What it does: Howden is a leading global provider of mission-critical air and gas handling products.
Mission: We enable our customers’ vital processes which advance a more sustainable world.
Size and presence: We have over 160 years of heritage as a world-class application engineering and manufacturing company with a presence in 35 countries.
Best known for: Howden manufactures highly engineered fans, compressors, rotary heat exchangers, steam turbines, and other air and gas handling products, services, and solutions.
The good bits: Overall a good company with good employees and a good team of people. Stable environment, safe working conditions. Management has a solid direction and has goals and values all striving to succeed.
The not-so-good bits: work-life balance and other qualitative things are not unquestionable. There are other issues like job security etc, as well.
Originally founded by James Howden in Scotland as a marine engineering firm in 1854, Howden has grown and evolved into a global leader in manufacturing air and gas handling solutions. With the power of our engineering expertise and technology, our equipment plays an integral role within our customers’ processes, which provide safe and reliable solutions that are both sustainable and efficient. Howden supports multiple sectors including infrastructure, power generation, oil & gas, wastewater, metals, mining, and transportation.
When our customers succeed, we succeed. We build partnerships with our customers so that we understand their goals and aspirations, and use our expertise to deliver solutions that add real value.
Our diverse, talented, and inspired people make Howden. We each play our part, aligned to a common purpose, working together so that we learn, we grow and we make a difference.
With customers in mind, and as One Howden, we are committed to continuous improvement as a way of life. We challenge ourselves every day to be more efficient and more effective in everything we do.
Howden is a global engineering business that focuses on providing clients with industrial products that help multiple sectors improve their everyday processes. Join us and help deliver critical global processes that are making a positive and sustainable impact on communities all around the world. There are many opportunities to build a career with Howden in a wide range of roles. We have a strong, customer-focused culture and continuously look for people who will add value to our businesses and to the products and services we offer.
Leave & holidays
⛔ Bonus annual leave
✅ Bonus parental leave
✅ Unpaid extended leave
Finance & contract
✅ Permanent employee
✅ Signing bonus
✅ Annual bonus
⛔ Stock options
Flexible work
⛔ Full remote work
✅ Partial remote work
✅ Flexible working hours
Family & health
⛔ Child care
✅ Free gym
⛔ Pet-friendly office
✅ Mental health days
Insurance
⛔ Hospital
⛔ Outpatient
⛔ Dental
⛔ Maternity
Perks
⛔ Free breakfast
⛔ Free lunch
✅ Free tea & coffee
✅ Free snacks
✅ Free dinner
Our Carbon footprint (baselined in 2020) is 28,000 tonnes a year. We are committed to reducing this by 50% by 2030, and to be carbon net-zero by 2035. We will achieve these targets by switching to carbon-free energy, focusing on energy conservation, and introducing more renewable energy projects. We use the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting protocol framework to capture our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions and have recently joined the Carbon Disclosure Project. By 2030 we intend to send Zero Waste to landfills at 50% of our company sites and by 2030 reduce water usage by 30% across our company. The contribution of Howden products to reduce our customers’ carbon footprint significantly outweighs our carbon footprint. For example, 64,000 tonnes of carbon emissions are typically avoided through the use of one Howden Gas-Gas-heater and one Howden Steam turbine can avoid 50,000 tonnes of carbon emissions.