Groupe SNEF has a low carbon footprint. As it does not manufacture on its own premises and does not use any energy beyond its service sites or its logistical means, Groupe SNEF is engaged in a virtuous ecological cycle. Groupe SNEF is nonetheless an important player in sustainable development, both for its own actions, to minimize its climate footprint, and for its customers and partners, as adviser and specifier.

Groupe SNEF also encourages initiatives in favor of the environment and of sustainable development. In 2013 and 2014, we supported Lionel Daudet's sporting feat. This renowned mountaineer made an “exact tour de France” without motorized means, following as closely as possible the land and the coastal borders. A 15-month journey to take up a physical challenge, explore and tell the story of what makes France. In 2016, Isabelle Autissier joined him for the Big Walls Big Seas expedition, a sports, environmental and scientific challenge with our support and our partnership.

Resolutely committed to a sustainable development policy, Groupe SNEF implements global solutions that are environmentally friendly, and have the capacity to optimize its customers' energy expenditures through eco-friendly devices.

This commitment is achieved through numerous initiatives, ranging from waste processing training to setting up customer portals, the elaboration of an array of "energy packages" or even a campaign encouraging eco-driving. It revolves around three axes: limiting and recovering waste to turn it into resources, preventing and controlling air emissions, and reducing our customers’ environmental impacts.

In addition to its systematic approach to limit environmental impacts, Group SNEF focuses on innovative renewable energy projects. We operate on all French hydraulic dams and develop technologies in the fields of wind, solar and decarbonized energy.

We build our company keeping in mind that Human Resources represent our primary asset both at present at and for the future and we favor permanent employment, mobility and training. Each year, we establish a social audit which allows us to monitor our social commitments’ main indicators.

Deeply rooted in the territories, Groupe SNEF is based on decentralized organizational structures aiming at spurring company players, whether customers or suppliers, to work in close proximity to ensure reactivity, quality, safety and profitability. The Group is now present in about 100 cities in France and in more than 25 countries. This proximity promotes our company’s participation in local life. We favor local job catchment areas, whether in France or internationally, by promoting local hiring.

Groupe SNEF proposes a wide array of trades and activities, offering many opportunities in France as well as internationally. For all women and men of the Group, values like hard work, commitment and reactivity rhyme with responsibility, competence, teamwork, sharing of expertise and group synergy. We favor long-term employment as well as diversity and mobility to allow everyone to flourish and express their full potential, while growing in skills.

Training courses organized by SNEF University accompany employees throughout their careers within the Group:

• They facilitate their integration through training about our organization, our tools and our DNA.
• They meet regulatory requirements.
• They develop the professionalization of our employees through the acquisition and improvement of business practices.

Each year, designing a training plan entails responding to the individual needs of employees and markets for an ever better match between skills, individual development needs, business lines and corporate strategy. Training is going digital with the creation of an e-learning platform that allows our employees to develop their skills quickly and remotely. Partnerships with schools are moving.