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Congoleum Corporation

The initial salary is good, but limited growth opportunites.  

Factory hourly employees are USW union, rates are competitive/re-negotiated every few years, overtime is available and intra-factory department promotions.  Supervisors are fixed salary.  Plan on hearing how they did it this or that way for 50+ years.  The infrastructure is dated, the product is dated and most of the management is dated, but somehow, they trudge on.  There's about a dozen solid managers, line workers and plant support staff at the factory holding it all together.   

Corporate salaried is a distillation apparatus of quiet quitters playing shell games to avoid work and discovery before exit.  Long term senior management cronyism has resulted in last man standing promotions with skillset and technology voids.  Employees silo power and restrict innovation to protect their jobs and hide failed systems.  

There are no continuing education programs, primary focus is equipment investments, not people.  

For somebody looking at manufacturing experience, it's a good start for factory training, safety and forklift certs.  But sales growth of their felt based rolled PVC flooring is essentially capped.  

It's a scrappy company with an odd comradery that bonds the remaining staff as they fend off inevitable market forces.
If you like tower defense style games, this is your place.

I wish them the best.

Dangerous and physical, but common sense should keep you safe. 12 hour shifts and goofy schedule. work a week of day shift, then off a week, this I loved, then you go back and work night shift a week. Then off a week, day shift, off, night shift etc. Usually several people can work the off weeks but just not a normal production week. Or you collect unemployment  for the week off. I like that too. My job is hard, long and constant. breaks are short and you eat when you can. No sit down for 30 min breaks here.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The workers on the floor wanted to change for the better.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Top Management did not have a clue on how to run a manufacturer plant. Was stuck in the past and not ready for change. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic work environment.  They were to worried about themselves and not the team.  Top management is stuck in the past.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Putting out fires with people issues. Unprofessional behavior by managment.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The folks working in the Plants are fantastic!  From the newest Union employee to the Plant Managers who reported to me, everyone truly cared about the business and worked hard to assure our success.  I wish them success long into the future!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Assuring that our “older” equipment continued to run as required.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
You would never know that the plants are unionized steel workers.  Everyone works hard to perform as best as possible.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
10 or so hours that flew by.

This 125 year old company instilled great teamwork and extensive knowledge. Though the market was slowly declining they continued to offer what they could to their employees and continually sought to use the highest in technologies and were always upgrading to become more efficient. I even went back to work for them years later to help fill in for a few months working 8 hours in normal job and 8 hours for them in evening to help them through a critical project.

If you want a good paying job this is it but if you have smaller children and don’t want shift work than this is not it. 
You can be on 1st shift and someone calls off then (based on worked overtime hours) you could possibly be forced to work another 8 hours to cover that and still be expected to come in the next morning. 
Also out of no where they can lay you off  for a week due to no business. Granted you can collect unemployment but that nothing near what you get paid on a regular week.

In my time, there was a change in management.  They did not know much on how to run the business nor were receptive to the old ideas of the established workforce there. Even when the old workforce would try to find implement new and workable ideas that would have streamlined processes and areas.  One had to "tow the line" with the new management.  Much time and money was wasted in this time from management.

many yrs spent there with all the overtime it seemed like 35 yrs but over all congo did give me and my family a good life i hope on my next job i can meet the same quality of people nice and friendly,the job was never hard someone was always there to help you or show you what to do I WILL MISS THAT KINDA FRIENDSHIP

RESPONSIBILITIES
Monitor plastisol compounding production.
Reformulate plastisol compounding formulas.  
Develop processes, line speed and oven temperatures, for quality and cost imporvements.
Write experimental production reports for Congoleum Corporation to save money.

I learned many trades and paid for school I left with hvac and station engineer boiler operator I realized there are not a lot of factorys for people to come in make decent money and medical and learn build up your skills.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production worker 1 salary reported	$21.50 per hour
Customer service representative 5 salaries reported	$41,500 per year
Industrial electrician 1 salary reported	$24.87 per hour
Master electrician 1 salary reported	$38.50 per hour
Safety manager 1 salary reported	$80,000 per year

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