service technician

service technician ii

senior maintenance technician

maintenance manager

warehouse associate

AAF Flanders

I personally like a physical job.  Depending on what position you work is depending on what your paycheck was.  You have a base salary and can only increase if you change positions but not always an oppurtunity to do so.  Honestly Management-supervisor-general manager well gm is non exsistent with employees. Supervisor really does not care about the employee at all, all the way up to the general manager. Not a whole lot of common sense when it comes to putting the right people in the right places. You do recieve a monthly bonus, but all depending on where you work is your bonus.  Some lines never get a bonus because daily projections are too high and impossible to reach it more or less go over to achieve a bonus.  They are quick to tell you or write you up for something you may have done wrong, which is your fault but it was handled wrong in my opinion.  They never bother to get both sides of the situation, they only assume what they feel may have happened.  Too quick to make a decision without gaining all the facts.  If  they bothered to actually observe workers for more than 10 minutes or bothered to ask what the situation is they might actually be able to move people around to make not just 1 0r 2 lines run efficently but ALL the lines would hit projection shedules without overworking some employees that are put where they dont have a clue what there doing cause they never were trained properly, just put on the line and told here you go and expected to do work that they havent been trained for.  So when line runs inefficently everyone wonders why.  Again if they bothered to observe their employees they would know who to put where so all the lines would meet goals and exceed numbers so bottom line at the end of day would be met on all lines not just 1 or 2.  Shame that they are quick to discipline you but NEVER quick to tell you Great job when your line or yourself does met daily goals or go over.  Which makes everyone money, not just flanders.  No incentive to want to work harder, cause even when you do theirs no reconigtion for it.  When you have out done your usefulness for the company they cast you out like your nobody.  So why would you want to work somewhere that doesn't care about empoyee AT ALL.  I can say,in the department i was in, worked 6 days a week.  but no gratitude from Flanders.  8 o 9 months straight Mandatory overtime friday and saturdays and if you couldnt work it they pointed you out on the 12 point system.  I guess they dont care that people have a life outside Flanders and when you need time off. you can take it but, you get points on you and eventually if things happen in your life you have no safety net, you basically cant miss work.  Shame i liked my job.  But not the way they treat their employees.  I was told if i didnt like it, there is the door, your one in a million.  And eventually they find a way to get rid of you if you voice your opinion too much.

What is the best part of working at the company?
It is a pay check that’s about it

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The job is stressful but the people is the most stressful part. You can get wrote up for almost anything. Example using the bathroom or break room by the offices is a reason to be disciplined aka wrote up. If you go outside to sit in your car during the 1st break you have to clock out. My department always ran out of supplies even though We had to wear gowns, gloves, and hair nets everyday. We were told to wear the same gown until it was too messed up to wear aka falling apart. We were told to keep using the same pair of gloves and hair nets as long as possible to save supplies. The women bathroom only has 3 working stalls. Some of the management might speak to you but some just walk right by like your invisible. Employee parking lot floods whenever it rains hard. You have to get there early to get a parking space unless you park up front. And then you have to walk around because even though there is a employee door your badge won’t work there.  I can go on and on about the crazy stuff that happens there.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stressful, Frustrating, and a lot of FAVORITISM.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Morning meeting, morning exercises, and lack of supplies . Watching people sit down while you sweat and stay busy cause you will be watched. Hope the machines are working. Honestly I got to a point of this is just my job and then I go home.

As I moved up the chain over the course of roughly 16 months I found the company is not as ship shape as it portrays itself from the top down. Apparently the Smithfield plant is the least productive and least safe plant in the entire company. Why did it take year for this to come to a head? Why were hours cut under the guise to protect jobs due to lost business(guys, AAF Flanders may not go under, but Smithfield is a LONG ways away from being able to call itself a stable/secure plant) but then to suddenly layoff nearly a third of all employees "temporarily". The timing also happened to coincide with the end of the company fiscal year(VP of the company confirmed that the layoffs were planned with the projections of the following fiscal year, so again, the company will and did lie to everyone's faces). I moved up from assembler to supervisor in a little over a year. If the management sees this they will know who I am. I am disgusted with the company's ethics, or more appropriately the lack of ethics. I don't blame my plant's management for all of Flander's woes. Obviously some knuckleheads in corporate can't do their jobs either. Not my problem, and God please don't make it yours.

The company lacks structure, its management bases their advancements on screwing the employees over, playing favorites, not being consistently fair and what is only best for them. Unrealistic timelines for work, study and throwing others under the bus to cover their own butt. If you like these types of environment, this job is for you.  Males act like they are 3, they dont want the responsibility of their own work, no respect, accountability, leadership is shown. The females are cut throat sharks. HR is full of them. They act like they care about the employees but in reality laugh at what has been told to them with others behind the employees back and out of supposed confidentiality talks with HR. Japanese culture also still fully stands on the Male gender being superior to the female gender in every way. Their treatment of the female translator was horrible.  They dont look at the females, shake hands, address, give credit nor acknowledge your work. 
Dont waste your time on this place. It's all glitz and glamour to get you in the door. High turnover rates on purpose.  They simply are horrible to work for and do not follow through on agreements, contracts and the pay is lower than other industries in the same area. Save yourself the headache. 

Flanders was a enjoyable place to work in the beginning.  Depending on which line of production you work.  I personally liked the fact that is was a physical demanding job. I like to stay busy. You have a oppurtunity to receive a monthly bonus check on the line your work on.  Not all employees have that option.  You start each day with a schedule and your line trys to meet that schedule and anything over projected schedule is bonus money spilt between number of employees on your line, usually 8 or 9 people.  Down fall to this company their really is no chance of a raise, or performance review.  They do work you plenty of hours with mandatory overtime.  Monday thru Saturday 6 am to 430 pm.  If for some reasons you can't work the overtime, miss work, late for work, Flanders has a point system.  12 points.  It does'nt roll over in january,  You only get your points taken off when you reach Last yeard infraction.  However, it is a decent system.  Keeps people from being late or missing work,  So it's basically up to you to

AAF Flanders is not the company for you if you are looking for job security/stability.  The turn over, across most departments, is extremely high.  Upper management micromanages every aspect of the company and doesn't let department managers handle their departments.  

Management makes working feel like a chore, and I love to work.  There is absolutely no room for advancement within the company.  Additionally, there really isn't a "company culture" that I ever figured out and I was there 2 years.

I enjoyed working with several people in the Marketing team but that didn't make up for the rest.  

No transparency within the company or any department.  The rumor mill is always going because no one in a position of management is transparent.

Generally speak, pay was less than most other places of business within the industry.

I have been employed at AAF/Flanders for two years.  This was my first job in manufacturing so the challenges at first were stimulating.  I enjoyed the day to day problem solving experiences.  As I became more familiar with the processes and the existing culture I tried to implement changes, but found this to be very difficult.  Shortly into my second year the company, Flanders, was purchased by another filter company, AAF, and became AAF/Flanders.  I hoped this would have been a positive change but it was not as positive as I would have liked for it to be.  Many of the more tenured members of management were stuck in their old ways which conflicted with to newer members including myself.  This is not a horrible place to work but things could be a great deal better with more progressive foresight.

Upper management gets rid of the people who actually helps and do extra work without asking and keep the people who do the bare minimum. Been here for over a decade but new management comes in and does not listen to the people on the floor who do the work. All they do is sit behind their desk and look at numbers without going into the actual warehouse to see what is going on. Losing customers because they make the same product over and over again because it is easy to make and makes their numbers look good on the book. Have no issues with the supervisors. They can only do but so much when management will not take no for an answer. But if you are looking for a job here, go somewhere else. With the way they manage around here, they will be lucky to be in business in 2024. Oh it leaks in the warehouse and production area, and do not seem to care about fixing the issue.  

One of the easier jobs I have ever worked.  As long as you come in and you are attentive to the job and what needs to be done you will be ok.  The hourly workers are the backbone but this can and has been a double edge sword for the company, atleast the area I was in.  They were compensated pretty decent, especially for the work that they had to do.  The abuse of the point system really cut the company and added more work and pressure on the workers that have good attendance.  The go home early program that had been initiated for the workers did absolutely nothing besides ruin contracts with buyers.  Which in turn forced a lay off.   I get that a company wants to show they care for the employees but at some point you have to have a defined line of caring and discipline.  You can not reward bad behavior and expect any other results other than more bad behavior.  

AAF Flanders is s good solid company to work for.  A typical day consists of assisting other depts., carriers, and customers with requests for info, answers, or resolution of issues.  The management of AAF Flanders is very customer focused and cares about its employees. It is a good professional environment.  The hardest part of the job can  be making sure the communication flow involves all the "right" areas and getting the info in a timely manner due to customer demands.  The most enjoyable part my job is the group of people I have the pleasure of working with each day.  Teamwork is very important and my group does a great job of working together and making sure all team mates do a good job as a group.

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Service technician 1 salary reported	$19.50 per hour
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Maintenance manager 9 salaries reported	$105,000 per year
Warehouse associate 2 salaries reported	$17.50 per hour

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