What it does: The company designs, manufactures and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services.
Size and presence: Over 67,000 across different countries.
Best known for: Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Water Quality, and Product Identification.
Danaher takes its name from a tributary of the South Fork Flathead River in western Montana. In the early 1980s, this was the setting for the fishing trip where Steven and Mitchell Rales envisioned a new kind of manufacturing company—one dedicated to continuous improvement and customer satisfaction. The root “Dana” is an ancient Celtic word meaning “swift-flowing,” an apt descriptor for the nimble mindset and rapid flow of innovation that has defined Danaher for decades.
Danaher was established in 1984 and initially consisted of a group of discrete, manufacturing businesses. Soon thereafter, it was one of the first companies in North America to adopt kaizen, the Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement. The practise led to the development of the Danaher Business System (DBS) and continues to guide our culture, at the heart of Danaher’s five Core Values.
Starting in the mid-1990s, Danaher organized its businesses around strategic platforms with sustainable competitive advantages in sizeable global markets. Over the next decade, Danaher established leadership positions in the sectors that define it today, beginning with water in 1998 and followed by product identification (2001), diagnostics (2006) and life sciences (2009).
Today, Danaher is a science and technology innovator committed to helping our customers solve complex challenges and improving the quality of life around the world. A global family of more than 20 operating companies, our groundbreaking businesses transform the fields of life sciences, diagnostics, water quality and product identification by:
Our culture is unique, diverse, and empowering. It all starts with the Danaher Business System (DBS)—a shared language and set of tools that stimulate transformational thinking and drive every aspect of our culture and performance. We use DBS to guide what we do, measure how well we execute, and create options for doing our work even better—including DBS itself.
And while you’re doing amazing work, you’ll have fun connecting and building relationships with your peers through engaging team building activities that broaden your experience and strengthen your network.
You’ll also find that we’re committed to making an impact by contributing to causes bigger than ourselves. We impact our industries by developing new innovations. We impact the environment through sustainable solutions and efficient processes. And we impact our workplace by embracing a culture of inclusion and diversity and investing in ways that make the world a better place.
We aim to complete the entire interview process as quickly as possible. Whether you apply directly or a Danaher recruiter reaches out, we recognize the importance of speed and transparency at every step.
Benefits vary with each country. Some of them are:
Our team’s passion for solving complex challenges reaches well beyond the lab, manufacturing facility or office, and into our local communities. And as a leading science and technology innovator, we have a unique opportunity to drive real change for some of society’s toughest problems.
Danaher’s community impact strategy relies on a targeted approach to community investment and a preference for programs that share our commitment to diversity and inclusion. Together with our operating companies, we have prioritized the following areas for community investment: