BMS Group investing in future employees

When you want a highly qualified workforce, you must contribute to the continuous education of future employees who can take over when the more experienced ones proceed to other employment or retire. This is a fundamental strategy in the BMS Group.

Everywhere in the BMS Group, there is a considerable need for well-qualified employees, and therefore it is only natural that each company in the group chooses to contribute to the on-going training of employees who are experienced with the very diverse areas of work found in the companies of the BMS Group.

Every year, the BMS group has a substantial number of employees in training.

For instance, BMS Aarhus hired a young man as a crane operator apprentice. He was trained in handling all the different equipment at the Aarhus department. After finishing his apprenticeship, he obtained permanent employment and is in charge of a brand new Liebherr LTM 1095-5.1 mobile crane. His boss sees this as an excellent example of the benefit of doing your best every day.

BMS Aarhus currently has three crane operator apprentices. While one is 21 years old and taking a vocational education, another is 25 years and under an adult learning program, as he already has an education as a farmer. The third one is 36 years old and is also under adult learning, as he is trained as a truck mechanic and has worked for several years at the BMS Lift Division. Finally, there is also a young man of 21 years, who is a transport apprentice with jacking and skidding as his speciality.

Most young people being trained at the BMS Group are men – especially when it comes to  handling cranes. However, a few years ago, BMS Copenhagen employed Denmark’s first female crawler crane operator. When working for a surveillance company, she came to the BMS Group and asked for a job as crane operator. After a four-week course, she was certified as a crawler crane operator. She also received internal training as well as on-the-job training and was then able to  handle a number of BMS crawler cranes.