maintenance technician

casting manager

production

machine technician

technician

Asama Coldwater Manufacturing

Been there 10 yrs. Lack of communication most days. Expected to put out large amounts of products with faulty equipment. Poor working conditions as far as walking around in corrosive coolant they only pay 75 once a year for boots so the other 1-2 pairs of boots are on you. They claim safety and quality first but the amount of coolant the machines leak is a safety hazard and been leaking from the same spots for 10 years. Employees get a piece of paper to sign for being trained and 99% of that is never physically shown after so you are mostly trained from your reading and comprehension skills. The trainings you do get are all rushed and expected to be caught on quickly and sometimes you are moved around several times during training so you don’t actually finish training what you originally started on till another day so you forget what you were shown already. The management has favored employees. Some people are expected to do multiple jobs and poorly paid. The pay system is very unfair New people come in making almost as much as everyone that’s been there for a while raises are about 30 to 50 cents a year unless you hit the cap for your position. Then you get no raise while everyone else gets one and if you do want to get another raise they have a nice little list to accomplish and it’s basically made to hold you back because some of the tasks are hard and if you are lucky enough to be taught how to do the person you are supposed to show you can do to get a raise is too busy for testing you and you never advance. And I could definitely go on but don’t have time.

Benefits package literally cannot be beat! Insurance is far superior to any other local employers, free gym memberships, local discounts, and associate events/luncheons are the notable perks!
With perks there are of course downfalls... Cooperation between departments is lacking and there is NO reprimand/accountability for not complying to pertinent ops standards. Promotions have been announced when vacancies were not posted in house.
Since boosting associate morale is always promoted, here are some morale KILLERS! Tasks are not fairly divided...it seems the more responsibilities you're given, the less you're viewed as an asset or promotion worthy! Pay/vacation package is decent, but dependable/long-term associates should also receive incentive when new hire package increases...keep LTA's morale up so they want to stay even longer!
Overall, I've had more enjoyable jobs, but I've had far worse! ACM could definitely use a cleanse/reformat to make the facility more unified. 

A typical day consists of morning rounds to each production line to follow-up with the prior day's production numbers. Following is casting quality meetings to collectively discuss and collaborate daily productivity goals. Part of the day is spent identifying defects and scrap trends on the foundry side and machining line. Root cause analysis techniques are utilized to identify problems and create alternative solutions. Accordingly, part of the day is spent using 3D modeling and fluid flow simulation software to design or improve product features and gating systems used in sand molds.

The biggest concept I learned there was the importance of communication between each department within the company and in a teamwork environment to achieve goals. However, the most enjoyable part was the comfort-ability with relationships amongst co-workers. Negatives would be lack of process control techniques and lack of direction from upper management.

Join ACM might be the worst decision I've made in my life, only second to getting married with my ex.

As other reviews said, they cut throat all the way to your back. Managers promote employees fighting each other and enjoy watching the show. They keep firing hard working smart guys and hiring more victims from outside of Coldwater. New joined victims receive no training, no instruction and no regulation. Everything is in such a chaos. Once new guy ever made any mistake, he would get humiliated by senior workers often. Bullying and abusing happened on floor as common occurrences. We operators could bearly survive more than 6 month, either we mentally stressed out or got fired. No communication between workers. And if you want to work there you'd better be a local white. It's amazing that high-ups still don't know what's going on. I'm glad I finally get out.

Those people here are dirtier than machines. In ACM we have evilest people in Coldwater area.

I have worked at ACM for the past year.  I read the other reviews and disagree with them.  Perhaps some of the people they worked with have left the company.  ACM is a good place to work.  The people seem genuinely friendly and the pay and benefits are above average for the area.  They have a lot of employee activities such as company sponsored trips to Chicago, Summer Picnics, and Holiday Parties.  We had steak and potatoes for lunch one day to celebrate meeting a quality target.  ACM supplies parts for Honda which is a very stable company.  Sure there are going to be tough days anywhere and sometimes people have disagreements but overall its a good place to work.  I would not hesitate to recommend ACM as a good place to work to a friend who wants to work in the manufacturing environment.

I was hired by a Temporary agency to help HR and accounting departments while they transitioned to a new computer system for a 3 month job but it was extended to 6 months. Even though I tried applying for other jobs within the organization, there was no opportunity for a Temp to get a full time position in the office. The company went through major changes in it's office staff shortly after I left and most of the managers are new. 
Lots of turnover in the factory and nepotism was rampant. Very strict working environment and Uniforms are required.
However, I did enjoy the work and the people I worked with.

Worst place to work in the US, where senior workers bully and abuse new people everyday. 

There is a very strong union in the company.  Those union guys all united together setting up new joined associates.  In the meantime, they cover all the dirty stuff from high ups, putting all blames on new guys.  

New employees must work more than 60hr a week without proper tool and training. Union guys teach new associates wrong process and misleading knowledge to screw them for fun. 

Most managers are liars with no sense of engineering and management.   The company is earning money by cutting manpower and pay check.

Evilest people in Coldwater.

A typical day at work started with a safety meeting then we would split up and go to our foundry to start our shift take over from the shift that was leaving,we would wait till our replacements got their so we could take brakes or lunch. at the end of the day we would do she same as the shift before us and would wait till our next shift came out. Management changed so much no one could keep up with them. Workplace culture was great i loved my team. the hardest part of the job was when people would not show up and you had to run your line with min people. working over shifts. the most enjoyable part of my job was that everyone on my line got along.

While working at Asama Coldwater, it was such a great more opportunity for me to work there and also getting a chance to work around great people, and taking my work ethic to a higher level and also the human resources was very respectful, and they have awesome benefits health insurance me myself would definitely recommend other people to work there if they are trying to better their work skills and learn new things. Such a great place to work!

The culture at acm is as other reviews, cut throat is putting it lightly
the manager pits his employees against one another , the only group that matters is the group that was hired in 97, tools are supplied by the company but withheld deliberatly, on the grounds that they can't afford them , there are no raises or a thank you for doing well , and you will work 7 days + a week manditory while the 1 st shift high senority people enjoys a couple days off a week .the factory is dirty and dusty all the time , a lot of smoke , exsposer rate to dangers is high, no communication at all between area leaders and leaders and employees .
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