People matter to us, and we try to show that every day. As part of this, our aim is to create an enterprising and innovative working environment, where you have the opportunity to learn new skills, and develop your career. We want to be a business that you’ll be proud to work for; one that is committed to improving people’s daily life, being responsible, doing the right thing, and to preserving the environment by embedding sustainability in all our businesses.
We’re delighted that you may be considering a career at Saint-Gobain, but as well as knowing what we commit to as an employer, it is very important that you understand how we like to work, and therefore what is expected of you as an employee. You’ve probably heard it before, but we really do place a strong emphasis on hiring people that align well with these core principles and attitudes.
Our Principles of Conduct and Action underpin everything we do; they’re the foundation of how we do business responsibly. Building upon these principles, the Saint-Gobain Attitudes set a standard in the way we want to work in order to make a reality of our ambition; ‘to help create great living places and improve daily life’.
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In 2025, for the 13th Year in a row, Saint-Gobain UK was awarded the "Top Employer" label. And for the 10th year in a row in Ireland! The Saint-Gobain Group have been certified a Top Employer for the 10th consecutive year and for the 12th consecutive year in Europe.
Our principles of conduct and action
We have deeply held set of values that apply to everyone who works for Saint-Gobain
SHARE STRONG VALUES
Since we were founded over 350 years ago, one thing has never changed: our strong attachment to our values. We carry out our business in compliance with our Principles of Conduct and Action and the humanist values that irrigate our corporate culture. Listening, dialog, care, solidarity, trust and respect for difference are central to our commitment.
This is the profound ambition of our purpose: to act every day to make the world a more beautiful and sustainable place to live.
OUR TEAMS SPEAK ABOUT US BEST
What does the daily reality of our employees look like? Every year, we ask them for their opinion via our internal survey, me@saintgobain.
PRINCIPLES OF CONDUCT
The five Principles of Conduct are basic values that every Saint-Gobain colleague should demonstrate:
PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT
…means mobilising to the best of our ability, knowledge and know-how. It also calls for training to keep up to date with what you need to know to be the best at your job.
It requires personal commitment and a willingness to take on tasks and to gain the knowledge necessary to do the job. It means we want everyone to effectively contribute in caring particularly for the environment and for worker health and safety.
RESPECT FOR OTHERS
...is an absolute prerequisite for the professional and personal development of each person. It applies throughout the Group worldwide. It implies an acceptance of pluralism, that having many views is better than a single view and a positive view of other cultures and of people of all origins.
It is essential everyone at Saint-Gobain is ready to listen to others, to inform, to explain, and to engage in dialogue.
INTEGRITY
…requires a rigorous adherence to doing the right thing in all professional activities.
It means that no individual compromises the interests of the Group in favour of his or her own private interests – whether in dealing within the Group or in dealing on behalf of the Group with third parties, whatever local practices might be.
LOYALTY
…requires honesty and fairness in dealing with all colleagues as well as with third parties dealing with the Group.
In particular, it is incompatible with the pursuit of self-interest where self-interest conflicts with the goals of the individual company or the Group as a whole.
It implies the adherence to the guidelines and internal rules of individual companies and of the Group.
SOLIDARITY
…is based on a sense of individual responsibility at work, which prevails over self-centred thinking.
It encourages teamwork and bringing out the best in each person, in order to achieve the objectives of the company and the Group.
It means rejecting management or operational methods geared more to the self-satisfaction of given individuals rather than the interests of the individual company or the Group as a whole.
PRINCIPLES OF ACTION
The four Principles of Action govern the business activities of all colleagues to help the company achieve responsible and sustainable growth:
Respect for the law
…all Group companies must apply in all areas all laws and regulations of the countries where they do business. Particular attention is drawn to the areas described below.
All Group companies must prohibit all actions which might breach applicable norms of competition law. They must refrain from any form of financing political parties or activities, even if allowed under local law. They must also reject all forms of active or passive corruption whether in domestic or international transactions. Furthermore, Group companies must not exploit loopholes or inadequacies in any such laws or regulat
CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Saint-Gobain companies are to actively promote the protection of the environment.
All company sites, wherever they are located, must be managed in a way that allows the setting of clear environmental targets and the regular monitoring of environmental performances and measuring the same against these targets.
They must strive to raise the main relevant environmental performance standards of their own sites to the level of particularly effective performance standards found in the Group for comparable sites – even if that means going beyond the requirements of local legislation.
WORKER HEALTH & SAFETY
Our companies are to take particular care to adopt all measures necessary to ensure the best possible protection against health and safety risks in the workplace. They must adopt risk reduction policies and follow-up on the due application of the same, checking actual results against the applicable standards. Such policies apply both to their own employees and to employees of sub-contractors, when the latter are working on our sites.
They must strive to raise the main relevant health and safety performance standards of their own sites to the levels of particularly effective performance.
EMPLOYEE RIGHTS
Saint-Gobain companies must scrupulously ensure that employees’ rights are respected. They must promote an active dialogue with their employees. In addition, and without limitation, they must respect the following rules, even if not provided for by applicable local law.
They must refrain from any form of recourse to forced labour, compulsory labour, or child labour – whether directly or indirectly or through sub-contractors when the latter are working on a Group site; and they must refrain from any form of discrimination with respect to their employees.
Social Value Policy
Our Social Value agenda is focussed in a number of areas which we know our customers and colleagues value and where we can make the most difference for society. We do this working alongside our customers and communities to mitigate the effects of climate change, support the move to a more circular economy and creating healthy spaces for people to live and work.
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