Culture
Over the years, Parker has developed a culture which emphasizes a commitment to excellence and integrity and a special concern for its customers’ welfare.  Parker’s continued success in serving its customers and suppliers, employees, shareholders and the general public depends, as it has in the past, upon each individual employee’s ethical commitment.
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Leadership
Our founder left a legacy of leadership based on fair dealing, hard work, coordination of effort and quality of products.
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Performance Support
Parker sets an employee up for success by providing access to useful tools and key information through networking and our comprehensive intranet site.  Engineering, IT, accounting and procurement communities meet to share best practices, collaborate on projects, and strategize for the future.  Our intranet site contains training modules, best practices, discussion groups, policies, company news, announcements—even our list of three letter acronyms! Additional support is provided to employees through mentoring, coaching and ongoing communication with company leadership.
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Work-Life Balance
  Taking care of one’s mind, body, and spirit offers a sense of renewal that energizes our employees.
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Engagement-Empowerment
At Parker, empowerment is more than a word, it is the foundation of our business strategy.
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Teamwork, innovation, and community responsibility is how we want our people to approach
their work each and every day – and it is what helps set us
apart from the competition.


Teamwork.  At Parker, you have the opportunity to work with the most talented people in our industries who come from diverse backgrounds and share different perspectives.  Our empowered employee environment fosters working together to bring leading edge thinking and ideas to the products and solutions that we provide our customers within our worldwide markets.

Innovation.  Parker technologies are essential to the world.  The diversity of our employees sparks the innovation that adds value to the company and the environment in which we work and live.  Hundreds of industries rely on our engineering expertise.  That is why we invest heavily to develop innovative products and solutions that yield advancements such as:
NOx nozzles
Alternate fuel engine ethanol pump
Intelligent hydraulic cylinders
Regenerative filtration products
Leak-sensing solenoid valves
Conductive thermoplastics
Energy recovery systems

Community responsibility.  Parker’s view of success is more than delivering value to customers and shareholders.  We believe in being representative of and adding value to the communities in which we work and live.
Through Parker, you’ll have the opportunity to help people and strengthen communities through service, such as:


Volunteering at local schools and universities to create awareness about opportunities in the engineering, technology, and business fields


Helping with disaster relief efforts using Parker’s products and technologies