machine operator

hi-lo driver

quality technician

machine technician

business systems analyst

Cold Heading Co.

Show up and do your job. I see the "good old boys" mentioned a lot, but for employees willing to come in, be reliable, and do their job this is a great thing. The company has recently changed it's entire pay scale and benefits including adding vacation and pto for employees to meet employee needs. In the past few years, they've changed more than they ever had every year prior together to try to make this company a better fit for existing and new employees. If you're prepared to come in and do your job this company provides a great opportunity that most other companies around here can't offer. A great paycheck and job security. On the floor there's a lot of freedom. People say no breaks, but as long as you keep your machine running, you're allowed to take smoke breaks, eat, go to the bathroom, and even be on your phone whenever you need. I think Cold Heading is changing a lot compared to it's old stigma. For reliable people, this is a great opportunity. 

Be prepared for management to try and intimidate you into working as fast as possible. General manager is condescending, enjoys watching people squirm. Absolute snake with a serpent tongue, which is exactly how he got his position. If you’re in the inner circle, not a bad place to work. If you find yourself on the outside looking in, be prepared to have the worst machines and jobs thrown your way constantly.  Company pulls a fast one on their employees whenever possible. Bring in cheap labor from other countries, like many other factories in the area instead of paying people a wage that would make them stay. Pays great when they’ll need production to increase or are short on people, cut your legs out from under you as soon as production slows down. No advancement opportunities, especially if you’re at the Fremont, Indiana site. 

My position as a Quality Administrator has allowed me to engage in and become skilled in multi-tasking. Communicating with customers mainly via email has enhanced my computer skills. My position consists of: being the main contact for the Corporate Quality Department at the company, in which I overlook the main inbox, initiate contact with customers when a quality concern is reported, logging the concern into the database and assigning the concern to a Quality Engineer. Other tasks include: reviewing invoices, filing, scanning, contacting 3rd party companies to assist customers when quality concern is initiated, etc. As a back-up to the Quality Engineer, I continue to learn the processes and operations behind a fastener, and the corrective actions and root causes of the concern reported. One of the fascinating things is learning about the engineering and manufacturing process of a fastener. There is a variety of detail that goes into the design to ensure it meets spec, along with different sizes, finishes, shapes, etc.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing good to say for this company. They are unorganized, work their employees as hard as they can get away with pay used to be good till they took all the bonuses away and tons of 12 hour shifts , since they only run day and night shifts. Their equipment is sub standard( as long as employee can make it work to make bolts it does not need any repairs) and management has no respect for their employees  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Being employed there always some kind of drama going on there

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Not very hood, Very poor,  oily , hot dirty , long hour’s benefits are not good not worth what they cost you 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Long ,  stressfull  and exhausting physically and mentally

The position is severely underpaid for what is required from an employee. 50-60+ hours a week (salary) with lots of travel and mandatory weekend outings. 
Mid level management are supportive and fun people. The culture is dated with a traditional suited boys club culture mixed with boiler room sales mentality where the job is your life.
I would only recommended as a stepping stone to get into the automotive sales industry.
Pay is 50-70k a year which works out to 20-24/hr which is pretty pitiful in this field. Competitors are sometimes double that compensation.

This is how little they care about you.

after 8 years of 65+ hour weeks, they expand and realize they don't have enough people, so they hire 30+ people with contracts saying they will work no more than 50 hours a week and on weekends.

but you, the employee who stuck it out all these years, you get to continue working 12 hour days and weekends, watch the new hires either come in late or leave early and talk about what they will or what they did over the weekend.

Do you know what you were doing for the weekend?

working, like you have every weekend for 8 years...

you do the same job as them, they have the same job title as you, heck some of them start out making the same as you.

but they are special and you are not.

I wanted to kill myself.

The training is very poor guys that’s been there a long time don’t want to show you anything you come in the clock in and if your ask the guys there that know anything they get mad about showing you something like you’re supposed to learn it in one time it is probably the worst company I have ever worked for they show you no respect they show you no encouragement they don’t want you I mean it’s just a terrible terrible place to work and I wouldn’t really recommend it to anybody and management doesn’t even come out and talk to you and ask you how you’re doing all the older guys at work there they’re grumpy crabby don’t like anybody because you have no life there you got to dedicate your life to the company and you have no family life whatsoever

Absolute home wrecker everyone who has worked there for awhile is divorced or heading that way. No sick days. 1 week vacation after a year must be okd by management in advance. They do not care about family. They offer concessions to employees but then take something else away to even things out. Poorly ran, cant schedule or plan anything there. Will work you even when there really isn't anything to do. Nothing makes sense there.

While this was a good company to work for in past years I felt the need to leave due to favoritism and being overworked and not compensated for the job I was doing. I ended up leaving due to doing the work of 4 people and getting told that they were not even looking to hire someone to assist. I was falling behind in certain areas but never received help. Certain co-workers were allowed to dictate their own hours and spend the majority of their time scrolling instead of actually working putting me more behind in doing my job.

A good group of guys to work with. Everyone is friendly. You do not get raises when you are supposed too. First shift can do no wrong and third shift is always the problem according to management. Don't ever think about a promotion because they just might walk you out the door. The company will not fix anything at all. It even rains in the building. And what's the point of having machine repair if you have to schedule a repair months down the road only for the. To not do it.

Overtime was great until they took it away. 

All in all, bottom feeder company. Get in learn the trade get out.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Machine operator 5 salaries reported	$26.40 per hour
Hi-lo driver 2 salaries reported	$18.25 per hour
Quality technician 2 salaries reported	$19.50 per hour
Machine technician 1 salary reported	$25.00 per hour
Business systems analyst 5 salaries reported	$92,500 per year

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