production operator

quality technician

production technician

materials manager

maintenance technician

Carlex Glass America, LLC

If you’re not liked all to much they will make it unbearable for you until you either quit or get fired. Work days for each department differ. Tempering is 8 hour days while lamination is still the 3-2-2 schedule with 12 hour shifts. Instead of sending overtime home now and replacing them with a different department they will send people home rather than paying them and pay their people that are in on overtime their pay. They say they are trying to save the company money but the technique they use is utterly senseless in saving the company money. They have more temporary people that get treated better than an hourly employee that has been there for over a decade than not. It has been turned into a huge cultural thing now and it is slowly getting worse. The management is completely useless when it comes to doing their job. You do have some good managers but when they are being hired in to manage and have no clue what they are doing or why a process is done and they try to make you do it differently than you know it is supposed to be done that’s where i and most of the employees have issues. If you go to HR with issues it is never taken care of and if it is there are never follow ups done for the issue you have. Favoritism is a huge thing there. Rules are broken and depending on who you are and how much you are liked you get away with it, or you don’t and get written up for it. Work used to be fun but now it feels like a hostage situation that I am looking to get out of. 

Worked there for many years. Enjoyed the people I worked with and my job. Didnt mind long hours with overtime. My supervisor was the only good one in that entire factory. If a superintendent didn't like you they would pull you from a job you did for years no matter how hard you worked. First shift supervisors and superintendents are all about you kissing their butts if you want a certain job. It's like high school all over again. Benefits were great. Pay was ok, if you don't mind working there for years and top out was only 50 cents more than a new hire. They say they want you to go for skill based to make more but then when it comes to getting raises those skill based people always get the short end of the stick. Overall the only reason I stayed for so long was the people I worked with and most have quit since as well. Carlex in ligonier really needs to take a few people out of their supervisor and superintendent rolls on 1st shift so that maybe they will be able to keep people who have been there for a long period of time. Quitting was the best move I have ever made, happier with my new job, definitely more appreciated, better work/life balance, and definitely more money. 

I like the 3-2-2 schedule, personally. But everything else is not okay. Production hasn't had a significant enough raise in years to keep up with cost of living inflation. Meanwhile they are cutting positions and then combining positions, so now individuals who are being paid the same they have been 3 years ago are literally doing the work of 2 people. Serious disconnect between the people on the floor and nearly all salary. Even supervisors are holed up in their offices all day with little to no idea as to what is going on out on the floor aside from the skeletal information they can glean from our computerized systems. Used to be a good place to work for, where it felt like they cared for you, but now it's all about how much can be squeezed out of you and even then you're nothing more than the dirt they scrape out from under their fingernails.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Laid back and very easy work, the mandatory overtime was my favorite part!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The down time and standing around trying to find something to do and the gossip drama.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It was a lil disorganized and some play favorites and the not cross training so you could be more beneficial to them was beyond me? Then you have back biting and drama circles. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Pretty busy for the most part had alot of people watching me as I put in 200% while they grabbed labels, and a lot of down time and standing around, fake in organized supervision…

They will hire you in 90 days or less if you come in through a staffing agency. After 3 months I was able to bid on a higher paying position and learn different jobs within the plant. I became a Quality Control Specialist 7 months later and then a Team Leader a year after that. I learned to drive a  forklift in my position as Team Lead and eventually took fulltime forklift driver positions for the rest of my time there. As time pasted H.R. had a high turnover and management was poor, unreliable, and unavailable in person.

Some of the people that you will work with are absolutely fantastic people. But you're going to be working for the management team that has no clue as to what they're doing and they embellish this shortcoming by finding someone that actually knows what's going on and exploit that person until a situation where responsibility it's better off being pushed off onto the exploited. There's also been a trend where people run around justifying their jobs. They are inherently useless, yet find some way into fooling management of their invaluableness to the company. They are no threat to anyone, so they will continue to work there until the plant is inevitably closed.

I liked my job at first until I started being made to fill in for other people just because they didn’t want to have to to something that night, and when I would go to my supervisor he didn’t do anything about it as a matter a fact he actually sat in his office most nights. But I came here to say I recently got pointed out and I’ve tried getting in touch with the union president several times by text,call,email, and even messenger and he refuses to get back in touch with me and help with what I need to discuss with him. This place is not a good work environment and it’s so hard to get help with anything by your team leader, supervisor, heck even with HR because they are rarely there

I love the work I do for this company and the people I work with are more like family. When I had issues with my oldest child I was given the option to care for them and return back to work when I was able to. Although I was unable to take fmla they still recognized that it was an issue that needed my full attention and worked with me on being able to take care of it and not having to worry about losing my job in the process. They have also been very understanding as far as health issues I have had. I was in contact with my supervisors and HR and as a team we worked through it and made it through what needed to be done. 

In the beginning this company was a good experience, but it was all downhill after that. The company seemed to be going in the wrong direction. Micro management became a problem with new leadership and it seemed there was a disconnect between the production floor not being properly trained and the Engineering team overworking to try and compensate for the lack of training. If you like phrases like "Drink the Kool-Aid" and "Kiss the ring" then this place is for you! There is no sense of security here. Every week you ask yourself, "Am I next"?

Pay is has not kept up with inflation. Quality and Professional Environment  has faded in the name of cost cutting and production. New ownership does not have best interests of employees at heart and it shows in morale and effort. 

Poor attempts at corporate "family building" parties have replaced bonuses. No incentives to excel or go above and beyond. 

Do not expect to advance if you are hired here. Former apprentice programs have been done away with in favor of bringing in outside employees. They do not promote from within for management or salaried positions.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production operator 2 salaries reported	$22.25 per hour
Quality technician 2 salaries reported	$20.74 per hour
Production technician 5 salaries reported	$19.06 per hour
Materials manager 3 salaries reported	$78,564 per year
Maintenance technician 3 salaries reported	$22.94 per hour

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