manufacturing operator

machine operator

operator

senior operator

mechanic

Carestream Health

What is the best part of working at the company?
The ability to quit working there was about the best part of the job

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The fact that safety, compliance and progress all take a back seat to ensuring the good ole boy club remains in power and happy 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Information is not shared, even important documents like P and ID s are with held in an attempt to keep the knowledge with a select few people who want nothing more than to remain relevant and in control 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day was spent Wondering what would be blamed on myself or those who worked for me. I spent much of my time trying to think of ways to keep production going while adhering to safety and OSHA  guidelines while trying to fend off the constant onslaught of daily insults, yelling and irrational blaming that came from carestream management under the guise of ensuring we were meeting our contractual agreements. Multiple times I requested meetings to get clarity on their expectations and three out of three times they refused my requests with no clear reason why we couldn’t discuss expectations with  and in front of the workers .. my assumption is they thrived in an environment where communication doesn’t exist as it allows them to play both sides and blame contractors when it’s convenient

Once upon a time this was a great place to work.....you got double time for every Sunday that you worked, triple time if you worked on holidays, overtime after working eight hours,(twelve hour shifts there) very little taken out of your check for insurance, got personal days to take off....
Then it became Carestream Health and started paying employee's straight time for Sunday, straight time for working holidays, overtime after ten hours instead of eight, reduced personal holidays so it worked for office and management who were eight hour shifts but for those working twelve hour shifts ended up losing a day....
Started taking out a few hundred dollars every two weeks for insurance with a thousand dollar deductible!!!! 
Then came the smaller raises, smaller bonuses, less picnics, less Christmas parties, less appreciations, less pats on the back, less shutdown times, less workers having to do more work....like the work of three or more employees!!!!  Management had favorite employees (basically the ones who never voiced their opinion) or (never complained about being understaffed) and kept taking away all the good stuff that was once given by 3M, Imation, Eastman Kodak Company,,,, but now its this place called Carestream which is the worst place in this valley to work for!!!

Our corporate headquarters is dead set on ending our primary revenue stream for an inferior product.  I love my job and most my coworkers but the pay here is very low and behind the times especially for skilled labor.  The corporate objective recently is to penny pinch where it makes no sense, spend irresponsibly and invest in dead products.  There is a demoralized atmosphere for the production employees,  they are underpaid and harassed by (some) management.  Production employees are forced to choose between working forced overtime all summer and through the holidays or face disciplinary action or termination.  If they try to take their scheduled days off they are forced to use their earned vacation time to cover.  Cost of housing, fuel, food, and everyday items have recently been going up and Carestream's wages are stuck in the past, employees are forced to absorb the cost of living increases. When wages are brought up management refuses acknowledge this inadequacy.  Instead they often act as though they are paying more than they should.   

If you are not related to management or friends of the management team, you are pretty much doomed!!!!
Really don't understand why friends or family of management can perform their job really poorly with bad results or get hurt or call in sick a lot and NOTHING happens.... 
But the other employees who DO NOT have family in management or are NOT friends with any of the management team, basically gets treated VERY POORLY!!!!
Employees can make the same mistakes, call in sick the same amount, perform the same..... and the employee who has friends or family in management, get praised for their work!!! Where the employee who DO NOT have friends or family in management get written up, get terrible reviews, no raises, get talked down to!!!
Trust me job seekers, STAY AWAY FROM THIS EMPLOYER!!!
so many are filing lawsuits now that will bring this place down for discrimination!!!!! So many of us past employees have written proof that one will get written up and another who is family or friends of management, do not get written up for the same exact thing!!!! And even if you go to HR, you still are not treated fairly!!! Lets join together and put this discriminatory place out of business once and for all!!!! Watch the news for the court dates!!!!

The company has a operating goal to fire 10% of their employees annually. The company has a ranking process annually that determines the bottom 10 %. and they are fired. If you are not good friends with your manager/supervisor you are in jeopardy of landing on the bottom 10% list. Once you are identified as an employee they want to get rid of they continually raise your accomplishment expectations until you are not able to achieve them. Once you have not met their expectations you will be fired to avoid paying severance benefits. When prospective employers inquire about your employment all Carestream will indicate is that you were fired. Please note I was not fired however, I saw plenty f my coworkers that were caught in this trap. The company was unwilling to provide any training with an expectation that you the employee fund your own training in order to keep your job. I would not recommend this environment to anyone unless you are desperate.

This is the kind of job you should take if you arent looking for a career. if you are young, looking for career advancement, and or are looking for a company that will value your skill sets this isnt the place to look. they are actively downsizing so as people leave there arent new openings. those jobs just get tacked onto other people for no extra money or a title. They will love bomb you when you start and say this is a place for a career but there is ZERO moving up in the company. they want requirements for all upper level jobs that are physically impossible to get while working for them at a lower level so you are just stuck making below average wages. they also sent corporate people in to tell us to our faces that we are the only reason they have made it through the tariffs so we'll but they arent required to give us a raise and therefore they just won't do it. 

TLD: Carestream is dying and they know it so theres no advancement opprotunity, the workload only continues to increase without even a sign of a pay increase or reward of any kind in sight, and they just dont care about their bottom line employees. period. stay away from this company if you have any self worth.

I assume that many of these reviews are a bit outdated. In my experience, Carestream is where technical skills go to die. You are hired in as a technical support representative but depending on your department (hardware or software) you may spend most of your time as a personal accountant/apologist. The software is terrible and ancient, it hasn't been updated in over a decade. They've recently combined several software services into one queue, many people only received 2 hours of training on an entire service suite. There is another service they've lumped everyone in with that NO training was provided on. There was no compensation for the essentially doubling our workload and we were not consulted at all. The implementation is horrendous, reps receive several calls that they must triage because they should not have received them in the first place. On top of poor decisions by senior management, the product is easily the worst software I have worked with in 10 years of technical support and it shows.

I worked as a contractor for Carestream assembling parts of their mobile x-ray cart. The management is somewhat clueless and one manager in particular is known for having a temper, and will change the machines/day target on the drop of the hat and not hire anyone to slack the load. We worked 50 hours a week for half of October, all of November, and half of December. We also worked saturdays. Overall, job is not too difficult if you can do the same thing perfectly every time. FDA regulation means you have to do it right and follow your standard work exactly. The other assemblers and by and large very nice. It may be because of covid, but my pay is wildly above market rate, especially as a contractor. A typical day at work is you come in and work on the particular jobs that you are trained to do. Usually this means you end up doing the same free jobs (combined into a "station"/"subline") every day.

I was hired as the Site EHS Lead to support one unit but was asked to manage nine units, significantly increasing my responsibilities. I requested a title and compensation adjustment to reflect this expanded role, but both requests were denied. Six months later, after continuing to perform duties previously handled by three people, I made another request, which was also denied. I was informed a promotion might be considered in three years. My manager stated that due to my salary-exempt status, I would no longer be working 40 hours but would be expected to work 60 hours per week. Within nine months, six EHS staff members left the company, and a significant number of retirements have led to substantial knowledge loss and disorganization across teams. The DR and Consumables teams at the site level are composed of dedicated and talented individuals, but the organization faces challenges, including a pay freeze, no backfilling of vacant positions, and increased workloads due to outsourcing in manufacturing.

They took a big gamble on a new product and it did not seem to pan out. Due to this furloughs, layoffs, and changes in schedules have plagued the company. As a mechanic be prepared to be a jack of all trades, ranging from electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and building services. Some days you may be wishing there was more to do as production has slowed down. As is common in a manufacturing environment, you can't really work on equipment while its running. Your day to day will mostly be dealing with trouble calls from operations which can range from being the entire shift to none at all.  During down time or if running smoothly, there are many PMs to do but training is lackluster, and you will have to be figuring everything out yourself which in a building of this size and amount of equipment it can be frustrating trying to get these done. Overall, its a decent place to work but not great with current headwinds afflicting company causing a less than ideal morale and potential stress with uncertainty of future. 

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