressive trucks and I knew at once: this is where I want to work. From that moment on I have been passionate about MAN. I decided to take part in the 15-month trainee program, where I was introduced to a large number of departments. Moreover, I was given the freedom to delve deeper into areas that I found especially interesting. For instance, I was allowed to tinker on the trucks myself in one of our service workshops. Shortly after my time as a trainee, I led a project that played a decisive role in shaping my professional career: using comparisons with the competition, we identified the potential for improvements in our products.

I have now been responsible for this task for almost three years and I am now in charge of a department with 10 employees.
If you bring sound knowledge and commitment to the job, MAN is the right place for you. At MAN, actions count.

Every MAN marine engine is a one-off, manufactured to individual specifications. Handing the finished product over to the customer is always an exciting moment, because we in the testing department feel personally responsible for its quality. Simply meeting the customer’s expectations isn’t enough for us. We want to exceed them. And we give everything we’ve got to achieve the perfect outcome – even if that means clambering into the heart of an oily engine. The test bed is where we put the new engine through its paces to make sure it delivers the performance we expect. When the customer is delighted, we know we’ve done a good job – and that’s our reward.

People tell us time and time again that there’s no real alternative to a MAN engine. Only when we impose stringent quality standards on ourselves do we achieve outstanding results. We want people with the desire to reach their full potential.