This International Women's Day, OCI Global is highlighting the important role women play in our industry and why we believe increasing gender diversity will help us power a cleaner future sooner.
OCI's purpose is to revolutionize the energy-intensive industries that shape, feed and fuel our world. To achieve this we need a team who have diverse experiences, ways approaching problems and exploring solutions. We believe that gender diversity is a critical element of this and that bringing more women into our business will impact us positively.
But, today, the number of women working in our own industry and those we are closely aligned with, such as agriculture, heavy industry and transport, is disproportionately low. At OCI we're trying to change this.
'We're really working hard on diversifying in terms of gender. Our target is to have 25% female leadership by 2025 and I think we're already making a big step-change towards that goal in hiring very talented women. But we want more women to come into our industry and into OCI.'
Chief Legal and Human Capital Officer
We're proud to see our female leaders being recognized for their contributions, proving the value of increasing the number of women in leadership. For example, earlier this year,
Her second major driver was the company's commitment to safety and best practice. 'Management and corporate are willing to support us to work safely and to 'fix it right.'
Lauren enjoys the unique challenges of her job as a Turnaround Manager, which means she is responsible for conducting a safe and efficient turnaround - a planned period of review and repair - at her site. 'Knowing that you have a pretty big scope of work to execute and then finishing everything within schedule, I think that's pretty exhilarating.'
One of the challenges of recruiting more women like Muna, Lauren and Kaitlyn is one of pipeline - attracting young people generally and young women in particular to the industry. Which is why we invest in our relationships with schools, colleges and universities in the communities where we're based to give young people the opportunity to explore our industry and develop their skills in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects.
One example is our participation in Girlsday, an initiative by the VHTO (
Last year our participation in JINC's 'Leader of Tomorrow' we invited a young woman to get first-hand experience of industry leadership when she took the reigns for the day as Operating CEO at OCI Nitrogen Europe, in Geleen.
Meanwhile in our communities in the US we partner with local education organizations to support STEM education. Last year this included donations of
So why should talented women consider our industry and join OCI
So as people around the world #EmbraceEquity as part of International Women's Day this year, we ask everyone to consider the opportunity women and girls have to impact how we feed and fuel our world, and encourage them to bring their skills and ideas to our industry, to help power a cleaner future sooner.
Contact:
Tel: (+31) 20 723 45 00
(C) 2023 Electronic News Publishing, source