process technician

quality assurance analyst

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APACHE NITROGEN PRODUCTS, INC

Leadership leads by tactical measures instead of instituting strategic vision and goals when it comes to maintenance.  Maintenance management is devoid of any processes or procedural statutes to standardize their maintenance processes.   This is the only company I've worked for that has a CMMS, Computerized Maintenance Management System, but doesn't fully utilize it, nor does any of the senior leaders work within the CMMS.  Instead everyone uses Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project because the maintenance manager likes Gantt charts, which means making decisions with "dead data".   Many do not access the CMMS ever and have no idea what is in the maintenance database.  The work orders entering the CMMS are not kept up to date nor are the work order transactions executed in a standardized process.  The company has a maintenance KPI, key performance indicator, that does not indicate anything!   There aren't any operating instructions or guidelines for maintenance, operations, MRO Stores, compliance and regulatory, or engineering.   This place is not dangerous, the maintenance and operators are very good at what they do and the plant safety measures work flawlessly.   This place and the people deserve better leaders and managers that know how to lead and manage, bring forth vision and procedures that can be implemented, quantified, and standardized.   I hope the planning and scheduling operating instruction that I shared with leadership and management can be implemented in the future to bring about real quantifiable procedures that lead to maintenance standardization, fully implementing the CMMS modules, and improved data reliability.

For the three months I’ve been there, communication was an issue on my end as the supervisors would be in constant vacation or running errands when on the clock. They never bothered to really check on me to see how training was being performed and done with myself and others. Whenever I had an issue, they were hardly around or didn’t really show their support to ensure I was safe and comfortable. A bunch of my fellow colleagues notice the difference of treatment between them and myself. At first, they show that they were there if you need anything, but down the road, they’re impossible to find or don’t want to communicate. A fellow colleague of mine left as they were working them to death when they needed to spend more time with their child to get custody and they stated to them loud and clear that work was more important than their child. The employees are good at what they do for most part, but the supervisors shown who their favorites are

Apache management loves to talk about "work/life balance" and a "world class facility", but the reality is long hours in a high stress work environment, struggling to operate a barely functional plant. Knee-jerk reactions and band-aid solutions have replaced long term planning and preventative maintenance. Staff has been cut to the bone, and critical spares - vital to plant operations - were done away with as a cost saving measure. Important tasks such as legal documentation and standard maintenance are basically skipped because of the employee work load. Projects are underfunded, poorly planned, and then changed on a whim. Micro-management is driving a very high turn over rate and ANPI's growing reputation as a bad place to work.

Management has created a stressful work environment through a knee-jerk reaction to almost every situation and a lack of planning for the future.  Projects are underfunded, so corners are cut, resulting in a barely functional installation with no thought to future expansion.  Management wants to micro-manage every aspect of work to the point where work is difficult complete.  Staff has been cut to the point where important tasks such as documentation and preventive maintenance are missed because of the work load added to the remaining employees.  Work/life balance is given lip service but in the end employees are expected to work as much as possible.

While Apache has many challenges: old equipment, frequent changes in engineering personnel, and managers inexperienced or lacking in technical expertise as it relates to chemical processing, generally, they are putting significant money and effort into improving. For the rural area, the compensation is excellent. Managers have handled issues indelicately, but are genuinely interested in making the plant better and more reliable. Significant capital has been invested in  improvements

What is the best part of working at the company?
Leaving to the next job and not looking back

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
8 hours of meetings a day and nothing getting done

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Board of directors run everything and direct from their ivory tower

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Meeting then meeting with a follow up meeting lunch then more meetings

Not much room for advancement.   Company is owned by Freeport McMoRan and Southwest Energy, LLC.  Board members have most control over company, not management.   Small company with corporate mentality and typical do more with less. Most hourly employees are union.  Salaried employees punch a time clock and are docked sick time or vacation time if they are not at work 80 hours in a pay period.
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... too much change began to happen. It has become a nightmare. We are now severely understaffed with no relief in sight. Great pay, but hours are not worth it. Work/life balance is desired by the company for its employees, it is a company value, but they make it impossible to attain.

The new management team is an iron fist with zero accommodations for personal issues like children sick and needing to stay home. They have two general managers that have different opinions and lower level managers that have no clue what their subordinates do on a daily basis. 

At some point the HR manager was acting as an operations manager making decision outside her role. The company is facing financial difficulties therefore experienced engineers, manager and supervisors are dismissed or railroaded..

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