Here at Navantia, we place people at the heart of our operations. We are strategically important for both national security and prosperity and look after people on every level (workforce, auxiliary industries, collaborators and any companies with which we are engaged generally).
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Navantia recognises and encourages diversity, equity and inclusion as fundamental values that improve our working environment and allow people to fulfil their maximum potential in tolerant and respectful surroundings.
We work towards equality for all and seek diverse profiles for our workforce, creating inclusive workspaces that convert diverse experiences and perspectives into a source of innovation to benefit the company.
We implement initiatives to ensure access to equal opportunities, fostering standardised, objective and fair processes which aim to reduce barriers and inequality. These measures are particularly significant in a work environment, so that’s why Navantia applies them across all of its Human Resources policies.
We’ve also launched other kinds of initiatives such as the Sum@ project, a forum for men and women that seeks to create a space for dialogue among professionals in order to promote women’s professional development and leadership.
Training
Navantia strives to ensure its employees develop the skills and competences they need in order to tackle new challenges. In that sense, it has a range of professional development, training and knowledge transfer projects in place to foster employee growth, promote their careers and provide them with new knowledge and ever greater challenges.
Each year Navantia runs a Training Plan in technical and cross-cutting skills, investing a total of over €5M in providing more than 150,000 training hours.
Navantia also encourages internal mobility among its professionals as an opportunity for growth and development within the company. The goal is for employees to feel motivated and hungry to take on new challenges, progressing in areas they already feel comfortable and aiming for new targets with a broader view of the business.
Navantia has a competitive leadership model in place which looks to foster a series of behaviours aimed at preparing the company’s leaders to successfully overcome both current and future changes.
Strengthening corporate commitment
Strengthening corporate commitment
Navantia works actively to ensure all everyone who forms part of the company remains engaged, turning them into its greatest ambassadors. In order to do so, it involves them in a range of initiatives, such as breakfast meetings with management, mentoring and reverse mentoring programmes, events for new recruits, etc.
Supporting future professionals
Supporting future professionals
Navantia is committed to implementing training practices that improve young people’s employability and provide them with the skills required to enter the industry. Navantia has signed more than 30 agreements to put into place university internships, dual training programmes and workplace training, among others. Over 1,000 students have completed work experience at Navantia in the last five years. It also aims to encourage interest in the study of STEAM subjects and their careers among students in vocational training programmes, schools and universities.
Partner network
Partner network
We are in constant collaboration with universities, vocational training centres, research centres and other similar bodies in terms of training, knowledge sharing and R&D&i activities related to naval technology and systems.
Training the workforce in our SDGs
Training the workforce in our SDGs
Navantia aims to train its workforce in sustainable development in order to ensure everyone is conscious of the company’s priorities and is able to work in compliance with the SDGs.
Health and safety
The health and safety of all employees is Navantia’s utmost priority in carrying out its operations. The company strives for its zero-accident goal by identifying and evaluating health and safety risks, establishing appropriate preventive measures to avoid damage and verifying their effectiveness. For this purpose, there is a comprehensive and integrated Occupational Risk Prevention system in place which allows indicators to be monitored and compared with sector averages.
Prevention is part of all Navantia’s management processes; it is a key element of all activities performed at the company, irrespective of anyone’s job role within it.
All employees receive the information and training required to perform the functions of their job and their involvement is actively sought in implementing the company’s prevention policy correctly.
Navantia organises Occupational Risk Prevention days every year, coinciding with the World Day for Health and Safety at Work.
Luxembourg Declaration
Luxembourg Declaration
Navantia aligns itself with the Luxembourg Declaration, a consensus document drawn up by the European Network For Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP). It establishes basic operational principles and a reference framework for the proper management of employee health at the company.
Resolute response to COVID
Resolute response to COVID
In light of the pandemic, Navantia has implemented efficient management to ensure the health of its employees, as well as to support societal needs through initiatives such as 3D printing of anti-coronavirus protection materials.
“Navantia, Healthy Organisation” project
“Navantia, Healthy Organisation” project
Alongside meeting its obligations in occupational risk prevention, Navantia makes voluntary and systematic efforts to maximise the health and productivity of its employees through projects such as the “healthy organisation” initiative which involves the entire workforce.
