Message from the President October.2019

In April 2017, the Meitec Group adopted a nominal designation that conveys the essence of the Group, “Engineering Firm at The Core.” We put the following two meanings in “The Core.”

“The Core” implies:
1. The Core in how we see ourselves means that we are a group of companies that produces “important and indispensable” value for the technological innovation of manufacturers.
2. The Core in how we see ourselves also means that we are a group of companies that is able to offer an “important and indispensable” way of working, as engineers who consider their profession as the core of society.

In the latest issue of SYORYU, the company newsletter for our employees, published in October 2019, we featured the second meaning contained in “The Core,” that is, “being an entity able to provide an important and indispensable way of working for engineers in the world to continue working with their career as a key axis.” We will introduce how our employees perceive the “way of working centered on their career,” which the Company is pursuing and what value our way of working can create in the global labor market. In other words, it will introduce the facts of Meitec’s way of working from various perspectives.

People who appear in SYORYU include the following: a lifelong professional engineer who was able to engage in development related to aircraft, which he had been longing for since childhood, and realized this dream during his employment extension after mandatory retirement age, a female engineer who has chosen a way of working to keep shining in a career she loves without losing her curiosity as an engineer while raising her four children, and an engineer who has finally arrived at a satisfying way of life, becoming an engineer after working as a sales person at a manufacturer and subsequent career twists and turns. I would say that a feature of Meitec’s way of working is that if there are 7,000 engineers, there are 7,000 ways of life as an engineer. Challenges and growth are inevitably repeated to realize these ways of life, and there are also employees who support them. We will also introduce the thoughts of those who support them in their business divisions, recruiting divisions and educational divisions.

So what value does Meitec’s way of working create from the perspective of the labor market in the world? In the latest issue, I spoke with Hisashi Yamada, Director of Research of the Japan Research Institute, Limited and a well-known specialist in labor economics, about the current situation and challenges of the labor market in Japan and Meitec’s way of working. The most impressive and memorable thing from the talk was that “Meitec’s way of working is a futuristic way of working consistent with the flow of the times, and it is an interesting entity from the point of view of the labor market.” While it is a way of working we have been pursuing since our founding 45 years ago, it may rather be a new way of working for the labor market in Japan.

I would like all employees to read the company newsletter published in October to learn of the gap between us and the world. And then, please aim to be a lifelong professional engineer with confidence and pride in being a member of a company where you are able to realize a way of working centered on your career.