senior manufacturing manager

forklift operator

Algus-Packaging-LLC

After being hired as a temp worker with the understanding that after 90 days the job becomes permanent, at around the 6 month mark still waiting to be made permanent, they hired the owners nieces boyfriend because he can not hold a job, two more relatives were given jobs and then the "engineer" had a drinking buddy who needed a job, so they gave him my position as an assembly mechanic. None of these friends and family members had to go through the temp agency like I did, they were hired on the spot, then they tell me I'm being laid off due to budgetary issues... Yea, right. 
     Bottom line is, there is a "good old boy" network at Algus Packaging Co., and if your not a friend or family member of the owner, they will treat you like dirt. They pay very little anyhow.

In short , the management from the top needs to do things differently than before because the morale in the shop is very low. They cannot continue with how they do things ,or they will continue to lose the best people that are still there today.
The guys and girls there are some great people, it will be hard to see anymore of them leave. I have learned alot from my old supervisor, who was let go about 15 months ago. How to leave a project at its very best.
The hardest part is probably dealing with the new supervisor, he reall knows very little about what we are trying to do and he constantly makes it harder than it needs to be.
Knowing that I have done my best work each and every day over my time at Algus, makes it seem like it I should try to do something a little bit different in the future.

Take a job here if you need one but treat it as a short term option while you continue to look. The business is run as a hobby more than on sound practices. You will be at the whim of an unbalanced owner who surrounds himself with people who won't tell him no. It is stated in their handbook that this company was founded on Christian ethics and principles but they continually lie to vendors, customers, employees, and each other. Not one member of senior management has ever even had a business course much less hold a degree. Their human resources is outsourced to The Synergy Companies Inc. and have their contact person sitting on their advisory board giving him a direct conflict of interest in performing his job as advocate for employee disputes.

This company is unethical and has harbored very bad business practices. There is no room for progress  let alone advancement. There is no serious discipline to cultivate sound business relationships and upper managers  are found more inclined to deceive and abuse the trust if their employees. Management was not supportive of all their divisions and specifically targeted departments tearing the business apart by moving key personnel into positions they had no experience in. Nepotism was acceptable to an alarming point and boundaries were ignored causing ripple effects in morale and professional behavior.

In general, the work was interesting.  However, most completion expectations were unrealistic, and the management did not understand reality.  Engineers were not accountable for their mistakes, and the guys building the machines would have to compensate for that lack of foresight.  Pay was also dismal, and not adequate.  Expectation of hiring individuals with no experience or skills to build custom machinery, and didn’t understand that poor results would come of that.

Great people to work with. Very minimal training. Hire operators with little to no experience and throw them in the water to sink or swim. If you are on 1st shift you will get some training. If hired for 2nd shift there is no training and very stressful. Loved working there but unfortunately to much stress. 2nd shift is understaffed, untrained and not on the company's list of priorities. They continously bring in 2nd shift supervisor with no experience.

Very dishonest mgmt and office staff. There was no training for the position. Disgruntled and underpaid material handlers. Everyone is afraid of someone new coming in and stealing their thunder and their job so information on how to do the job is a well kept secret. Run. Dontvwalk from working here. I saw the reviews but still took the position. Costly mistake. 

This company has the assembly department working 10 hour days and short days on saturday in order to get production of its machines compleated. The assembly department is very under staffed and management will not replace people who have left the company. The company has a backlog of ordered machines and taking more orders but no more help is what I`m seeing.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Upper management is in need of a rectocraniectomy.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Upper management is in need of a rectocraniectomy.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Upper management is in need of a rectocraniectomy.

I came in as an Electricians Apprentice to learn how to wire the Thermoformers. Sadly, we didn't have many orders so I wound up getting shuffled around the shop. I found plenty of work to do, and even learned how to use a Bridgeport Mill.

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