Work in Valencia

Hello,
yesterday I started to work at SAIDI Valencia. At first I got presented to everybody. After this the General Manager showed me the company and explained the function of the different departments.
There are five divisions:
The Warehouse, which includes two halls and is divided into projects and daily process.

The "university" is a large room for training courses and meetings.

The service-center modifies or produce few small parts. For example assembling of actuators and manufacturing of mounting kits.

Today I worked at "outsourcing", they prepare offers and documents for the purchase. For the offers it is important that the costumer gets the right product and this is the reason why you have to check the inquiry. For example the application about temperature and working pressure where the valve will be installed. You read a lot of lists before you have the experience to know.

About export/ import I will tell in my next blog, because I will work there tomorrow.

I have to thank the team of Valencia too, for supporting me and beeing so friendly.

Saludos
Nils

The surprise

Hello,
my last day with Julián was to link article numbers in the software system to the explanations about the parts. This helps all employees in sales department. We also made an announcement in the company about a new colleague. This is something other company's should also think about.

Thursday I got a first overview about product division. All three product managers explained their main focus and daily business to me although they had not much time. A special thanks for that.
Later I had the pleasure to help a young lady in writing an offer to a customer. This must be done in English, but she can only speak Spanish, so we worked perfectly together. We solved this issue great!

To resume, I got a lot of training at SAIDI Madrid. Now it is up to me to help the company with that little knowledge and therefore they had the idea to send me to Valencia. Here is a much bigger office of SAIDI with closer contact to the customers and more products. I will tell you about this experience early next week.

Friday was travel day by train and check-in in a new hotel.

Yesterday I learned much about Valencia by two bus trips one history and another mediterranean.

Today I enjoyed the nice weather at the beautiful beach.

I am looking forward to the coming impressions on Monday and would like to thank the whole team of SAIDI for this opportunity.

Saludos
Nils

Start in die 2. Woche

Hello,
on Sunday I enjoyed the sun during a city tour. You people in Germany won't believe everyone on the bus was looking for a place in the shade and at the downtown you see one footpath crowded and one empty, all are looking for the shade. It was really interesting to hear about the history of sights, which I saw before by feet.

My second week started with Mencía at the accounting department. She showed me some analyses about the sales and purchase of SAIDI.
Today I stood again with Julián at the marketing department. We translated a Spanish catalogue into English. Funny that I understood some vocabulary from both :)
Tomorrow it will be the last time to work with Julián. So I can just say "muchas gracias" for his help and everything he shows to me! Ahora Julián va a disfrutar y relajarse en sus vacaciones despues del duro entrenamiento con el chico aleman. 

I will write my next blog at the weekend from a special place ---- be surprised!!

Saludos 
Nils

First weekend

Hello,

on Thursday I got new experience in the marketing departement.

We worked on the internet page of KLINGER Mexico and SAIDI.

 My colleague explained to me how it works and we have done an update.

Friday I tried to support the sales department by handling a claim with Germany.

I helped with my German language what is still much better than English

and extremely better than Spanish. I am working on both!

Again I can only say "gracias" to the people of SAIDI for beeing so friendly.

During the weekend I will explore the city Madrid and try to survive by 35°C.

For example at the pool of my hotel.

Saludos 

Nils 

At Work

Hello,
I presented my Google-Blog to the employees and they got the absolute great idea that I can write down my experiences every day or latest every second and in english, so they can read it too.

They are really helpful try to teach me in the office and allways want to support me.

On Tuesday SAIDI the company belonging to the Klinger group handling mainly valves and sealing got a visit from a supplier of the US so I took part of a presentation. This was very interesting for me. I learned a lot about valves and their application.

Today I got first experience of the dispatch area. It was interesting what you all have to take care about when you want to send some goods to a customer in another country. Many documents have to be prepared and given to relevant offices and special taxes and dues have to be paid.

By the way here are 29° C and our friends in Madrid feel a little bit cold, they wait for summer.

Julián, Mencía, Me 

Saludos

Nils

                                                                     

Ankunft

Hallo,
endlich geht es los.
Mit einer Stunde Verspätung bin ich gestern um 17:00 Uhr in Madrid gelandet.

Mit dem Taxi ging es dann zum Hotel. Dort angekommen hatte ich nur noch die Wahl zwischen Spanisch und Englisch. Nach dem Auspacken entschied ich mich für ein typisch spanisches Restaurant und lernte die nähere Umgebung kennen. Anschließend standen die organisatorischen Dinge im Vordergrund, wie zum Beispiel der Weg zur Arbeit und das Einkaufen.

Heute war mein erster Arbeitstag bei SAIDI. Das Unternehmen gehört zur  Klinger Gruppe, welche weltweit aufgestellt ist. Dort wurden mir zunächst alle Mitarbeiter vorgestellt. Im Anschluss erzählten meine Ansprechpartner mir etwas über die Unternehmensgeschichte sowie die Produkte.

Gruß aus Madrid
Nils