manufacturing technician

warehouse technician

technician

senior manufacturing technician

Celgard, LLC

Arrive at work at 5:45 and report to my department. Conduct safety meeting and warm ups. Create jobs for machines if needed. Work with crew on cleaning and setting up machines. Help move material to and from machines during shift. Also work on monthly and daily safety meetings for the month. Order materials and send off materials  as needed. 
I learned a lot with shipping, working as a leader, the importance of safety training and meetings.
It was hard transitioning into a management roll at first. I bypassed a lot of employees that had been there longer than I was and I got a bad reaction from it. After they saw that I was just a part of the crew like they were ingot in there and did the same jobs as everyone else it went a whole lot smoother.
I enjoyed working with my co-workers. We really got along. 
Only hard part about the job was continually moving materials back and forth down a hall way the length of a football field. It made 12hr shifts very long.
I enjoyed the guys I worked with and still tay in contact with some of them. 
This place was all about numbers and politics. Once I realized this I tried going back to being a regular technician and it was frowned upon by management. I was never treated the same. I made it through 2 lay offs but didn't make it through the third.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Clean, climate controlled work environment.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of effective leadership. No plan or vision for the future. Inconsistent and the pay is slightly above average. Working overtime shouldn't be the way to make a decent salary. The company just kind of plugs along with no clear sustainable path for the future. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Safe work environment,  and a calm, relatively normal work culture. No effective training orprocedures and working leads are oftentimes hired without any knowledge of the areas they are charged with the responsibility of leading.


What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Varies depending on what it priority. Night shifts do not hold their own and the employees leave work for the next shifts to have to cover.

three stooges, bozo the clown, Key stone cops, three blind mice - doesn't matter they would all do a better job of leading this company than current senior leadership team.  No vision, no strategy except take care of themselves and their buddies.  Losing market share in a growing industry.  Only extreme incompetence could explain,   washed up R&D leader drove company to the ground with the help of inpersonable and ignorant director of HR and an finance director too busy focusing on the trivial to add any meaningful value.   Company deserves to be in the ditch with this leadership, too bad the employees have to suffer and get laid off to pay for the mistakes of this incompetent leadership team that always finds a way to enrich themselves with bonuses despite having to lay off employees

Over the past few months, local leaders have locked themselves behind closed doors, senior leaders seem unable to come up with a plan other than laying off essential workers anytime they  are in jeopardyof missing a quarterly profit target (happened last  fall) and now when they aren't in jeopardy of missing targets that benefit themselves $, meaning senior management, they hire the same people back even after citing poor performance as the reason they let go the same people that are now being brought back !!  Time for us to get unified representation for employees so we can get fair treatment and all have equal share in the companies direction and fortune

Operating slitter machinery. Cutting slits at end of rub time and inspecting film. Perform second inspection to send finished product to FIPO for third inspection and to be packed in boxes. I also work in FIPO to help pack film in boxes. I have been trained to operate all machinery in the Slitter department. I also am trained to cut the cores for the film to be wound on. In the slitter department all employees work closely together to help each other with the end process. Must be able to lift up to 60 lbs. and stand for 12 hours. I enjoy working with my co-workers.

They know how to effectively make a whole department mad by starting the new hires at what the people working there for 10 years make then when the people with seniority got mad they capped the new hires pay so they literally can’t make anymore then they start at even after a couple years.  Terrible management no one knows how to do anything they all act and  walk around doing nothing all day yelling about quality but if you find a quality issue they try to hide it to keep the machines running . Terrible management, terrible policies, forced overtime the whole year and a half I was there on 12 hours shifts just find somewhere else 

This is the cleanest controlled environment one could imagine to work in. Incredible amount of opportunities for advancement. The actual work performed is rewarding yet challenging to become an adept technician. 

The only drawback was the forecast for the companys' product was grossly over estimated. The company experienced two layoffs within the first 18 months of operation and was operating only 1/3 of the machines and with approx 100 employees where their estimates indicated 500 employees in 2 to 3 years.

A typical day was very slow. We usually had to walk around and try very hard to find something to do in the last few years. I did learn a lot about blown film extrusion and mechanical troubleshooting. I also had great team mates. We were like family. Everyone helped each other. The hardest part of the job was cleaning the lines, troubleshooting issues  and getting ready to doff rolls. The most enjoyable part of my job was my coworkers. Even if you were having a bad day, they would find a way to make you smile.

This company should be successful and they would be if not for the blatant underhanded and self serving mangers at every level of the organization.  Can't believe the things they overlook when it is their pet employees committing the transgression.  If any of us committed these acts we'd be written up and layed off,  but the favored ones can do whatever they like and then we get lectured on making sure we don't do similar things to their favored pets.   It is only getting worse by the day with the latest leadership regime

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