maintenance technician

accounting specialist

production engineer

night team member

associate

Auto Parts Mississippi (APMM)

I began as a production worker in Zone 3 due to the fact I was willing to do whatever necessary to be a part of the automotive industry and working for one of the suppliers of Toyota seemed to be a good opportunity. I was quickly moved to the Quality department in only 3 months.  As a Marketing specialist for Ashley Furniture, I got to 
work with the QC department on various projects involving new& existing products, workflow, lean manufacturing, and Kaizan. This experience and Ashley’s manufacturing processes (based on Toyota) is what made me want to be a part of quality in the Toyota family. I do not regret my time spent in the production department. There I learned about TAK time, standardized work, JIT (just in time) manufacturing, efficiency, teamwork, and many more skills on doing things the Toyota way. Being in QC, I have learned even more skills to add to what I already had learned from Zone3, such as the importance of controlling and preventing flow out, constantly monitoring and checking parts to ensure they are within standard and 
tolerances, product and production control, and always making sure to produce quality products to the supplier.

I'm sure everyone has heard the phrase "The grass is always greener on the other side.". It's the same in most factories, depending on what department you work in you always hear another department is better. Whether it's more lax, or they work less, etc... the truth of the matter is, no matter which department you work in you are going to put in long hours and work weekends. In the paint department we were handing off shifts between 1st and 2nd. The line constantly stops for maintenance, so you're always having to pull emergency stock, then refill after the shift. No matter what, you are going to work at least 11 hours or more. Sometimes you'll work past the 12 hour mark 6-7 days a week.
The culture is "One team one goal" and they act that way most of the time. Pull your weight and you'll be fine for the most part, you'll have job security if you do you job which is good.
Overall, it's not a bad place to work if you have the time to do it. If you 're taking care of two kids, full-time student, and working Overtime at work you'll crash at some point.

If you want a good work environment and a place where you can advance if you want to.. this is the place for you.. plus great benefits and pay wages.. and a very loving and caring company, and if you do your job good and your part.. there is nothing they want do for you.. they're very good to there employees and always do special things for their hard working dedicated workers.. and they have a good safety program,where if your department goes without a reported safety issue , they feed you and if you go All Year your whole department.. they really go out of their way to do something special for you and your department.. and the Job security is most definitely good there.. and they have a good security team there,you never have to worry about your vehicle for nothing.. and you have to be a employee there to get through the gate, so not just anybody can Walk up in there and even when you get through the gate, you have to have a badge to get in the door..if you are looking for a place to make some good money.. the sky is the limit there.. it's really basically unlimited..

The pay wasn't great considering they're an affiliate of Toyota. But the work atmosphere was fairly lenient. Could pretty much get all the hours you want, or could when I was working there. Most of the other office staff are nice with the exception of a few. I was hired on through a temp agency. After working about 2 months, they had me rearranging filing cabinets one day and I made the remark to a coworker I thought was my friend that I was more qualified than to just be organizing filing cabinets. After I got all the cabinets redone, and did a dang good job I might add, I received a phone call at 8:00 one night saying they no longer needed me. I know it was because of the comment I made which I find absolutely absurd. I could have been doing more important work. I know bookkeeping, billing, payroll, pretty much every aspect of running or working in an office and I have a college degree. But whatever.

Management is poor to say the least. Unqualified people in positions of authority that make many questionable moves. Disciplinary actions are a joke and not the same across the board. Balance between work life and home life is lopsided to the work aspect. You work 10 plus hours daily. They steady cut jobs in each department and add more work to the ones who will work. There is alot of preferential treatment going on throughout the plant. HR is the worst I have ever seen. You get what seems like alot of PTO but if you add the 2 to 3 extra months you actually work per year on overtime it's a joke also. The morale of the entire plant is one of dread. You don't work to a time you work until you hit a number. I have been here for several years and I have NEVER went home after 8 hours unless there was a major problem at Toyota. And I can count on 1 hand how many times that has happened.

This is quite the demanding environment that because of the stress, needed to compensate employees well to keep them.  There was some slack time that people could relax at work, but 12 hour shifts were the norm.  Every once and a while you could catch a break and get off a few hours early, but that was the exception.
This place is paced from Blue Springs Toyota which sets the quota for each shift.  The robots can only go so fast welding the parts, and if something goes wrong, you can expect to stay over.  Normal everyday routine was to hand over production to the next shift right at the 12 hour mark.
The Japanese culture was very strong and with it came the work ethic that is sometimes hard for Americans to deal with.  For them, work is very close to the top of the food chain and gets the most attention.

Apmm is almost an unfair envinroment because I have been there for nine months and I they havent hired me in yet!! Its not only me but they treat the tempts totally different from their hired in employee members. Their hiring process is extremely slow the management is terrible they have their picks and chooses around the facility and its unfair to those who work hard to build a career path for themselves. The co-workers are very nice and they treat you as one them but can't say the same about supervisors and managers. There is nothing hard about the job at all as long as you are ready to work.

I started from the ground  floor in 2011. I worked my way up the ladder fast but was not into the sometimes politics you had to play to get ahead.i really enjoyed my time there and enjoyed the team members even more especially the people i started with and got to know . Our Japanese Advisors were awesome and taught us many things about the Automotive industry. i learned the enter workings of Management and how to properly run a Major Player in the Toyota Family it was truly a Great Experience in my life and probably the Best job i have ever had. I did have a few issues but the Good out weigh the Bad. Great Benefits, Great People and Great Reward.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There is no good thing about APMM it's an okay job if you like to do alot of walking breaks are to short for where you are located bathroom is a 100 feet away from where you work parking is 500 feet from the plant you are already tired by time you get from the parking lot to the plant and you don't have enough team leader for you 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Just type it on the first comment 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They have their picks and chooses 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Depends on how your process is running

It's an ok job if you get put in a department that there is good management. Unfortunately for me I was stuck in the only department in the plant that is 100% manually driven with only 6 people and only 3 of them building bumpers for 385 cars.  

Management could definitely use an overhaul however.  The previous ownership from Japan was very enjoyable and they were always willing to help you out. Now that the company has changed ownership to local it has been steadily falling out of control and they blame their employees for machine faults.

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