production worker

new home sales consultant

crew member

manager in training

sales consultant

Champion-Home-Builders

Before I begin, I must stress that I have a thick skin, but when you hear nothing but something negative about yourself and others for 12+hours a day 6 days a week...you start to believe it too. I loved the job, the fast paced environment and knowing I was working hard on something that someone would live in some day soon. The job excited me. The department I was in was fun and I didn’t get bored of doing the same types of things. However, my bosses and coworkers freely talked trash on everyone around them. The ones that were the worst about it were the bosses. They would single people out, pick on people, and bully them. Whoever their target was, they would move them around and make them do the worst parts they could find that needed done. All of my tools got stolen at different points(I paid out of pocket for them&they all had my name on them); many of them I didn’t get back. The people higher up wouldn’t do anything about the trash talk and bullying, they did however help try very hard to locate some lost tools. The experience with bullying was honestly so negative, it made me hate going to work. The job would have been a wonderful experience had people’s attitudes been different. The pay was decent and benefits were very good. We got over-time hours and pay, holiday pay, paid time off, weekly bonuses were available, and we got an employee discount. Not all of the bosses were so discouraging and negative, but the ones in my department were and we didn’t work around any other department so we rarely worked with anyone outside our section.

The sign on the building says the average worker makes $16-$18 per hour. Last week I made over $19 an hour. But here's how the pay works.  You start at $10 an hour and gradually work your way into the production bonus over the first 30 days.  After 30 days you'll be on the full production bonus, which ranges between $200-$300 per week, depending on production schedules and where you work in the plant. But, if you miss a day because your kid is sick or you have to go to court... anything where you work less than 6 hours, you lose the production bonus, and you are back to your $10 an hour.  Raises are given annually and are based on tenure.  Unless you are awarded one of the few team lead positions, you will not be rewarded for how hard you work.  You will not get a raise based on merit or workmanship.  

They are, however, background friendly if you have reliable transportation to get to work.  You do not need any experience to work here. They do train... some... but not a lot. And you pretty much have to not show to get fired.  Job security? Absolutely.

Most employees did not like the demands placed on crews that were short staffed or unknowledgeable about what they were doing, creating frustration for all. Everyone had a different station doing a different job that if ran correctly could be such a well oiled machine. But most times people were in the way, and it slowed down the next people. They DEMAND speed, regardless of us being HUMAN. And so speed over quality really resorted in subpar construction of homes and left many people very upset about having to fix other people's mistakes down the line. The pay was decent sometimes and sometimes not worth the "vibe" of the place. I developed a health condition and I was fired for exhausting my points (despite doctor notes and points added in error) because of missing work for this disability. Turned out to be seizures so I couldn't even fight for my job back at the time because of being a liability. I enjoyed my time there, even though most did not. I hope to go back if my seizures are treated long enough. It's not for the weak. It's hard work. It's frustrating. I always came with a smile though. 

The majority of the employee's know someone else higher up. In fact that was the most asked question when I started "Who got you in here?". The place is lousy with nepotism. 
There's too many bizarre stories about this place that this review won't cover. My job was to create floor drawings and it's a pretty straight forward thing. This company made it unbelievably complicated and to add to that you had to deal with a unprofessional department head. The few people in this department that were able to handle it did so remotely. One person sat on the opposite side of the building, another was remote in some other city. A third person disliked the dept. head so much that he requested working on the production floor lol!. He was asked back with a raise and an agreement he would site far away from the dept. head. Sadly such accommodations couldn't be made for everyone.

Also, they say they use AutoCAD but that's misleading. They use a third party program that runs within AutoCAD and is difficult to learn and unstable. Just constant problems with everything in the department. 

Good place to earn great experience with good pay. Their benefits make them competitive. I suggest going through the company rather than a temp agency. After you complete your 90 day probationary period through a temp agency, you get put on bonus  which fluctuates every week, typically averaging at $5. If you go through the company, you'll recieve the bonus almost immediately. The bonus is added to the hourly rate which is minimum wage. After 90 days with the company, you'll receive holiday pay, medical and 401k benefits. They have this point system they use and every action has a point value, usually half a point. After 3 points, you lose your bonus and can get it back with 1 point off if you have perfect attendance for 30 days. They actually have like 9-10 Holidays they pay for which is really cool. Overtime is usual and mostly optional unless requested by the supervisors. If you're looking to get signed off for your GC License then you're in luck. Put in the hours/years and they can sign you off, just make sure to touch bases on that issue beforehand. Hope this review helps a lot of you.

They rushed through the interview and didnt show me any actual work that I would be doing. I wasn't notified that they were doing 2 weeks lay off till my last day at my old job. I was only shown how to build one wall and then was on my own leaving with with lots of questions on diffent things that were supposed to be installed. I had no help doing anything which lead to me getting hurt and having to take a day off after which I was fired and never told, I found out after I opened the mail and seen a letter from their insurance company saying if I wanted to continue my health insurance I needed to contact their insurance. So they were going to let me come in after layoffs just to be told to leave. They are super strict about everything I definitely don't recommend them.

I feel after working there they will wear you out they’ll make them more productive employees carry the weight of the less productive employees and the training was poor you would have to seek out your own understanding of the job duty’s. I enjoyed business inside work all year round . The benefits are good and expensive but I worked almost every Saturday of 2020. Always volunteered for extra shifts anything that could help the company or cross train me to become more valuable however I wasn’t treated fairly. And once I had trained enough new employees and my review was promised they fired me the day before my doctors note said I could return work via email 530am the day I was planning to return

At champion homes management saw you as a number in a book, people hired with zero experience, often worked outragous hours a day, could not afford to live working there, nobody in the office gave a about any production worker. If you left early for an emergancy you lost your bonus, theyre methods were corrupt, the quality of their houses were discusting, house sent through there with mold on the boards, peiced together, the very minimal cost spent on materials, overall the pay was the very worst factor. 20 houses sold a week, 100-140 employees building that house and you thank them with $12.00 an hour which often was $289.00 a week paychecks? Thats unacceptable and hopefully it all comes full circle back to management if theyd ever get audited. Bunch of crooks! This is the claysburg location!

The job itself is pretty fun, love what I do. For those who perfer office jobs, champion is a great place to work. For those of us who swing a hammer for a living, actually building the homes..it's worth it to spend a little time there simply for the life experience. Attitudes and treatment towards workers that one would never expect to see here in the states in this day in age, an indoor third world country...the international waters of management, ethics and treatment. How far have we actually come as a society? apply and find out.

Not a bad place to work if only the quality of the homes where higher. Not a lot of good people working there. Smell like pot on breaks. Not willing to  cross train people in other areas. Pay raise where bad and hard to get. I pushed myself to clean and organize my work area and clean different areas also. I helped the plumber  in is job he went walking around when i started to help, so i did more work then got hired to but I'm OK with that. when i got noticed by my supervisor and i asked for a raise an he said that I have to learn belly paching and i told him i been doing that already and said I'll look into it and then nothing. i started to find other work because i got told there people making $18.00 plus doing less work then i have been doing.

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Production worker 11 salaries reported	$19.82 per hour
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Manager in training 3 salaries reported	$283,333 per year
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