assembler

cnc operator

manufacturing engineer

machine operator

technician

AMETEK

The people there are pretty decent overall. Say hi in passing even though you don’t know them and even have friendly conversations. Like any place there are those few bad ones but only a few. Nobody is held accountable for anything and it is pretty much a free for all with a strong lack of management. Think of a country club with the entitled ones being catered to. You can even just sit all day and stare at anything you want and not do anything all day if you wanted nobody will care. The leads come and go as they please, but make sure you are there 7 am until 3:30 pm every day especially on Friday.  Unless you are good friends with the lead then you can also come and go as you please.  The leads take off and don’t say anything about them leaving or leave anyone else in charge or stuff to do.  
The work itself is not bad at all. There are little to no engineers. They rely on temporary engineers and interns to do pretty much everything and it shows. Lots of copy and paste on the prints with many errors.  Good luck to you if you can understand them. Especially if you are going to be doing electrical work there. (I will save you the trouble and headaches. Don’t bother). Most of them are old or out dated or were never right to begin with. You are told there are specific ways and procedures on how to do things which is not all that true. Everybody does their own thing and you are responsible for writing your own notes and procedures on doing everything based off word of mouth and a few books of pictures taken of old machines. 
They refuse to order enough stock to do anything so you are constantly running out of work.  They wont stock the shelves with parts because the management may loose money on paper and won’t get as much in their quarterly bonuses.  So the floor suffers the backlash for it. Then the mad rush at end of the quarter to hurry up and get machines out. Again for their quarterly bonuses.  Again you don’t get any of that.  
Human resources will be sure to give you the old smoke in mirrors tricks and tell you what ever you want to hear to get you to accept a job offer because they are that desperate for help and can’t keep anyone. People quit for reasons including lack of compensation for added responsibilities that were not supposed to be on them and lack of support or the company not following through with promises. 
They promise you a review and a raise after 90 days.  That is a lie. There are no reviews and no raises. Bragged about bonuses. Also a lie.  The only ones that get a bonus are the upper management who only care about the bottom dollar to make their bonus then care about the workers making it for them. Human Resources has no care to following policies that they expect you too.  They brag about giving you vacation time up front but what they don’t tell you is one week is automatically used up for a company shut down the week of July 4th if they do shut down. Which they wait until the very last minute to decide so good luck planning anything. The rest is also your sick time. It doesn’t roll over it resets every year. 

Unless you are really desperate do yourself a favor and keep looking. Do not leave a decent job to go there.  There are plenty of jobs out there. Most are even offering sign on bonuses.  This place doesn’t offer anything.  Don’t climb aboard this sinking ship.  

A normal day at work might consist of attending a rerun of the morning meeting and covering the same topics as the day before. Hear management ask employees to work weekends, overtime, and the same questions they asked the day before. Ametek has taught me a lot, but only because I pushed myself to advance to different positions and obtain more experience within the organization. Management starts the year by telling us we will go through training, but at the end of the year, there is insufficient time to offer the training. Management is only concerned with recognizing revenue to achieve their quarterly goals and receive their bonuses. They have destroyed the company culture, the camaraderie, and the synergy among employees. They literally don't care about their employees, their customers, or the products they make. Their only concern is revenue and their bonuses, which only the executive team receives. In other words, this company is a slave-driving company. The most difficult aspect of the job is the contradicting KPIs. For instance, they want you to buy products at a low cost, but you cannot have excess inventory. They expect on-time delivery, but you can't bring anything early. They want to work with suppliers; however, they require outrageous payment terms (180 days or more) and push the suppliers to their limits with several demanding requirements. The people I work with make all the difference; it is my coworkers that keep me coming back every day. I would have given up long ago if it hadn't been for them.

your typical day will be cleaning your work area and having any issues fixed after the last shift leaves due to aging machines and poorly trained techs. running the actual product when things are working is pretty simple but depending where you are its never that easy. Communication is the biggest downfall of this location with management telling you what they want to see but when you tell them about the problems going on they will gaslight you into believing you are the problem and never fixing the issue causing a revolving door of new people entering the building because no one puts up with it for long. Management will also do nothing to help you if you have any issues and will just push you  out the door cause in their eyes it is easier just to replace you then fix the problem. the culture is toxic due to quantity will always be more important then quality even though the mantra they push is literally "Quality over quantity" and it is a medical component facility. they do not care if parts are out of spec as long as the customer doesn't return the product. The hardest part of the job is breaking down your morality and sending parts that have no business being anywhere near any body, especially a live human being. HR is also the biggest joke at this location. before you get hired you have to struggle to even figure out if you are even gonna interview or if hired fix any issues that is going on in the workplace. HR is never your friend in any company but at this company they are especially heinous and if you can avoid  dealing with them do so at all possibilitys.

I currently work here after leaving an environment with ridiculous turnover and a very in your face management approach.  Mandatory OT was very commonplace and there was often complete disregard for one's family.  

This plan/location really gives meaning to the word "family environment".  

The average length of service at this location is very high as NO ONE EVER LEAVES, so job advancement can be slower but not impossible, one needs to be a an advocate for themselves to make this happen.   "Success is not a result of spontaneous combustion, you must light yourself on fire."

There are also several employees that I know of who have left only to return a few months later.  

The new management team has provided a fresh set of eyes and genuinely cares about the employees on a personal level.  Plant meetings are positive and upbeat focusing on what we are doing right, not what we are doing wrong.

It can be hard for those that have spent their entire careers here to understand just how good this place is.  I have had the  privilege of experiencing toxic environments and am grateful to be a part of this company.

I know about Ametek P&I, very little innovation, mostly sustaining engineering work, everybody looks like the are busy wearing many hats but there are rarely new projects to work on. 

they removed that fat in the 90s and now there is barely any bone left, they changed cleaning companies about 6 times to cut cost and almost got to the point of bringing your own toilet paper. 

I was recently laid off from there, so maybe I am still sour, but read the other reviews. Forget advancement if you are in a technical role, its a big old boy network, they do bend over for customers, alot way too much if you ask me. The customer can say the sky is green in Ametek would say yes.

They will not lay you off if  you are entrenched in a product (for the most part) because you will be the sole project everything (service, sustaining, manager, manufacturer ... etc). 

also, big on CYA, from the CEO all the way down to the lowest level. Also, they like to throw people under the bus, and very little open and honest communications.

•	Managing all Service and Inventory processes for Ametek / Pulsar Repairs
o	Issuing RMAs
o	Assigning Repair Priority
o	Billing Calculations and acquiring payment
o	Creating and concluding Repair Sales Orders in Oracle
•	Growing Net Service revenues by 25% or more each year 
•	Helping Power Line Carrier Customers in real time with Substation issues regarding Applications and or Technical Operations
•	Providing organized  hands on Training for Power Line Carrier Products either on Customer’s site or in-house
•	Participating in Company Sponsored annual Product Users Group Event for Customers willing to participate in 3 days of information sharing and Training.
•	Doing focused Validation and Regression Testing on Power Line Carrier Products when new Software / Hardware are released. 
•	Isolating and Confirming of Software Bugs and reporting it correctly in Bug reporting system
•	Creating VISIO Drawings of Applications for Customer use for Special Circumstances.

It Pays well.
If you are looking for work and you have a thick skin , go there.
If you are a new engineer or you strive for perfection or improvement, don't go.

Management and Union always have their knives at each other throats.
There are no initiatives for improvements but more of keep the carriage going.
No clear code of conduct among employees,disrespectful attitudes are a norm. kinda free for all and it depends on how strong or aggressive you personality is.

Plant Manager is lost/impulsive, lacks vision, integrity and charisma.
Changing course all the time.
Management doesn't have trust amongst themselves and it resonates on the floor.
Management is not interested in instilling a culture or even methods!
Priorities are not just changing in importance but in scope and sometimes are totally forgotten even they were very critical the day before!!
Union workers work with 30% of their energy!
Constructive feedback is not allowed.
No Methodical or scientific approach to anything. Military contracts has been keeping this company alive forever.

Not a good place to work. Management have no clue what to do. People are overworked and underpaid. You get treated like cattle more than human. To describe my experience here, it would be all negative honestly. Nepotism, favoritism, supervisors are lazy & callous, backstabbing, lazy workers who are friends with the supervisors don’t work for hours while you are being harassed to work. Me and many other get lied to about learning new jobs for more money, and even smirked at my the same person knowing they weren’t going to give any. Most of the work here is isn’t even transferable. There is no future working here. You can’t even talk to HR or any body in the office because it’s locked. It’s built this was so production staff could abuse employees and it would take too much time to get someone for help. It’s more like a prison than a job.

A typical day at work would include hand pasting or using a stencil, using a manual pick & place to put all smt parts, use a small oven to solder all parts to pcb. Some parts would need to hand solder on and, then check all solder joints with a microscope for imperfections using the j-standards.
I had never used a stencil to use solder paste until I worked at Advanced Industries. I had always hand solder parts on smt pcbs.
The hardest part of the job was never knowing if there would be another lay-off and would electronics be hit!
The co-workers were good people and easy to be a team with. Probably the most enjoyable part of the day would be the commaradore I had with my co-workers and the other people in the company.
The management was always fair and honest, and I know it was difficult for them to lay me off because I was also the first to be on board with their new promotions or ideas!

I had an amazing experience as an intern at Ametek. I worked as a Regulatory Engineering Intern but had the opportunity to collaborate with multiple departments and take on projects outside of my original role. My supervisor was highly supportive and encouraged me to explore projects aligned with my interests, even if they weren’t directly related to my team.

For example, in addition to my regulatory engineering work, I got to contribute to a software engineering project, which gave me valuable exposure to a different aspect of the business. This flexibility and encouragement to grow made my internship a highly rewarding experience.

The collaborative environment and willingness to support employees’ professional development really stood out to me. I highly recommend Ametek for anyone looking to broaden their skill set and gain hands-on experience in a supportive workplace.

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