How to Apply to Erbud

16 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 8 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • Erbud S.A. is a major Polish public general contractor (WSE: ERB), founded in 1990, headquartered in Warsaw, employing roughly 5,000 people across Poland, Germany, the UK, and Ukraine, with revenue in the PLN 2.5 to 3 billion range.
  • President of the Management Board Dariusz Grzeszczak has been with the company since its founding and is, with his family and aligned management, a major shareholder. Erbud is a founder-anchored public company.
  • The business is approximately 70 percent general contracting, 15 percent civil engineering, 10 percent power and industrial (PEC subsidiary), and 5 percent renewables (Onde S.A., separately listed on WSE as ONDE).
  • Apply through the Polish-language portal at kariera.erbud.pl. The portal is in-house but likely backed by an eRecruiter or similar Polish ATS. Include the GDPR / RODO consent clause on every CV.
  • For engineering and site-management roles, active uprawnienia budowlane in the correct specialization and scope are typically a hard prerequisite. List them prominently and explicitly.
  • Polish construction is cyclical and interest-rate-sensitive. The 2024 unlocking of EU Recovery Fund (KPO) money under the Tusk government, energy-transition demand, and long-term Ukraine reconstruction prospects are structural tailwinds; residential demand remains tied to NBP rates.
  • Site-based roles involve real travel, real site deployment, and real cyclical exposure. Office-based and headquarters roles in Warsaw and the regional offices are more conventional but still operate inside a project-driven culture.
  • Interview style is direct, technical, and Polish-business-formal. Bring specific past-project numbers, specific Polish norm references, and a specific salary expectation. Do not negotiate remote arrangements for inherently site-based roles.

About Erbud

Erbud S.A. is one of Poland's largest publicly listed general contractors, headquartered at ul. Domaniewska 32 in the Mokotów business district of Warsaw, with its registered office historically tied to Toruń. The company trades on the Warsaw Stock Exchange under the ticker ERB and has been a constituent of the small- and mid-cap Polish construction universe since its IPO in 2007. Erbud was founded in 1990, in the immediate aftermath of Poland's transition from a centrally planned economy to a market system, by a group that included Dariusz Grzeszczak, who today serves as President of the Management Board (Prezes Zarządu) and remains, with his family, one of the largest shareholders. The Grzeszczak family and aligned management collectively hold a significant blocking stake, which makes Erbud a founder-anchored public company rather than a pure free-float institutional name. The group employs roughly 5,000 people across Poland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Ukraine, and reports annual consolidated revenue in the range of PLN 2.5 to 3 billion, depending on the project mix and the cycle. The business is organized around four reporting segments. General contracting, which generates roughly 70 percent of revenue, covers commercial buildings, residential apartment projects for major Polish developers, public infrastructure such as schools and hospitals, and industrial sites. Civil engineering, around 15 percent, covers roads, bridges, and water and sewage works for Polish state clients. Power and industrial, approximately 10 percent, is anchored by the PEC subsidiary, which performs power-plant maintenance, turbine overhauls, and modernization work for Polish utilities. Renewables, the smallest reporting segment at roughly 5 percent of group revenue, covers wind farm and solar PV construction, with most of the volume routed through Onde S.A., a separately listed Erbud-controlled engineering, procurement, and construction company that trades on the Warsaw Stock Exchange under the ticker ONDE and serves the Polish onshore wind and PV markets. Other consolidated subsidiaries include IVT (industrial fit-out work), Erbud Industrial, and Mod21, the group's modular construction unit operating from a factory in Ostaszewo. Reference projects across the group's history include several flagships in the Warsaw skyline and broader Polish development pipeline: shell-and-core and fit-out work on Warsaw Spire and Trinity One for Ghelamco, residential and mixed-use developments for Echo Investment, Robyg, Atal, and Murapol, hospitals and public buildings for municipal and central-government clients, and a continuous flow of wind farm engineering, procurement, and construction packages in Poland and Germany. The German subsidiary, Erbud Bauholding GmbH, operates from Frankfurt am Main and gives the group a direct construction footprint in the larger and more disciplined German market, which historically has provided counter-cyclical balance when Polish residential demand softens. The operating context in 2024 and 2025 matters enormously to anyone thinking about a career here. Polish construction is cyclical and sensitive to interest rates set by Narodowy Bank Polski, which held the reference rate at 5 to 6 percent through most of 2024 before beginning a measured easing path. The residential market that supplies a meaningful share of Erbud's general contracting backlog softened sharply in 2023, recovered through 2024 and into 2025, and remains highly sensitive to mortgage availability and government housing programs. On the tailwind side, the unlocking of European Union Recovery and Resilience Fund (KPO) money under the Tusk government in 2024 has set up a multi-year wave of public infrastructure spending, which favors Polish general contractors with track records on EU-co-financed projects. The energy transition, including Poland's Baltic offshore wind program and continued onshore wind and solar build-out, supports both PEC and Onde. The reconstruction of Ukraine, while still subject to enormous uncertainty about timing and financing, is a long-term opportunity for which Polish contractors are geographically and politically well positioned. ERB's share price reflected these crosscurrents in 2024 and 2025, recovering meaningfully from its 2022 to 2023 trough as the EU funds and reconstruction narratives took hold. If you are a construction professional considering Erbud, the honest framing is this: it is a serious, established, founder-led contractor with real scale, real public-market discipline, and real exposure to one of the most attractive structural stories in European construction. It is also a Polish general contractor, which means project-based site deployment, travel, weather, schedule pressure, subcontractor coordination, and the cyclical reality of a sector that lives and dies by interest rates and public spending cycles. It is not a tech company and it is not a sedentary office job.

Application Process

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    Apply through the official corporate careers portal at kariera

    Apply through the official corporate careers portal at kariera.erbud.pl, which is the in-house Polish-language ATS that consolidates open positions across the parent company and most subsidiaries. Roles for Onde S.A. are typically posted on Onde's own site, and roles for the German operations may also appear on Erbud Bauholding GmbH's regional channels and on German job boards such as StepStone or Indeed.de.

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    Read the job listing in Polish even if you are stronger in English

    Read the job listing in Polish even if you are stronger in English. The portal is Polish-first, the role titles use Polish construction-industry conventions (Inżynier Budowy, Kierownik Budowy, Kierownik Kontraktu, Kosztorysant, Geodeta, Majster Budowy, Specjalista BHP, BIM Coordinator), and the listing will tell you which site or region the role is attached to. Many roles are tied to a specific construction project rather than a Warsaw office.

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    Tailor a Polish-language CV to the specific role and use the European Curriculum

    Tailor a Polish-language CV to the specific role and use the European Curriculum Vitae conventions that Polish employers expect. Include the GDPR consent clause for processing personal data (klauzula RODO) at the bottom of the document. Without that clause, many Polish ATS workflows will refuse to process your application.

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    For engineering and management roles on the construction side, list your uprawni

    For engineering and management roles on the construction side, list your uprawnienia budowlane (Polish construction licenses) explicitly with the issuing chamber (Okręgowa Izba Inżynierów Budownictwa), the specialization (konstrukcyjno-budowlana, instalacyjna, drogowa, mostowa, etc.), and the scope (do kierowania robotami / do projektowania, bez ograniczeń / w ograniczonym zakresie). For senior site management roles, uprawnienia bez ograniczeń are typically a hard requirement.

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    Submit through the portal rather than emailing recruiters directly

    Submit through the portal rather than emailing recruiters directly. Erbud's HR team filters first through the ATS pipeline and side-channel applications generally do not move faster. If you have a relevant referral inside the company, ask the referrer to upload your CV through the internal referral channel.

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    Expect the first contact from HR to come within one to three weeks for active pr

    Expect the first contact from HR to come within one to three weeks for active project roles and longer for headquarters or specialist positions. The first stage is typically a phone or video screen with an HR business partner, conducted in Polish, lasting 20 to 40 minutes, focused on your motivation, current notice period, salary expectations, and willingness to be deployed to the relevant site location.

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    Prepare for a technical interview with the hiring manager, usually a Kierownik K

    Prepare for a technical interview with the hiring manager, usually a Kierownik Kontraktu, Dyrektor Kontraktu, or regional director. For site engineering roles this will cover specific construction techniques, your familiarity with Polish norms (PN-EN), your experience reading and producing executive drawings, your software stack (AutoCAD, Revit, Norma PRO or Zuzia for kosztorysanci, MS Project or Primavera for planners), and concrete examples from your past projects.

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    For management-level roles or positions tied to a strategic project, expect a th

    For management-level roles or positions tied to a strategic project, expect a third round with a board member or a senior executive, often Dariusz Grzeszczak himself for the most senior hires, or a Member of the Management Board for division-level roles. These conversations are direct, business-focused, and probe both technical credibility and your ability to manage subcontractors, clients, and budgets under pressure.

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    Be ready for a site visit as part of the interview process for site-based roles

    Be ready for a site visit as part of the interview process for site-based roles. Many candidates are invited to walk the relevant construction site with the proposed line manager. Wear appropriate footwear, bring a hard hat if you have your own, and treat it as both a technical assessment and a chance to evaluate whether the working conditions match your expectations.

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    Once an offer is extended, read the contract type carefully

    Once an offer is extended, read the contract type carefully. Polish construction commonly uses umowa o pracę (employment contract) for permanent staff, umowa zlecenie or B2B (business-to-business) contracts for specialists and project-based hires, and project-tied fixed-term contracts for site teams. Each has different tax, social security, and notice-period implications. Negotiate base salary, project bonus structure, company car or fuel allowance, accommodation if the site is far from home, and the per diem (dieta) for site travel.

Resume Tips for Erbud

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Lead with your uprawnienia budowlane status and number, the issuing izba, the sp

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Quantify project experience in Polish construction terms: contract value in PLN

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List the specific technical scope you have hands-on experience with: konstrukcje

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For Kierownik Budowy and Kierownik Kontraktu candidates, name the major Polish d

For Kierownik Budowy and Kierownik Kontraktu candidates, name the major Polish developers and public clients you have delivered for: Echo Investment, Atal, Robyg, Murapol, Ghelamco, Skanska Property, Dom Development, Marvipol, Polski Holding Nieruchomości, GDDKiA, PKP PLK, regional hospitals, and so on. Client recognition is currency in this sector.

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Include software fluency with versions where relevant: AutoCAD (specify 2D/3D),

Include software fluency with versions where relevant: AutoCAD (specify 2D/3D), Revit and BIM 360 with proficiency level (a BIM Coordinator role expects working knowledge of clash detection in Navisworks), MS Project or Primavera P6 for planners, Norma PRO or Zuzia or Bimestimate for kosztorysanci, Bluebeam Revu, and SAP or Symfonia or Comarch ERP for cost engineers who interface with finance.

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If you are applying for a role at the German operations or for a position with s

If you are applying for a role at the German operations or for a position with significant German client interaction, list your German language proficiency with CEFR level (A2/B1/B2/C1) honestly. Working German (B2 or stronger) is effectively mandatory for roles based in Frankfurt or on German construction sites where the day-to-day language is German.

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For roles at PEC, Onde, or the renewables business, foreground specific experien

For roles at PEC, Onde, or the renewables business, foreground specific experience: power-plant maintenance windows, turbine overhauls (model and OEM if you can disclose), wind farm balance-of-plant installation, PV string and inverter commissioning, grid interconnection scope, and any work on Polish offshore wind tender packages. Renewable energy construction has its own taxonomy and credentials.

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Include your safety credentials: szkolenie BHP (occupational health and safety)

Include your safety credentials: szkolenie BHP (occupational health and safety) currency, Książka Operatora for plant operators, Świadectwo Kwalifikacyjne SEP grupa G1/G2/G3 for electricians and energy-sector technicians, height-work training, and any project-specific certifications. Erbud's safety culture is taken seriously and missing or expired credentials will block deployment.

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Add the GDPR consent clause (klauzula RODO) at the bottom of every CV submitted

Add the GDPR consent clause (klauzula RODO) at the bottom of every CV submitted in Poland: 'Wyrażam zgodę na przetwarzanie moich danych osobowych przez Erbud S.A. dla potrzeb niezbędnych do realizacji procesu rekrutacji zgodnie z Rozporządzeniem Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady (UE) 2016/679...' Without it, the in-house ATS pipeline cannot legally process your application.

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Keep the CV to two pages maximum, single column, sans-serif font, no photo unles

Keep the CV to two pages maximum, single column, sans-serif font, no photo unless you are an executive candidate where it is conventional. Polish recruiter conventions tolerate photos more than U.S. ones do, but for ATS parsing purposes a clean, photoless CV is safer.

ATS System: Custom in-house portal at kariera.erbud.pl (likely eRecruiter integration)

Erbud operates a Polish-language in-house careers portal at kariera.erbud.pl that serves as the primary application channel for the parent company and most subsidiaries. The interface is Polish-first, with role listings, application forms, and candidate communication conducted in Polish. The portal almost certainly uses an embedded eRecruiter or similar Polish HRtech ATS underneath the corporate skin; eRecruiter is the dominant ATS vendor in the Polish market and is the most common backend for in-house construction-industry portals. Candidates should expect a standard Polish-style application flow: account creation, CV upload, role-specific motivation field, GDPR consent capture, and an automated confirmation email. The system does not perform the kind of aggressive AI-driven keyword scoring that some U.S. enterprise ATS platforms apply; instead, recruiters review applications manually with structured filters on uprawnienia budowlane status, location preferences, language skills, and notice period. The tradeoff is that Polish ATS pipelines tolerate well-structured human-readable CVs better than aggressive-keyword-stuffing CVs, but the volume of applications for desirable site-management roles can still be high enough that an unparseable CV gets passed over. For roles at Onde S.A., the application flow may be routed to onde.pl or to a separate Onde careers portal. For roles at the German operations, additional channels include Stepstone.de, Indeed.de, and direct outreach through LinkedIn for senior positions.

  • Use a single-column, sans-serif (Arial, Calibri, Open Sans), photo-optional Polish-language CV in PDF format. Avoid tables, text boxes, and multi-column layouts that break parsers in any ATS.
  • Include the full GDPR / RODO consent clause at the bottom of the CV. Without it the in-house pipeline cannot legally store or process your application beyond the first screen.
  • Mirror the role title and key technical phrasing from the job posting exactly: if the listing says 'Kierownik Budowy', use 'Kierownik Budowy' in your headline rather than translating to 'Site Manager'.
  • Complete every field in the application form including notice period (okres wypowiedzenia), salary expectations (oczekiwania finansowe), and willingness to relocate or work on a specific site. Recruiters filter on these structured fields, not on resume text.
  • Apply to a maximum of two or three roles that genuinely fit your uprawnienia and experience. Mass applications across unrelated specializations are visible to recruiters and signal low credibility.
  • Attach scans or photos of your uprawnienia budowlane and key certifications if the form allows it. Recruiters appreciate not having to ask, and it speeds the verification step before an offer.
  • Follow up through LinkedIn rather than email if you have not heard back after three weeks; many Polish construction recruiters are more responsive on LinkedIn than to inbox cold emails.

Interview Culture

Interviewing at Erbud is direct, technically grounded, and shaped by the operational reality of the Polish construction sector.

The company is founder-controlled and Dariusz Grzeszczak's long tenure as President of the Management Board, dating back to the company's founding in 1990, sets a tone that rewards substance over polish. Expect interviewers to test what you actually know about constructing buildings, managing subcontractors, holding a schedule, and protecting margin in a sector where margins are routinely squeezed by material price volatility, labor scarcity, and client renegotiations. Vague answers about 'leadership' or 'stakeholder management' will not land; specific stories about claims you settled, schedules you recovered, and crews you redirected will. The interview process scales with the seniority of the role. For site engineers and specialists, two rounds are typical: an HR screen in Polish followed by a technical interview with the future Kierownik Kontraktu or regional manager. For Kierownik Budowy and Kierownik Kontraktu hires, expect three rounds that include a technical deep-dive, a discussion of the specific upcoming project the role is attached to, and frequently a site visit. For senior management, divisional director, and corporate-headquarters roles, the final round usually involves a Member of the Management Board, and for the most strategic hires the final conversation is with Dariusz Grzeszczak himself. Technical interviews probe specifics. For a Kierownik Budowy candidate, expect questions on Polish norms (PN-EN), on Prawo Budowlane and the obligations of the kierownik budowy under that act, on dziennik budowy maintenance, on the differences between odbiór częściowy and odbiór końcowy, on how you manage gwarancja (warranty) periods after handover, and on how you have handled specific situations such as adverse weather delays, subcontractor failures, or design-error claims. For a kosztorysant, expect a working knowledge of Norma PRO or Zuzia, the KNR catalogues, and the methodology of przedmiar and obmiar. For a planner, expect Primavera or MS Project examples and a discussion of critical-path management on a specific past project. Behaviorally, Erbud is a Polish company and Polish workplace conventions apply. Show up on time, dress business-formal for headquarters interviews and clean smart-casual for site-based interviews. Address senior interviewers as 'Pan' or 'Pani' with the polite vous form (Pan Dariuszu, Panie Prezesie) rather than first names unless explicitly invited to switch. Maintain firm eye contact, give direct answers, and do not over-qualify your statements. Polish business culture, particularly in construction and heavy industry, rewards confident, fact-based, no-nonsense communication. Be candid about the tradeoffs you are accepting. Site-based roles in Polish general contracting involve travel, often weekly travel away from home if the site is in a different region, and long hours during critical phases of the build. Erbud's interviewers will tell you this directly, and they expect you to confirm directly that you understand and accept it. Candidates who try to negotiate hybrid or remote arrangements for inherently site-based roles will not advance. For office-based roles in Warsaw HQ, regional offices, or specialist functions, expectations are different and more conventional. Salary discussions in Poland are typically explicit: be prepared to give a specific monthly gross figure (brutto) for umowa o pracę roles, or a daily or monthly rate for B2B contracts, and to discuss bonus structure tied to project margin and on-time delivery. Do not arrive without a number. The company will not respect a candidate who asks 'what is your range' rather than naming their own.

What Erbud Looks For

  • Active, current uprawnienia budowlane appropriate to the role, with the correct specialization and scope, issued by an Okręgowa Izba Inżynierów Budownictwa. For senior site management this is non-negotiable; without it the role legally cannot be performed in Poland.
  • Concrete project experience with named contracts, named clients, and quantified scope (PLN or EUR contract value, square meters, schedule duration). Generic 'construction management' framing is dismissed quickly.
  • Willingness to be deployed to a specific construction site for the duration of the project, including travel away from home base when the project is in another region or country.
  • Polish language fluency for any role based in Poland; working German (B2 or stronger) for Frankfurt-based and German-site roles; English for international project interfaces and investor-facing positions.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage subcontractors, including writing and enforcing subcontracts, controlling quality and safety on a site staffed mostly by external crews, and resolving disputes without losing schedule.
  • Cost discipline and a clear understanding of where general contracting margin actually comes from: scope discipline, change order management, subcontractor pricing, material procurement, schedule adherence, and claims defense.
  • Safety mindset and current BHP credentials. Erbud, like every serious Polish general contractor, treats safety performance as a hard metric and a candidate's history of safety incidents will surface in reference checks.
  • Direct, no-nonsense communication style. Polish construction culture and Erbud's founder-led tone reward candidates who say what they mean, push back with facts when they disagree, and own results without hedging.
  • Track record of working under cyclical conditions. Candidates who have only operated in boom markets, never managing through a downturn, are viewed with caution at a company that has lived through multiple Polish construction cycles since 1990.
  • Cultural compatibility with a long-tenured founder-led shareholder group. Erbud is not a private-equity-owned company chasing a five-year exit; it is a multi-decade public company controlled by the people who built it, and candidates who appreciate that long-horizon perspective fit better than those looking for a fast-flip story.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Erbud S.A. a good company to work for?
Erbud is a serious, established, publicly listed Polish general contractor with real scale, real long-term shareholder stability, and real exposure to attractive structural themes including EU Recovery Fund infrastructure spending and the European energy transition. For construction professionals who want to work on large, named projects under a founder-led organization with a multi-decade track record, it is one of the better choices in Poland. It is not a software company, it is not a sedentary office job, and the day-to-day reality of site-based roles includes travel, schedule pressure, and the cyclicality of Polish construction. There are no guarantees, and the right answer depends heavily on which role and which subsidiary you are joining.
What is the official careers portal for Erbud?
The primary application channel is kariera.erbud.pl, the Polish-language in-house careers portal that aggregates open roles for Erbud S.A. and most subsidiaries. Roles for Onde S.A. (WSE: ONDE) are typically posted on Onde's own channels. Roles for the German operations may also appear through Erbud Bauholding GmbH and on German job boards including StepStone and Indeed.de. Senior positions are sometimes routed through LinkedIn or executive search firms.
Do I need to speak Polish to work at Erbud?
For any role based in Poland, working fluency in Polish is effectively required because the day-to-day operating language on sites, in offices, in client meetings, and in regulatory documentation is Polish. For roles based at the German operations in Frankfurt am Main or on German construction sites, working German (B2 or stronger) is the operating requirement. English is necessary for international project interfaces, investor relations, and certain headquarters specialist functions but is not a substitute for Polish on Polish operations.
What are uprawnienia budowlane and why does Erbud care about them?
Uprawnienia budowlane are Polish state-issued construction qualifications, granted by the Okręgowa Izba Inżynierów Budownictwa (Regional Chamber of Construction Engineers), that legally authorize a specific person to perform certain construction-industry roles. They come in different specializations (konstrukcyjno-budowlana, instalacyjna, drogowa, mostowa, etc.) and different scopes (do projektowania / do kierowania robotami; bez ograniczeń / w ograniczonym zakresie). Senior site-management roles such as Kierownik Budowy legally cannot be performed without the correct uprawnienia, so Erbud and every other Polish general contractor screens for them aggressively. List them explicitly on your CV with the issuing chamber and number.
What is the difference between Erbud and Onde S.A.?
Erbud S.A. (WSE: ERB) is the parent holding company and primary general contractor. Onde S.A. (WSE: ONDE) is a separately listed Erbud-controlled subsidiary that focuses on engineering, procurement, and construction services for the Polish renewable energy sector, particularly onshore wind farms and solar PV. Both companies trade on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and have their own management teams, careers portals, and project pipelines. If your interest is renewables and energy infrastructure, Onde is often the more direct fit; if your interest is general contracting on commercial, residential, or public buildings, Erbud is the entry point.
Does Erbud hire foreigners and people from outside Poland?
The group employs people in Poland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Ukraine, and does hire non-Polish nationals, particularly for roles tied to the German operations or for international project interfaces. For a role based in Poland, however, the practical bar is working fluency in Polish, the legal right to work in Poland, and (for engineering and site-management roles) recognition or acquisition of equivalent Polish construction qualifications. Foreign engineering credentials are not automatically equivalent to Polish uprawnienia budowlane and the recognition path is non-trivial. Sponsorship of work permits is most realistic for senior or specialist roles where local supply is limited.
What should I expect for compensation at Erbud?
Compensation varies materially by role, location, and contract type. Polish construction salaries are typically denominated in PLN, with site-based engineering and management roles offering base salary plus project bonus tied to margin and on-time delivery, often a company car or fuel allowance, and a per diem (dieta) for site travel away from home. B2B contracts (umowa B2B) for specialists frequently carry higher headline rates than equivalent umowa o pracę employment contracts but shift social-security and tax responsibility to the contractor. Roles at the German operations are paid in EUR and follow German market norms. The company will expect you to name a specific number; do not arrive without one.
How does the EU Recovery Fund (KPO) affect Erbud's hiring?
The unlocking of Poland's National Recovery Plan (Krajowy Plan Odbudowy / KPO) money under the Tusk government in 2024 set up a multi-year wave of EU-co-financed public infrastructure spending in Poland, including roads, rail, water and sewage works, energy infrastructure, and public buildings. Polish general contractors with track records on EU-co-financed projects are structurally well positioned to win this work. For Erbud, this typically means expanded hiring in civil engineering, project management, planning, and cost engineering roles tied to specific KPO-funded contracts as those contracts are awarded. The actual pace of hiring depends on the actual pace of contract awards, which is subject to the usual political and procedural friction.
Is Erbud unionized?
Polish construction has historically had low unionization compared to other heavy-industry sectors such as automotive or mining. Erbud, like most Polish general contractors, does have some organized labor representation in specific subsidiaries and at specific sites, and as an employer with operations in multiple EU countries it is subject to the relevant European Works Council frameworks. The day-to-day reality for most engineers, managers, and specialists is non-unionized professional employment under either umowa o pracę or B2B contracts; for blue-collar trades the picture varies by site and by subcontractor.
What is the long-term opportunity in Ukraine reconstruction and how realistic is it for Erbud?
The reconstruction of Ukraine is widely cited as a structural multi-decade opportunity for European construction companies, with Polish contractors particularly well positioned by geography, language proximity, EU integration, and existing logistical infrastructure. Erbud has discussed Ukraine in its corporate communications and the group reports operations in Ukraine. Realistically, large-scale reconstruction work depends on the trajectory of the war, the financing architecture (EU funds, World Bank, bilateral donors, Ukrainian state budget), and the security situation on the ground, none of which are predictable on any specific timeline. For job seekers, treat Ukraine reconstruction as a potential long-term tailwind rather than as a near-term hiring engine. There are no guarantees about pace or scale.
What are the major competitors of Erbud in the Polish market?
In Polish general contracting the largest competitor is Budimex S.A. (WSE: BDX), the biggest Polish construction company by revenue. Other significant competitors include Mota-Engil Central Europe (Portuguese parent), Skanska Polska (Swedish parent), Strabag SE (Austrian, with major Polish presence), Polimex Mostostal, Trakcja (rail-focused), Mirbud, Mostostal Warszawa, and Korporacja Budowlana Doraco. In the German market where Erbud Bauholding GmbH operates, the competitive set includes Hochtief (ACS group), STRABAG, Bilfinger, Bauer, and Goldbeck. In wind and solar EPC where Onde S.A. competes, the field includes GP Energia, Dimark, and Drogomex among Polish specialists, plus larger international EPC contractors on offshore wind packages. For job seekers, applying to multiple companies in this competitive set is normal practice.
How long does the hiring process typically take at Erbud?
For active project-tied site roles where the hiring need is urgent, the process can move from application to offer in three to six weeks, particularly for engineering and specialist positions. For headquarters, specialist, or senior management roles the process is longer, typically six to twelve weeks, reflecting the need for multiple rounds and board-level approval for senior hires. Notice periods in Poland are statutorily defined (typically two weeks to three months depending on tenure and contract type), so plan your start date conversation accordingly. There is no published service-level commitment and timing varies materially by role and by subsidiary.

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Sources

  1. Erbud S.A. — Official corporate website —
  2. Erbud S.A. — Careers portal (kariera.erbud.pl) —
  3. Erbud S.A. — Investor Relations and annual reports —
  4. Warsaw Stock Exchange — Erbud S.A. (ERB) listing page —
  5. Onde S.A. — Official corporate website (WSE: ONDE) —
  6. Polska Izba Inżynierów Budownictwa — uprawnienia budowlane reference —
  7. Krajowy Plan Odbudowy (KPO) — Polish government Recovery and Resilience Plan portal —
  8. Narodowy Bank Polski — reference rate and monetary policy decisions —
  9. Prawo Budowlane (Polish Construction Act) — Internetowy System Aktów Prawnych —
  10. Erbud S.A. — LinkedIn company page —
  11. Budimex S.A. — competitor reference (WSE: BDX) —
  12. Polski Związek Pracodawców Budownictwa — Polish Construction Employers Association —