Our purpose is to partner with our customers to shape the future through continuous innovation – creating a smarter, healthier, and more sustainable world.
Practice and Consistently Model Our High Performance Behaviors
Act with Integrity Be honest and demonstrate ethical behavior in all our actions
Customer First Own the outcome to deliver on commitments made to our customers
Be Driven by Priorities Secure alignment and relentlessly focus on our priorities
Be Resilient Working Through Barriers Stay determined in overcoming challenges
Innovate for Long‑Term Success Continuously pursue new ideas and solutions to drive value
Boldly Collaborate Challenge each other respectfully to improve outcomes
Act Selflessly Prioritize the customer, company, team and community over personal interest
Celebrate Our Wins Recognize achievements as a team
Never Stop Learning Commit to development to unleash your full potential
Value Diverse Contributions Drive performance by seeking knowledge and insight from different perspectives
Description Our Story
From our beginning in 1978, our founders Norman and Frank Brooks outlined a vision for creating value in the manufacturing industry by applying innovative technology, system expertise, and close customer partnerships to deliver automated solutions, transforming the productivity of semiconductor fabrication. Their conviction: build the best team, connected closely to customers and with a focus on innovating everything we do. This conviction creates sustaining value that has made Brooks a global automation leader, and it continues to be the foundation of our company.
Today, we are the partner of choice to the majority of global leaders of process equipment and device manufacturing within the semiconductor industry. Our customers choose the Brooks Automation platform because we consistently deliver innovation, best-in-class reliability and cost of ownership, with a solution that is optimized for value within their application. We deliver value through our understanding of the application challenge, providing solutions at scale that create an automated advantage for our customers.
The foundation of the Brooks Automation platform is more than 1000 team members across the globe who are committed to our customers’ success. We combine innovative mechatronics, advanced motion and vision control, and intelligent software with deep system and application knowledge to deliver solutions in transport, handling, storage and purity that work right – the first time and every time. Our global operational centers of excellence are supported by our extensive network of service experts working closely with our customers.
The Brooks Automation platform is rapidly expanding within the semiconductor industry and has also emerged as the leading choice for collaborative robotics within the Life Science lab automation segment. As we expand our platform to new industries, our customers trust our proven capabilities and continue to choose Brooks Automation to create an automated advantage.
As we begin our 48th year in 2026, we are accelerating faster than ever toward our vision of becoming the trusted partner of choice for automation to global leaders across multiple market segments. Our business model success and focus on value creation enables us to continue to increase investments in excellence for our customers and to expand the Brooks Automation platform to new segments. We continue to earn our customers’ trust while we accelerate valued growth within the semiconductor, lab automation, and new emerging markets.
We will continue to invest to create sustainable value for our customers, employees, investors, partners, and communities. Our opportunity has never been greater, our ability to invest has never been stronger, and our team continues to be the best. We are Brooks – we deliver an automated advantage.
SICK is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of sensors, safety systems, machine vision and automatic identification products for industrial applications. Whether automating factories or optimizing distribution centers, SICK provides cost-effective solutions.
SICK has been a technology leader for more than 75 years. Leveraging a history of innovation, the company has pioneered a long line of industry firsts – such as the first safety light curtain, the first bar code reader, the first color sensor, and many more. These innovations provide solutions to the robotics, automotive, airline, manufacturing, packaging, and material handling industries.
SICK was founded in 1946 and has operations in 65 countries worldwide. The North America subsidiary of SICK is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.
Since 1934, Caltrol has been a trusted partner to industrial organizations across the Southwest United States and Hawaii, helping them operate more safely, efficiently, and reliably. As an employee-owned company and Emerson Impact Partner, we specialize in process control, valves, instrumentation, and reliability solutions. Our team combines deep technical expertise with a genuine commitment to solving the real-world challenges our customers face every day.
As an Emerson Impact Partner, we offer a best-in-class portfolio of automation products, solutions, and services. We also represent other industry-leading manufacturers, including ASCO, Bettis, Ashcroft (Hawaii and Northern California), and Broadley James. This breadth of offerings allows us to deliver comprehensive solutions across a wide range of applications and industries.
Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, Caltrol operates additional locations throughout California, Arizona, Hawaii, and Pune, India, where we opened our first international office in 2023. More than 350 employee-owners work together to provide consulting, engineering, technical services, and support for automation projects of every size and complexity. With more than 90 years of industry experience and an ISO-certified quality management system, we are committed to delivering solutions that consistently meet and exceed industry expectations.
We believe our greatest strength is our people. Because every employee is an owner, each team member has a personal stake in our success, creating a culture built on collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. We invest in our employee-owners through ongoing learning, meaningful career opportunities, and the support they need to grow professionally. If you're looking to build a rewarding career with a company where your contributions matter, we'd love to hear from you.
Brooks Automation has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 299 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Brooks Automation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).
Overall, 54% of employees would recommend working at Brooks Automation to a friend. This is based on 304 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
61% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Brooks Automation as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Brooks Automation.