machine operator

intern

production technician

production operator

mill worker

Carpenter Technology Corporation

If a seven day a week work week sounds good, come to work here. Swing shift is the norm across most of the site. Holidays off of work are becoming a thing of the past, current upper management has been mandating more and more workers for holidays and pretty much all holidays moving forward will have workers mandated. Overtime is mandatory at all times, whether workload is light or heavy. Twenty or more days without an actual day off is commonplace and sometimes even longer for some positions. Management is pretty much non-existent, and nothing is ever fixed when there is a problem. You do not get a third week of vacation until you are with the company for eight years. You only have five call offs from work before disciplinary action is taken, which is not much considering you are scheduled close to 350  days out of the entire year. Morale is totally tanked plant wide, and all of the work force is being pushed to work harder instead of trying to work with the employees to make the work environment better.

The company used to be a decent place to work for, but that all changed with the changing executive team for the worse. There is no work/life balance when you are expected to be at work seven days a week and swing shift to boot. At least most of the coworkers are great to work with.  

Each day consists of servicing a customer account base that deals with multiple product forms of Specialty Alloy Steels. Working with Metallurgists and Engineers I learned how to read certifications, industry specifications, properties of specialty alloy steels, and how to quote multiple product forms within the company's manufacturing capabilities. 

I feel the company is definitely strengthen their market share for the future through mill expansion and acquisition of other companies. 

The department I worked in lacked strong management leadership. The supervisors lacked company and industry knowledge and at times it felt as if the employees were on their own to figure out daily problems. Communication was an issue at times. Vital information was given to certain co-workers and from their it would snowball through the rumor mill. 

Overall I enjoyed the company and the products we produced. I learned a lot about the specialty alloy steel business in three years and would like to learn more at my next employer.

The posting says “occasional overtime and weekends”.  Absolutely a lie right there. The place runs three crews which means that there is no fourth crew to guarantee days off.  They will tell you they try to run a 12 day on, 2 day off schedule but they don’t. Just expect to work everyday of every month. 

Poorly managed is an understatement. 
Understaffed is accurate. 
You are overly scrutinized daily by people barely qualified to perform their job.
TONS of redundant paperwork that you’ll get publicly shamed for not doing correctly on group emails. 
Terrible pay for the industry along with bad, expensive benefits, vacation time you can’t use and pressure and stress (for no reason) that you can’t imagine. 
No team environment. Honestly, one of the worst groups of people I have ever worked with both on the production and management side. 

You’ll probably apply anyways, that’s fine. You’ll remember this review after a few months when your debating on whether or not to drive your car off of a bridge on your way to work. Good luck!  

I started at Carpenter right out of college and was entrusted with a lot of responsibility. I saw adequate career advancement opportunities and had the ability to go back to school and earn my MBA. I've had the chance to earn my stripes in project management, travel internationally to interact with customers, and have changed roles 5 times in 7 years in order to gain more skills. 

However, you will find that there is a technical plateau where, unless you transition to management, you will sit until you're promoted one last time to the highest technical job title. The culture of Carpenter will not allow you to reach this point - it's too toxic for you to stay. 

Work-life balance is deplorable. Everything is a blame game. Management insists on top-down directives instead of listening to the voice of the employee for ideas on how to improve the corporation. 

I am thankful for starting at Carpenter and I would still take the job if given the chance. However, be prepared to leave when you feel you've learned all you can or cannot take the toxic work culture anymore.

Some quick facts about Carpenter Technologies past: Years ago we had a chance to get a union in here, however the company promised better working conditions. No union, now our pension is gone and they bombard us with more work than is ergonomically possible (they apparently pride themselves on ergonomics). Read on please.

This is for the laboratory technician job. Upper Management is pushing for more extra samples unrelated to current production to be processed a shift. It was already a disaster when the shifts were busy albeit we are already handling samples coming in from 8 different furnaces working simultaneously. There is only one person in the preparation room where we cut/polish/drill metal samples nonstop. (on a busy day 85% of the time) You will be doing manual labor for 8-12 hours straight with a very low window for a break, and some days you get no break. No lunchtime, eat as you work to your bones.

Synopsis: My hands are becoming numb and I have no work life relations since I'm on the job mostly 7 days a week. If you want a good job with this company, apply for a supervisor or upper management position.

The environment was as expected.many different apartments across the plant.very exciting,lots to learn.the people were nice and pleasant to work with.I worked there for 2yr 6mo through a temp agency. I never had the opportunity to join the company directly we was doing the same work everyone else was doing and even more but not being paid the same wages , however with all the overtime we wanted I had a nice savings account but no social life which makes it impossible to be balanced. Greatest time was they needed men in another plant site and it was called 41 strip.over there the guys taught me how to use a machine called the crane which I did for a couple of weeks which was fun learning.what I didn't understand was most of these men that I work with and that I seen working at this plant were of the age of  70,75,80 year old men still working, and this sadden my heart, because is no way this is alright nor fair for the younger generation trying to get.these people should be retired and living their best life 

Working for Carpenter Technology is a great way to make a good living being that they compensate you very well for the amount of hours they require you to work. However Carpenter Technology does not side with work life balance. Working there you have to have thick skin to accept what's required of you as far as your time and the respect that they don't give you for the amount of hours they require you to work. Management seems to be very much un trained and at times times heartless. I learned quite a bit about safety and operating Machinery that I've never thought I would possibly be operating. The hardest part of the job is being there 7 days a week, rotating shifts, working mandatory holidays, and dealing with an experienced management. Training is rushed and not taken into consideration that the ones training aren't qualified to train. The most enjoyable part of the job is looking forward to the yearly bonus when they decide to distributed fairly.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Maintenance management is way below satisfactory. Want to completely change Maintenance culture after having record breaking year beating expectations over 25 percent year after year . Talks of timkin schedule and forcing Maintenance coordinators and techs to go salary . The new Maintenance culture meaning is no more OT. look else where right now cartech Maintenance management is trying to make some huge changes so look else where for employment . This regime is all from outside and have no clue how carpenter Maintenance operates and have clowns for.middle Maintenance management.  It's sad to watch . 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Watching management ruin carpenter 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hostile, zero transparency, all corporate guys trying to change what carpenter is all about for past 140 years 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Like being in highschool again

Good co-workers, poor management. You get 10 days vacation to start which sounds great until you find out that you might as well plan on working the other 355 days of the year. The plant manager has little man syndrome and is just a puppet for the higher ups in the company. If they could work you 8 days a week they would. There are a decent amount of paid holidays, but that doesn't mean you have the day off. Don't count on being home with your family for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Pay is no longer competitive, the money's nice but it will cost you having a life with family and friends thanks tobswing shift and excessive mandatory overtime. But hey they will give you an  company logo oven mit for Thanksgiving in exchange for you working one of your paid holidays.  Machines are run til they break and then bandaided back together so you can run some more  just so they can look good pushing tonnage out the door. 

Organization is under a constant evolution. Large scale changes are in the works and seem to be rolling out slowly, which is what I would anticipate for large projects. The organization seems to be recognizing pain points for employees and is looking for solves to those issues. I've heard that they are working on internal development programs.  We also have a newer CHRO who seems to be working hard to change the culture and is influencing change with the executive leadership team. I see the resistance to these changes in people who have been at Carpenter for a long time which is delaying a shift. Many people who leave seems to be angry at the changes and don't want to change or refuse to implement the changes that would make things better for employees. 

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