Sener has won the Talent Awards of the social network LinkedIn, which are held simultaneously in 25 countries. Sener was the winner in Spain in the category “Best Talent Acquisition Team between 1,000 – 5,000 employees on LinkedIn”.

The awards ceremony took place on Thursday, March 9 at LinkedIn’s facilities in Madrid. On behalf of Sener, Begoña Grijalvo, Head of Recruitment in Sener’s People Management Department, was present to collect the diploma.

This award, according to LinkedIn, recognizes “teams of talent professionals who used LinkedIn Talent Solutions to collaborate together, engage with talent and nurture talent.” The award is the result of analyzing the performance, results and impact of companies using LinkedIn Talent Solutions in Spain.

The methodology of the finalist selection is based on data analysis run by LinkedIn’s Insights team. They examine each company’s utilization and engagement data on the LinkedIn platform to determine their ability to leverage LinkedIn Talent Solutions and make a significant impact within their organization.

The Talent Awards recognize “those people around the world who’ve excelled at engaging with talent and creating inclusive workspaces (…) The people focusing on employee retention without ever losing focus on learning and development.”

The presence of the Sener Group on the LinkedIn social network has followed a strategy of growth in recent years, both in its publications on the group’s corporate pages on LinkedIn (@Sener, @Sener Aerospace and @Sener Diagnostics) and in its activity on the company’s life pages, as well as the activity of the recruitment profiles and of the Sener Group’s own people active on this social network. In this regard, Begoña Grijalvo states: “LinkedIn has proven to be one of the main ways to recruit talent for us, as we are looking for very specific, highly qualified profiles with a passion for their work. The network allows us to be in contact with experts in highly specialized sectors, largely due to the very activity and qualifications of our people, the vast majority of whom are in STEM professions”.

Sener has appointed Pablo García Velasco Director of Corporate ESG of the Sener group, with functional dependence on the General Management and reporting periodically to the ESG Management Committee and the Board of Directors of the Sener group.

With his appointment, Sener goes one step further in its commitment to Sustainability, which stands as a strategic pillar that must guide the development of the company in a transversal way.

As Director of Corporate ESG, Pablo García Velasco will be tasked with implementing the priority actions identified in Sener’s Sustainability Roadmap and bringing together all the Sustainability measures and policies that are in place in the group’s businesses and subsidiaries, to provide them with uniformity. In this way, Pablo García Velasco assumes control of the processes and practices that will allow Sener to be among the companies with the best business practices, also in ESG.

Pablo García Velasco holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Autonomous University of Madrid and an Executive MBA from IESE Business School. Throughout his career, he has worked at Arthur Andersen, IBM, Accenture and PwC. Since 2014, he has been Director of Corporate Processes of the Sener group.

Sustainability, transversal in all Sener’s business areas.

The Sener Group promotes sustainability in all its processes, products and services. To this end, it has measures in place that monitor the responsible use of resources from design to construction, commissioning and commercial operation of all its engineering and technology projects. The group has signed the UN Global Compact and contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainability at Sener is closely connected to innovation and digital transformation and involves all its areas of activity.

Sener have just received approval from ITC to undertake Transportation Impact Studies (TIS) in Abu Dhabi. A TIS is an evaluation of the potential effects that a proposed development or project is expected to have on the existing surrounding transportation infrastructure and services, particularly on traffic operations the road network. The study is intended to recommend mitigation measures and to address travel demands generated by the development.

ITC has positively valued our team of transport planning professionals in Abu Dhabi and their local and international experience, together with Sener extensive experience in TIS around the world. Some good examples of Sener’s experience in this kind of study are those completed recently in Spain for the Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail corridor, those pertaining the Abu Dhabi LRT Study and those carried out in Panama for the 4th Bridge over the Panama Canal.

This approval is valid for a period of two years, and it reinforces our commitment with Abu Dhabi’s transport and infrastructure strategy, which aims to promote sustainable modes of transport and to improve access to public transport.

This qualification opens the door for Sener to participate in new mobility and transportation opportunities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and to continue growing in the region.

COMMANDS is under the umbrella of a System of Systems able to provide an intelligent and effective cooperation of the different assets, identifying the technological gaps to be covered in order to strengthen the European military operations supported by unmanned or remotely piloted vehicles, under the European independent strategy principle.

The results will not only enable to upgrade current ground vehicles of the EU inventory for specific missions, but also to be integrated in future vehicles in development.

A multidisciplinary team, led by Sener Aerospace and Defense, will cover the different aspects of the activity, incorporating 21 Consortium Partners from 10 member States that provide a multidisciplinary and complementary approach (OEMs, midcaps, specialised SMEs, renowned universities and both puplic and private research centres and laboratories to answer the needs of the European Commission and the Member States, strenghteing the European Industry and Technological Base.

The proposal is developed in the context of PESCO project iUGS, and is strongly aligned with the Ground Combat Capabilities of EU Capability Development Priorities (CDP), addressing modular, open and scalable architecture for manned and unmanned joint capabilities, developed in cooperation.

The European Commission awarded €24.8 million funding to the COMMANDS project led by Sener Aerospace and Defense, will have a total cost of €26.8 million during a three-year execution, and counts with the support of seven Ministries of Defense that as end-users have provided common requirements for the project.

The “COMMANDS” European Defence Fund 2021 project was officially launched at a Kick-Off-Meeting chaired by the European Commission DG DEFIS at Sener Aerospace and Defense Brussels office last December 2022.

By measuring the radiation emitted to space by the Earth, this mission will provide new insights into the amount of planetary radiation and how to control it. This will lead to improvements in the climate models and, thus, to further precision in climate change assessments and climate prediction.

The mechanisms supplied by Sener Aeroespacial will allow sequencing the regular calibration and scanning points of the atmosphere’s surface in an automated way. As a result, it will allow building a complete map of the surface and monitoring its evolution over time, with the aim of understanding how temperature is regulated on the surface.

Pablo Campo, Project Manager of the Forum’s mechanisms, comments that “the aim of this mission is to obtain unknown information on the behavior of the climate and global warming. It involves studying an infrared band that is not covered by any other Earth observation satellite, in order to regulate the climate. We will be able to map the heat balance of the atmosphere and see, layer by layer and component by component, how much heat the Earth receives and stores from the Sun and how much it emits back into space. ESA has made this mission urgent.”

Sener Aerospace has experience in similar mechanisms, such as the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite’s scanner. The insights obtained in this program will enable the team at Sener Aerospace to develop this system in an extremely short time, in line with the mission’s urgency.

Sener Aerospace has been a benchmark in the international space industry since 1967 and has provided equipment and systems to over 1,500 satellites and space vehicles on the Telecom market, as well as nearly 300 devices and systems to on board NASA, ESA, JAXA and Roscosmos missions, with a 100% reliability rate. Among its main programs, important ESA and NASA missions stand out, such as HRE, SEOSAT/Ingenio, CHIME, LSTM, Hubble, Rosetta, SMOS, Pléiades, Herschel&Planck, JUICE, Athena, Solar Orbiter, Proba-3, Gaia, BepiColombo, ExoMars, Curiosity, Euclid, LISA Pathfinder, MTG, FLEX, LOP Gateway, Mars2020, Earth Explorers, COPERNICUS and Galileo; in Science, with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the telescopes William Herschel, EST and ELT are particularly noteworthy; and in the commercial market, as the supplier of the main international manufacturers of communications satellites, as well as in New Space (constellations Spainsat NG, Globalstar 2G, O3B, Iridium NEXT, OneWeb, OneSat) and in launchers and vehicles like ATV, IXV, ARIANE 6, VEGA, Verta and Space Rider.