assembler

maintenance technician

production assembler

operator

robotics technician

Commercial Vehicle Group Inc.

As an assembler, the job was easy. However the pay was just minimum wage and management was terrible.

The three factory supervisors were all women, related to each other, and Hispanic. They had no management training and poor communication skills. They barely spoke English. Somehow, they got their positions through knowing each other and looking out for one another.

We were not allowed to speak to co-workers and bathroom breaks were timed. The sexual innuendo was pervasive. There is a great tension between workers due to culture and gender. The factory manager rarely ventured outside his office and did not speak to workers. Overtime was "mandatory", yet friends of management ignored it.

The mentality is "blame someone else" rather than team work.

Fast production was emphasized over quality despite having parts frequently returned for rework from Caterpillar, our main client. When defective parts were noticed, I was required to send them or "rig" them. It's amazing how much money and time is wasted reworking orders that could have been made correctly the first time.

There are many illegal workers, including the supervisors, who were "grandfathered in". The company does not currently hire illegal workers, but is aware that many remain there using counterfeit documents. This is the only job I worked where work orders and instructions were in Spanish.

When a human resources worker was hired, we expected things to improve, but she was incompetent and quickly bullied into compliance by the main supervisor. The only other HR worker is in the next state and visits infrequently.

This is a horrible place to work due to mismanagement but will do if you're in need of a job. It's simple and light duty if you can ignore the problems and realize that the job is temporary.

I have been here for over 10 years and have seen over 20 plant managers come through here and countless other employees that have moved on. 

The turnover rate here is horrendous. This is mostly due to poor management. Managers that choose their friends as top priority over other workers and ignore contributions and hard work/dedication by many crucial employees leading to their abrupt exit. 
There is an odd work culture that dominates this place, it's not the people, it's the lack of proper training, failure to implement safety protocols, failure to use a proper PM for older machines that require regular service, the inconsistent pay scale and favoritism of employees in the same department, the lack of communication. They do not even have a retirement plan, so the longer you are here, the more time you are wasting away. 

I see this place as a way to gain experience for a resume and then to move on. That is the advice I would give anyone coming through the door. There is no where to grow here, to move up. There is no support from the corporate entities, there is very little emphasis on quality, and in this place you are just a number, not a valued employee. 

I wish it was better, and it could be, if they would implement 5S principles and focus more on listening to what your most valued people tell you when it comes to what they need to do their job better and more efficient, yet this all falls on deaf ears, so this company will continue to exist until they finish running it into the ground due to their own unwillingness to listen and improve. Sad too, because this place has the potential to be great, just lacks the leadership and throughput/tenacity and discipline it takes for foresight.  

What is the best part of working at the company?
Friendly co-workers, work hrs as it is a dayshift job. Good benefits, ease of work.They do take into consideration people's ideas and may implement them into the work areas if they are actually a good idea and you may get paid for your ideas also to help save money for the plant and help promote better work environments and speed and ease to jobs in the plant; as no one knows the job better than someone who does it everyday.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Quotas,pay, and the way the plant is run ( some management issues).

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Can be fast paced at times depending on work areas.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Depends on what you do in the plant and what area you are assigned to work at. As all I can a test to is 1) maintenance as you are always fixing something , fabricating something or doing preventative maintenance on equipment. 2)Forklift operator as you are loading and unloading parts and moving parts around the plant (stand up and sit down forklifts both).3) Press operator is a fast paced and very physically demanding job as some of the mats we worked with were in excess of over a 100 lbs. and big and bulky and sometimes you had to carry these big bulky mats on your shoulders about 50 to 75 yards to your machine and that was daily.

As a regional sales mgr, covering 13 states I was responsible for the entire N.E. My goal was to call on distributors of heavy duty truck parts, truck dealerships, and get specified in truck fleets of 200 trucks or more for AIR RIDE TRUCK SEATS. I was the leading territory for the company for over 13 years. ALWAYS attending dealership functions, trade shows, and participating in OEM involvment fuctions. My greatest contribution to the company was when I recommended a QUANTITY DISCOUNT PROGRAM for the aftermarket. My program caught on quickly and the companies OEM business began to shrink due to the truck market taking a major dip in NEW TRUCK SALES. I initiated the foundation of what today is the companies 14 YEARS LATER their BREAD and BUTTER the ATERMARKET seat business. After being promoted to V.P. in sales my ability to contribute more volume increased thru utiizing independant rep organizations thru out the U.S. Once the company got sold to a private organization a package was offered to me in which I decided to take due to a family member needing me home. Great company that gave me my first start in the business world with support and direction. One of the reasons why I stayed in sales and marketing as a career.

•	Create highly formatted Sales reports to analyze sales trends over a dynamic, rolling 12 month period with prompts to choose Line of Business and provide sales thresholds to view top 20 and bottom 20 customers 
•	Deliver and maintain daily support; identify and troubleshoot issues in regards to user security, reports and data validation
•	Ensure various ERP’s have loaded tables extracted into Data Warehouse with current, up to date information
•	Uphold data integrity; collaborate with Finance Directors and Product Line Managers across several countries to update Customer and Product information accurately in Data Warehouse
•	Assist different department users with their ad hoc queries and reports
•	Provide training sessions to users on how to use BI tools and build reports
•	Update/Build Framework Manager models with added fields and publish out to Public Folders
•	Form audit reports to tie out Sales and General Ledger data to Consolidation Tool
•	Identify and resolve any data discrepancies between Data Warehouse and Consolidation Tool
•	Undertake project to properly eliminate intercompany sales into proper locations for reporting and cube analysis
•	Generate events in Event Studio with parameters to alert BI Administrators when Cube or Data Warehouse refresh fails

A typical day was about 10.5 hours, unless you were traveling for an event or meeting and it would increase to 12 hours. The learning and teaching others about Lean Six Sigma was top rate. The management of this team was outstanding and the workplace culture was fast, demanding and you were held accountable for everything you touched - which I enjoyed. The hardest part of the job was traveling to multiple locations and keeping up on the day to day activities of your daily job, but that is everywhere when you have multiple plants of responsibility. The most enjoyable part of the job was working with people that had just a little more knowledge and experience, so I was able to learn from and not being the smartest one in the group. Overall, a great team of professionals that I am proud to have worked with in my career.

There for seven months and after my second week I knew it wasn't the place for me. The management is horrible. Never have the parts needed to do the job but you have to keep working by skipping several steps and going back to complete the step once parts arrive which will put you behind. This causes overtime issues and you may not be able to stay which is frowned upon. Managers hide behind objects and back track to make sure you aren't talking to fellow employees. Knowing that you have to discuss your job details when training. The majority of the permanent staff there have been there between ten and five years and most are telling you its a dead end job. There are a lot of over 40 staff so they have no fear of being honest. I'm glad that I was a temp because I would have turned down a hiring position. They bring you in at the same pay unless they paid you crumbs to start then they may give you a dollar raise. Temp it to get resume material only.

My responsibilities were supporting any quality issues at 3 Caterpillar plants & two 3rd party plants for Caterpillar cab assembly operations.

My knowledge of harness manufacturing is extremely high and that was shown by the great service I provided to the customer by being the On-site Quality Engineer.

I took the initiative of working with all levels of management, internal as well as externally.

My co-workers were in Iowa & Mexico, but working closely with them, we always focused on improving the quality of all harness products for our customers.

The hardest part of my job, was really not hard at all, but it consisted of performing rework on harnesses in either hot or cold outside temperatures.

The most enjoyable part of my job, was being able to perform any type of rework required in order to have our customers ship their products with the highest quality and an on-time delivery performance.

Daily life in this shop wasn't bad. It was quiet, had a range of characters working for them with all sets of skills. They used an 'all or nothing' form of management. Only hired through temp service and had a ridiculous turn around rate. They were unwilling to listen to compromise. They wouldn't take direction from the employees about trying new things and procedures and didn't utilize peoples skills where they would have been most productive and effective. I believe this would have allowed the company to grow and prosper along with employees furthering their skill set, maybe even earning a new one.

Co workers and management were very courteous and accommodating, they just didn't listen to their employees, which could have helped them ultimately pull their company out of deep water. I learned a lot about past companies ethics i've worked for, how to deal with corporate issues and do my best by the guidelines set before me.

The division I worked at was a metal stamping and subassembly factory for the truck market, heavy construction equipment market and Niche vehicle market. I was a tooling engineer/program manager so I was responsible for quoting and incorporating all the engineering changes to the existing stamping tooling and all new stamping tool builds. The most difficult part of my job was trying to quote the work and be competitive in the market because we had very old equipment and no automation. We were competing against companies with much newer and sophisticated equipment with robotic automation. Trying to come up with ways to produce products at a lower cost with the equipment we had was challenging but was also very rewarding at times when it was successful. The most enjoyable part of my job there was the great group of people I worked with.

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