Audi as an attractive employer

Audi offers its employees a modern work environment, space for innovation, and diverse possibilities for individual development with attractive salaries and a high level of job security. Audi employees are actively helping shape future topics such as electric mobility and digitalization. The corporate values of appreciation, openness, trust, and integrity are a mainstay of the company’s culture. Through qualification and advanced training, Audi empowers its employees to shape the mobility of tomorrow.

• With its qualification program “Digital Shift – in Production and Logistics”, Audi is expanding IT expertise among employees at its Neckarsulm site. IT-minded employees and interested staff can use their potential and develop in strategic future jobs. The program also serves as a blueprint for additional transformation projects.
• Employees can get trained for the development of high-voltage batteries. Participants have access to tailored education programs at a range of universities. They also take various learning modules at the Audi Academy and can put the knowledge they gain directly into practice.
• In partnership with various advanced training service providers, a qualification program was established to train employees in the development of electric drive systems. The program supports the transformation of the workforce in engine development.
• In advanced training to become an electrical specialist in battery and vehicle technology, employees learn about the potential hazards of handling batteries, and everything else they need to know for their daily work.
• In the Böllinger Höfe industrial park, Audi has set up an advanced training center for electromobility, car IT, and automotive engineering. In the direct vicinity of the Audi e-tron GT quattro production site, employees can use digital learning methods to develop their professional skills.
• Curiosity and openness are the personal drivers of Vorsprung durch Technik. For the transformation to be successful, the company must rethink its training activities. Audi’s goal is to make learning a normal and ongoing part of everyday life for everyone. For this reason, Audi launched the “Audi as a learning system” program in 2023 to develop the learning system of the future through a wide range of initiatives.
• The educational campus in Heilbronn affords employees at the Audi site in Neckarsulm numerous prospects to help advance the digital factory transformation and the transition to electric mobility.

Careers

• AUDI AG is one of the largest employers in the region: 15,464 employees work at the Neckarsulm site (as of: December 31, 2023).
• As a future-oriented company, AUDI AG offers many trainee positions in the region: In September 2023, 219 young people began their vocational training at Audi. Compared to the previous year, the number of dual students nearly doubled.
• In early October 2023, 35 new recruits who will work at Audi during their practicum phase began a program at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University.
• On December 31, 2023, a total of 751 trainees and 74 dual students were employed at the Neckarsulm site.
• Hybrid working gives employees maximum freedom of choice without set in-office days.

Work and life balance

Audi has various programs to help its employees to better balance work and family life.

• Audi offers its employees hybrid work, extended parental leave up to seven years, and sabbaticals.
• The company works with “FRÖBEL – Kinder in Bewegung”, an association that offers all-day care in daycare centers in Neckarsulm and the vicinity. The association provided 73 childcare places for Audi employees in the town of Bad Friedrichshall in 2023. There is also a flexible childcare program.
• For the school-age children of employees, Audi works with various cooperation partners to provide extensive vacation childcare during the summer holidays and shorter breaks during the school year.

Work and care

Audi care time: Care-giving employees can take a leave of partial or complete absence for up to three years – with a guarantee of reinstatement for four more years.

• Audi offers events for employees with family members who need care, covering a range of topics including prevention, dementia, and self-care.
• In collaboration with Audi BKK and famPLUS GmbH, there are free programs for Audi employees: assistance by telephone, care dialog, and care lectures.
• Audi is a dementia partner: The company works with the German Alzheimer Association and Alzheimergesellschaft Ingolstadt e.V. (Alzheimer Society of Ingolstadt) to raise awareness of the topic and offer online training for employees.