Rittal Systems Ltd. makes it to the 2019 List of Best Workplaces in Manufacturing in Canada

July 16, 2019

Rittal Systems Ltd. is proud to announce that their organization has been named on the 2019 list of Best Workplaces in Manufacturing in Canada. Rittal Systems Ltd. received this honour after a thorough and independent analysis conducted by Great Place to Work.

This list is based on direct feedback from employees of the hundreds of organizations that were surveyed by Great Place to Work®. The data has a 90% confidence and a plus or minus 5% margin of error.

To be eligible for this list, organizations must be Great Place to Work Certified in the past year and work primarily in the Manufacturing Industry. We ranked the best based on employee responses to our Trust Index survey.

Said Tim Rourke, President, Rittal Systems Ltd., “To be declared as one of the Best Manufacturing Workplaces in Canada by GPTW is a testament to the great support offered by our global teams in Germany and the US, as well as to our own Canadian Modification team that ensures that every product is customer-ready when it reaches Canada! Thanks to the fantastic work ethic, dedication and commitment of our entire team to our customers and to our goal of being the very best workplace when it comes to overall excellence from Engineering to System to Automation!“

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