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HHLA - Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG is among the most attractive employers in North Germany. More than 3,600 staff from Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania work in the various group companies, with their workplaces located in and around the Port of Hamburg. Worldwide 5,000 people are employed by HHLA. Work and vocational training in a vibrant, very dynamic environment are diversified and demanding, and provide the most varied of opportunities. If you are interested in either ‘HHLA the employer’ or ‘HHLA the vocational trainer’, and are fluent in German, you will find comprehensive information on the following pages.

Award for HHLA trainee

Jonas Maybaum completed his training as a Specialist for Port Logistics with HHLA in January. The examiners awarded his overall performance a top grade, making Jonas Maybaum amongst the best in his training year. The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce supported this outstanding achievement with a “Talent promotion in vocational training” award worth €5,100. “This vocational training was extremely interesting and offered some enthralling
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Focus on people

Knowledge, health, motivation and a corporate culture in partnership are not only important factors for staff satisfaction. They create the precondition for the long-term success of the Group. HHLA’s personnel policy is future-oriented: with high investments in vocational and in-service training, comprehensive preventive medicine and on-going modernization of its remuneration system, HHLA sets benchmarks for its active personnel policy.

Job opportunities

Within the HHLA Group of companies, a whole range of very varied professions and functions have developed, which together optimize the speed of flow in the logistics chain. Container gantry crane and van-carrier drivers are just as much part of the picture as ship’s planners, terminal developers and IT specialists, not forgetting workshop mechanics, industrial engineers, consultants and other engineers.  Current job and vocational training opportunities as well as positions for trainees will be found here, for fluent German speakers.

Career pathing

From the wide range of vocational training opportunities, on through the trainee programmes, to directly joining the Group as a specialist manager, HHLA offers a diversified range of opportunities. For dock workers it is not unusual to change from other jobs. Brief yourself here about your career opportunities and the entry conditions.