Developing Onboarding Plan for the Building Management System Team

This thesis focuses on creating a new onboarding plan for the Building Management System-team in Schneider Electric Finland Oy. The need for the revisited onboarding plan comes from the need of hiring and onboarding new employees as quickly and effectively as possible. This study is based on searching and applying ideas from best practice and literature, results from the current state analysis, and co-creation of the new onboarding plan together with the key stakeholders in Building Management System-team training. All the steps are crucial to be able to get the best possible outcome, for the new plan. Before developing the proposal for the new onboarding plan for BMS-team, the study explores the current state of onboarding in the BMS team. The study revealed flaws in the current onboarding process. These flaws are connected to the way and the content that the new employee is taught the job specific actions and to the clarity of roles of those who should train the new employee in order to be fully effective as an employee. The aim of the new plan is to correct the flaws that were found in the current onboarding process. This study was important to the case company of this Thesis, Schneider Electric Finland Oy, because essentially the onboarding process determines new employees’ feelings and competences for the new job and the company. The study tells that, essentially, if the onboarding is not done right, the company will lose money and, in the worst case, a potential employee