production technician

engineering intern

warehouse technician

it support

laboratory technician

Asahi Kasei

You never know what is the "fire of the day" and upper management doesn't care about the "little man on the floor/office" that does the work and how realistic their demands are. Too many projects, each manager has their own different "fire" and screams it needs to be done today, no resources, no money,  they hire green people that have no experience yet to help or get a project started, but expect it to be done right, with great quality by tomorrow. Everything is last minute and HOT HOT HOT...
If you care about your work and work hard trying to stay on top, they work you to death and just replace you. They talk about safety and don't even see their employees crack mentally or on stress under them. If upper management likes you or you sell yourself as irreplaceable  you can do what you want but if they don't care about you and you rock the boat by pointing out something they don't want to hear, you will be out of there no matter how hard you worked - so lots of playing favorites.
They talk about culture change but the leaders don't live it themselves. They do treat their employees like children who are too stupid to think. And the company is not big enough to avoid them - you will see them daily if you are in Fowlerville.
All in all most employees you talk to are nice but not happy. Some people are evil backstabbers and petty things like the dress code gets used for little annoying complaints and make you watch your back all the time, so it's stressful to come in even if you think you dress right.

Pros: Benefits/Compensation, solid foundation for bonus program, health incentives, and retirement plan (401k)

Cons:

Advancement: Favorites are played during the hiring process. They would rather hire from the outside then promote from within. Employees are brought on board that are not suitable for the job. Management tends to play favorites and hire people they formally worked with who are now laid off or out of a job, OR hire relatives and have them as a direct hire. This is AGAINST corporate & local policies, but HR turns away from this.

Management: Toxic, fast to blame individual contributors. Numerous projects get derailed by poor time management (everything is a priority), or lack of funding. They ink every purchase and project, but when things fall apart and employees look up to them and ask for resources they aren't received, or held up for months. When the project falls flat on its face, it's laughable to think management will take any responsibility. When the new capital year starts expect to have 5-6 projects, yet 2-3 will be successful throughout the year.

Job Culture: Everybody's plate is overly full 80% of the time. Here's an example when you need to mine data, the process takes HOURS! Databases are usually missing entered data, corrupted, or in Read-Only because someone else has it open. Too many meetings & weekly reports that consume HOURS week after week. Everything is very manual/time consuming, nothing is automated. 

Process & Equipment qualifications & verification's are a JOKE, and they wonder they there is so much variability & lack of repeat-ability in a manufacturing process.

My experience at AKBA enabled me to hone and improve my skills both mentally and physically. I was tasked with many responsibilities, both through computerized tasks and physical tasks related to manufacturing and assembly, as well as over Quality Assurance of machines. Not only that, but I was also tasked with training and working with new-coming interns, especially with me being the first intern to be initiated in the tasks. From there, I had to learn to communicate well both within my department and outside of it.

The overall workplace culture was very fun, with everyone seeming to enjoy each other's company, which gave plenty of positive vibes for the working experience. Management was very organized, with the supervisors and managers of the departments working diligently to give certain tasks and make sure that the tasks are well-executed.

The most difficult part of the job would be making sure that assembly and pre-testing for the chromatography machines were completed by a certain deadline, especially if there were any bumps in the road such as missing parts are incomplete welding jobs. However this point also delved into the most enjoyable part of the job, which was communicating and working with others in order to jump over those hurdles that stood in our way to completing the project.

I was asked to join Asahi Kasei for MRI business development because I had great experience to development MRI and basic technology NMR in JEOL.
I joined for the good position; VP, New Business Development that covered all electronics related new business including MRI and Semiconductors.
I managed all activities for MRI business in the world wide base, including Japanese R&D. 
However Asahi Kasei' MRI is not good enough for marketing and we had decision to have joint business with other big medical company.
We checked many good companies including GE and Siemens and create new business relations with Siemens. I had many trips between USA-Japan-Germany and made great negotiations with Siemens managements. Then created new company in Japan; Siemens Asahi Meditech.
After MRI business, I have to work with Semiconductor business development, I had successfully created new business in Silicon Valley; AKM Semiconductor that records were zero to $35 million.

The start of the job isn’t bad, first two weeks you’re doing meetings and computer training. All management will hype up the company and tell everyone they will love the job. Then the first week you get out onto the floor it’s a different story from every employee out there. Employees aren’t paid nearly enough for the amount of workload put onto them. Saw several employees be thrown into areas or lines without proper training just because they were short on people. As if one of the people on management couldn’t come down there and actually help the team out. Good luck ever getting breaks either, management will say you can come to them to get a break covered but this is incorrect, and if somehow they do actually get you coverage they give you attitude for it. Plenty of times there were workers that maybe got to use the bathroom twice their entire 12hr shift and never got a lunch in. Many injuries occur at all locations and for the most part they don’t seem to actually care about the injured worker, more so about the company’s numbers at the end of the year. Lots of promises to be moved up or given raises but you don’t receive either. Stay clear of this company for your own well-being. 

Management misses the mark on many points; no support for front-line employees, lack of experience and a lot of boundary crossing with inappropriate behavior and comments from upper management.  Everything is an emergency because management is non-existent / inexperienced / distracted with other things.  High turnover and stressed out employees.  I was an IT Support Tech and I was assigned to work at one of AK's partner sites.  The site was incredibly unappreciative and downright hateful of the support that I provided to them and the communication / support provided by management made things worse, after I reported it to them.  The benefits and pay were fantastic but even the pay/benefits could not outshine the incredibly stressful and, at times, abusive work environment that I endured while working here.  I do not recommend working at Asahi Kasei at all.  

I only worked there for a month and for me that was more than enough. The first two weeks are pretty much spent in meetings and in the computer room doing tests and learning. Everyone in a management role will tell you how amazing and awesome this company is but that goes out the window the first week you're actually out in the work areas and start talking to the employees. Good luck to you if you accept a night shift role. The "trainers" are nowhere to be found unless they absolutely need to do something. If you're on the packing end of a line,  have fun tearing apart the machines every night and then having nothing to do but play janitor and clean and clean to have something to do. It's loud, the people are rude, it's hot, it's cold. The pay and benefits are good but not good enough for the what you deal with. Lots of cliques in this place as well, almost as bad as a high school. Also, watch out for the guys with the walkie-talkies. They walk around like some kind of police force or something. 

The shifts where ok!!! but it’s a horrible work environment most of the people that got fired was well deserving of the walking papers. Regardless of race as stated in previous reviews Management was very unprofessional from top to bottom. Self directed work force could work but it starts with management hiring the right people!!! The Athens facility could have been a gem in the rough but was a ruined coming out the gate!!! The shifts had a handful of employees that was committed to be successful while the rest of the shift was worried about taking 2-3 hour breaks!!!

Place was only concerned with profits.  Shifted pay weeks to get out of overtime pay.  New supervisors and high turn over caused poor working conditions.  Pay was adequate, but I had co-workers set me up for failure to insure their continued overtime.  Supervisor didn't report hours and had to file wage complaint with the state of Michigan.  

The actual work was reasonable and even enjoyable, but the negativity was unbearable.  Lots of people leaving who made good money and had been there for years because of new rules and company wide changes.

my day involved typing into the computer, and that's about it.  some of it was for safety purposes but mostly about filing paperwork about who took what training seminar.  I went full time at some point and got yelled at a few times, then finally just dropped for not understanding their computer system that was being replaced for being a dinosaur.  The person I was to be replacing that was retiring gave not a care the whole way through other than saying something like 'this is not a nice place to work' after a totally disgusting accident in plant.  

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