cnc machinist

senior cnc machinist

machinist

material handler

deburrer

Ascentec Engineering

Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5)
Review: Current employee ( 1 yr )
Most days are a mix of troubleshooting, department coordination, and refining workflows. It keeps things interesting, and you can really see how your work affects the bigger picture. I’ve picked up a lot—especially around process mapping, cleanroom operations, and how to communicate clearly across teams. Management is generally supportive and open to feedback, and the culture leans collaborative with a good dose of humor. The hardest part is navigating role boundaries when you're ready for more responsibility, but leadership is open to those conversations. The best part? Knowing your work actually improves systems and helps the team succeed.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Other people that work there are fun to be around and were helpful there was a lot of rushing and sometimes the quality of work was lacking 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I think that the time frames were very tight and very few people were actually able to meet them unless they had been there for an extended amount of time 


What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It wasn't positive at least for most people and the constant hiring and firing of people didn't lead to a good culture or environment because there was the constant looming fear that you weren't performing good enough unless you might be let go of 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
9 hours of breathing metal dust while trying to rush jobs that should take longer than you have time to finish them

There are really no words to describe how awful my time working here was. During my time here, we didn't have a single all employee meeting. No one but management knows how the company is performing, and they hide it from the employees. Leadership is non-existent here. There are no policies, so management just does what feel like doing. If you have any issues whatsoever, they will not be taken care of.  They only care about one thing here and it is not their employees. I dreaded coming to work. There isn't a single happy employee here and you can feel it as soon as you walk through the door. They also advertise a production bonus and fail to mention that they have never been able to hit the metrics for so. It's a very deceptive company. 

Highly skilled machinists here make less than competitors starting wages. There is no formal training process. They don’t outline the education or pay for progression through machinist levels I-IV. Safety guidelines often aren’t followed or enforced. Machines aren’t maintained. Most people seem unhappy with their job making the environment quite toxic. A lot of their experienced machinists have quit, so it’s hard to learn useful information. Training isn’t prioritized, so the company relies heavily on a few machinists with the most experience, but they’re usually not compensated extra for the work they put in. 

I would work 10 to sometimes over 12 hours, and having to work through lunches at times, being expected to do more despite already managing tasks that 4 people should be sharing.  You can learn a lot, but you will need to search for the answers yourself, or make a mistake to learn something.  Be cautious of some (not all) of the management, as some were made managers due to seniority, despite not having the skills needed.  In turn if you work hard, and try to help or better the broken process, then you will be fired in order for the managers to secure their position.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working 3 12s over the weekend

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management doesn't understand jobs bring done, poor leadership and planning

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Non exsistant, there is no training because trainers are too busy trying to work so those being brought in are leftvwith nothing to do or learn to be valuable

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Be lectured about being busy, fighting over cleaning equipment to fill out your hours as a machinist, be lied to by management about work and boss's outside life

There were some pretty knowledgable people here, some kind and willing to collaborate while others would not give "inferiors" the time of day. There were just too many people with the latter attitude. Seemed like there was pretty high turnover. Some of the more established employees had a snobby attitude. Could be better now, give it a shot. Parking was atrocious on day shift. 

Everything is stressful. From fighting over who gets what tool holder, CMM, money, etc. it makes no sense. Although awesome Machine tools (Okuma mostly), setup sheets aren't followed, they don't put enough money back into other departments and instead focus it on new projects leaving departments to suffer, they don't have a strict hiring procedures so things are constantly crashed by people, and good luck trying to get proper training in the first place because there is no real actual training but instead figuring it out as you go.

Worked here for upwords of 4 years now and enjoyed the experience and learning that came with the position. I have learned many skills and have gained a vast knowledge of the manufacturing industry. The downside is the inability to grow in your position. When they like you in a position, it is extremely hard to ever get promoted to another position for career growth. The opportunities for growth are almost non-existant.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Received training on multiple machines when no welding work was available. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Welding work doesn't come in very consistently, so spent a lot of time working machines (CNC, vertical mills, robodrills, etc) instead. Training is seriously lacking. Also they expected me to fix all their little equipment repair needs, rather than just replacing the parts.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Environment is good, ppl mostly leave you alone so you can work. Culture was a little more conservative than I like.

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