manufacturing specialist

maintenance technician

shift manager

quality engineer

logistics associate

Aisin Manufacturing Illinois

Benefits are good.  Pay starts fairly low.  Engineering has freedom to self-regulate and manage their time to fairly large extent.  Encouraged to communicate with anyone anytime, including upper managment.  Management makes numerous poor decisions that cost hundreds of thousands of wasted dollars which can lower morale, but management can be easy to get along with.  Very little training and almost no upward mobility for engineering, but there is flexibility to move to different departments or subroles within departments.  Departmental silos are everywhere causing poor communication.  Manufacturing has little accountability for employees who damage equipment.  Poor hiring practices and low pay result in poor quality employees in roles that handle equipment startup and changeover leading to countless hours of downtime and maintenance issues, also lowering morale.  Low experience engineering group since many graduates use this company as a springboard to other opportunitues.  Opportunities to learn if self-motivated.  Lot of good people here.  Workload varies wildly dependent on machines going down which can require unexpected overtime.  No overtime pay for salaried.  Many people leave only to return later; it's a good company compared to many.

There's a saying at AMI.... "we don't make sense, we make sunroofs". That sums up middle management at AMI. You have Department Managers who have no idea how to actually run on any line in the department they manage, Assistant Managers who think they own the place, and Advisors who are just trying to stay out of trouble with the DMs and AMs. Then you have the poor OLTs who are actually running the show, and working themselves to death in the process. As a Team Member, you are literally a number to management and HR. A body to fill a position..thats it. They have no problem working you as hard and fast as you can possibly work for 12 hours a day, just to put you on the schedule for Saturday because your line didn't build enough throughout the week. It's hot, it's stressful, and in some positions it's painful. So that's some of the bad. The good? The people. The people are what makes AMI what it is. Some of the best, hardest working people I've ever met have been coworkers at Aisin. There is also an amazing benefit package. The insurance is top notch and VERY cheap. They also have a free health clinic, which has been a God send for my family. So do I recommend AMI? It depends. If a lot of free time away from work is important to you, no I don't recommend it at all. Do you want to earn a decent living and have a great insurance plan for you and your family, and don't mind working 50-70 hours a week? Then yes, AMI is for you. 




Solid training offering in lean / TPS. Tuition reimbursement, great low-premium benefits, on-site gym. Low base pay for salary, hourly compared to other manufacturers in region but a decent bonus program. Rigid attendance policy. Some leadership (not all) expect salary to be on-call 24 hours a day. They have the best-resourced indirect support staff I've ever seen; most other manufacturers don't hold a candle to their management control system structure. Every policy is clear and roles, responsibilities, and chain-of-command is thoroughly documented and communicated. Because of this rigid structure it can be difficult to learn skills outside of your lane. The system doesn't always function as intended however as middle management decision-making seems to bypass standards at times out of short-term convenience. Very difficult to advance outside of the manufacturing floor, thus skilled salary team changes often. I recommend working here for those wanting a starting point in their engineering, logistics or continuous improvement careers or those who are looking for a secure hourly job with a livable wage who don't mind 12-hour shifts.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people the managers everyone is so helpful. Yes it's hard starting out but it's the ONLY place in Southern IL a person can go with zero college education and if they stick it out and move up even to the next tier of management to make $90k a year! Great insurance and benefits...can't complaina

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Long hours at sometimes it aucks but you get paid well for it

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great culture the veteran TMs are willing to help the new people. Just the hours are tough!

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Do your job and go home it's simple. You have to get on a line with a good crew who wants to hit that number and leave and it's all good. Some weekends work in some areas but the team works together

There are always opportunities to move around or promote.

Aisin offers training & continuous improvement classes. 

401k and really good health insurance

Most positions on the plant floor are fairly easy and most people are able to cross-train and learn multiple stations. This is great if you don't like being stuck doing the same thing every day. 

Lots of opportunities for overtime. Weekend work depends on the department you work in and often comes in spells. (manufacturing floor employees)

High turnover rates
*most people point out

Strict arrival times & break schedules (manufacturing floor employees) 

On your feet most of the day
(manufacturing floor employees)

Like with most places of work you will have some really good managers and some not so great. 

Workplace culture is diverse and most people are friendly.


I’m pretty easy going. I can find the good in just about any situation, but this job tested my inner chill. The caliber of people you work with is uncanny. There will be people openly talking about their drug use, there will be people hooking up in the employee bathroom, and you will be propositioned more than once a week. The management does nothing to thwart this brothel of a workplace. The pay is as dismal as I have ever seen. The benefits are the shining star of the organization and the only positive thing I can touch on. I paid $26 bi-weekly for a family of 5. And it covered well. This establishment will hire anyone and does have opportunities to advance. I couldn’t bring myself to continue advancing there because I couldn’t stay there any longer. It was the most miserable two years of my life at a job.

Pros: 
-Decent starting pay for the area and raises every 6 months. (Starts at 10.85 and tops out at $16.75 after 5 years + $0.50 extra for 2nd and 3rd shift)
-Hands down the easiest job ive ever had, although very repetitive and gets boring.
-The health insurance is amazing and very cheap
-2 weeks off a year for plant shutdown + off for major holidays paid
-Pretty easy to move up if you work hard
-As long as you show up to work, don't fail a drug test, and dont sexually harass anybody, its nearly impossible to get fired.

Con's:
-Long hours, sometimes 6 days a week.
-Most coworkers are cool but the place is the equivalent of a highschool filled with drama.
-Its a factory and gets very hot during summer months

It was the same-thing every day nothing changed, everyone is trained on everything just in case someone calls in we were always down team members and always behind and never caught up the last 15 weeks i worked there we only had 1 day off every week. The management would set in the office and watch us struggle and get behind and rarely ever help anyone unless it was saving their self's. The team member were amazing and some mangers were amazing but mainly it was a very bad experience for me for the almost 2 years i worked there. I unloaded and load trucks with frames and glass and parts to make sunroof on a forklift and keep track of all inventory coming in and out.

Only good thing about this place is the health insurance. The company thinks they own you an doesn't care about a person's outside family obligations. They expect u to never get sick an punish u when it does happen although u work literally packed beside one another like sardines in a can an have fans all over that just blow the germs from one person to the next. An then wonder why an how workers get sick!!! If u are a single parent this is not a place for u unless u just don't care about your kids an never want to see them!

I worked at Aisin for two and a half years. Through that time I showed up, did my job well and never complained. The work itself is easy. They set production standards that they know the team members cannot meet in a shift. The lines are constantly breaking down and the team members are the scapegoats for the loss of production. There is absolutely no communication between Management and team members. They run their hardest workers into the ground with little to no recognition. All in all The Poor management structure overwhelms the compensation.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Manufacturing specialist 9 salaries reported	$19.60 per hour
Maintenance technician 4 salaries reported	$31.95 per hour
Shift manager 6 salaries reported	$65,375 per year
Quality engineer 5 salaries reported	$84,925 per year
Logistics associate 4 salaries reported	$19.32 per hour

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