Culture

• Pridex is a people orientated company. Team members and their families are considered vital to the company at all times.
• Honesty and integrity are really valued here.
• We set high standards of excellence and are demanding in our quest to achieve them.
• We work in teams and emphasize collaboration in everything we do.
• No one is more important than another – we just do different jobs!

Job satisfaction

• We have a big staff complement with around 60 full time employees. This gives the opportunity to learn a variety of jobs and skills whilst in employment.
• We are small enough to know everyone’s first name. Indeed, we insist!
• Our projected growth means that staff will have ample opportunity for career growth.
• We are trying to achieve momentous things here. Our employees are continuously stretched and challenged.

Leadership and learning

• We are trying grow the best leaders here. Join us and you will work with them!
• There are lots of opportunities to learn new things here.

Location

• Our head office, showroom and factory is based in the Manawatu, with showrooms in Auckland, Wellington CBD and Upper Hutt. More locations are planned in future enabling staff to take advantage of lifestyle benefits.

Results

• We are focused on achieving our financial goals and communicate these regularly with our staff.

Human Resource Practices

Where possible we use “Best Practice” in all our dealings with staff. This is evidenced in:

• recruitment policies which ensure that only excellent, well motivated staff join our organisation.
• having a documented human resources strategy closely integrated into the business strategy and supported by effective ‘people policies’ such as employee performance and development reviews;
• measuring employee satisfaction;
• practicing good corporate social responsibility;
• providing both internal and external ongoing training and development opportunities to employees and potential employees (including rotation and job exchanges);
• improved management of diversity in the workforce;
• conducting productive employment relationships;
• competitive employment conditions;
• protecting our workforce from workplace injury;
• supporting the use of migrant talent.
• entering into apprenticeship contracts with school leavers
• encouraging staff to enter national award competitions

Staff Financial Incentives

Because we regard our staff as the most important resource in our business. We recognize they need a financial stake in the company. This takes the form of:

• A profit share for all staff, and
• The ability to purchase shares in the company after an initial period of employment.

Our “Pride”

We delight in manufacturing excellent affordable kitchens in line with our customer expectations. Please refer to the glowing references we have on our website evidencing this.

We are able to achieve this because we have “Pride in our Name, Pride in our product, Pride in our people and Pride in our partnerships”