Parker Hannifin Reviews

Pros

compensation and opportunity make Parker an excelent company to work for

Cons

constant change typical with a large company

Pros

Parker Hannifin offered good compensation with a great annual bonus. The medical and 401k plan and other benefits were great. Parker Hannifin is a stable, established company that generally treats its employees well. In tough times they would, if possible opt with a salary freeze of all employees in order to avoid layoffs. The company offered a lot of internal training and classes.

Cons

Like many large companies, Parker Hannfin suffers from inertia and bureaucracy problems. It is easy to feel like upper management really has no idea what is going on as large corporate goals are filtered down to nonsensical individual goals for each engineer. Some groups are isolated making career growth difficult. There is very little efforts made for lateral moves or cross functional training.

Advice to Senior Management

I would like to see more opportunities for advancement and cross-functional training.

Pros

Benefits, People. It's a job.

Cons

Low Pay, Politics, Philthy Environment, Insufficient tools to perform work duties (old pc's, copiers, printerss) Lack of knowledgable IT department, lack of trainign, incompetant people are promoted based on time served.

Advice to Senior Management

maybe some new blood or management courses are needed. To much greed and buddy systems.

Pros

The Div. I worked for was a close team.

Cons

Some of the management made changes without knowing the effects.

Pros

flex time, RONA, decent raises, good benefits, global company

Cons

NO REHIRE POLICY, poor procedure for STD to LTD transition

Advice to Senior Management

Do not be afraid to fire those that do not contribute or have a negative impact on the team

Pros

Good management
Superior returns relative to competition
Good work/life balance
Knowledgable and hard-working employees

Cons

Limited upward career growth for engineers and technical employees

Pros

Great name recognition! Everyone knows the company. It's not every division that is messed up only this one.

Cons

It's the division not Parker as a whole. Lack of competent leaders at the staff level and above. No opportunities for advancement within division, they always look outside division to promote.

Prices are way too high for the type of products that are produced here. Absolutely no new product development. Too many people looking out for themselves and not taking responsibility or initiative. There is a malaise at the division and it starts at the top. Huge bureaucracy in place hinders growth. Almost impossible to get a promotion once in place at division, pay is terrible for amount of work you do. Instead of replacing peoplevwhen they leave many tines they just give you more work. If you like working 100 hours a week for no add'l pay then this division is perfect for you.

Advice to Senior Management

division needs competent staff level management. People who are leaders, but also know the technology, markets, etc. Find people who are not so political and will hold people accountable. Give internal people empowerment and look to promote people from within, not always going outside the division and company.

Pros

1. Most plants are under 500 employees
2. Avg wage for the area
3. Can advance if person shows good work habits and initiative.

Cons

Parker Hannifin is a world wide company but unless you are salary, a person may not transfer between locations. For example, there was a location that was 7 miles away from my location but because we were not in the same division I was not able to transfer when they decided to close my location, even though I had 20+ years of experience.

Pros

Parker has facilities most everywhere and openings at most locations. Advancement opportunities are there if you are willing to work for them.

Cons

Most every year the cost of benefits to the employees gets larger and the benefits are reduced. We do not do a good job training our people.

Advice to Senior Management

Give us the training we need so when you move up or retire we can take this company to the next level.

Pros

Its great being part of a big company in some respects. They do have some benefits that are ok. The 401k is average and they do match 3%. The name Parker is good to have on a resume for future use. Its a great place to get an education in how a big company operates.

Cons

The group we reported to, Seal Group, acquired our location 3 or so years ago and had basically destroyed the company through a lack of understanding of our business and customers. This is typical of Parker and how they do acquisitions, they buy a company and then try to change it into something that it is not in an attempt to make it generate more cash. In the process they lay off people, cut their pay, close some locations, send production to mexico or china and raise prices to customers. This is the Parker "operating plan".

The bonus plan is non existent unless you are a Division Level Manager or higher in the company.

The healthcare insurance is expensive and is a typical old school (80/20) plan that attempts to not pay for claims. I thought these types of medical plans were gone long ago.

The company has very arrogant upper management that think they know everything. But they really don't know everything, they have just been at Parker so long that they don't know any better.

Metrics. Parker has set the bar for friviolous metrics, useless paperwork creation and cumbersome programs that have no benefit. They claim to be be LEAN experts but they hire many people just to manage the LEAN metrics boards and then lay off the workers. At our division they lay workers off every month and hire more and more people to just shuffle paperwork and enact all these programs that require yet more people to manage the programs. Soon there will be no workers and only managers that are managing LEAN programs. I guess with all the work being moved to china and mexico there will be no need for anyone doing any actual work.

At our factory we had only one real customer and that customer hated us after Parker bought us. I am afraid that the division I worked at will close its doors and everyone will be out of work because of the way the company is being ran. Sometimes it was like they did not know what they were doing.

Every Parker factory is poorly staffed and at the breaking point of survival and can barley service its accounts. They are obsessed with headcount reduction and running the plants with as few people as possible. This creates high turnover and low morale and customers that hate Parker.

Advice to Senior Management

Parker needs to think about its priorities and put its customers and employees first.

Profits through layoffs, moving production to mexico & china is not how to manage a company.