automotive technician

sales coordinator

automotive service manager

general manager

porter

BraunAbility

A typical day for me is to check manufacturing dashboards making sure that the part setup is correct with cost and pricing as needed. RFI's are assigned to me to create service parts and kits. I create and maintain most service parts in Epicor 10. Documents such as ECR's and ECN's are written to detail changes. At any given time i have 25 ECN's flowing though the ECN manger software. At the end of the day I send out a list of committed documents to key people in the corporation. 
I learned how to create and maintain Excel sheets in several applications.
Knowing how the erp system works has been important to everything I do. ERP is a continual learning and training process.
BraunAbility management are knowledgable and set goals that support growth. 
The casual culture puts others at ease. There is a community and family closeness. Employees are given opportunities to serve in the community along side upper management. 
I would say the most difficult part of my job it finding time and opportunity to learn more about my job. Growth through learning, for myself, is very important. Cross training with fellow department co-workers helps everyone involved especially the department. 
 At BraunAbility, we as a community build wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAV). Which gives families and individuals the opportunity to get to Dr appointments, attend family gatherings and whatever events they choose. Lead full lives. That, for me, is wonderful. We employees, also get out in communities and build accessible ramps for those in need. We keep handicap parking spots painted and easy to read.

I mostly enjoyed my time at Braun Ability as a welder. Over the course of the time I worked there, I did a lot of welding as well as other projects in my down time such as painting and fabricating some equipment and cross training in other departments if I wanted to work a shut down. A typical work day had me clocking in, listening to a morning meeting, and getting to work with a few other guys in my group. Normally we would work until the job was finished and that usually left us with an hour or so before the end of the shift. The work load varies throughout the year. More recently I had been working 10 hour days and sometimes Saturdays. Management was usually good in my area and I enjoyed my job. However, I would rate my job highly because of who I worked under, who I worked with, and the quality of work we did. Some areas of the plant didn't seem to be as nice and I would probably rate it lower if I had worked in those areas. Overall, I would recommend it as a place to work depending on what your job was going to be. I liked the company as a whole.

There are some wonderful people at BraunAbility. People who truly want to make a difference and drive for change.

The problem is the changes needed within the org are never really welcomed when they are desperately needed. If you don't go along with the program, you're ousted and they request someone else.

 I've heard direct employees complain of this too and leave.

 Many business processes are outdated and manual entries, slowing down the business. This seemed to be the reason more time is spent by the team providing maintenance support rather than improving the infrastructure or getting some meaningful work completed. 

When looking to implement new methods of data analytics or integrations, the company simply does not have the infrastructure to support it and doesn't meet the dependencies to build out properly.  

If you want a day to day where you never know what to expect as an IT consultant, this is the place be and it is by no means enjoyable.


The only thing this place has going for it is the pay. Management is terrible even if you bring your concerns up regarding employee behavior or quality issues or just anything really it's just completely looked over and nothing is ever done about it. You're not aloud to do your job properly because they expect you to baby grown adults because "don't want to hurt people's feelings " when you apply for a job it outlines the expectations of the job, but here? Nope they'll hire anybody just to fill a spot. And then expect you to train them on something they should already know how to do. If you like to bow down and lick boot you'll definitely do well at this place. But don't be your own person because that's unacceptable. And leadership could care less if you have personal things going on, they won't even check and make sure your doing ok. If you're looking for a job that pays fairly well this is it, but don't expect anything other than that.

It’s a decent place to work, it just really depends where you go and what plant you go to. If your a welder like me, you’ll make the most money in Plant 4, but that job is extremely demanding. There’s other welding jobs in 4 that aren’t so bad. Just don’t expect your annually pay raises, the management isn’t the best in 4 and they tend to ignore the raises. In plant 6 you’ll make the normal welder rate and the work is also pretty demanding. But the management is pretty good, they just tend to forget about raises also. Plant 3 in my opinion is the best, they have probably the same or better management than 6. They are pretty good at remembering about the annual raises and the work isn’t that demanding you just have to move a bit quicker. Plus 3 is the only plant with 1st,2nd, and 3rd shift. They all are based around an 8 hour shift. 6am-2pm 2pm-10pm 10pm-6am

A typical day at Braun, start work at 6 am, work on vans, take three 10 min breaks and get off at 3 pm. Working at Braun helped me understand cars better and how they work. At braun i learned a lot of hand and power tool skills as well as people skills. The management was good for the most part. The only thing i would say thay lacked in was safty in some areas. I got along with all of my co-workers at Braun. Everone was nice and was willing to lend a hand when needed. Being my first factory job the speed took alittle getting use to but I got it down after a short time. I really enjoyed working with all the different tools as well as knowing that i was helping build someone a great quality handycap accessible van and making someones life that much easier.

A typical day involves, prepping for the wire cutting machines. The different wires that go to the order are pulled for each of the orders and put in bins for the wire cutters. I keep them stocked up. I handle all the work orders, and if the prints need corrections I do that. I also hand cut all the smaller orders. I deal with the warehouse and making sure the stock is there and pulling it out. I have been trained in the majority of the work areas in the department, so I know how to cut the wires, prep the wires, terminate the wires, and assemble the wires. I have also picked parts and packed finished harnesses for shipment. I get along with my supervisor, but I am not fond of the way the department is managed from the manager. I get along with all my co-workers and I really enjoy working with them.

Was decent work but they set unrealistic goals. Constantly finding out ur working overtime 10 minutes before u leave. Uncertified, inexperienced welder/fabricators make the same $ as certitied, 20 year experienced welders/fabricators. They say "promote within" but everyone I worked with had been at their positions for 10-15 yrs straight. Understanding management  but definitely some favoritism going on.
It's a great place to LEARN if you are inexperienced and unskilled. But after seeing the welds they let pass WITH NO WELD INSPECTORS (these are going on vehicles traveling down the road) I  didn't want to put my name on any of the vehicles I worked on fabricating and welding surfaces. 

Braun wants to be a industry leading giant but wants to keep the same small mom-and-pop shop culture it was founded on. This leads to inconsistencies with the work assigned and company direction. The rural small-town Indiana influence culture is directly opposing the inclusiveness Braun preaches for their products. Employees are crude and not punished for using slurs in the workplace. It is also not uncommon for family members to be working at Braun. This nepotism leads to unfair treatment. Overall if you want to work for a respectable company that functions in a fair way, avoid applying at Braun. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people I worked with on my line 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
To many bosses not enough workers 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hot at times you say something and they seem to how you say in 1 ear out the other 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Prep work before you even start work not clocked in to may people goof around and it can even effect your work

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
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General manager 4 salaries reported	$84,000 per year
Porter 1 salary reported	$19.00 per hour

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