manufacturing associate

maintenance technician

quality engineer

production operator

technician

Antolin

This location used to have a great work environment, pleasant and friendly atmosphere, functional and accessible management, and most knew each other by name despite having a few hundred employees throughout all shifts. The benefits for both hourly and salary were top notch and highly competitive in terms of coverage and premiums for the employees. 

Both COVID and the restructuring and centralization measures via head quarters in Spain have depleted morale and sent many long term inhabitants of the company elsewhere. We have lost some great department managers, office staff, and hourly production employees due to these changes. Office staff were able to keep the great benefits, but hourly staff, other than those grandfathered in, have lost ability to choose any buy up options. Granted their only option is premium free, which is still great, just now with deductibles in the thousands vs the previous $500. 

Any now centralized positions and most new on site department managers are so micromanagy and nit picky that they’ve made it nearly impossible to finish any task, no matter the size, in a timely manner. They have reduced staff to the bare minimum and are stretching the remaining staff thin, leaving employees feeling depleted of energy and motivation as it is clear now that we are nothing but a number and expected to dedicate what was once our free time at home on evenings and weekends to work instead as we are too overloaded during the time at work to complete our tasks.  I could go on and on, but I hope this has made some points to be considered. 

Grupo Antolin in KC produces headliners for GM. They only hire through two temp. agencies: Prologistix and Elite. There is chance for permanent work through Grupo after 90 days, although it may actually take anywhere from 5-8 months before being hired on permanently by Grupo. 

Warehouse is not temp controlled. Winter is fine, but summer time is pretty brutal. Grupo does supply plenty of water and ice to all employees during the hot months. 

Management is pretty laid back and friendly. Very diverse atmosphere, culturally. In the area I work, I am within earshot of at least three different languages everyday. Nice people work here. One downside is the repetitive work. The first week I was really tired getting used to performing the same movements the entire shift. Several shifts available, but entire line must stay until work is complete. Average 8 hour shift can be anywhere from 7-10 hours. Ford line is a 12 hour shift and they work lots of overtime during summer (mainly Saturdays). 

Only other downside is pay. Temporary production pays $13/hr. Once hired on permanently through Grupo, the pay raises to $14/hr. Not much, especially for the repetitive work. But to offset the low pay, Grupo does offer a 401K, plus an available free health insurance benefit package. Yes, free!

Starting working there for a pittance wage of $8.50. Ended up making $15.60 with their updated pay scale. That had nothing to do with kindness to their workers as they openly admit that they have 74% turnover every year.

Management is pure hit and miss. Most aint worth a dang, telling you one thing and yet doing another. Constantly on your butt to produce product yet operate machinery on it's last legs with barley any competent maintenance in the building. Their machines are always going down and guess what? It's all your fault as the employee. 

Way to much overtime and I'm talking 6-7 days a week for months on end. Don't like it then the heck with you and go away is the company attitude. Must be nice as anyone above shift supervisor that has every weekend off. 

Their healthcare is pretty good. They do have a small profit sharing and do match your 401 k a bit. That's about all that's good there.

If you enjoy micromanagement, being screamed at by management, gossiped about by your superiors and operating inferior equipment then this may be the job for you.

I worked there 9 long years putting up with all the drama, gossip, hours blah. Was actually fired after 9 years because I took ONE to many sick days by accident.

I wouldnt tell my worst enemy to take this job.

Worked at facility for 6.5 years and continuously found myself working through the night and weekends without any compensation for the extra effort. Never had a manager that could teach me nor had my back when the challenge to defend decisions came up. Upper mgmt continues to promise turnaround of monthly financial loss without any change to the company structure, plan or process improvement. New business is awarded however there is no room for the new business within the facility yet while promise of shipment made starting 7 months from now with no new equipment in place or personnel to plan/run it. Lean department structures create inadequate ability to make dependable decisions thus shoot-from-hip atmosphere a constant. Weekend planning happens on previous Thursday just before noon and rolled into production environment on Thursday late so no opportunity for personnel to plan weekend family life. Production recordables are falsely published knowingly then blaming the materials group for the failures. If you are looking for a hectic, high pressure, 24 hr daily demanding job, that is your dream come true.

It is a great place to work if the mangement actually gave people time to themselves. No one wants to be stuck at a factory 6-7 days a week with no time off. Hence why the turnover is so high. If I was upper mangement, I would definitely suggest doing 10 hrs, 5 days a week or 8 hours, 5 days with a 12 hr weekend shift with extra pay/incentives. Hitting our daily numbers (210 parts a night, 34 an hr, or 1125 a week) is unrealistic in a 8 hr shift with so little people. Then the breaks are really stupid. Why give us two separate 10 mins and a 20 mins break within 4 hours ? That's why we can't hit our numbers. Then the machine always goes down and you won't have your 75k a year engineers to come out and reprogram the damned things. Unless you guys plan on hiring more people to work the line while we rotate out for breaks or making another shift, I don't see how you can keep people. Listen to your employees and learn how to make your company a better place to work.

It was a really good place to work for fast paced workers. I would come to work and go to the assembly line. It was fun and making sure you could be fast at what you do and have perfect quality. I learned a lot from this company on how to assemble the inside of some of the cars we worked on. The management needed some help. The only bad thing about it was that they never followed proper procedures or even followed by our own company contract. The co-workers were fun to work with, very helpful and if u needed help with something they were always there to help. The hardest part of the job would be starting new doors and you would have to build them differently from what you knew. It was hard at first to get it in tag time which is before the line reaches red. The most enjoyable part of the job was that we always got the job done.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They will hire you for general labor/assembly 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Extremely fast pace. Short breaks. Not enough manpower for tasks, high employee hire/quit ratio.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Good people. Overworked. Forced to work ot daily as needed. No guarantee set hours. Nice lunchroom. Lockers too small. Well lit. Many mechanical errors of machines. Very little PM. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Punch in, stow your things in assigned locker. Go to lunchroom and choose a seat to place your lunch in and jacket/coat. Go get PPE. Go to work area to check stock and condition of machines. Usually left under stocked. Go to shift meeting. Given assignments. 5 minute group stretches. Start shift. Work. Break. Work. Lunch. Work. Break. Find out if we have enough units. Mandatory overtime until job is done, or if already completed, go home. Ot can run 4 + hours.

It ain’t about how hard you work! It’s about who you know. Senior leadership had their favorites regardless of how hard you worked. Their attitude was very authoritative and they wanted nothing more from you than to just keep things quiet on the night shift. If I were to go back and do it again, I wouldn’t work nearly as hard because they just wanted a babysitter. You won’t get rewarded for hard work because they already have their favorites staffed on day shift. My last two weeks after putting in my notice, I did literally nothing but watch movies on my phone in an office and my manager said I had done a great job the last couple weeks I was there. Mind you, my manager wouldn’t be saying that if they knew I’d been shut up in an office watching movies.

However, what I had done before was criticized because I had an argument with some of the favorite supervisors on day shift. Pay wasn’t very good and hours were long.

When I first started there in 2018 it was really nice to work there. Now it’s a lot of favoritism and lack of management experience. Supervisors doesn’t know how to talk to people with respect , but expect you to respect them. Also, the supervisors choose who they want to get up coming positions according to who they like, not experience. So, if your not following them around trying to please them don’t expect any advancement. They treat people like they don’t matter, just give them their production. That’s all that matters to them now. Also, they say their informing everyone when someone at the job has COVID and been around them, their not informing everyone. That’s why I quit. I was around someone and was never informed by them.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The  Plant is outdated and management does not care about the employees. Even in 3 digit temperatures they provide no relief! 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The workload  and meeting target because they are constantly understaffed! The department managers and Plant mgr act like they are too good to help out given the staff shortage. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is racist. The managment team is hispanic and invest time training hispanic employees  instead of all every employee. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day is getting mentally prepared to deal with the rising temperatures outside and not having climate control in the facility. Wondering how to make the glue stick despite the rising temperatures and the humidity in the plant.

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