Voith is a 22,000-person industrial conglomerate built around hydropower infrastructure, paper production equipment, and drive systems for rail and marine transport. The company is actively adopting tax and compliance software (Vertex, Avalara) while maintaining deep roots in legacy industrial CAD/CAM and ERP stacks (SAP, EPLAN, Solid Edge, AutoCAD), signaling a modernization effort across tax and digitalization. Engineering hiring outpaces sales 5-to-1, consistent with a product-driven business scaling manufacturing and project delivery in 14 countries.
Notable leadership hires: Director of Tax, Head of GBS, Controlling Head, Head of Controlling
Voith Group manufactures and deploys industrial systems across four primary markets: hydropower generation (turbines, pumped storage), paper production machinery, industrial drive technology, and transport applications. Founded in 1867 and headquartered in Heidenheim an der Brenz, Germany, the company operates as a privately held family business with €5.2 billion in annual sales and presence in over 60 countries. Recent activity shows active work on major infrastructure projects (Snowy 2.0 in Australia, hydro-turbine installations), M&A strategy development, and strategic transformation initiatives. Core operational challenges center on digitization of production and financial processes, material supply chain optimization, equipment downtime reduction, and compliance with evolving industrial relations regulations.
Voith uses SAP and Oracle Primavera for ERP, EPLAN and Solid Edge for engineering design, AutoCAD and ANSYS CFX for simulation, Salesforce for sales, and Grafana for monitoring. Recent adoptions include Vertex and Avalara for tax/compliance automation and Alteryx for data processing.
Voith Group is headquartered in Heidenheim an der Brenz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company has over 60 locations worldwide and actively hires in 14 countries including Germany, United States, Australia, China, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
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