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Grupo Empresarial Argos has more than 80 job vacancies open in Colombia and the American continent.

18 April 2023
  • Plant professionals, Warehouse workers, roles with photovoltaic knowledge, BIM professionals, Back End Developers, DEVOPS, Environmental Coordinators, are some of the most demanded positions in Grupo Argos, Cementos Argos, Celsia, Odinsa, and Summa.
  • The majority of vacancies are open in departments such as Atlántico, Valle del Cauca, Cundinamarca, and Antioquia, while Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, and Guyana are the regions outside Colombia with the highest demand for talent. People interested in joining the Grupo Empresarial Argos can check the vacancies at jobs.grupoargos.com.
  • More than 220 vacancies have been filled so far in 2023 for the companies in the Business Group.
  • Recently, Forbes and the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index highlighted the diversity and inclusion practices of the Argos Business Group, placing the organization as the most female-friendly company in the world and highlighting its performance in this area globally.

Grupo Empresarial Argos has over 80 job vacancies available for people who wish to join the team of more than 11,500 employees in 20 countries and territories in the American continent. Interested candidates can apply through the portal jobs.grupoargos.com. Positions are open for different departments in the country, mainly in Atlántico, Valle del Cauca, Cundinamarca, and Antioquia.

The most demanded positions by the organization include plant professionals, warehouse workers, roles with photovoltaic knowledge, BIM professionals, Back End Developers, DEVOPS, Environmental Coordinators, among others. For their selection, the Grupo Empresarial Argos has inclusive processes that seek to ensure bias-free recruitment and selection channels. Among other measures, the organization has implemented blind shortlists and has strengthened the presence of women in industries such as cement or energy.

This vision of diversity has enabled the company to have talent from different nationalities, genders, ages, and abilities, which adds value and reinforces the commitment and pride of its employees, contributing to the growth and sustainability of the companies. To materialize this commitment, the Grupo Empresarial Argos has made significant progress, including the creation of a Diversity and Inclusion Committee to share and align best practices in diversity and build a strategy for its strengthening within the organization. It is worth noting the composition of the Grupo Argos Board of Directors, in which 43% of its members are women, including its president. Today, 50% of the workforce of this company is composed of an equal number of men and women.

In the case of Cementos Argos, the construction materials business of Grupo Argos, the presence of women in leadership roles reaches 30%, and the hiring of 72 mixer drivers and 160 women in traditionally male-dominated positions such as maintenance officers, laboratory technicians, scale operators, among others, is also noteworthy.

On its part, Celsia, the energy company of Grupo Argos, is recognized for implementing equitable selection processes focused on people’s experience and knowledge, as well as for promoting the development and training of women in roles within the electrical industry.

As a transversal pillar of its diversity strategy, the company also carries out training processes for its employees with a consolidated investment in 2022 of 11,362 hours of training on diversity and inclusion topics, and has implemented gender equality systems certified by specialized institutions such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Equipares, and Aequales.