Wacker Chemical Corporation | Diversity Employer

We are a leading player and one of the world’s most research-intensive chemical companies. Our range of highly developed specialty products extends from silicones and polymeric binders and additives for a number of different industrial sectors, to bio-engineered pharmaceutical actives (biologics), and hyperpure silicon for semiconductor and solar applications. As a technology leader focused on sustainability, we promote innovations with high value-added potential. Our goal is to ensure a better quality of life for you and future generations – through health care, energy efficiency and protection of the climate and environment.

Join a Strong Team

WACKER has some 14,400 employees from 65 nations. They shape our company, give it a face and drive its success. We offer our people cutting-edge jobs, packed with stimulating tasks and wide-ranging challenges, in multiple career sectors.

Work-Life Balance – Effectively Reconciling Your Career and Private Life
Life’s journey can follow a straight line, or it can meander: what’s important to us is how you respond. A priority of WACKER’s HR strategy is enabling employees to balance their professional and private lives. Our modern worktime models offer you utmost flexibility. They accommodate the different phases of our employees’ lives.

WACKER was one of the first to sign a joint declaration by Germany’s “Family as a Success Factor” business network – set up as part of an initiative by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs and the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. In Bavaria’s 2018 “Successful. Family-Friendly” corporate competition, the Bavarian government honored WACKER for its exemplary support in reconciling family life and work.

Our Flexibility Benefits You
Our wide range of flexitime models includes working-time autonomy (a self-regulated system based on trust). Where possible, we offer both full-time and part-time positions. In specific cases, employees can opt for a mobile office (also part-time) or take unpaid leave for urgent personal matters or for a sabbatical. Wacker Chemie AG offers one week of paid “family time” to parents of children up to the age of eight.

We offer our employees in Germany a range of services for finding childcare or returning to work after parental leave. There is a return-to-work workshop every year in Burghausen, for instance. Further, Burghausen has places reserved for preschools and after-school care. One service provider we work with helps employees in Munich and Burghausen find childcare places. Another advises employees at both these sites if family members should fall ill and need nursing care.