chemical operator

production engineer

engineer

process engineer

AdvanSix

So There’s always something good and something bad about a job, but this place, WOW! It all starts with…management. There is zero accountability taken by management or anyone else. If someone screws up and they’re liked by management, it either gets brushed away or blamed on someone else. The maintenance lead allows everyone in the shop to sleep/smoke for about 6 hours a day and work for 2. It’s not even that he allows it, he just doesn’t care. That’s the whole thing with this place. NOONE CARES ABOUT ANYTHING. There’s no camaraderie. Everyone talks about everyone behind everyone’s back. Lower management only cares about having as much control as they possibly can and taking credit for everything they possibly can. Safety only matters when it suits them. The union isn’t even a real union. The last union president signed off on a contract that literally no one agreed to and was actually brought up on charges over it. It’s seriously mind boggling. The one single good thing that this place has seen in the last decade is the plant manager they hired last year. But even he can’t make the changes that are needed for this to be a good place to work. This place has been there since the late 1800s and their average level of seniority is 3 years. That should tell you everything you need to know. Every talented or hardworking individual I’ve seen come through here in the last 5 years has left within 3 months. DO NOT WORK HERE. 

New management arrived 1.5 years ago with leadership practices that is outdated. Since their arrival, over 70+ employees have quit, retired early, or been terminated. Company has to backfill manpower shortages with contractors that are also looped in with the company’s high turnover rates and are also quitting or terminated frequently. 

High level management employed a leadership team and HR manager that believe accountability, discipline, and firing is the quickest & only path to establish results by managing with a hammer fist. HR manager can be quoted as comparing employees to clowns, and at times celebrating their terminations with upper management. 

Production rates are at their worst, while the safety record is also at it’s worst. 

Plant manager and his leadership team doesn’t understand and doesn’t care that low employee morale impacts everything.

If you value work life balance, safety, mental health, the environment, or a positive work culture AdvanSix isn’t for you. If you enjoy toxic work environments, no time with your family,  a work place that blatantly ignores the law and local regulation, and poor benefits AdvanSix is for you. Company has a union vs. Salary mindset and treats union employees as disposable commodities. Salary employees aren’t treated much better. Expect micromanagement, burnt out coworkers looking for employment elsewhere and lots of red tape preventing you from making any kind of positive change. Like others have said this place is a sinking ship filled with failing equipment, health and environmental hazards and money hungry corporate executives looking to squeeze the last bit of worth out of a crumbling 100 plus year old plant. 

Supervisor openings are always posted. The company does a poor job at preparing the front line supervisors on how to manage union employees and the accountability of them. They expect you to hold employees accountable while not telling you how it really works. 

For example: You, as a salary employee can and will be terminated for the same and exact offense as a union employee. However, you won’t be returning. A union employee will have the option to return again and again as long as they agree to a “last chance” agreement and abide by it for an agreed amount of time. Once that time has expired, they’re at ground zero in regards to their employee file. Their file is also cleared and cleaned every 12 months. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good people at the plant level

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Poor senior management fostered a stressful work environment.  Total lack of integrity when it came to pension benefits.  

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Overworked and under-resourced.  Poor strategic planning.  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get in at 6 a.m. and leave at 5, if you're lucky.  Unless there's a TAR or unplanned issue, which happens quite often.  Fight the same battles and see the same issues time after time.  Lack of proactive management.  Again, lack of planning by senior management.

Place is reactive management 
Capital does not play well ( communicate or work together) in matter relating to outage , maintenance, or capital improvement  that future maintenance has to be performed on
Poor inspection of equipment in high volatility high risk areas, ( piping in acid or high corrosion areas , tanks, pumps, transfer systems )
High priority or daily weekly monthly task , inspection contracted to third party vendors with no real responsibility of actual plant management or engineers
For a ISO 9000 facility poor management of SAP ( work management programs)
Change in culture not embraced for improvement 
Operators average 1000 hours of overtime a year FLS not experienced in most areas 


Medical benefits are extremely expensive and have huge deductibles to the point you feel uninsured.  Leadership looks for the "yes" man mentality and you won't go far if you have independent ideas.  Company is focused on female leadership only at the expensive of knowledge and contributions of all others.  No training available as leadership is clueless and can't provide any training opportunities because they are ignorant of the technology they are managing. Product line is mature and shrinking.  Company will probably go bankrupt in the next two years.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing job sucks,manager don't care about there employees they only care about the product. Not the people making it

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management is the worst they don't care .try and write you up for every little thing even if it's there fault 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Sucks it's dirty old equipment old every thing nothing up to date 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Hot , long hours shift may change without notice someone always calling out

start shift with a tier meeting to discuss safety topics, plant productions issues, Assign work tasks to employees, the Electrical group, Millwrights, Instrumentation, Insulators and Pipefitters.

SAP Experience - Enter notifications, convert notification into work orders then approve the work order to get confirmation numbers to charge time to the project. Order parts through SAP.

Kronos. Time cards, verify time, make any changes, approve and signoff on all maintenance employee.

This company will fire first and ask questions last.  The plant is literally falling apart.  People who work there for 20 and 30 years go to work every day scared that they’ll lose their job. Everyone there is unhappy and morale is low. Upper management has brainpower but no real grasp on what working there is actually like, and they’ll never take your word over anyone else’s. Every field supervisor will do what they can to protect themselves and cast blame on others.  Work elsewhere, it’s probably safer and has a better “union”.

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