sales representative

inventory analyst

senior cnc programmer

quality assurance technician

machinist

Acumed

This is specifically for the Logistics department:
-clear goals and methods to achieve them
-opportunity to quickly advance if you show initiative, but there is also a soft cap to advancement within the Logistics division, unless you work in Loaners and transition to Business Services
-great culture that values all personalities as long as you can also do the job well
-requires ability to work hard, precise and fast at some times of day, but once the required work is complete the environment is relaxed and social
-if you do the job well the management will look to fit you into a permanent role, they need good competent workers

Acumed is a very clean shop to work at. Their standard operating procedures are so simple that they have a lot of complacent workers. Some work harder than others while the others complain about working too hard when doing the same job.
Acumeds review process requires employees to participate in their lean manufacturing program with the goal that your team saves the company the equivalency of your annual salary. If you do not meet their savings goals then your team is deemed a failure. You are rewarded more for saving the company money on toilet paper rather than just working harder and smarter.
The company's upper management holds their employees to high standards and pays them like skillless labor off the street. When other companies in the Portland metro area are willing pay upwards of $30 an hour for a good employee Acumed is only willing to pay $16 for a higher skillset.


New ownership and poor leadership in Operations have recently made this an unpleasant and unrewarding place to work. Benefits and perks are being reduced or stripped away, critical positions are not being backfilled after people retire or quit, and the company's focus has shifted toward profit as their only priority. What was once a great mom-and-pop company to work for has become a poorly managed example of corporate greed. What a shame. I don't recommend getting involved with Acumed.

Work-life balance
Work life balance does not exist due to chaotic poor management decisions and weak porjectplanning

Pay & benefits
Benefits are not worth the stress and chaos

Job security and advancement
No reason to pursue growth at this company

Management
NPI project management is unaware of how to consistently create accurate project schedules and lack understanding for flow gates and have zero experience with manufacturing thus quality has no input

Culture
Backstabbing exists

Overall
Would not recommend based upon no true work life balance and consistent project changes that drive “internal growth”. Over 5+ management and engineering changes occurred within 2 year window. Tons of internal conflict and lack of leadership in management

The cleanest machine shop air conditioning internet they would have team building every three months. Have people that used our products come for motivation a guitar player in Europe came for concert to thank us he thought he would never use hand again. Employees got passes for public transportation for the year , had lots of cook outs give gift cards if gas got hight . take all employees to movies team building a great place to work may not be the same now having to answer to investers now no longer family owned
life insurance == 2x salary also wife got 25000 kids 10000

30 years plus experience in the industry and this company is not the best in the business.  It is average at best.  Managers are weak and don't care about your career there.  Politics are a key role in how you get promoted.  Wages and benefits are not above average.  If you want average than this is the place to be.  Benefits continue to shrink.  They take more away every year.  They promote less qualified empoyees from inept managers.  100% would not recommend.  

Schedule production for the day. Conduct one-on-ones for good communication with my employees. Daily meetings, look over statistics for lean improvements. I learned about working with tight regulations from FDA in the medical field. Management was supportive and goal oriented. Co-workers became friends and helped me get the job through college classes. The hardest part of the job was staying on top of the demand. The most enjoyable was the team I worked with.

Acumed is a really easy going place to work, but do not come here if you want to make money. Do not come here if you even want to make the industry standard for your position. I do not know a single person that is actually getting paid what the industry standard is for thier position.

They pretend that good medical insurance, wearing jeans to work and a less "corporate" environment make up for valuing employees way below what they are worth. It doesn't.

Acumed is a great place to work if you fit into their culture. They say they are diverse but in reality have zero understanding of what diversity means. They interview based off checking off the DOL requirements boxes vs being professional and communicative. 
The HR / Ed manager has no clue to as what the inner working of anything medical. The dangerous thing is that the manager thinks they have as a through grasp on the situation.

The culture changed drastically after 2017. It was a great company to work at prior to that. Since the change of CEO’s in 2017, the focus was less on quality and more on quantity. In addition “work theater” became a cornerstone of the culture. Add to that a micromanagement supervisory style, and you have unnecessary stress in a poor work environment. I would no longer consider them a “destination employer.”

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Sales representative 1 salary reported	$79,453 per year
Inventory analyst 4 salaries reported	$69,168 per year
Senior cnc programmer 1 salary reported	$42.02 per hour
Quality assurance technician 1 salary reported	$30.00 per hour
Machinist 3 salaries reported	$29.57 per hour

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