maintenance technician

production associate

tool and die maker

production

production supervisor

Camaco, LLC

When you're worked 12 days straight out of the first 14 days that you're employed, and scheduled so that the hours you're worked deny overtime (because of the way it's scheduled), what do you think? What they call overtime, is MANDATORY, yet they seem to find a way, by scheduling, to deny the time and a half multiplier.

When casual conversation between employees about days off is taken to the dept supv to verify, and then being told by the supv "if you're tapped on the shoulder 10 minutes before shift end, that you're now required to work tomorrow, even thought you've scheduled off, that you're REQUIRED to come in". I won't be promised a day off, denied it, and then robbed of the overtime benefit. 

Showing up 40 minutes early everyday, but forgetting to punch (scan) in until the buzzer sounds, one time, because of being forced to stand in a line behind 20 temporaries, who have to fingerprint and enter a code, and consequently reporting it to the area supv so that you're not penalized, results in "points" being assessed anyway for "technically" being 2 minutes late! Ridiculous! It was known that I was early. It was known that I was ALWAYS early, yet assessed a penalty anyway. Where's the common sense in that? It just ruins good, hard working employees that'll eventually quit because of stupid, assinine policies. I can see chronic lateness being penalized, but 2 minutes, and I was THERE?

The only way to see the things I and others speak of, that result in bad ratings, is to be an employee. Good employees aren't valued. Favoritism is rampant. They want yes men and cheap working slaves who don't need to have lives to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Don't cooperate with their ridiculousness and they'll find a way to award points that accumulate in penalties, and/or worse yet, termination. 

Go work for them and find out for yourself. Don't take anyone's word for it. Why do you think they're ALWAYS hiring? I was warned, but gave them the benefit of doubt thinking I'd run across someone with sour grapes to sow. I should have listened.

Stay away from Camaco in Portage In. Newly built building and its a oven in the summer. No fans in building to circulate the hot air. Bring your own fan if you want to blow around hot air all day. Employees are nothing but a number they dont care about you or the next person. Its all about the numbers not how are the employees. Its so hot in there the fire dept is always there picking someone up for heat related problems and sending to the hospital. 10 hr days 6 days a week and if they dont like the numbers they make it 7 days a week. You must stand all day in the shop even if your down or waiting on products you have to stay at your station and in the shop standing no sitting down at all even if your pouring sweat about to pass out. Breaks are horrible you only get 2 10 min breaks and a 10 min lunch as well when it takes you 5 mins just to walk from shop to break room. Management is a joke they dont know how to talk to people and just bark orders at you in a *** when they get to go to their office with ac. Non union shop making seats for lear, Ford and Chevy. Best to try working for lear or Ford at least they are union. If you like being yelled at for stuff beyond your control this is the place for you. Its like slave labor when they first started you werent allowed to bring bottled drinks on the floor until people starting falling out from heat stroke. Place is a huge OSHA violation someone is going to get hurt working the way they expect you to. DO NOT APPLY UNLESS YOU LIKE TO BE A SLAVE

I typically at work at camaco is to make sure your machine is able to run for the night or shift. After all that is diagnosed properly you may begin assembling your parts after you assemble your parts it is put into a CNC machine and then welded with laser arc welds. After you inspect your first two pieces you may begin producing more hardware. What I believed I learned was to do everything myself because if I asked maintenance or the manager for help they would actually get upset with you like it was your fault and not the machines fault and there was no way around it. The workplace culture is good but employees are nice to each other but management supervisors and shift leads to make it the worst job possible because they want you to be revolutionized into robots. You get a 20-minute lunch break and they still get mad at you for taking your whole 20 minutes. The hardest part of my job and was trying to figure out the diagnostics to my machine without any help from the supervisor or maintenance because they do not care what your problem is and there shouldn't have been a problem in the first place. The most enjoyable part of the job was hanging around like minded people who could actually help you out and give you a help in hand That's that employees not management. 

not a good company to work for, management  its poor, the culture and the job its easy all depends on what you do.the hardest part of the job its that they don't fix the machines and they expect you to hit rate.  i learn how to be a supervisor a good supervisor by watching other supervisor characters , i wanted to be different. a typical day at work  again is fun but when dealing with poor management will make your day a bad day.
 they give you a 30 minute lunch and 10 minute break which is good.
sometimes they do barbecue  for Christmas etc. 
but again employees dont have a secure job,  poor HR  personnel, poor management , this 2 things will make a company high on turn overs employees not careering  if they do a good job or not . that's why they wanted to bring  the union many times to this company.
employees are not treated fare at all. 

17 years here and i got let go unfair, gave my all, help this company in many ways,  employees love me and respect me there, I save this company tons of money  and they did not care a bit. so i do not recommend anybody to work here.
its better to work in Mc donals than working here.....

What is the best part of working at the company?
Definitely would have to say the people. It's also nice knowing that the management team is all aligned and has the same goals to try to consistently innovate and make Camaco an amazing place to work. Definitely a lot of servant leaders. The company keeps moving in an upward direction in all areas. Sure, no where is perfect an every place has flaws but as long as they are noticed and the management and leadership team is consistently putting motions in place to correct those things and strive to become a better facility as a whole it shows that they all care about their job. And their employees.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
All positions vary but I consider myself to be in a stress-free work environment.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fast pace but definitely makes the days go by quick! Great people!

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
On the go all day long but I wouldn't have it any other way. I like to stay busy, and it makes the days go by quickly.

As soon as you clocked into Camaco Manufacturing it was straight get down to business there is no time to waist to meet your goal by the end of your shift and still there wasn't enough time in the day to get where you wanted no matter how hard you worked. I learned coordination, organization, concentration, and no time to waist. The management was handled with respect for the employees as in making sure we were on the right track. The culture was pride yourself in your position. The hardest part of the job was satisfying the company but in personal cases some employees had more of a self motivated attitude than others which gave them the mindset that no matter how hard they worked there was more to be done in order for there to be a better appreciations from the management staff. The most enjoyable part of the job was meeting employees with the same work ethic as yourself to relate to someone in that aspect of working there.

I was told the company was Monday - Friday only, with a slight chance of some Saturdays. That was a lie, they quickly moved to 10 hour days 6 to 7 days a week. I was hired in at the beginning stages of the company and told they needed my skill set. They used me to help get the company off the ground and improve infrastructure then terminated me with no warning. I didn't have a single write up, tardy, verbal warning, nothing aND only 1 absence. Nothing about poor performance was ever mentioned, only the contrary. Only excuse I received was because cooperate wanted to "go in a different direction". In other words thanks for getting our facility operational, goodbye. They made several promises about the stability of the company which turNed out to be a lie. 
Consider it a temp job, they use "right to work" states to their advantage.

This place does everything possible to not succeed. Instead of worrying about how to actually fix the systemic problems with quality and efficiency, they focus on how to manipulate the problem just to survive one more delivery. The managements gets in the way of any success that might have been possible purely because most of them have fragile egos due to most of them not having a formal education in the necessary fields and getting defensive when challenged. The lack of understanding in the manufacturing processes being utilized in their building causes them to walk down the same path over and over again, never grasping why things aren’t improving. 

If your good at something, that is all your ever going to do because they can’t afford to move you.

If you pride your self in your work stay away.  This place is like being the only sane person in an asylum 

Poor management running the facility that causes stress and demeans the workers.  Job description changes at the whim of the manager.  Benefits were good but had to wait two plus months for them to start.  After waiting that long, had to wait longer because human resources failed to initiate them.  Company failed to perform the basic tasks when installing new lines for a new product.  The APQP tasks were not performed.  New equipment was bought, but never run off so would not work properly when installed.  Outsourced welding equipment overseas to suppliers that never made welding equipment before to save money.  Run production with 100% of parts needing reworked and refusing to have additional inspectors to verify that the parts are good before building them into product and shipping them.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Maintenance technician 2 salaries reported	$27.50 per hour
Production associate 4 salaries reported	$16.81 per hour
Tool and die maker 3 salaries reported	$24.50 per hour
Production 4 salaries reported	$17.95 per hour
Production supervisor 4 salaries reported	$65,000 per year

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