AER Manufacturing

Working on an assembly line making engines is one of the most mind-numbing and frustrating jobs imaginable. The sheer repetition of performing the same task over and over for hours on end quickly drains any sense of motivation or engagement. Every shift feels like an endless cycle of tightening bolts, fitting parts, and checking measurements, with no room for creativity or independent thinking. The noise of machinery humming, metal clanking, and supervisors barking orders becomes a constant, grating soundtrack that never fades. The pressure to meet quotas is relentless, leaving no time to slow down or catch a breath. One small mistake can throw off the entire process, leading to supervisors breathing down your neck and making an already stressful job even worse. The rigid schedule, strict rules, and monotonous nature of the work make the hours drag by unbearably slowly. There’s little to no sense of accomplishment at the end of the day—just exhaustion, sore muscles, and the knowledge that you’ll have to do it all over again tomorrow. The lack of variety makes every shift feel like an eternity, and the repetitive nature of the work can make time seem to stand still. There’s no meaningful interaction, just the constant pressure to keep up with the assembly line, knowing that if you fall behind, it will only create more problems. It’s the kind of job that makes you count down every minute until your shift is over, dreading the fact that the next day will be exactly the same.

Pretty decent company with great benefits and PTO that you don't have to accrue. Definitely a boys club with zero female management or executives. There is a lot of micromanaging and some difficult people to work with. Almost zero room for advancing or moving up in your position or dept.  They have automatic raises annually and after a year, I believe, you get quarterly profit shares. 

The work is very antiquated and so much time spent on things that could absolutely be streamlined or updated to current times. High work volume and lots of pressure to get things processed for month end/year end... which is normal, however, if processies were updated and not so out of date and manual it would be a lot easier to manage high volumes. Printing alone takes hours a day. There are some people who refuse to entertain the idea of any changes or updates to processies/ procedures. It's mind numbing and repetitive more than most with just the extremely outdated practices. 

There are perks within the company and ownership is pretty generous with surprise lunches/breakfasts. 
Communication is huge and if you are open and honest and on time, you will do well. Just don't mind the negative people and absolutely protect yourself by setting boundaries and reaching out to HR if you have any dealings. It can be very toxic. 
Overall, decent place to work.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Weekends off, nice office area, break area nice equipped 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not enough staff to run the warranty department for a nationwide coverage operations, only 5 people in the warranty  department for engine/transmissions combined. 300-400 emails per day/ plus coverage over phone calls, management gets on you for unreasonable reasons to try to cover everything 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
No positive morale, very negative staff to work with, no team work everyone is out for their self, people always coming in late, taking time off where there is no backup, puts more strain on the team when there is not enough people already when there is full staff 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in early start work sometimes work alone for several hours unit someone comes in or not at all, or they leave part of the day or not return to work and this happens almost every day and every week, rarely ever have everyone in when they supposed to be working, management doesn’t really do anything about it

Worked as an assembly technician and helping inventory. It's not a fun job, constant fast phased physical labor with constant priority in troubleshooting. Furthermore, every shift feels like jumping onto arepating cycles of tasks quality control inspections, removing volts, preparing heavy pallette order and storing them. Rinse n' repeat for 8 to 10 hours. Very great job to learn the basics of using heavy equipment as well how to properly keep work environment safe. Additionally, the company's constant high yield quotas get way taken out of hand, often superior visors barking orders nonstop throughout the night and dishing out disrespect as their main "dish" effort of communicating. The sense of success or pride for this job is non-existent due no real company growth being provided, just decent compensation for your labor then go back home rest then back to work again. It's the type of job decent for its payroll although the work/life balance is very lackluster. Please, do recommend making your research for other places than picking this job as a priority. 

I work in the shipping and receiving dept. Unloading and putting away engines, pulling orders, loading engines and transmissions. The use of scanners for receiving and warehouse stocking. My coworkers are decent hard working guys and my lead and supervisor are very supportive. There is no use of reviews to gauge your performance that can help for a raise. My hours are from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm with an hour lunch. We have a small crew that sometimes needs to work overtime to get the daily job done. The company relies on a temp agency to do the hiring. Most of the temp workers are not skilled enough and slow down the warehouse performance. We go through many temps that don't make it past the 90 days test period to be hired with benefits. In a week I am to be offered permanency and will find out what benefits and pay raise if any I am to receive. Considering the amount of work I perform I am underpaid. Out of 5 stars I rate this company a 3 at this time.  

Well it always went good you always had somebody to call on they work with you and they was about that business I learned that hard work pays off even though I'm not there anymore I was I was motivated they motivated me the managers that was real good real respectful so you the ins and out and work through with me even though I was on probation they pay good all kind of race they didn't discriminate as long as you came to work on time and clocked out on time if you wanted to stay over you can stay over it was all up to you the hardest part was me being on probation and having to be there at 3:30 pm. And leave it at 12:00:00 a.m. in the morning or two in the morning and having to get up at 5:30 in the morning just to go to report or classe.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Felt a part -of my initial shift.Trainer and upper management was extremely patient....I can read a book but not mechanically inclined...became proficient with most stations and understood my home station better than most due to quality management.Overall a more than positive experience.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Must maintain accuracy while operating within timing guidelines.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
All inclusive .Kind energetic motivated ......most staff enjoyed being there

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Clock in stock and ready station....15min.break.lunch then clean station...clock out
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I enjoyed working at AER.  Working with automotive parts and breaking down the motor and the tools to use to disassemble the auto parts from the motor.  Then send the motor down the line to be sent through a machine to wash it with high pressure water with a chemical to clean and the auto parts that are removed from the motor get put in a combo and then the production worker that is in charge of handling the parts come with a hand pallet jack and pulls the combo to the same machine that washes the motor and sends the parts on a conveyor belt that goes into the machine to be washed. 

Lots of hands on, lots of freedom to do what is needed, very fluid and dynamic environment. 
Typical day doesn't exist but has highs and lows of being super busy to catching up on paperwork.
Learned more industrial practices, and more machining language.
Co-workers were great, helped each other, worked as a team.
Hardest part of the job was management.
The most enjoyable part was seeing your hard work payoff in the form of quality product, figuring out the odds and ends of some quirky machining tolerance, or launching a new product.

Every day brings new learning opportunities, and I couldn’t be more excited about it. The projects we tackle continuously challenge and improve my skills. Recently, I’ve been involved in assembling engines, and it’s amazing to see how all the components come together to make a vehicle run smoothly. Their commitment to training and providing us with the tools we need to excel is commendable. From hands-on workshops to in-depth technical sessions, I feel supported in my professional growth. I must say, this is the best company I’ve ever worked with!

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