Before joining Valento last year, Indra worked and travelled around Australia for 3 years. Trained as a mechanical mechanic, Indra also gained related work experience in Australia. Due to the Corona crisis, he eventually had to come back to the Netherlands - earlier than initially planned. Upon returning to the Netherlands, he was looking for a job in engineering as a Mechanical Mechanic, which is when we got in touch with Indra and eventually Indra joined Valento as a Mechanical Mechanic. Through us, he has been working for more than a year at Facta in Nederweert, who will take over and employ him directly from next January.
When I was looking for a new job, I was soon able to get an interview with a lot of companies. Because of the shortage of technically trained personnel, I had nothing to complain about in terms of employment at the time. This at a time when the job market was not doing well because of Corona. Valento was involved as an intermediary with one of the companies I applied to at the time. Unfortunately, the vacancy I applied for had already been filled. Valento then immediately went ahead and looked for an alternative. Thanks to the extensive network of my contact Rachel Cleutjens, they were soon able to offer me an alternative. This is how FACTA came on my path and, given my work experience, the choice was quickly made. I have been working here with great pleasure for over a year now.
At FACTA I work as a service and maintenance engineer for pumps, gearboxes and electric motors, among other things. I mainly work in our workshop in Nederweert. But if there are any complaints or breakdowns with one of our machines, we go to the customer with our service van, where maintenance is carried out on site.
It is mainly the variety that I enjoy. It is nice to be able to leave the workshop every now and then and go to a customer to solve a malfunction. Just last week, for instance, I was working with a colleague from FACTA Spijkenisse on a generator that needed to be aligned. We then had to connect it to a 12-cylinder gas engine, a huge machine measuring over 8 metres. This was a huge job that required a lot of overtime. But it gave me great satisfaction to bring this job to a successful conclusion.
I have found the contact with Rachel to be pleasant. I am also very satisfied with the speed with which administrative problems are solved. For example, if something is wrong with the pay slip, it is immediately fixed with one call. Valento also kept her word. From the moment I signed, it was stated that I could be taken over by FACTA after 1 year. They have kept this promise.
You just have to be yourself and help your colleagues.
At the end of the day, you are a team and you have to do it together; the other way round, I would also enjoy getting advice from a colleague. In our profession, you have to deal with craftsmanship and practical work is in our DNA, by sharing knowledge we all ultimately become better
