apprentice

structural welder

material handler

quality control inspector

welder

CIVES STEEL COMPANY

This place will often take you and your skills for granted. compared to your work and other jobs your pay is lacking. Theyll make you learn so many things and take to long for the pay wage and turn around give the less experience guy the same pay. Here, you do lots of manual labor while working easier places get almost the same or more pay. They will drop overtime on you with less than 24 hours notice even though they say they will give you more notice or theyll post up overtime for months make you lose all plans and family functions hard and then turn around and either make you work more unposted hours or take away that o.t. after you already ruined plans..i got hurt at work..messed up back and they threw out my case because they saw me having to lift my newborn and continued to make me do work that threw out my back.. Overall youll hate it.. youll be underpaid compared to others..and be mistreated as an employee and took advantage of when you know more things and forget about home life

They pay average in the area but the biggest perks are in the benefits. Profit share checks are usually decent sometimes great. Benefits: profit share, 401k, bcbs insurance, vision, dental, career training, medical leave, vacation, second chances, advancement opportunity, and more. If a family member dies the whole shift even comes together to take up money in efforts to help support each other and its 100% volunteer. Sucks to have to start out as a material handler on the yard but its kinda like paying your dues. If you make it through your probation period on the yard then it means you really want to work and it over all makes the whole company more successful which then makes the employees a better profit share. Great system that's proven to work. The company has been profitable pretty consecutively since the door opened. Only times it's really seen struggle were when the whole county fell but even then it survived when many didnt.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Sometimes 4 day work weeks 
Friendly co workers
Climate controlled (kinda) 


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management is not where it needs to be. Never listen to employees when needed, if youre a "salaried" employee you basically do what you want with no one getting in trouble. If youre an "hourly" you better be ready because you will get in trouble for the same thing the supervisors do. The assistant super is so self centered doesnt care about anyone or anything but himself or numbers. Will get in your face and argue and micromanage. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Clean shop
Newish machines 
Swamp coolers to cool the shop (when working) 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Not too bad if you aren't being micromanaged to the point of exhaustion. Steady pace and friendly people. Start at 5 and end at 330.

If you are a standard employee you are allowed basic vacation, work hours are non negotiable, attendance is strictly enforced and documented expect to use your paid leave hours for basic times off that fall between 8:00 to 5:00 no exceptions (unless you are management, hypocrisy at it's best) raises are basic unless you truly shine. If you are a Manager you can do no wrong, vacation days are whatever you want them to be, work hours are whatever you think you need that week. Attendance is never questioned. Amazing benefits that only those in the clique are afforded (segregation and discrimination are encouraged). These are observations of the local facility only.

In the time I’ve worked for Cives I’ve learned more than I thought I ever could about fitting/welding structural steel; however, the compensation for the work we do is not enough. Supervision on second shift is terrible, they spend 90% of the night in the office. I don’t know much about first shift but have heard plenty of complaints about supervision as well. Workplace culture and coworkers are great, steady paced day, you’ll almost never be bored. Hardest part of the job is material handling as sometimes you’re moving 20ft beams and sometimes you’re flying 80ft/10 ton columns across the shop and supervision doesn’t give much help. Most enjoyable part of the job for me is the steady paced environment, I never feel rushed or overwhelmed and can complete my work at my own pace. 

Work-life balance
50 hours a week and it’s never enough

Pay & benefits
The insurance is ok
The pay is extremely low for what they expect from there employees

Job security and advancement
They claim anyone can move up 
Unless you kiss butt you are stuck at the bottom

Management
Supervisors are clueless do not have a clue the one for the welders on days thinks he knows everything but is a total jerk and couldn’t manage a bowl of water

Culture
Moral is always low due to the fact of lack of training and bad management

Overall
Stay away the ultimate worse pay for what is expected 
No proper training and don’t have the right equipment for the job
The machines are new but always broke down 
Because there are cheap

Horrible management, clicks are the way of the world there, management is only in their positions due to being related to prior person in position or they're buddies. Horrible pay for the amount of garbage you have to go through, and you will be forced to kill yourself working because they cannot keep any quality help, just a revolving door of workers. If you get hurt (which a lot of people have/do), they will just send you away and ignore you for a year until they can contractually let you go. 

I came in as a welder through a sponsored training program, worked under the guidance of several experienced employees and was able to learn every aspect of the operation. They really do take care of their employees. As most of the other shops were closing management scrambled to fit in smaller jobs, which had us working overtime but also kept the numbers up. In the area they are one of the highest paying stable organizations due to the quality of their people at all levels. The quality of product they produce is second to none.

Alot of back stabbing and drama on both shifts. I mostly keep to myself and just do my work but even then something always gets pinned on you. It's a war between night and day shift. Both saying the other is worthless. Can't keep new hires because they can make the same pay at Target pushing shopping carts compared to flying steel and potentially injuring yourself. If you get promoted to a welder, fitter, M/O or burner. It takes you YEARS to jump a class because the geriatrics in there won't retire. Mostly due to the fact that their 401k plans kinda suck and you basically have only 4 years to live before your broke and have to die.

I enjoyed working with Cives Steel Company, the benefits and compensation outstanding. I learned how to read a blue print and enter into a BOM. I learned how the fox-pro system could take the information from the BOM and send it to the shop for multiple purposes. From Printing and Filing Blue Prints to keying the information from the blueprints and then purchasing the materials for the shop to create the beams to build Airports, baseball fields, hospitals... The management were very friendly and would teach you what you needed to know to do your job to the best of your ability. The culture was vast and friendly.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Apprentice 1 salary reported	$19.00 per hour
Structural welder 2 salaries reported	$26.54 per hour
Material handler 1 salary reported	$20.38 per hour
Quality control inspector 1 salary reported	$25.00 per hour
Welder 8 salaries reported	$18.94 per hour

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