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Caravan Facilities Management

Caravan supplies staff to Chrysler in permanent and temporary staffing positions. This factory (SHAP) is a great place to work for those with motivation to learn-grow-explore, and a perfect place for those like to hide and do very little for 8 hours a day or night. Entire shifts leave large amounts of work for the next shift to catch up on and then are expected to complete their own work on top of that which is never addressed by management as overall site management is lacking and has been since day one. Supervisors receive only limited amounts of important information each day and week when so much more is needed and discussed but rarely provided. You will also never see the operations managers when you need help with any issue. They will only blame you as well for problems on site which are always 99% people based. The site manager rides his desk 40 hours a week having no clue what is happening in the factory or with shift staffing. The admin assistant is driven to write up everyone for any reason on any level to compensate for her shortcomings. Wonder why this position is always posted? Or why supervisors leave after only 2 weeks? 

Its really too bad as Caravan recruiters, corporate payroll, and IT are very good.  

This would be an awesome place to work if it was not for the management.  Unfortunately,  we are told things last minute such as mandatory training or overtime which could interfere with outside work commitments.  

This is a union environment where you will be expected to work while others just lie about what they do.  When they do get caught they are not written up or disciplined accordingly.  If the working employee is caught doing what the other employees are doing they are disciplined up to or including termination.  

Proper PPE is impossible to find such as electrical working gloves or FR rated reflective vests.  We are required to fill out pre-task plans for safety reasons, but are not supplied with the paperwork to do so.  I can only beg my management so much to give me the paperwork I need to do for them.  

We are always told to follow our chain of command when inquiring about a solution to a question.  When we do so we are told to go up to our human resource manager to get an answer, who then turns around, and gives us a phone number to the corporate headquarters to get an answer.  After all that we still can’t seem to get an answer to a certain problem.  Very frustrating when you don’t have anyone to advocate for you at your location.

Caravan is an on-site contractor which will always be looked at as a company that is there to steal GM jobs. Caravan has to abide by policies that GM dictates within their plants, which comes with a ton of paperwork and safety red tape. Productivity suffers for everyone because of this. Most employees come in eager and hard-working and that generally goes by the wayside after 6 months because they see everyone else sitting around and just doing the bare minimum. Pay is not based off of merit, rather tenure and title. There is plenty of room for advancement if someone wants to, unfortunately most people are complacent. Pay is fair, but there is always plenty of opportunity to get OT and the work is easy. Caravan has fallen into a role of "that's Caravan's job" because GM knows that Caravan will do it if they say they don't want to. If GM would toughen up, and make their employees work harder, Caravan wouldn't have a job. Caravan is wonderful about giving people a second chance, although not always warranted. Caravan too is unionized and if you know anything about unions, well, then you know!

Supervisors are over worked and hugely under paid. There is very little to zero training. Upper management is a joke. Work rules seem to differ from shift to shift and supervisors are not all treated equally across the board. Some get to use their pto days whenever they choose while others are forced to use theirs for sick days or doctors appointments. Some are forced to work overtime while others aren’t and the harder you work the more work load is expected of you. There is no such thing as team work. Most of the time if something is carried over from to the next shift you can sure bet it will still be there when your shift returns because upper management does not hold all supervisors accountable, only creating more work for the supervisors that actually do their job. There are no raises no matter how good of a job you do to prove your worth and they make you work every holiday that your supposed to get off if it falls on your scheduled work day. You only get 6 paid holidays off but if you work Monday-Friday and that holiday falls on a Thursday you got to work it. This company has no incentives to even want to try to continue doing a good job.

This place is an absolute joke. They have people doing 2 or 3 people's jobs for just above minimum wage. I've had 5 supervisors in 4 years each of them worse then the last. They are all disorganized, they cannot communicate and they think that their subordinates are trash people that can be treated poorly. The building I'm in has been shorthanded by 2 employees for over 2 years now. When I ask when we are getting help (I have vacation time I'd love to use and a family that would love me to use it) I'm told it isn't in the budget. I asked for a broom once and was also told it wasn't in the budget. This job has caused me to slide into such a deep depression that I have a hard time even leaving my house anymore. Can't afford to get help because my employer doesn't pay a living wage. They offer health benefits but in order to get those I'd have to sell my car and house to be able to make the monthly payments. This company uses and abuses people. Funny side note, the owner cries when he plays hockey. True story.

I enjoyed the type of work we did. I enjoyed cleaning paint booths, and working with others. I got along with all other workers and made alot of friends. I did not like the combative work environment that existed in this company. Most of which stemmed from the US vs. THEM mentality that exists within the GM community. Managers were highly disrespectful, displayed bad conflict resolution techniques.  I witnessed yelling matches on a weekly basis between workers and our supervisors, that were employed through a separate company. There was also animosity between some of the GM employees and Caravan employees, stemming from union related differences. They offer good benefits and compensation and that is why I stayed for almost 2 years waiting for a full-time position to become available. Eventually, I left this company to pursue full-time work. I would recommend others to work for this company if they are able to handle adversity and a high conflict work environment.

Micro-management has become a thorn in Caravan's side. Upper management doesn't care about the people on the ground. The place is so much about safety that they throw their own team members under the bus.

Want to do anything? You'll need some form of regulation. Need to climb a ladder? Use a pre-task plan. Need to use the toilet? Use a pre-task plan. You'll spend two hours on paperwork just to do a simple task. You think you're a qualified individual? Doesn't matter, you need a pre-task plan.

Company culture really does stink. No sense of meaning. When does safety become a burden to society? When government regulation overreaches to the point you can't do any work unless you have tons of paperwork done ahead of time. Even then you have to have a supervisor constantly looking over your shoulder to get the job done. Might as well hire someone off the street at that point.

Most employees at every level will agree this location is a horrible place to work. The jobs aren’t hard
and the pay is decent, but Management. They are toxic from top down. They are the cause of most of the chaos and confusion. The only thing they actually manage is covering their own behinds. Horrible bully and scapegoat culture. They throw their employees under the bus and they tell a lot of lies. Anything to shift the blame off of them. Zero semblance of leadership. They don’t seem to know what leadership is.  And they don’t care. Lots of making things up on the fly, then wondering why the outcomes are bad. 
The work environment is dynamic and demanding. It requires lots of support from management that simply isn’t there. No training. No direction. No goals. No support. No professionalism. No leadership. No integrity. If you interview for a role (non-union) here, ask them what their employee retention rate is …

I loved  working at Caravan facility, it was a very friendly environment ,I like how clean the building was kept and how they enforced safety on incidents and accidents, they were very supportive to my personal needs when I was dealing with the the loss of three family members in one year, I have nothing negative to say  about Caravan facility management llc, I just had a bad situation with my transportation, I would definitely recommend this place to anyone to work for,relaxed atmosphere and easy going supervisor, it was very much organized, you had work sheets to remind you want to do and also sign off sheets once you completed your work assignments ,no baby sitters, egotistical leadership's very respectable everything issue was addressed daily one on one or who ever had issues, alone or with a union rep

What is the best part of working at the company?
Diversity good people advance is possible in short period of time . Able to go to a different location if possible or project/ account

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The only stress I had was a new employee, we started at the same time for gm account I was maintenance coordinator assistant site manager he was our site administrator he had to go to training at corporate he would undermine me and my boss trying to get himself ahead. He should have been reprimanded he caused a lot of grief 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Diverse good folks on team we all did our job got along great 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I was very busy it wad a big account rolling out a new cleaning program the facility  was being renovated an commissioned very very busy

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Janitor 364 salaries reported	$16.36 per hour
Cleaner 28 salaries reported	$20.26 per hour
Housekeeping supervisor 41 salaries reported	$22.39 per hour
Custodian 22 salaries reported	$14.77 per hour
Fleet mechanic 4 salaries reported	$38.50 per hour

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