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Magnesita’s Principles

MISSION

To provide integrated solutions in services, refractories and minerals that maximize our clients results in order to create profitable and long term partnerships globally.

VISION

Be the best provider of refractories solutions and industrial minerals, leveraging and developing our raw material base.

VALUES

Customer – To generate high value solutions for the customer, who is the reason for our business.

People – Excellent people, working as a team and thinking as owners, who constitute the company’s most important competitive advantage. Training people is an attribute of every manager and it must be part of day-to-day activities.

Meritocracy – Reward success, offering a means for people to develop at the speed of their talent, efforts and results.

Management and Methods – Put in practice means to achieve and overcome challenging goals with high performance, hard work, discipline, creativity and optimism.

Profit – Show tenacity in maximizing results, as the only enduring condition for the company’s existence and growth.

Ethics – Never sacrifice ethics and integrity while aiming at objectives. There must not be tolerance for any failure in this sense.

Agility and transparency – Show simplicity and promptness in implementations, being transparent and objective in communications.

Respect for Safety, Environment and Communities - We are committed to the health and safety of our employees; we act with respect to the environment and contribute to development of the communities in which we operate.

COMPETENCIES

Focus on strategy and results – To anticipate and surpass continuously Business’ targets, focusing on beating deadlines, reducing costs, increasing sales and improving Business’ profitability. To make decisions based on Company’s Strategy, Market Trends and KPIs follow up that maximize Business and Customers’ results in order to create profitable and long term partnerships.

Simplicity and flexibility – To have sense of urgency, simplicity and directness. To be open to new professional opportunities, challenges and to perform different roles as required. To expose his ideas in a clear way, considering others opinion but being persuasive.

Courage to take risks and make decisions – To face challenges with determination, taking risks and decisions aligned to Company’s Mission, Vision, Values and Ethics, even if they are unpopular, to exceed targets and learning from mistakes. To act as company owner in a straight and daring way, transforming plans into actions and to promote the process of change.

Management System Adeherence -To use and require from his team the practice of management system according to the methodology, in all stages.

Process Knowledge -To master own Business’ Process, being open to innovation and continuously looking for processes simplification and improvements, reducing time and saving resources. To understand the relation and the impact of his process on the other processes.

Leadership – To achieve team performance and commitment and pears’ partnership to attain Business’ results. To lead people, inspiring by example, acting as coach and applying meritocracy principles, identifying, developing and retaining talents.