This Industry-Leading Company Protects What Matters Most While Uplifting Their Employees

“We protect what matters most™.”

GAF is the leading roofing manufacturer in North America and, as a Standard Industries company, is part of the largest roofing and waterproofing business in the world. With plants located across the U.S., GAF employees are able to protect more homes and businesses in the U.S. via their GAF roof than any other product.

And, not only does GAF protect their customers, they also proactively provide a work environment that empowers and supports their employees. To learn more about GAF, and why employees love working there, read on...

Exploring the uplifting and empowering environment at GAF. 

GAF is driven by the belief that forming a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization is imperative to driving innovation, growth and transformation. In essence, fostering a diverse workforce will provide a competitive edge — strengthening their relationships, improving collaboration and bringing together people with different backgrounds and opinions to spark creativity and innovation.

From this vision, comes their four core values:

1. To connect

2. To empower

3. To evolve

4. To inspire

And, to achieve their values, GAF makes three commitments: 

1: Talent

To drive innovation, collaboration and growth, GAF focuses on attracting and recruiting the best and most diverse talent. 

As Patricia Henderson, VP-Controller at GAF remarks, “the need to have an infusion of diverse perspectives was definitely necessary. So over the course of the last four years,… there’s been a real initiative to marry both those long-tenured employees and all the historical knowledge that they have with different perspectives from the outside. And, that has definitely been the evolution of the culture.” As for the result of these efforts, Henderson says that what they have “yielded is a much more innovative and engaged workforce.”

2. Culture

GAF works hard to build an inclusive culture that nurtures diverse talent. As part of this, GAF provides a wide variety of ERGs that foster a culture of support and help employees advance their careers. These include: Women in Sales, Women Inspiring Sustained Equality (WISE), Working Parents and Caregivers, Black Employees United in Leading Diversity (BUILD), Supporting All Latinos in Unity and Diversity (SALUD), Asians Leading Together (ALT) and  Rainbow Alliance Diversity (RAD). 

Further, GAF also provides unconscious bias training, internal mentorship/sponsorship programs and internal employee networking.

3. Community 

To promote inclusion and diversity more widely, GAF is committed to making a difference in the communities their employees live and work in.

“GAF takes its corporate social responsibility seriously and is actively engaged in many ways to help communities in need, including initiatives such as Habitat for Humanity, our own Roofs for Heroes program, Team Rubicon, and Good360,” says Helene Hardy Pierce, VP Technical Services, Codes, & Industry Relations at GAF. “We also actively encourage giving back through donations of volunteer time and money — living up to our belief that Community Matters,” she continues.

Benefits at GAF that we think you’ll love.

In alignment with their core values and commitments, GAF also provides competitive benefits. These include:

• Flexible working: GAF HQ’s has a hybrid work environment consisting of three days in the office and two days of remote working, with flex hours. They also offer remote work options for specific roles that lend themselves to a remote work scenario. 

• Parental benefits: Parents are offered paid and unpaid maternity and paternity leave, paid adoptive leave and short-term disability. GAF also provides fertility benefits and nursing mothers rooms in their Parsippany HQ, which include refrigerators and comfort seating.

• Care-taking benefits: Caretakers are offered subsidized backup child care with up to ten uses per year. Care-taking PTO, child care subsidies, and child/elder care through the Bright Horizons Back-up care program are also available to GAF employees.

• Volunteer time off:  GAF has long been inspiring employees to volunteer in the communities where they live and work by contributing their enthusiasm and expertise to local organizations.  GAF offers paid time off to volunteer and connects employees to opportunities in The GivingHub.

• Investing in your future:  Your health is a top priority. Employees are eligible to join a robust 401K plan with generous company matching. 

If you’d like to start a career at GAF, click the following link to explore current job opportunities.

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