For nearly 100 years, Grainger has fostered a welcoming space for women to shape the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) industry and help millions of businesses keep their operations up and running.
While MRO is not historically as visible of an industry for women, at Grainger, women are leading our company from the distribution center floor to the C-suite. With women comprising more than 40% of our U.S. and Canadian workforce, we have built strong wellbeing and development offerings that enable all team members to grow and succeed.
Our purpose is clear: We Keep The World Working®
With operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe.
We listen to team members and support their needs
Using ongoing team member feedback, we continually evolve our HR practices and benefits to support women both on and off the job. This has included:
- Removing non-inclusive language from our job posts.
- Expanding our parental leave policy with two additional paid weeks off to all parental leave policies based on an evaluation of best-in-class practices.
- Adding the ability for women who travel for work to ship their milk home to their babies.
- Expanding our bereavement policy to include pregnancy loss.
- Including fertility benefits through Grainger’s medical carriers with lifetime benefits of $25K for medical and $15K for prescription drugs.
- Providing adoption assistance of $6K per adoption.
- Offering Foster Parents eligibility for 4 weeks of 100% paid parental leave.
- Supplying free period products in all women and all-gender restrooms across US facilities.
Business Resource Groups play a role in advancing inclusion, opportunity and community
These team member-led communities help build meaningful connections among our workforce, raise awareness and education, develop our talent through professional growth opportunities and make an impact within our communities through volunteer service events. All team members are welcome to join our Business Resource Groups as a member of the community or as an ally.
Gender Inclusivity
At Grainger, we believe our differences make us extraordinary. That’s why we foster a welcoming environment where all team members can feel safe, valued and encouraged to voice their ideas. We remain focused on finding opportunities to expand our talent and we continue to invest in women’s advancement through strategic partnerships with organizations like:
- Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, focused on the advancement of women-owned businesses.
- International Women’s Forum, Fellows Program, a leadership development program for high potential female leaders.
- Leading Women Executives, Corporate Leadership Council Program which focuses on three critical elements for success – leadership skill building, organizational support and ongoing networking.
- Mujeres de HACE, a women’s leadership program geared to empower high potential Latina professionals.
