Alpha-Integration

Typical day at work is working hands on with machinery, programming, design, and depending on the phase a project is in it could mean working at a customer facility. I have learned a lot about machine control and project management. The management here is essentially clueless when it comes to industrial automation controls. There is no management experience in controls with the exception of the controls manager. The upper management of this company overworks the controls department to cover for mistakes made elsewhere in the company and does nothing to improve the efficacy of the overall company. They dont trust the controls department because they dont understand the "world" of controls. This leads to a lot of overtime (unpaid), weekend work, frustrating workspace, and a high stress work environment. They dont listen to or even seem to trust controls engineers on their expertise, even though they themselves have none in controls. The hardest part of this job is the extremely tight and sometimes unrealistic timelines and requirements of the projects. The most enjoyable part would be the actual work. It is very fun to design, program, and install machines that showcase your capabilities. The benefits this company offers are mostly lackluster, but also feature good benefits such as 100% medical insurance paid for by the company.

Alpha has many capable and talented managers. However they have no leadership at all.
 They fail to set clear goals and objectives. Offer no coaching oppertunitys and terminate based off of unclear expectations. 
 They have a very basic Manager mindset. That conveys poorly to clients and if they expect to grow they will need leadership not managers that can lead the organization, build trust with internal and external customers.  The path they are on currently will yield the same fail modes they have always suffered from latency issues in products, overages in budgets and miscommunications to clients because they have a culture of the same people doing the same things they have always done. That will not change until they hire and keep the right leaders that can change the culture, establish trust internally and externally and give more ownership of roles to its employees through engagement and coaching oppertunitys parallel with combined training and work life balance. Working 90hrs a week does not garuntee success. Infact it shows incompetence nor drive. Especially when all projects are still late by months and overages in budget.

I worked here until my father In-law got sick, and I chose to leave and take care of him until his death in January 6, 2019.
Typical day started making coffee, and then making sure all our truck drivers had jobs to do, then,  I would do my walk around safety checks around the building & on the trucks, then I sent the drivers on their way. 
It was an easy job, sometimes frustrating because there was only 2 of us in the office. the hardest part of the job was, I had to answer the phones 24/7.
Best thing about my job, I got to see my family every day & I worked 40-50 hours with weekends off & holidays off.
Once again it was managing people, just in a different field, truck drivers. in the oil field drivers are a different breed, rough around the edges & teddy bears inside. I had a great crew.

Unfortunately I am going to echo what has already been said. The management does not understand management, plain and simple. While it may seem normal to have salaried people work free overtime, in this case it crosses the line into abusive. Most industrial control engineers who work a salaried position get at least straight overtime, sometimes after 45  or 50 hours, which controls routinely and expectedly exceeds. Under hiring and then expecting free overtime from a staff of two people is insane. Thanks to a couple of high paying customers the company has grown, though I am sure those customers would be shocked at the human toll involved.

In working at Alpha over the last 6 years, they have grown tremendously. Management is always working to improve the business and they are appreciative. 

Many of the team members are great to work with and its a family atmosphere with most of the staff. 

I enjoy the custom machine builds as it always allows a new adventure and experience. This can also create stress as this isn't a "production" environment. 

Overall love working at Alpha!

Pay is trash, all the management are liars. I worked here 7 years and was unexpectedly fired one day for reasons that I had just gotten good marks on in my performance review a few weeks prior. Really being fired was the best thing to ever happen to me. Nothing was ever good enough for management and you were expected to devote your life to the compay. Seeing the technology was cool and it definitely gave me unique insight to further my industrial maintenance career. I cannot stress enough to not work here. You will be miserable 

The management at this company doesn’t care how many hours you have to spend on the job as long as you make themselves look good.Have workers work 58 to 60 straight for days and managers expect it, I have as working 70 to hrs a week on salary and was still not enough to satisfy management 

I worked here fir only a few months, but I learned so much about management and leadership from my supervisor, the comptroller. She taught me to lead with quiet strength and tireless work ethic. She also taught me the importance of breaks, time management and interdepartmental relations. 

These guys hired me the same day I applied, they were backed up on work orders. They taught me how to wire cabinets for use in the oil field, and install electrical components.

Work week consisted of 12 hour days six days a week. Learn automation and instrumentation techniques. Workers worked as a team and helped out where help was needed.

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