Working at Portakabin

Smart Working Principles

Everyone’s needs at work are different so one size does not fit all. Smart working is the opportunity to work flexible hours and from home. A conversation with your manager will be held to determine the best working arrangement to meet your team’s requirements. We feel this allows our colleagues to manage their wellbeing and work-life balance by effectively managing their work and personal commitments.

​Responsible Business

​Our Responsible Business approach is about growing Portakabin as a company and in a way that is beneficial for society. The focus for our activity is to create a positive social impact and go beyond the expected to benefit our customers, our people and the environment. Our targets on maintaining our responsible business approach can be viewed here.

Disability Confident Employer

There are 7.6m working age people in the UK who have a disability or health condition. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. We will make reasonable adjustments for any interviews that we conduct at Portakabin.

Read more about the scheme here.

Health & Wellbeing

Through our key focus areas of health and wellbeing, which includes both mental health and physical health, we aim to:

• Create a safe and healthy working environment where health risks are prevented and managed

• Encourage and support employees to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle

• Erase the stigma surrounding mental health in order for people to talk openly and honestly about mental health in the workplace

• Increase resilience by providing tools and techniques for individuals to be able to cope better with stresses in and out of work, on an individual level as well as a team level.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Portakabin we have signed a commitment that ensures that we create a fair and diverse working culture, to achieve this we are committed to:

• Creating an environment in which individual differences and the contributions of all are recognised and valued.

•  Providing learning and development and progression opportunities are available to all employees equally.

• Ensuring our employment practices and procedures are fair to all.

• Selection for employment, promotion, learning and development or any other benefits are on the basis of aptitude and ability.

• Making reasonable adjustments to adapt premises, modify equipment, provide special aids and redesign jobs, to assist in the employment of any disabled person.

Net Zero & Zero Waste

Our Net Zero roadmap defines the ways in which we reduce the emissions associated with our business, and provide our customers and communities with innovative products and services that help to meet their sustainability ambitions. We’d love you to join us on this journey.

​Portakabin received the Gold award at the Zero Waste Awards in recognition of its achievements in sustainable waste management. The awards recognise excellence in waste prevention and re-use, recycling and energy recovery are open to all organisations in both the public and private sectors.