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CEVA Logistics

At the time of writing this review, the contents provided will be specific to what is currently the CEVA Plainfield IND site on Airwest. If it happens, this operation will be moving to Clayton, IN. Therefore, if you are potentially looking to onboard at a CEVA site in Clayton at the time of reading this, be prepared to enter under the same management and such. Let us dive in: 
This all will be pretty straightforward, simple, and to the point. This specific location of CEVA is the most unstructured, unorganized, inefficient, mismanaged, and barbaric business system driven operation I have ever been a part of. Basically, there is no legitimate onboarding training, whether you’re on the floor or going into management. You will just have to ask around and figure it out if you want to learn anything. Everyone has their own interpretation of what the actual standard operating procedure is and what the correct way to manage different situations should be. Because of this circus-like culture, every process that is conducted to perform any business function in the facility is incredibly inefficient. The barbaric business system? Glad you asked. I had to wind-back my brain to go back in time to 2005 to try and learn the way of technology and processing in order to do my job here…no exaggeration. Most of the processes in this operation are completely manual so the overall likelihood that you or someone else from start to finish will make a mistake, is extremely high. With a very reasonable capital investment, some very general automation integration would improve the overall business system dramatically. Not to mention, any organization that is able to think with an open-mind and analyze an operational investment with some sort of intelligence would be able to conclude that they should be getting on this tomorrow, if not yesterday. The best for last…I mean worst: mismanagement. Full disclosure: I was in management during my time with this organization. I can say this, on the supervisory level, those employees (in my opinion) are actually giving it their all and trying their best to run the operation with what they have to work with. The problem is, upper management is who makes the actual rules and expectations of the operation, with no input from their supervisors. Therefore, you have Managers and up making and determining business decisions that supervisors should be a part of, or at least have some sort of legitimate input. Which btw, is quite common in any successful company that wants real input and data since the supervisors are those directly dealing with frontline employees on the floor…the frontline employees are only the core foundation of the operation, no big deal. It is honestly disappointing and tragic because the primary reason I want to be in a managerial role is because I like to help people. I love talking to team-members and trying to help them develop, grow, and conquer whatever their dreams and aspirations are. It is really hard to do this effectively when you are not even sure how you are supposed to effectively manage, lead, and hold your team accountable on any given day though. Creates a lot of confusion and upset individuals, including myself.
My takeaway from my time with this company is best summarized as follows: Some of upper management just wants to be on cruise control and get easy, good paychecks for as little actual work as possible and/or has some severe control issues. If you need any support that goes beyond your direct supervisor, good luck. It is not readily available and even if you can connect with someone, the answer and direction changes by the day. Best of luck to anyone who decides to roll the dice with this operation.


This company is a joke. They do not give merit raises every year, and on the years they do they will give you .02 percent of a raise. They bump up their starting pay every 2 years to match the cost of living and stay competitive for new employees but leave the employees already hired on without raises for years at a time and they will cut your hours back to 35 hours a week from December through the end of the first quarter. ,
If you work here for more than 2 years you will end up training someone making far more than you. HR, station managers and global executives are aware of this and if you bring this issue up to them they will lie and say they are trying to fix the issue. Ten years later still hasn't been able to get fixed lol,
Management has no idea how departments work and they will come out with accusations before evaluating the situation. They are extremely disrespectful and do not even have common sense at times. They are mainly focused on outdated metrics that are not relevant to your daily tasks to ensure they get their bonus.,
They are really good at offering promotions without an increase in pay or any other benefits.,
The only way you will actually make descent money and advance within this location is if you have close ties with your management on a personal level.,
The company refuses to upgrade it's technology and has sales reps working with laptops that are several generations behind. They use a system that looks like it was designed to run on Windows 95 and some printers and other technology are over 20 years old.,
Other stations are also understaffed or unresponsive and escalating to upper management does not help.
Their hub network is unreliable and when they do move shipments they damage them.,

The company is split between CL and  ground within the same building and both sides will not work together. So another department could be losing hours while your department is understaffed and stressed.,
You do get a ok amount of PTO time but good luck getting those days approved and at the end of the year you lose the time and do not get compensation for it.,
If you enjoy being overworked, understaffed and under paid this is the job for you.,


I have worked in many positions and in many departments over the past 8 years. The work/life balance is terrible. Management says they care about your balance but then put you on mandatory overtime with no definite end date. They cut your hours with barely any notice. Every week is a shot in the dark as to how many hours you are going to get. Warehouse personnel work in non-climate controlled environment and for 8 - 12 hours a day 5 - 7 days a week with only one additional 15 minute break. There are at least 3 people every year that end up being taken off campus in an ambulance due to the heat.
If you do a good job in your position, they tack on more responsibilities and tasks but with no extra compensation. If you mess up or forget something after they have given you too much of a workload, you get written up. After a few of those they walk you out. 
Office personnel get hours cut and are the last to get their hours back. The same situation with responsibilities and tasks. They give you more work and you CANNOT fall behind even after they cut your hours or you will get written up or yelled at (yes my manager called me up on my phone and YELLED at me and then hung up on me). 
The management team used to be wonderful to work for. They cared about their employees and would work with you if you have a sick child or court dates or whatever you are going thru. Management now is more about showing Corporate office how "awesome" they are. Somewhere along the way the employees were forgotten about. They used to have family day which was a fun way to build the "family" culture but that has been taken away and replaced with .. nothing.

If you need a job then yes. It is a job. You may get a lot of hours at times or you could get your hours cut depending on the time of year and what department you work for.

Work at CEVA is actually pretty simple, once you know what you're doing. The training is poor quality, but the sheer amount of coworkers on the floor who can help you learn makes up for it somewhat.

At CEVA you're constantly under shipment deadlines that are fairly easy to meet. However because of those deadlines the management is constantly stressed and frequently gets into public in-fighting, often taking it out on their employees, with multiple supervisors and team leads often giving conflicting orders and making the work more of a hassle than it really needs to be.

The job environment for workers is relatively laid-back and those on the floor tend to get along, though perhaps this is due to everyone having an antagonist (the supervisors) in common.

Job security shouldn't be expected at CEVA. Warehouse workers and forklift drivers are considered expendable, even if it's to the detriment of the company. There's a paradox at CEVA where they're always looking for workers but hemorrhaging more than they can hire. Perhaps this explains the lack of proper training: the sheer amount of workers they frequently hire can't all be trained individually if there's empty roles in constant need of being filled.

CEVA also has a problem with training their standing forklift drivers, never truly OSHA certifying most of them for the same reasons employees on the floor aren't fully trained.

I'd recommend the job as a warehouse worker if you're looking for a quick buck, but don't expect to stay there long.

At first I very happy to have gotten the job at Ceva back in April.  I was praised for my work and to adapt to any circumstances.  I learned alot from one co-worker.  
A typical day would be cycle counting and receiving goods in and shipping goods out.  It was hot and hard work but I enjoyed what I was doing and learning.  What I learned was using SAP which was quite easy to pick up.  There were two co-workers that I really enjoyed working with.  They helped me learn the system, procedures, and were always there to help me.  The management was a different story.  I hardly seen my supervisor, and as for my Lead he never spoke to me or gave me any direction what so ever.  If I did have to speak with him he was rude and would not acknowledge me ever. The hardest part of the job was when I reported an incident that happened to me in the work place I was retailated against.  I was not believed and nothing happen to that worker. After reporting this incident no one would talk to me, help me, and would take work away from me.  Everyday after that reported incident I was getting written up for something when finally they fired me.  I enjoyed the job up until July and really thought I found a good secure work place but I was wrong.  They are racist and bias against woman and white people. What happened to me should not have happened to anyone it was so horrible and I have heard of these things happening but have never been in one.  I handled it the best way I could but they broke me because they didn't want to believe that could happen there.

CEVA Logistics pays good and offers some decent benefits, but the management is all over the place.. The company changes management like the weather (at least 3 different Area Managers in the past 3 years). You would think that the company would be run on one accord. Yet all three shifts (1st/2nd/AWS) operate on their own terms, causing tension between supervisors and trickling down to the "little guys." Honestly, it's nearly chaotic in the BW2 building located in Mt. Juliet, TN. I used to come to work to a warm, friendly and enthusiastic setting when I started nearly 4 years ago. In recent years I've progressively began to feel miserable just at the thought of having to go in that building. Work used to be just that, go in do your best..good vibes. Then they demanded that we meet hourly quotas as floor workers and forklift operators, which was no problem on a busy day. But to have that same demand during the slow season or a slow day and have people nearly fighting like dogs for work, taking co-workers' work from them, is just unfair especially when they're threating peoples' jobs for not meeting company goals in situations that are out of the employees' control. I've seen them chase away tenured co-workers that had been with the company for 16+ years!  It's almost as if this company has no regard or concern for the employees' lives outside of work, either demanding they work early, stay late or leave work early with no adequate notice or warning in advance. Besides the pay, I would not recommend anyone to work for CEVA Logistics in TN.

Go with an agency and don’t let them pressure you into taking on a contact after a certain amount of time of being there, as the contract pay is terrible and made up of loads of little extras like attendance bonus and rubbish like that the pay is not clear cut go through drivers direct or global recruitment and you will be paid fairly !very unorganised and a lot of waiting about ,transport manger will waffle you and tell you what you want to hear in the moment  mainly all bull poo!! lots of waiting about due to disorganisation and expected to do other duty’s after a 10 or 12 hour shift,it may only be to drop a unit down to the workshop or drop and swap a trailer at another depot if you have the hours left especially on contract but still when you have started at 3 or 4am this is the last thing you want !don’t be fooled into the 2k bonus there offering to get you on board it just goes to show how desperate they are to get drivers if you ask me ! I would not recommend working here, there trying to get into the container side of the business which they are useless at if you want container work go with a firm
That is established in this line of work or your be doing curtain work or box trailer work running about here there and everywhere ! The Kettering container depot is a joke they have just opened as there is hardly any if any container work hence why they have 5 curtained siders sitting there to send you out in when they need to. 

I have worked for this company for nearly 7 years, in the time I have learned many valuable skills and gained lots of knowledge of the industry. 

A typical day for me consists of providing my knowledge and experience in filling in gaps for the operation (customer service, sales, contractor relations, billing and rating, dispatch). My title makes be available to step in when others go on vacation and to be available for special projects as they arise (currently I am working on reconcilation of the over, short and damaged area). 

The most enjoyable part of my job is the interacting with customers and co workers as it's a flaid back environment. We tend to each make the best of each day and I really enjoy being a help to anyone that's in need with any question or problems.

The hard part of my job is being able to be flexible when someone is absent or when the operation is in need of someone to fill in due to absences and in my current operation we are under staffed considerably. This means I often have to be to work early and have to stay late. Additionally, I live 75 miles from where I work at this time and the commute is very difficult especially when the weather is bad. 

Management here is difficult to communicate with because of the considerable amount of turnover I have been forced to adapt to in the last 7 years. Its an area I feel the company struggles with on the whole.

CEVA Logistics is a uncontrolled/unbalanced place of employment. I was hired under contract to work 9-5 Monday through Friday at a rate of 12.25 per hour. Job load is evenly distributed and the work is overall easy. Management makes to many mistakes on shipping orders and logistics that we quickly went to working Monday through Sunday 12 hour shifts, which I believe is illegal. I worked the hours and had to put my family on the "back burner." One day coming into work, the word "ni*ger" was written on my locker and I reported this to my supervisor and head of human resources. I have never had a problem with anyone there or any conflicts of any kind. The area is known to have racial tension but still doesn't approve of someone writing racial terms on someones locker. After the incident was reported, they as in the company, way of fixing the problem was to take a permanent marker and scribble the word and said "problem solved.".... I said "Sc*ew you"... I will not slave for someone that takes so lightly to serious situations. Not to mention that they had people working in the hazmat department that was not hazmat trained and they ended up spilling hazmat and causing a entire plant evacuation as well as 500,000 dollars in damage and down time. CEVA is not the place to work and is not in control of what happens in the warehouses.

I was an engineer for GEFCO from 2014-2018 and really enjoyed my experience with the company. Had company locations not changed, I would still work there.

There are many unique design challenges for engineers and therefore opportunities to learn many new things. There are practical applications of mathematics and design that are both challenging and rewarding. There is nothing quite like designing a complex system and seeing it perform in person. And my boss at the time was absolutely great to work for. This is the true mechanical design job that most of us want after college.

There are several licensed professional engineers within the Astec umbrella, so if the experience needed for licensure is something you desire, it's attainable while working at GEFCO.

There is some travel required but it's infrequent. The pay is reasonable and will increase with time. The benefits are fine and the paid time off is average. 

My only gripe would be how disorganized and chaotic executive management was while I was there. I felt that large sweeping changes were made when new management was brought in for the sole reason of mixing things up. GEFCO has a lot of potential; It just needs better management and a desire to retain strong employees.

I would highly recommend entry to mid-level engineers work for GEFCO. It's overall a great experience.

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