Scania Top Team
Top Team is a global competition for professional service teams within the Scania service network. The best national teams compete in the national finals, to qualify for the regional finals. From each of the six regions, the two best teams will meet in the Top Team World Finals.
Top team news articles
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24 Apr 2023
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06 Apr 2023
Time for Top Team World Finals 2023
Scania is ramping-up in Södertälje for the world finals of the 2023 edition of Top Team – the world-wide competition celebrating workshop excellence and customer care. -
27 Oct 2022
Scania Top Team highlights workshops sustainability contribution
Scania’s global workshop network plays a key role in the company’s shift towards a sustainable transport system. One of the tools helping to raise awareness and create commitment to the company’s sustainability targets is Scania’s global competition for service technicians, Top Team. -
29 Sep 2022
How Scania Top Team became a global phenomenon
Scania Top Team has grown from a modest Sweden-only event to a global phenomenon where teams of service technicians from 70 countries compete in practical and theoretical skills. “The pandemic has strengthened the case for putting extra focus on service technicians and their importance for the transport industry,” says Project Manager Håkan Sjögren. -
22 Sep 2022
Top Team: The perfect Competition for workshops – and customers
Meet Omar, Luca, Giuseppe, Cristian and Lorenzo. Two engine mechanics, two electricians and a spare parts expert from Italy who are competing to be the best team of Scania service technicians in world. Here’s how they’re preparing for the 2022/23 Scania Top Team finals. -
21 Sep 2022
Scania Top Team: Uncovering the value of competition
It builds company culture and supports Scania’s core mission of driving the shift towards sustainable transport. It also promotes learning and is an important recruitment tool. These are just some of the reasons Scania created Top Team, a competition to celebrate the best service technicians in the company’s global workshop network. -
21 May 2018
Top Team: competition as recruitment tool
There’s a global shortage of service technicians, but Scania is actively working to address this through recruitment campaigns including Top Team and Top Team Mini competitions, imaginative concepts that highlight the value of this key profession. -
08 May 2018
The many sides of service technicians
Work as a service technician today is nothing like it was when Scania Top Team was launched in the 1980s. Developments that have taken place in the digital sphere make the computer the most important tool for the employees running Scania’s workshop in Arendal outside Gothenburg.
About top team
Top Team encourages internal collaboration and increases knowledge and motivation. This way, service personnel develop their skills by combining training and teamwork with the competition. The results benefit Scania customers by providing a more effective service. The competition is much appreciated by service personnel and helps improve the attractiveness of Scania as an employer.
A contest rooted in reality
Scania Top Team begins at the team’s workshop with theoretical challenges in two parts. The best teams advance to the national final where theoretical exercises are supplemented with practical exercises. Winners of the national finals meet at the international regional finals. From here, only 12 teams will make it to the world finals. In the end, there will be one winning team. Competition exercises require knowledge, team spirit, and discipline. The format of the competition will follow daily work patterns, the most essential objective being to satisfy the needs of the customer.
Global demand for qualified service workshop personnel
The Scania Top Team competition is a way of highlighting the importance of service personnel. It is brains, technological skills and teamwork that characterise the service personnel that Scania needs. The industry’s need for service personnel, in terms of service technicians, parts experts and service advisors, is growing. Truck, bus and engine uptime determine customer profitability. And uptime, to a large extent, lies in the hands of skilled and motivated service personnel.
The transport industry is about to undergo a technological shift. With skills and knowledge, Scania’s service personnel will guide our customers through this journey. The next Scania Top Team represents the outstanding talent and expertise of Scania’s service organisation. The best performing service team will become the world champions
The prizes
• The winning team receives 50,000 EUR
• The second-place team receives 30,000 EUR
• The third-place team receives 20,000 EUR
