10.01.2025
Why work at Pfeifer?
Our corporate culture promotes diversity, appreciation and a positive working environment. Values such as motivation, respect and fairness are key components of our self-image as an employer.
Günther Jaritz
Head of HR for Austria.
Pfeifer regularly scores top marks in employer attractiveness studies thanks to targeted quality management work on its recruitment and employer branding efforts. Accolades such as the Deloitte “Best Managed Company Award” in 2023, the title of “Tyrol’s Top Employer 2024” and being named a “Popular Company for Apprenticeships in Austria 2023/24” confirm that the firm’s strategy is the right one.
A company like a family
Despite being a global player that employs 2,600 staff across 13 sites, Pfeifer has retained an organisational structure that makes it feel more like a family. Besides jobs fit for the future, therefore, the company – a wholly family-owned business now in the hands of its third generation – also provides an environment in which its most important assets, i.e. its employees, can grow and develop as individuals. They can enjoy a climate of trust and transparency, regardless of their job title. Staff are encouraged to take the initiative and rewarded for putting in a good performance, and everyone shows loyalty to everyone else.
A workplace fit for the modern age
High levels of investment mean that the company’s factories and machinery are always state of the art, with occupational safety and compliance with the law and internal standards taking top priority. At the same time, administrative staff also enjoy a modern working environment kitted out with top-quality facilities and equipment.
Onboarding and continuing professional development
Efforts to foster staff loyalty begin right from day one, with a comprehensive onboarding process that ensures new team members fit right into their working environment. Various continuing professional development programmes and opportunities, including internal training sessions, external courses and specific support for apprentices at vocational college, help employees to advance their careers within the company.
Extensive benefits
As well as above-average pay, Pfeifer also offers numerous perks including staff discounts at local partners such as gyms, hairdressers and ski resorts plus exclusive corporate benefits when shopping online. A bike leasing scheme allows employees to lease their dream bike on preferential terms, while a large fleet of electric vehicles and charging stations at every site promote e-mobility. Company events such as sports programmes, company runs, Christmas parties, public viewings and many more help to strengthen team spirit. In addition, a generous employee recommendation scheme rewards anyone who successfully recruits someone they know to a job at Pfeifer.
A culture of innovation
Pfeifer promotes a lively culture of innovation and an active approach to ideas management that lets all staff share their suggestions. The best idea from across all the sites is chosen annually, with the winner given the trophy to display proudly until the following year. The winning idea from 2023, which came from Uelzen, is now doing much to ensure resources are used more efficiently.
About the Pfeifer Group
Pfeifer Holding GmbH was founded in Austria in 1948 and is now in the hands of the third generation of its owner family. Headquartered in the Austrian town of Imst in Tyrol, it employees 2,600 people at 13 sites in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Finland. Around 5.4 million solid cubic metres of timber is cut every year in the Group’s fully integrated sawmills. This is then processed along the entire value chain into sawn and planed timber, concrete formwork panels, formwork beams, cross laminated timber, glue-laminated timber (glulam), glued solid wood panels, pallet blocks, briquettes, pellets and green electricity.