Air Innovations specializes in the design and manufacture of custom environmental process control solutions for a diverse range of industries. Our temperature, humidity, pressurization, and filtration systems extend from sterile storage cabinets and cleanroom HVAC units to wine cellar cooling and personal desk environment systems.
We’re proud of more than our company’s technological accomplishments. For the past 40+ years, we’ve developed a culture at Air Innovations that promotes innovation, collaboration, personal and professional growth, and community.
Key Aspects of Our Company Culture
We’ve talked to our employees to learn what about our company culture matters most to them. This is what we discovered.
An Open, Collaborative Workplace
Here are some features of our workplace culture that employees value most:
- Open communication. We use an open office layout to foster greater communication and rapport between management and general staff alike. Our open-door leadership policy gives every team member direct access to the people who can help them succeed.
- Genuine relationships. Team members say that the connections they’ve made at Air Innovations feel more genuine than at previous jobs—something our quarterly “AI After Hours” happy-hour events help nurture.
- Flexibility and trust. We treat employees as responsible adults. Production floor workers, for example, have the flexibility to schedule their breaks around their own needs and workload.
- Varied, meaningful work. We serve some of the biggest names in the aerospace, semiconductor, and pharmaceutical sectors, so each day can bring something new, interesting, and uniquely fulfilling. One day, we might be developing and manufacturing complex HVAC units for critical applications, and on another, one of our engineers might be talking with the director of NASA from the seat of a military C-130 aircraft.
Support for Work-Life Balance
Our support of our employees extends beyond the office. We understand that everyone has a life outside of work, and we want everyone to experience important life events with their family. Team members have the flexibility to be present at their kids’ school events and to schedule important doctor or dental appointments.
What makes this work? Everyone is mindful of balancing personal and professional schedules to ensure everything gets done. Furthermore, we offer paid overtime to interested employees.
Career Growth Through Cross-Training
We strive to nurture our workers’ ambitions and encourage cross-training so that we’re always learning new skills and finding work that plays to everyone’s strengths. This can mean a long-time employee entering a new role with confidence, or a new recruit taking advantage of growth opportunities to augment their career journey. Our dedication to learning also includes continued education, with Air Innovations offering tuition, training programs, or certification fee reimbursements of up to 80%.
A Culture of Continual Improvement
Through our daily huddles, we’ve created opportunities to connect, align our efforts more effectively, and focus on core values. We implemented a Company Foundations program, establishing 15 foundational behaviors at Air Innovations. Since introducing these Foundations a few years ago, we’ve noticed a dramatic improvement in work ethic and camaraderie within the company.
Calculated Risk-Taking and Accountability
Our company wouldn’t be where it is today if we didn’t believe in taking some calculated risks. We bolster that approach by doing our homework and developing practical backup plans.
If mistakes do happen, Air Innovations encourages employees to acknowledge and address any errors as they arise and before they can negatively impact other teams or our customers. Our internal accountability has fostered effective feedback loops and robust quality control measures.
Giving Back to Our Community
Our employees’ passions are important to us, as is our community. Through staff fundraisers and friendly competitions (like our collection drives and annual golf tournament), Air Innovations can make charitable contributions to local food banks and other organizations. We select these charities with the help of feedback from our team. The company also sponsors staff members participating in charity walks and marathons.
Our Core Values
Our operations are guided by six core values that shape how we engineer solutions, develop our team, and work with partners across the industries we serve:
- Innovation. Our dedicated research and development department creates, tests, and validates every solution.
- Expertise and continual improvement. Our technical and manufacturing staff is cross-trained across product lines. Our commitment to continuous improvement fosters deep technical expertise to solve novel challenges.
- Quality. We deliver environmental control systems certified to UL, ETL, CE, CSA, CCC, SEMI, ANSI, and MIL-STD standards. Every employee plays a role in that outcome.
- Efficiency. Our cross-training protocols and agile 40,000-square-foot manufacturing facility let us shift resources quickly and respond to changes in design requirements or production volume.
- Collaboration. We form strategic alliances with universities and industry organizations to develop technologies we can apply directly to customer solutions.
- Community. We believe shared success is the most meaningful kind of success. We give back to the communities where we operate and support the causes our people care about.
Build Your Career or Partnership with Air Innovations
By building our company on a foundation of support, open communication, work-life balance, and continuous learning, Air Innovations has always been set up for success.
To learn more about what it’s like to work at Air Innovations or to browse open positions, visit our careers page.
To learn more about our technical capabilities, contact us today.
