working for James Hardie

James Hardie is a rapidly growing performance driven company.  Each and every employee at James Hardie contributes his or her part in order to sustain continued growth.

That is why it is important all our people know what the expected business results are so they gain a high level of job satisfaction by achieving these, and this way they build a successful challenging career within the organisation.

So what are we like at James Hardie?

We ALL share the same VISION:

“To relentlessly pursue profitable fibre cement growth in a repositioned differentiated fibre cement industry”

We ALL live our VALUES:

1.  James Hardie is a meritocracy in which bright people working effectively enjoy success based on their performance

What does this mean to you? We promote by merit. We treat you as our future leader, and we make sure that you will grow with the organisation as you achieve results.

2.  We make sure we have the right level of ability in place for the demands of each position, and train and develop people to achieve the best of which they are capable, to enable them, and James Hardie, to thrive and achieve our vision

What does this mean to you? You will expand your skills and knowledge by constantly pioneering new fields in the business. We will do everything to support your development with appropriate training and resources.

3.  We reinforce our values with systems that reward individual as well as team performance.  We will reward achievement of outputs as well as appropriate behaviour and competence, paying and promoting accordingly

What does this mean to you? Our Performance Management System will help you to create your own individual goals and objectives and relate these to achieving business results. If you get results, you’ll get rewards.

We believe in our PEOPLE and their power to take the company to the next level. We are passionate, results driven team players. We perform at a superior level because we enjoy winning. We continuously strive for excellence: we think outside the square and challenge the status quo to achieve better results every day. We drive for improvements, embrace change, take calculated risk, and treat the business as our own.


customer services

James Hardie’s National Contact Centre is a dynamic, challenging and rewarding environment.


finance

Financial managers must, first and foremost, be good business people. Whatever the job, financial managers combine strategic perspective with attention to detail.


human resources

The primary objective of this team of driven, highly passionate HR professionals is to ensure that the company’s main asset, our PEOPLE.


IT

To enable service excellence we employ a fully integrated SAP solution, underpinned by an efficient up to date technical infrastructure.


manufacturing

James Hardie offers unique opportunities for manufacturing professionals across a broad spectrum of disciplines.


marketing

The marketing area at James Hardie is responsible for maximising sales growth of the business by driving effective sales and marketing activity.


research & product development

James Hardie is a global leader in the research and product development of fibre cement building materials with investment of about US$25 million a year.


sales

Relentless pursuit of profitable fibre cement sales growth sums up the mindset required to be a successful member of the James Hardie sales team.


supply chain - distribution and procurement

As part of the Supply Chain structure within the business there are many opportunities for growth and development of the right people.

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