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A Personal Success Story:
Marek Grzelka at PCS.

Marek Grzelka began his professional career in September 2002 with his training as industrial commercial specialist at Fahrzeugausrüstung Berlin GmbH, a company still referred to as FAGA at the time, but having renamed itself PCS since and presenting itself with an expanded product portfolio. Today, Marek Grzelka has the planning ownership within the production department of PCS. The time in between was filled with many interesting experiences: two-track training, a number of in-house way-stations, a field-oriented thesis, a successful exam before the chamber of commerce, enrolment in a German BA program for business administration in tandem with the job, and most recently post-graduate work in an English-speaking degree program for a Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Economics. Why would we want to tell you Marek Grzelkas story? Because the same career is open to you!

"I would have never thought that I would take so much pleasure in my job. But PCS does a lot to make me feel this way. From the start, I got all the support I needed. Even today the company is lending a helping hand with my postgraduate degree program."

Stages of a PCS career

September 2002:
  • Begin of training as industrial commercial specialist with Fahrzeugausrüstung Berlin GmbH
Personal reasons:
  • The company's experience from more than 150 years in the business
  • Security of collective agreement due to the company's membership in an employers' association
  • Long-term security through market leadership in the area of railway technology
  • Prestige and recognition through the company's international orientation

Two-track training as industrial commercial specialist:

  • Theoretical training at the OSZ vocational training centre for the industry and data processing in Berlin Block release instruction (in sets of 8 weeks) 
  • Hand-on experience in the plant 
  • Training stages:
  • Incoming goods/warehouse
  • Planning
  • Purchasing
  • Sales
  • QA/processes
  • Production
  • Human resources
  • Accounting
  • Controlling
  • Planning 
  • Writing a field-oriented thesis titled: 
  • "Description, analysis and evaluation of the process flow in the ‘Production Control' organisational unit with the objective to develop working instructions for the order posting in this area." 
February 2005:
  • Successful examination before the chamber of commerce after 2.5 years (graduating six months early) 
  • Job contract as production logistics clerk - production planning (initially a temporary, later a permanent position)
  • Focal points of the job:
  • Project planning: order planning, posting of customer orders and thus generating the material demands for purchasing, material planning data management, handling the internal kick-off meetings, balancing capacity spikes
  • Operative capacity planning: Planning the short-term and medium-term utilisation as well as the need for temporary staff
  • Strategic capacity planning: Planning the long-term utilisation as well as the need for permanent and temporary staff
  • Budget planning: Planning the future utilisation as well as the need for permanent and temporary staff
  • Project controlling: Monitoring the production progress, the man-hour needs, and the project productivity
  • Operative reporting: Identifying and monitoring lead times, production backlogs, excess consumption, CATS time-sheets, and productivity 
Parallel to the regular workload:
  • March 2006: begin of a BA degree program in business administration at Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie Berlin in tandem with the job 
  • February 2009: successful graduation (grade average: A-) 
  • March 2009: Begin of a post-graduate program for Bachelor of Business administration in English, including the financial, technical and time-wise support by PCS.
Since January 2008:
  • Planning ownership within the PCS production department