People and Culture
Overview
Our Nextracker culture fosters a diverse, inclusive, and supportive work environment, enabling the well-being and growth of our employees while contributing to a sustainable future.
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Nextracker Culture
Nextracker is committed to fostering a culture consisting of diverse employees working in an open, collaborative environment that offers autonomy and flexibility, engages employees intellectually, and allows for camaraderie and team building.
Our Chief Human Resources Officer oversees our people strategy, reporting to our Board’s Compensation and People Committee on a regular basis. These updates cover progress on our strategy, including corporate culture, diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, pay, opportunity equity, social initiatives and results, and talent attraction, training, development, and retention programs and results.
Working at Nextracker
Code of Conduct
Our success is contingent on our employees. We know that if we treat employees well, Nextracker will thrive. We strive to create a positive work environment for all employees and to provide equitable, fair, and respectful working conditions across all our locations. We uphold labor laws and foster positive employee relations to make Nextracker a great place to work. We respect the rights of all workers to freely associate, join labor unions, or seek representation to ensure that local laws are respected and observed.
Our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the Code) reflects our core values and promotes honest and ethical conduct. The Code covers topics including:
- Whistleblower reporting
- Fair labor and employment practices
- Data privacy
- Conflicts of interest
- Gift and entertainment policy
- Anti-money laundering
- Responsible sales and marketing practices
Ethics and Compliance Training
All employees must complete our suite of annual ethics and compliance e-learning courses covering the following topics:
- Code of Conduct: Learn It, Work It, Prove It
- Insider Trading
- Conflicts of Interest
- Anti-Harassment and Discrimination
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Data Privacy, Confidentiality, and Information Security
We require additional training on anti-bribery and corruption for our employees in functions at higher risk of encountering these issues. California law requires all U.S. employees to complete a course on workplace violence.
At Nextracker, we recognize the rights of our workers to associate freely and believe that open communication and direct engagement between workers and management is the most effective way to resolve workplace issues. Our employees in Spain and Brazil—approximately 14 percent of our workforce are covered by local collective bargaining agreements.
Employee Engagement
At Nextracker, we create opportunities for employees to engage in leadership and provide feedback on how we are doing and how we can better meet employee needs.
Opportunities include:
Global All Hands Meetings – Our Executive Leadership Team holds this quarterly forum to provide business updates, share and celebrate successes, reinforce our culture, and provide an opportunity for employees to directly connect with leaders through question-and-answer sessions.
Employee Survey – We regularly ask our employees to weigh in on their experience at Nextracker.
Open Door Policy – We encourage employees to provide feedback and express any concerns, anytime and anywhere they arise.
In FY24, Nextracker earned Top Workplace recognition via the esteemed San Francisco Chronicle 2023 Award.
Greater Bay Area Top Workplaces Award
In 2023, the San Francisco Chronicle awarded Nextracker with a Top Workplaces distinction for the San Francisco Bay Area. The list of Top Workplaces is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a confidential third-party survey. This survey measures 15 culture drivers that are critical to the success of any organization, including alignment, execution, and connection.
Benefits
We believe in work-life balance and offer many opportunities to enrich the lives and careers of our employees. We design our total rewards packages to be competitive in the markets in which we operate, and we link total rewards to company results and employee performance. Benefits include:
Full health benefits
Retirement plans, with employer funding
Comprehensive family support programs, regardless of family structure or needs
Wellness Program
- Fitness and gym facilities for employees
- Yoga, massages, and health coaching
- Hot lunch provided weekly on Tuesdays
We are subject to and comply with certain domestic and foreign employment laws regarding wage and benefit requirements.
Employee Growth and Development
We want our people to grow with our business, and we view ongoing engagement and growth for employees as key components to our success. We help foster this growth through educational opportunities, dynamic work assignments, and leadership development. We conduct annual performance reviews for all employees to manage their career development and identify opportunities for growth. Managers facilitate career development through regular check-ins and feedback sessions with their direct reports.
Tuition Reimbursement
We encourage employees to seek professional development and education to enhance their skills. To make it easier to access job-related training and learning opportunities, we offer tuition reimbursement. The program reimburses eligible employees in the U.S., Canada, and other international locations.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
Our global workforce spans four continents, and we take pride in the cultural diversity of our organization and celebrate the differences that make our company unique. We strive to cultivate a culture that embraces global perspectives, differences of thought, and inclusivity, and that values every employee’s talent, experience, and perspective. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policy expresses our philosophy of inclusiveness toward all people. To foster an inclusive working environment around the world, we provide our employees with communications, discussion opportunities, training, and resources to enhance their awareness of DEI issues.
We created the Global Head of Talent Management and DEI role, reporting directly to our Chief Human Resources Officer, which we expect will advance our efforts.
Recruiting
As part of our DEI efforts, we are working to remove unconscious bias from the recruiting process. We post job openings to several recruiting sources, focusing on candidate pools that will enhance our diversity. We also leverage other hiring platforms, such as LinkedIn and Indeed, to extend outreach and draw candidates of all backgrounds to the solar industry.
Training
We require all employees to participate in diversity and inclusivity training as part of the onboarding process. Existing employees complete an annual refresher on this course, provided through our global learning management system.
Employee Resource Groups
As part of our diversity and inclusion activities, we have established employee-led global employee resource groups (ERGs) that actively support and drive inclusive programs and employee events.
NextrackHer ERG - Our first ERG, NextrackHer, offers mentoring, education, and leadership development for our employees. This group leads events to honor and value women’s contribution to the workplace and the world. For International Women’s Month, NextrackHer hosted a panel discussion with leaders from across our business to discuss topics such as equality, justice, and opportunity.
Pride - Our Pride ERG brings together our LGBTQ+ community and its allies, providing opportunities in each region to connect socially. The ERG also provides education and training to our broader team.
Activities
At Nextracker, we have a global employee base. We organize office-wide events to share and learn from colleagues and celebrate our international culture. Our diversity activities include:
- Black History Month
- Chinese Lunar Year
- Pride Parade
- Juneteenth
- Persian New Year
- Diwali
Industries
We strongly believe that collaboration can extend the success of the solar industry.
We are proud to work with many industry organizations to help build a more diverse, equitable solar industry:
Employee Health and Safety
One of our core values is providing a safe environment for our employees to thrive. We promote a safety culture through our Workplace Health and Safety Policy as well as an Environment Health and Safety (EHS) management system that implements a data-driven and risk-based approach to monitoring and reporting EHS performance regularly. Nextracker achieved the ISO: 45001 Occupational Health and Safety standard certification in FY24 for our U.S. and Australia operations, and we are working to expand this designation to our global operations in the future.
We offer extensive safety training ranging from basic safety onboarding for all staff to highly specialized technical safety training for certain roles, such as electrical safety or hazardous materials handling.
We aim to prevent injuries and minimize operational risks by promoting incident reporting and analysis. We developed a standardized process across the business designed to provide consistent identification, evaluation, and control of existing and potential workplace hazards. For reported incidents, we use an incident analysis process to determine the root causes of injuries, implement corrective actions, and prevent recurrences.
We maintain a series of programs to promote health and safety across our operations:
HazCom Program – Controls hazardous substances in the workplace
Heat Illness Prevention Plan - Provides updated precautions to prevent heat-related illnesses
Workplace Violence Prevention - Promotes safety among colleagues at work
Global Workplace Health and Safety Policy – Establishes the right and responsibility to stop work when an unacceptable safety risk exists
Emergency Action Plans - Documents emergency response procedures for each of our facilities
Health and Safety Goals
Less than 1.2 total recordable incident rate (TRIR) annually
90% training and competence compliance
Supplier Health and Safety
We require our strategic suppliers to certify their operations to ISO: 14001 Environmental Management System, ISO: 9000 Quality Management System, and ISO: 45001 Occupational Health and Safety standards to ensure our suppliers’ quality and EHS practices meet our expectations.
Human Rights Standards and Practices
We want to create a culture for our employees and throughout our value chain that provides everyone with a safe and respectful working environment.
The Nominating, Governance and Public Responsibility Committee of our Board of Directors oversees sustainability policies and programs and considers matters including human rights, social issues, and environmental risks and opportunities.
We do not tolerate child, forced, indentured, or bonded labor, and we maintain a minimum age requirement for employment. We join our industry as signatories to the Solar Industry Forced Labor Prevention Pledge created by SEIA.
Community Engagement
We believe that our company plays a significant role in driving an equitable, global transition to renewable energy. Nextracker is committed to being an ethical partner and enriching the communities where we live and work. We approach this engagement authentically with focus on solar power generation to support solutions. Our community engagement strategy focuses our activities in three primary areas:
Leadership - Building the next generation of clean energy leaders with skills and mentoring, among other tactics
DEI and Energy Equity - Creating environments for women and underserved communities to learn about career paths in solar
Training - Training across the entire project lifecycle to reach our global renewable energy targets
- Creating technical opportunities and providing skills training through programs such as our global PowerworXTM programs and Half the Sun educational scholarships
- Providing monetary support to organizations that will increase their impact
- Encouraging employees to engage with these programs and additional efforts locally
Contact Us
San Francisco Bay Area
6200 Paseo Padre Pkwy Fremont, CA USA
+1 (510) 270-2500
