I have good understanding of the pay rewards within the industry. I find it remarkable that Briggs have one of the highest paid Director's at 300K circa 100K more than the market leader. I can't imagine there is another tier 2 mhe supplier paying this level of salary.
Briggs are reinforcing one of the biggest problem within our industry, an ageing engineering workforce. If the role is undervalued then new younger entrants will not join.
Briggs under value their product and service in the market place it is not unknown for them to be 15%-30% cheaper than the
Big 3 (Linde,Toyota,Jungheinrich).
Are they really this cheap to maintain I think not!
I think the approach with there engineer's is to get the business cost base to match the price positioning.
This will never work, as to succeed in this industry it is your quality of delivery over the medium term that delivers long term success. Don't get me wrong strong performance management is needed to deliver high quality customer care that delivers a good return.Engineers or anybody infact that feels the world owes them a living are not required within this industry. But high quality engineers that deliver should be rewarded fairly - from what I can see in this forum Briggs need to have a strong re-think on how they view and reward their workforce