Social innovation is essential in a market where SOCOTEC’s expertise is often pioneering the built asset lifecycle.

Unique expertise

Making our expertise unique and investing in the quality of the services we deliver to our customers, encouraging the transmission of knowledge between teams, and offering technical training courses throughout the year to our employees... all this enables us to offer the Testing Inspection Certification market a combination of solutions that correspond to today's complex issues, integrating advanced technologies for the transformation of the Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Industry sectors. Preserving them, growing them and passing them on is at the heart of our mission.

An ambitious value proposition for our employees

SOCOTEC's Human Resources policy aims to attract, find and retain the most skilled employees thanks to a unique EVP (Employee Value Proposition), which also echoes the company's culture of expertise : a secure and caring work environment, healthy, stimulating and fulfilling management, diversity and equal treatment, information sharing and participation in Group ideas and projects, a welcoming and supportive team spirit, respect for work-life balance, and value sharing programs. All of this contributes to the positive impact we aim to have on society.
 

SOCOTEC recognized as a Great Place To Work® in 18 countries in 2025

SOCOTEC conducted its Great Place To Work® survey for the 4th year, across its global workforce of 15 000 employees. In 2025, 18 countries out of the 26 achieved a Great Place To Work® certification, representing nearly 95% of SOCOTEC's workforce and revenues.

The certified countries are :

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  • Austria

  • Colombia

  • France

  • Germany

  • Ireland

  • Italy

  • Ivory Coast

  • Lebanon

  • Madagascar

  • Morocco

  • Saudi Arabia

  • Singapore

  • Spain

  • Thailand

  • United Kingdom

  • United States

  • Vietnam

  • UAE.

Globally, SOCOTEC has actively worked to enhance its Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and improve the overall employee positive experience, committing to creating a supportive, inclusive, and rewarding work environment.

SOCOTEC's commitment goes beyond just the work environment; it extends to creating jobs that have a meaningful impact on society. With its Green Trust missions delivered to clients, SOCOTEC is actively involved in supporting energy and environmental transitions of client projects, This engagement not only reinforces the company's role as a responsible corporate but also gives a deeper sense of purpose to the work carried out by its employees, aligning their professional missions with the larger societal goal of building sustainable cities.

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EVP: Employment Value Proposition

Compensation policy

  • Fixed & variable salary
  • Profit sharing
  • Fair appraisal system
  • Recognition
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Social benefits

  • Health,
  • Provident Fund
  • Retirement
  • Leave & time off
  • Works council
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Company culture

  • Quality of management
  • Clarity of strategy
  • Trust & collaboration between colleagues
  • Collective rules
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  • Career progression
  • Personal development
  • Training, Job mobility
  • Performance assessment
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Work environment

  • Autonomy and accountability
  • Work-life balance
  • Interest/Impact of the missions
  • Safety at work
  • Employee experience

Our skills development programme involves

  • Fair access to training for all our current and future employees, without discrimination.
  • Initiatives to increase employee engagement, which we measure using an independent annual barometer (Great Place to Work) and management action plans.
  • Development of an EVP (Employee Value Proposition): a genuinely distinctive workforce-related strategy aiming to promote a culture of operational excellence and to attract and retain the best talent by emphasising what sets us apart in our industry.
  • Customised training programmes through the "Blue Academy", delivered both in person and remotely, with dedicated high-end local programmes for technical or management development, our digital platform 360Learning rolled out across all our geographies.
  • Promoting, sharing and disseminating innovation.
  • Developing value sharing across our geographies through the "Blue Alliance" employee shareholding programme.

 

Key figures for 2025

15000

employees worldwide

more than 96% of whom are on permanent contracts

2028 goal = 98% of employees on permanent contracts

2.65 days of training per employee

2028 Goal: Maintain an average of at least 2 days of training per employee (based on the Group’s average total workforce)

18 countries certified Great Place To Work®

 

including SOCOTEC in France, ranked in the top 10 best workplaces

Global participation rate: 75%

Global Trust Index: 72%

2028 goal: 100% of countries certified

Safety by choice not by chance

Ensuring the health & safety of employees is a primary objective for SOCOTEC Group, at the core of its purpose.

Frequency Rate: 3.98

Severity Rate: 0.10

2028 goal =

FR : maximum 4

SR : maximum 0,1