maintenance technician

operator

maintenance person

safety specialist

quality engineer

Cataler North America

Before all the idiotic COVID restrictions, a typical day would be going in @ 8:00AM and coding/resolving program issues until 5:00PM with an hour lunch. Now they just have everyone work from home multiple days out of the week so the company can save a buck.

I learned a lot about development through necessity and research on my own projects. Learned that constantly bad mouthing other people in your own department while they are not present puts you in managements good graces.

Production/IT "management" is THE WORST thing about this place. There are managers in the plant that are decent and down to Earth folks and I wish them well, but I do not envy you if you get stuck trying to do your job while having to listen to the production/IT manager constantly blabber on and on about how stupid the other people in the company/department are behind their back.

Workplace culture = Suck up to production management and HR to get what you want and they might throw you a bone.

The hardest part of the job was having to go in and try to get something done while the prod/IT manager and his besties are saying out loud that this person and this person "don't do s**t" and that they are "useless" out of blatant ignorance and popping off about every person in the building except for themselves, because you know... They're perfect, and they never do anything wrong... I guess??

The most enjoyable part about the job was the satisfaction of figuring out a problem and getting better at coding while trying to make the jobs of the people out on the floor easier and more efficient.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people on the shopfloor are golden.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
All of it. From day one till the day I quit. HR makes it extremely hard to communicate leadership issues, which are obvious here. They have their favorites at work who are also their friends outside of the office. They are either church members, HOA club members or swing each others husband's bat club members. Prime example: There is a manager who lives 1 hour away. Some morning this person arrives at 8:30am, other mornings later. Not one word has been said. On the flip side, we had a struggling single parent who lived almost 1.5 hours away on the most busiest side of town. Some mornings this person would arrive 10-20 minutes late. It was the end of the world anytime this happened and they eventually terminated her (3 strikes) for clock attendance. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very cut throat. Stay to yourself. Share as little as possible about your personal life, past, interest, religion, and favorite sports teams. This will all be used against you if it doesn't align with the club.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Arrive at 7:45am. Attend the daily performance meeting where we review scrap, top 5 issues, and assign task for the day. The rest of the day involves doing the manager's job and preparing him for his meeting with the customer. Morale is extremely low on the shopfloor and this makes time drag by, so most days I would purposely find busy work to get me through the day.

The first negative experience I had was when I was scolded for clocking out at 3:29pm instead of 3:30pm at about week 3. Too many clocks that are not Insync. The next negative experience came when I realized how unimportant people (team members) are, a talented young lady of five years asked for a raise, denied, and let go. The majority of the workers are temps, with a handful of over privileged salary employees. Management is not up to par with adequate professional development, too much favoritism towards salary employees and no care for the majority of the workforce. Uniforms are a joke, something out of the 1970's, very uncomfortable and of course salary employees do not wear the uniforms. I lost count of how many times I was told what I could say and what I could not say, absolutely ridiculous. Management favoritism causes lack of quality work from the favored, and extra work loads for the unfavored. When you ask why others do not clean up after themselves and you are told to clean up their messes, you automatically are labeled someone who thinks you are better than the rest. Typically, you will only get a two-to-three-day notice before mandatory weekend shifts. I would not recommend this company for all of the negatives, and it is a public relations nightmare.

I worked at Cataler because at the time I needed to. I would recommend working there if you are in real need for work. If that's not the case than I don't recommend working there. Management is an absolute disaster. The managers and supervisors that are hired don't know the first thing about how anything works, yet correct workers on what they have been doing for months or sometimes years. If something goes wrong the person in that department is the one blamed for the problem even if it wasn't necessarily their fault. The lack of knowledge of how any of the processes work by the supervisors is the reason people become unjustly blamed. Instead of being open minded in wanting to learn the processes they correct someone who is wiser in that department and goes through it on a daily basis. They claim that safety is number one yet they provide you with cheap masks that don't do much when it comes to the prevention of inhaling the chemicals that are around you. So much so that some people there have purchased their own masks from and outside source rather than being provided by the company. Not to mention that they have you dumping powered chemicals like black nickel that causes cancer if inhaled. I could keep going but what's the point. You get the message.

I just started a week ago so I'm only going to write what I've experienced so far. Job in itself was pretty easy but kinda boring at the same time. Co workers seem ok at first but doesn't seem like they want to train you very much here. Team lead doesn't train at all or hardly even talks.  The others seem to get missing sometimes while your running machine. Kinda got to just figure stuff out as you go. When you try to ask a question to co workers they seemed to get annoyed really quick. Pay is decent for the work. Everyone is pretty laid back and chill besides getting frustrated with questions. I'm the type that asked questions about my job cause I wanna know more and don't wanna screw anything up. Going to give it more time to see if it gets better. When they have a change over they don't really train you for that so your just kinda watching but it's alot to remember. Only 30 min lunch and a 20 min break which kinda sucks.

The job itself is great. And the majority of the people that work here are genuinely good people. But the management needs some serious spring cleaning. It seems like HR runs things instead of actual management and you get written up for the smallest things. They will write you up for using the restroom at a certain time. They don't care if you really had to go. Going to the restroom is our right. And they're going to write us up for it? They also keep around employees that are lazy and in the way. Their trainer speeds through "training" videos and slideshows for new team members and throws them on a line to be thoroughly trained by a team member. So why do we have a trainer? When he isn't hiding out up in his office he's out talking and standing around all day. And they gladly pay him for that. They appreciate the lazy workers and punish the hard workers.

Super tiring on the the machine. Every night put products onto the assembly line in a fast pace or take it off  to put in box and clean the machine for change over. Realization of why they offer perfect attendance raise and the high turnover rate. It really tiring and very hot even with the blow fan. The people who train you don't want to trained you. They don't even do much but watch you but complain about it. Stay extra 30 minutes at the end of shift to clean or sweep. They are so strict with the dress code. No logo shirts, gym shorts, tight jeans and sweat pants.Wait 3 month or so to get hired for uniform. Nice supervisors on third shift and hardworking coworkers too. The people were great except some. I wouldn't want to work there again. Stay for 8 hours 30 minutes each night, strict dress code, loud hot environment and machine cleaning.

Wasted  years of my life for this company and hardly even got a “good job”. The management here is absolutely awful no one has any idea what’s going on they just do whatever their boss says. I could go on for days about how terrible this place is. They hire 10+ temps every week because no one likes working here and the ones who have been here for a while get abused because they got to pick up the slack from the others. I beg you to go somewhere else. Yes the pay is okay for starting out but the environment is terrible everyone hates their job. You can just feel the energy everyone gives off. They don’t practice what they preach. The morale is terrible. I mean, I could go on for days about this place. they don’t value the employees they have now they take advantage of them if you do work here I doubt you’ll be here in a couple months because you’ll find something better.

The summer temperatures are beyond uncomfortable and well into the dangerous range.  You won't find leadership on the floor most days.  Management positions in recent years have been given based on relationships with HR and not competency.  My experience is that the company doesn't even confirm the experience or educational backgrounds of applicants, even for top technical positions! 

Typical day/night is more than "fast paced" since each maintenance team is 2 members short of the 5 person teams we're supposed to have. 
The only thing notable I'm learning is the Mitsubishi PLC platform.
I don't like to talk negatively about previous/current employers, but the management and work culture are the most odd that I've ever been a part of.
Last notable, they expect us to account for 100 percent of out time in the work order system; each and every maintenance person. I told my supervisor that felt/seemed like a "falsification" and I wasn't comfortable with it.
I have nothing enjoyable to note, with the possible exception of getting to learn new equipment and programs.

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