When you’ve been coming to work every day with genuine enthusiasm for more than 20 years, you know you’re exactly where you belong. Arjen Schuts (52), Manager Sales Support, is precisely the kind of person who can honestly say: “Contiweb suits me.” And not just now, but also during the nearly two years he spent working in America on behalf of Contiweb.
He started at Contiweb straight from school, left after eleven years to try something different, spent eight years at a large international company in the meantime, and returned in 2016. Why? Because job satisfaction at Contiweb isn’t a side note; it’s woven into the way people work, collaborate, and lead.
Everything under one roof
What Arjen values most about Contiweb is that everything happens under one roof. From concept to drawing, from build to testing, and from installation to a fully operational machine at the customer’s site: it all takes place in the same building. “We design it, build it, test it, and put it in place at the customer’s location. When it works, we genuinely know we’ve pulled it off together.”
And this doesn’t just happen in the Netherlands: Contiweb supplies machines to customers all over the world. That international character adds extra dynamism and variety. No repetitive routine; every project brings a new combination of technology, customer requirements, and circumstances. As Manager Sales Support, Arjen leads a compact team of four. Small, but anything but dull. Together with that tight-knit group, he guides customers from the very first contact through to the moment the machine is up and running and the warranty kicks in.
Plenty of variety
No two days are the same: one day you’re working on a marketing campaign, the next you’re puzzling over a complex quotation or thinking through how to realise a customer’s requirements in a cramped space in Brazil, Germany, or anywhere else in the world.
Ask Arjen to describe the culture at Contiweb and he quickly lands on words like flat, open, and collaborative. No thick layers of management, no departments working against each other, just short lines of communication and plenty of contact between colleagues.
You can easily drop in on one another; everyone knows they only hold a piece of the puzzle and that you need each other to bring a project to a successful conclusion. Whether it’s Engineering, Operations, Service, Finance, or HR: everyone has their own area of expertise, but the shared goal is always clear. That atmosphere means people feel comfortable asking questions, contributing ideas, and speaking up when something could be done better. And that doesn’t just lead to better projects; it simply makes work more enjoyable. As Arjen himself puts it: “At Contiweb, I’ve always felt like I was learning more than I would at a large company. You’re thrown back on your own resources more, which makes it challenging, but that’s precisely what makes it so rewarding.”
Watch the atmospheric video of Arjen’s work below:
