senior assembler

assembler

field service technician

customer service representative

order administrator

Alfa Laval

My over all experience with Alfa Laval wasn’t completely unfortunate. I felt like I gained great experience and my coworkers truly felt like a team. Compensation subpar, but the PTO and low insurance premiums made that better. Working hours were conducive for a good home life.  However towards the end of the long term tenure of the Service Manager, and into the beginning of the new tenure with the new Service Manager, I began to feel that I was no longer valued. That my 14 years off knowledge was replaceable.  I created a journal over a period of 12 weeks, documenting my assignments and tasks that I had completed. I wanted to present a formally documented presentation to my new manager, so I could provide input on what skills and assets I possessed and brought to the service team.  After 6 weeks of requesting to a meet with my manager, I was finally approved. However, my manager did not have any interest in reviewing the journal I had created, and indicated to me that “there was nothing she could do”.  Perceived hostility continued to grow  between our Floor Supervisor and our Service Manager, which led to my increasing feelings of being undervalued. Eventually I reached my breaking point and submitted my resignation. Instead of discussing my resignation or even honoring my resignation, I was escorted off of the property after being employed there for 14 years. What started off as such a fulfilling and healthy work environment, dwindled to the troubled relationship it was about 5 years before my actual resignation. Unfortunately, I do not feel this will change until management takes more time learning  how each employee brings value to Alfa Laval’s mission in service. 

Overall working for Alfa Laval has been good, never thought about leaving unless for much higher pay. The pay is good but unfair for people being loyal and have been here longer than others. A guy thats starts can make just as much as the guy of 6 years. The thing that sets this place apart from others are the benefits, decent 401k, great insurance but they offer over the top stuff that i feel people dont even use. Not saying its bad but i feel it could take away from potential bonuses from the floor workers that actually build these things. I know a bonus is just a gift but we willingly work upwards of 30-40hrs of overtime to get stuff out the door and we only get $100 Christmas card most years. Most I've seen was less than 500 bucks. While some office workers and management get quarterly bonus. So dont kill yourself working more because it wont amount to them. The HSA makes up for it in the end for med bills but then they spend thousands of dollars on dinners/parties/goof off hours for employees with company labeled souvenirs and gifts, for tax write offs probably. Even tho we have email and computers commutation is poor, and ordering & engineering team is sloppy. Very good company to work for but don't expect to get rewarded with anything but food. Would recommend to work here for steady work and flexible hours. 

I had the unfortunate experience of dealing with Alfa Laval, and it left me thoroughly disappointed. From the outset, their lack of transparency and customer care was evident, making the entire interaction a disheartening affair.

The company's communication was consistently poor, with delayed responses and vague explanations for issues encountered. It became evident that they prioritize profit over customer satisfaction, creating an atmosphere of frustration and distrust.

Furthermore, the toxic work culture within the company was palpable, reflecting in the interactions with their representatives. Instead of addressing concerns professionally, I encountered dismissive attitudes and a complete disregard for customer well-being.

Navigating their convoluted policies and procedures only added to the unpleasant experience. It felt like the company was intentionally obfuscating matters to avoid accountability.

In summary, my encounter with Alfa Laval was a regrettable one. I strongly caution others to exercise caution when considering any engagement with this company, as their toxic practices and lack of customer-centricity are a cause for serious concern.

-	The implementation of site quality system and insure that we are in compliance to the requirements of A.S.M.E. and N.B.I.C. for the maintaining our U, R and NB certifications.  Quality system requires calibration records of test equipment, material segregation and traceability, welder qualifications, traveler system, engineering calculations and U1 data packs.
-	NDE on vessels that are required by code and/or customer specifications.
-	Review customer specifications and evaluate cost additions and application to the type of vessels being fabricated.
-	Insure compliance during fabrication process that welding, NDE, hydrostatic / pneumatic testing, paint systems and final packaging as per P.O. and approved drawings.
-	Write and revise NDE procedures, WPS / PQR’s etc. for engineering till they come back from clients with status 1 standing.
-	Schedule all PMI, RT, 3rd party inspections for hold points and prefabrication meetings.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The actual job as far as the equipment you work on is great.  I had a lot of fun working on the machinery.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No training if you’re a service technician.  It’s very stressful to enter a ship or facility and be expected to service a machine that you have never even heard of in your life before.  Training is basically no existing.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
For the most part great!  The service coordinators have no idea how any of the machinery works let alone servicing it so they throw you into situations that should be available and potentially dangerous.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
High paced and stressful.  You have to figure out the machine you are working on without any training and you are expected to tell the customers what’s wrong with it when they know more than double the amount about the unit than you do.

First they will have someone from America come in tell you your job is secure then they will bring in a European boss that will replace you with someone from Europe or someone who is here but is not American born with the thick European accent.
they will teach you there ways but normally they will run the place into the ground because they don't know what they bought and lose 2/3 of the business.
management very pushy European and the first thing you say they don't like they will push you right out the door.
being in meetings half the day and they still want you to finnish the work load I think 3 to 5 meetings a days is to much.
the most enjoyable part of the job is going home.
If you own an American company don't sell it to them they will start moving the products over seas and cutting American jobs and the ones that are left here they replace American workers with European ones.

Some jobs are stable and pay about average, assuming you follow the status quo and do not challenge the lack of processes or poor decisions. Otherwise you'll be treated poorly until you quit or are fired in a very disrespectful manner. Benefits are just okay, no big bonuses, and many who were hired with hybrid or remote offers have been forced to come into offices more frequently. There's also favoritism at the management level when it comes to hiring colleagues with no experience and shuffling poor performers around, and some sexism. HR is useless and not even pretending to be friendly most of the time. Overall, the US company is not very well managed, not very enjoyable to work for, and the processes between Sweden and the locals are almost non-existent. Causes a lot of tension, conflict, and double work.

Alfa Laval could be an amazing company with it's potential, but not a good job for a temp that wants to get hired on a permanent position. If you truly need a job permanent and honest. I found a great company through indeed-it paid more and it's an amazing culture workplace. I hate for some temps to lose hope in thinking they found a miracle company to being let go for no reason just for the benefit of this specific company that abuse temps and get easy free check, commissions, surplus bonus, sacrificial pawn, or prevent unionization strike from stubborn workers by stretching budget to exceed senior worker benefits. It's a high turn over company filled with high turn over employers-as in the hired employees and management. Apply to companies that put you through agency, not the other way around. I also highly encourage HQ to really investigate how this company can be great like it used to be

Unstructured in general as everyone thinks they are the boss, Undocumented job descriptions as you're expected to do whatever your "boss" tells you. Do not expecting anything in writing in regards to your role and daily tasks. You are also expected to take in multiple roles due to business policy of running on skeleton crew. There is little to no procedures and training. None strategic business plan (six months and beyond), mostly operate on daily to weekly operations. Preach team work but not practiced, fragmented team/personalities environment causing frictions/conflicts.

Support Distributors in Latin America. Developed product-marketing programs for Asia, Middle East, Canada and Latin America markets.  Responsible for bottom-line accountability for profit, volume and growth in specific international regions.  Developed innovative product and channel marketing strategies.  Created and implemented strategic marketing plans and effectively tracked competitor market positions.  Provided international product market requirements for design and development teams.
Conducted seminars for customers and sales personnel.  Assumed management responsibility for International applications engineering support team.  Instrumental in the development of product

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