quality control lab technician

cnc machinist

machinist

technician

operator

Addman

Tech is a great place to begin a career in the aerospace industry. If you're the kind of person that likes to learn and push yourself you will excel. Plenty of room for advancement, but you must put in the time and effort. Relaxed work environment, but when things get busy expect to put in the hours. Overtime available if you want it. A good attitude will go a long way with your success. Management does there best to treat everyone with respect and makes accommodations for employees needs. There are many 25+ year employees working there with a lot of knowledge to pass on. Tech is not perfect but I would rate it a lot higher than many of its competitors in the area. If you show up to work every day and do your job well you will do fine. If you want to show up and do the bare minimun, collect a check, and have a bad attitude be prepared to be weeded out. Pretty simple. I've enjoyed my time with the company.  
 

PROS: Company has a great work/life balance and are very understanding when it comes to your family. They do alot of things for their employees (summer picnics, turkeys for thanksgiving etc) They have are very flexible with you and there are a good amount of opportunities for advancement if you are the right person. You can learn alot at this company.
CONS: There is ALOT of favoritism, higher up management do not care for you or what you have to say and treat you like dirt. They shut down their outstanding employees and reward the bad or look in the other direction. Although a lot of the floor managers and supervisors are actually great and very supportive because they know how the higher ups are. The other employees are nasty and will back stab you at any given moment when the opportunity arises. The pay is also terrible and they refuse to reward their good employees with adequate raises and just give everyone the same raise every year.  

I worked there almost a year, during that time the plant manager would belittle anyone and everyone, getting a day off of work without calling in was a joke, the insurance is a joke and expensive. Getting a good wage is like pulling teeth. They will promise you things and when it comes time they go back on them, they are severely short staffed because everyone who comes to work here get tired of the bad attitude of everyone working there and find a better work environment. 

The plant manager has no leadership skills what so ever

His first shift lead(if that’s his title) walks around telling people what to do and saying thempalmt manager said to do it even if he didn’t. 

They will tell you to do something then go back after you’ve finished and you have to completely change everything. 


A few people there made the job bearable. But not enough for anyone to want to make a career there

This was probably the worst place I’ve worked in my entire career. The manager made it impossible to ask for guidance, reassurance, or really anything and then would yell at you and degrade you in front of others. Complete chaos and had no understanding of work/life balance. I was expected to “reschedule” daycare pickup for my children because she wanted to schedule a meeting at 5pm. Even though I explained my schedule accommodations during my entire interview process. I was expected to work at home with a faulty computer system that took 20 minutes just to open an application. I even recorded the painfully slow process to see if IT could fix it and was given no support. Absolutely terrible and hostile work environment. Several people quit before me because they wouldn’t put up with the demeaning behavior from the manager. Even the HR lady couldn’t do anything about it. 

My supervisors are awesome on the shop floor. The work is kind of slow and boring at times but then in a split second it could break loose. Everyone in the shop is always willing to lend a hand and help out when you need it or let you borrow some of the more expensive tools you might not have yet. Only problem I see is most people are not paid fairly and there doesn't seem to be any room for advancement. New owners now maybe things will turn around.

your going to be abused, threatened, shorted on pay or review dates, and ignored for the most part. i would advise anyone taking a job there to start documenting from the first day. your going to have plenty to write about and need of it later. you think i'm kidding, but i have seen people start fights there and keep the job while the other guy gets fired. very good old boy type of self written company policy. nothing fun here, worst management i have ever seen !!!!! the best part of tech died and retired, they were the guys who cared and who you wanted to work for. present mgr. is the slime that slime scrapes off its shoe's

What is the best part of working at the company?
8 billion dollar corporation that treats their hourly employees like slaves. Low pay, terrible managment. 
 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Paper pushers in the office. No concept of how to run a ultra precision shop.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic and unfriendly. Keep your mouth shut and don't look up.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Work, deal with office people and hope for the best.

If this ship isn't sinking there are holes in the boat. 
Pay is below average for expected amount of work.
In my time there the team went from 5 to 2 to 1. 
Expects salary workers to do OT for free. 
Does not provide good documentation / training for software used. 
Infinite vacation time but you don't take any of it when you leave. It just means your vacation need 100% approval. 
HR is kind of slow for onboarding and offboarding. 

The 2 managers that I dealt with on a daily basis were horrible. One constantly yelled and the other was always drunk. No guidance and quick to drive the bus.  The worst mgrs. I ever encountered. Horrible. 
The hardest part of the job was not telling my mgr. that she was a drunk and lazy.

There was a chance to do different jobs within the company, but now that it was sold to another company, not so much.  There was in the "old days" rarely ever a layoff, now that is not true.  Was a good company, but now, make sure you have a savings to backup with.

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