Responsibility matters BIG time for LeitOn

Content:

1. Employees
2. Sponsoring
3. Trainees

1. Employees

LeitOn actively pursues human resource management to make it more personal than it sounds. Besides regular performance appraisals in order to guide all employees, casual get-togethers, trips, and dinners are organized. Meetings are held on an ad-hoc basis whenever something important arises. LeitOn believes that team building is not created through motivational training, but rather through mutual enjoyment of every day activities and a common sense of team spirit.

In order to prevent informational asymmetries between different departments, cross departmental trainings among the employees are organized. For instance, Sales trains process management in tender preparation or CAM explains the production process for layouts. Such measures strengthen the understanding of organizational processes, enable a more diversified scope, are enjoyable, and improve the service competence towards our customers and suppliers alike.

Further LeitOn provides all of its employees with opportunities for individual advancements. We support university studies while working with us as well as foreign language or technical trainings. If employees show interest in tasks which go beyond their assigned task, we will try to generate ideas to nurture these interests and attempt to integrate them into their assigned tasks. This approach has, for example, led to the establishment of cross-teams for the development of international business areas. It has enabled several employees to personally get to know our partner businesses abroad as well as given them the opportunity to conduct trainings in Asia.

However, every company makes mistakes. This is human nature and LeitOn too, is and aims to remain a human organization. The key point in which LeitOn wants to distinguish itself from other companies, is our approach towards mistakes. Blaming individual team members is alien to LeitOn. The official line of the management is: "Blame the System!". This means that employees are acquitted of any wrong doing. Instead the focus is instantly put on the root cause of the mistake– the system behind it. Following this approach has already enabled us to optimize several processes which initially were thought to have been fool proof. Only if the fear of blaming one another is 100% removed can every member of the team contribute to an improved solution.

This working environment is important for us as we are working in an ever evolving market and we aim to keep work enjoyable. We stand united as a team aiming to leveraging our aggregate knowledge and experience efficiently in order to create a learning organization which enjoys all related PCB services.

2. Sponsoring

LeitOn engages itself in the community by donating gifts to orphans, supporting educational programs of the police and fire departments, as well as contributing to charitable organizations to the benefit of children in Africa. Additionally, we assist schools, universities, and various young, aspiring people whose innovational spirit goes beyond their budget and rely on the support of the industry. We support this innovational spirit through advice and insight, as well as by sponsoring PCBs.

The following is a selection of LeitOn’s current sponsoring engagements

• BURCA - Universeller Funkauslöser für DSLR-Kameras
  BURCA ist ein universeller Funkauslöser für DSLR-Kameras und bietet zusätzlich Funktionen wie Langzeitbelicht, Belichtungsreihen und Intervallaufnamen.
• RoboCup Fizeweltmeister 2010 - trotz gewonnenem Finale
  Bei der 14. RoboCup Weltmeisterschaft im Suntec Convention Center in Singapur nahmen über 3000 Teilnehmer in 500 Teams aus 40 Nationen teil.
• Part-Time Scientists - Mondrover
  LeitOn PCBs fly to the moon!: LeitOn supports the berlin team "Part-Time Scientists" for the Google-Lunar-X-Prize
• Robocup Team C-PALB
  The working group C-PALB of the CJD Jugenddorf-Christophorusschule Königswinter has been participating a the international Robocup competition for 4 years. Six grade 8. to 12. students meanwhile are building football playing robots in the sixth generation.
• Elefant Racing Bayreuth
  Elefant Racing Bayreuth is a small, but highly committed university Formula SAE racing team. This racing series specially tailored towards university students is not all about speed, but includes project management and engineering aspects.
• German Champion at the RoboCup German Open 2010
  The Team T'n'T has claimed the seventh and eigth national "RoboCup Juniors" title and qualified for the World Championship in Singapore.
• Roboking
  Roboking is an interdisciplinary robot competition with annually changing requirements combining the fields of electronics, machine building and computer science..
• TU-Berlin
  When it comes to overdeliveries* we have a special arrangement with the TU-Berlin. Accumulated PCB overdeliveries for prototype production are provided to the students free of charge.
• Robocup World Cup in China 2008 - Team T'n'T - Germany
  Team T'n'T Robotik comprises of the brothers Jonas and Benno TImmermann. Both are high school students in Weißenhorn, Germany. Jonas has been involved with robotics since 2002.
• RoboCup Juniors – South German Championships 2009 - Team T'n'T - Germany
  Team T'n'T Robotik comprises of the brothers Jonas and Benno TImmermann. Both are high school students in Weißenhorn, Germany. Jonas has been involved with robotics since 2002.
• WHZ Racing-Team of Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (University of Applied Science)
  LeitOn supports building car racing electronics for a "Formula Student" team. Various PCBs of up to 6 layers have been sponsored to support this university engineering design competition.
• Robotic project "Bartimäus"
  Everything is geared towards robotic football at the robotics project Bartimäus, a technological innovative sport which is performed by a small, mobile and autonomous robot.
• Fire Department Berlin
  In cooperation with the Berlin Fire Department exercise books of the publishing company Verlaghaus Max worth 100,- Euro have been sponsored.
• Trade Union of the Police (Gewerkschaft der Polizei)
  Within the framework of the project "Tatort Schule" LeitOn supported the creation of an educational brochure on violence prevention in schools by placing advertisement valued at 450,- Euro.
• World Vision – Child Sponsorship
  As a Christian relief organization WorldVision’s key activities are sustainable development work and emergency aide.

3. Trainees

Young people with little or no work experience are welcome to join our team under one of the many available trainee programs. You will be treated with mutual respect and gradually learn how to take over responsibilities.