Working at Kemira
Our code of conduct and our values are the foundations of everything we do.
At Kemira, we believe that an encouraging and entrepreneurial environment produces results and job satisfaction. We emphasize the importance of attitude and participation as well as every employee’s opportunities of contributing to their own work and working environment.
Kemira's competitive edge relies on skilled, active and committed personnel. Therefore, we pay special attention to personnel matters.
Kemira´s way of working
Our vision, becoming a leading water chemistry company sets a direction for our actions. Reaching our vision means that we work as a team, focusing on creating value to our customers, learning together, and working towards an environment where our employees can excel and feel joy at work.
Our values are based on collective ideas from more than 1200 of our employees who identified what are our strengths, what makes Kemira employees proud of their company, and what we need to be developing further to ensure our continuous success.
As a result, our values now provide us with guidelines for doing business, interacting with our customers, partners, and other stakeholders, and for achieving our goals by working together.
Values guide our work
We are dedicated to customer success
Customers are core for everything we do. We can consider ourselves successful only when our customers gain true value from our products, applications and services. This requires that we understand our customers’ industries and businesses, we truly listen to what our customers need, and we strive to fulfill those needs.
We care for people and the environment
We do not compromise safety in any circumstances. Our employees’ well-being is important for us. We seek to support well-being in various ways, and also by regular follow-up of employee satisfaction. We contribute to the societies around us for example by participating in community work, and we do our best to protect the environment and people around us.
We drive performance and innovation
Our value of driving for performance and innovation means that we should, in addition to business performance also find ways to successfully create something new – whether it is new products, new solutions to problems, or new ways of working. We utilize all learning opportunities; successes and shortcomings to become better at what we do.
We succeed together
Our success depends greatly on our capability to pull together. Everybody’s expertise and ideas are needed to develop our company further. We listen to each other, and demonstrate respect for different kind of opinions. Being successful also means that we as individuals take responsibility for our own professional competences, and ensure that we keep developing ourselves by utilizing all means of learning.