What We Offer

As World Class Solutions Providers with ambitious growth, we are driven by our purpose to deliver end-to-end, innovative and sustainable solutions for industrial and urban advancement. Guided by our principles: Safety and Integrity as well as our four values; We Care, We Grow Together, We are Agile and We are Inclusive & Diverse - these driving forces are at the heart of our success. Our principles and values guide us, we work towards them and we expect everyone at JESA to hold and stand by these.

We Care

At JESA - We Care about each other. It is one of our top priorities to foster an open and caring environment in which everyone feels welcome and comfortable. We believe that caring for one another not only makes JESA a better place to work at, but also makes us a more successful business.

Moreover, our success is founded on the strength of our people, and as an employer of choice, we recognize that our talents are our greatest asset and key to our success - something we do not take for granted. That is why we always prioritize the development, safety, and well-being of our employees so everyone can be their “best self.”

Below are a few examples of our commitment to you and to setting the standard of excellence in being an employer of choice.

With industry leadership comes responsibility. As a socially responsible business, our care purpose extends beyond office walls or project limits. We also deeply care about the sustainability of the services we provide and the communities we work in. Our care is also extended for the respect of the environment as this is manifested not only by doing business based on standards of sustainability but also through our diligent sense of responsibility of educating our teams, clients, contractors and ecosystem partners in a pro-environmental spirit.

We Grow Together

Our exceptional talents have a passion to perform at the highest level. As skilled, motivated, and passionate individuals provide the basis for growth at JESA - supporting and encouraging them as We Grow Together is an essential part of our core strategy. This growth mindset results in the greatest impact on business outcomes, high levels of engagement, and an outstanding employee experience; serving as the catalyst behind our past and future success.

With a focus on your growth, we offer individual development opportunities and guidance to support your success at JESA; despite the fact that this growth belongs to you. According to your strength and potential, these opportunities are as unique as you and your ambitions. In a truly global environment and using best in class talent development practices, our strong performance culture, and limitless mobility possibilities, at JESA, there is no limit to where your career can take you.

We Grow Together

Our exceptional talents have a passion to perform at the highest level. As skilled, motivated, and passionate individuals provide the basis for growth at JESA - supporting and encouraging them as We Grow Together is an essential part of our core strategy. This growth mindset results in the greatest impact on business outcomes, high levels of engagement, and an outstanding employee experience; serving as the catalyst behind our past and future success.

With a focus on your growth, we offer individual development opportunities and guidance to support your success at JESA; despite the fact that this growth belongs to you. According to your strength and potential, these opportunities are as unique as you and your ambitions. In a truly global environment and using best in class talent development practices, our strong performance culture, and limitless mobility possibilities, at JESA, there is no limit to where your career can take you.

Talent development at JESA

Finally, to keep you on the cutting edge of the industry at each stage of your career, we also offer practical and interactive classroom-style training. Offering an extensive suite of training programs either delivered by our in-house academy, renown external institutions or via our e-Learning system (10) - rest assured, your growth at JESA just never stops.

Most of your development at JESA comes from the holistic approach to learning based on the 70/20/10 model; altogether designed to accelerate your growth.

From direct on-the-job experiences within your role, you can perceptively use your expertise to learn and acquire hands-on experience (70) across all types of tasks and projects. In addition to learning from job-related experiences, you can fast-track your development by getting the most out of social learning (20).

As you collaborate with experts and industry leaders on exciting projects to find technically challenging solutions to solve client business problems with value-added, you’ll get to foster developmental relationships. Through technical mentorships & interactions, shadowing, networking, or peer-to-peer coaching; our experts/mentors will be delighted to share their extensive guidance and cross-functional expertise with you can grow into a position that matches your ambition.

Finally, to keep you on the cutting edge of the industry at each stage of your career, we also offer practical and interactive classroom-style training. Offering an extensive suite of training programs either delivered by our in-house academy, renown external institutions or via our e-Learning system (10) - rest assured, your growth at JESA just never stops.

Our high-performance culture

At JESA, we cultivate and sustain a culture of high performance. This culture is maintained by a performance management system, designed to support this framework in an annual cycle that aligns business priorities in a given performance year with an employee’s individual contributions.

Placing a strong emphasis on high-performance, we expect all our people to embrace our standards of excellence and perform to the best of their abilities. To support you in doing so and part of our ongoing performance management process, you will be given regular opportunities to take part in one-to-one meetings with your manager to establish and assess your goals.

Accordingly, we recognize hard-working top performers committed to the realization of our vision and mission. These talents are typically equipped with a growth mindset, are conscious of their strengths, open to constructive feedback, and have a limitless motivation to succeed. So, does it sound like you?

JESA Institute

Using advanced training principles JESA Institute offers structured training programs to continue your professional development so you can be the best of yourself. Delivering on average 65,000 training hours on a yearly basis and just over 330,000 hours over the last few years; we want to be sure that our people benefit from training courses and qualification opportunities, giving them the skills, abilities, and knowledge, they need to drive their careers.

Designed for the development of your skills for specific disciplines or broader topics and possibly leading to specialized certifications such as Lead Auditor, NEBOSH, CISSP, and others; our training opportunities create a learning experience with direct impact and high practical relevance for you. As we are committed that our truly global workforce learns within the workplace, all our employees have full access to our learning management system. Using leading-edge cloud technology with unlimited access to a plethora of training catalogs for all your e-Learning needs; you’ll be able to sustain your training opportunities from anywhere you are based and at any time you want.

International exposure and mobility

A career at JESA offers plenty of mobility, in both career advancement and the opportunity to travel around the country, across Africa or even the world. First, we want to make sure you are on the pathway that you want to be on - that is why we offer internal mobility possibilities and movements across our diverse functions, key projects and business units. The infinite career roadmaps open to you are designed to offer you rewarding opportunities to leverage your experience and skills to reach your career ambitions.

A career at JESA offers plenty of mobility, in both career advancement and the opportunity to travel around the country, across Africa or even the world. First, we want to make sure you are on the pathway that you want to be on - that is why we offer internal mobility possibilities and movements across our diverse functions, key projects, and business units. The infinite career roadmaps open to you are designed to offer you rewarding opportunities to leverage your experience and skills to reach your career ambitions.

Offering real added value for our collaborators, your outlooks can also be extended across multiple culturally diverse career locations. Either locally, continentally or internationally and within our business ecosystem, you could be on an inspiring exchange program or foreign mission that will work towards forging your experience and skills for a successful career.

From India to East Africa or Oman passing by our Cotonou office or our Florida (USA) technologies unit, the unlimited geographic mobility opportunities available at JESA are life-changing - exposing you to challenges and insights you need for a positive, lasting impact on your career.

We are Inclusive & Diverse

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We are Inclusive & Diverse

As a global company, our commitment to inclusion and diversity is a key pillar of our culture. Backed by meaningful actions and results, we believe inclusion and diversity play a crucial role in our success.

At JESA, we foster inclusiveness that attracts, develops and retains the best talents from over 30 nationalities, creating a dynamic and diverse team of highly productive talents. As We are Inclusive and Diverse and as an equal opportunity employer, we aim to create and offer our diverse workforce an inclusive environment where everyone can have long and productive careers.

We believe our inclusion and diversity efforts cultivate unique life experiences and enhance our ability to deliver greater results. By bringing together multiple perspectives, all employees feel valued, trusted and empowered being themselves for their uniqueness of their contributions to the business.

We strongly have confidence in the fact that a diverse workforce benefits everybody, and to sustain that, every collaborator at JESA has the responsibility to participate in creating a sense of cultural inclusiveness.

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We are Agile

We innovate, drive change, and pioneer new technologies. We also take decisions quickly. We are also a lean and efficient organization based on distributed leadership. Moreover, because We are Agile, we also support close collaboration both within teams and cross-departmentally.

At JESA, we resiliently adapt to the ever-changing environment and utilize our expertise to thoroughly pursue client satisfaction and excellence in everything we do. Due to our agile structure and the fact we cultivate a startup environment inside our corporate organization, with us, you’ll constantly be challenged and engaged in your work.

You can make an impact on everything you work on the moment you step foot into a JESA office or on one of our 300 ongoing projects. When you join our team, this implies you’re a team player ready for a positive impact on the world, the environment, and the well-being of future generations. It also suggests you are thirsty to boldly undertake challenges as we set the bar high, something our employees meet and often exceed.

We are Agile

We innovate, drive change, and pioneer new technologies. We also take decisions quickly. We are also a lean and efficient organization based on distributed leadership. Moreover, because We are Agile, we also support close collaboration both within teams and cross-departmentally.

At JESA, we resiliently adapt to the ever-changing environment and utilize our expertise to thoroughly pursue client satisfaction and excellence in everything we do. Due to our agile structure and the fact we cultivate a startup environment inside our corporate organization, with us, you’ll constantly be challenged and engaged in your work.

You can make an impact on everything you work on the moment you step foot into a JESA office or on one of our 300 ongoing projects. When you join our team, this implies you’re a team player ready for a positive impact on the world, the environment, and the well-being of future generations. It also suggests you are thirsty to boldly undertake challenges as we set the bar high, something our employees meet and often exceed.

Challenging, yet rewarding careers

JESA teams deliver some of Africa’s largest and most challenging construction and engineering projects. Whether you’re a civil engineer supporting the design of a more efficient phosphate facility, a predictive maintenance inspector monitoring future asset repairs or a scheduler confirming sequencing of project activities, be sure that you’ll regularly have an interesting, challenging & meaningful experience making you better than what you were yesterday. And this, we are sure you will be proud of, as you will be able to see the result of your work, especially as it impacts others.

The problems we aim to solve are complex but need to be solved simply, with inspiration and sustainably as we are unremittingly driven in our actions by our values and principles. This implies being pushed to step outside of your comfort zone, adapt to the dynamics of various environments and take on real-life challenges which will incite you to expect more of yourself, dare to disrupt and transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.