technical lead

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Plant support from Duncan is wonderful. I wish I could say the same thing about the Lansing location when production was there. Unless you can hit the floor running a corporate position is not the place for you.  Written procedures are over killed, convoluted and not always accurate. Electronic files are moved around constantly making them hard to locate and sometimes they are deleted. Too much responsibility is assigned outside of your position.Electronic tracking systems are not being completed by the proper departments so the burden falls onto the shoulders of the QE.  Program Managers are not held accountable for APQP so it's passed on to the QE's. Even long vacant positions like purchasing department tool tracking are passed along to the QE. This makes work loads very cumbersome and deadlines difficult to meet unless you do things on your own time. You need to be willing to work a lot of OT, especially if you are salaried.  My typical work day was 11 hours plus at least 2 Saturday's and 1 Sunday a month.  Comp time for personal time spent on OT was not given so if you had to come in late or leave early for an appointment it was taken out of vacation time or sick days. Management is weak due to inexperience and support is slow or non-existent when assistance is requested.

Provided administrative support to Head of Procurement, Purchasing Manager Commodities and Purchasing Manager Indirect. 
Learned of Cost Savings/Cost Avoidance of over several million dollars
Placed orders to vendors for all departments, negotiated prices, met with vendors and potential suppliers, obtained quotes, request for quotes, provided cost comparison and facilitated cost avoidance, reported on spends and savings
Created purchase orders from purchasing requisitions, released/rejected and created purchase requisitions, created/changed and marked for deletion info records
Assisted in Maintenance, Repairs and Operations, Services, Information Technology, and Capital Equipment purchases for manufacturing parts
set up new suppliers, entered Certificate of Liability Insurance, Contractor Agreements and Non-Disclosure Agreements

Draexlmaier is a great place to work. The co-workers were great people who would help you if you needed help. The hardest part of the job was if maintenance needed a raw material for a machine. We would have to call vendors, receive quotes and have the material in Maintenance, Repairs and Operations department as soon as possible. The most enjoyable part of work at Draexlmaier is the people that works there. Great co-workers.

DRAEXLMAIER AUTOMOTIVE of AMERICA DAA LLC. Duncan SC. / Troy MI.		2012 – Current
Quality Development Expert – Project Quality Lead Interior Systems
•	Program and Project Management responsible for product development and planning of tasks that aligns with the goals of the Development Quality Department in the context of project launch activities.  Tasks span multiple classifications to allow for flexible resource management within the Development Organization.  Leverage knowledge of quality principles to assist in the mentoring of Development Quality Personnel.  Specific focus areas include the development of quality concepts, inspection plans architecture, quality system inspection plans, and appearance manuals.  Support quality development activities with measurement plan evaluation and interpretation of measurement reports and inspection methodologies.  Support Quality Deployment tasks including resource definition and budgeting.  Interface with Customers and Managerial levels as required to complete these project activities.

My first day on the job at DAA included a talk with a process engineer who was working his last day before returning to his previous job at ZF. He talked about how the pay DAA offered was higher than average because of the turnover rate being so high. After working there for a year, I understood exactly why they cannot keep employees long term. There is a company joke about the "Draexlmaier Salute," which consists of pointing both of your fingers across the shoulders to place the blame on another employee. Coworker accountability and responsibility are virtually nonexistent. Work loads were passed onto engineering from completely unrelated departments in the plant, and oftentimes I found myself completing or even taking over projects from coworkers.

The problem with this job is that when nothing is going on you get no respect. You can lie and do busywork like everyone else. I preferred to just sit still. But because I sit still I get called "lazy" and "non-productive". Then when things went wrong the boss expected everything from you. Non-stop reports and working 10+ hours every day and working 50+ hours every week. And you had to do this in a place where you don't even wear the same shirt as everyone else! Everyone knows you're an outsider. The best part of the job is knowing you affected the overall quality of the product. The worst part is the unpredictably of it all. Some days you'll walk 2 miles; other days you'll walk 9 miles. It's all based on luck and how your company felt like building the product that day.

Good company to work for. We scheduled the meeting goals for shipments every two hours to BMW in some commodities.
I participated in training and team building classes to improve moral and overall improvements of our plant. 
Management was fair and mostly consistent in their decision making.Some days were stressful but goals were set and we meet them outside of downtime from lack of parts or machinery being down. Good benefits and fair pay. Some areas required long hours and could be very stressful due to things out of associates control. I
enjoyed working for this company and having the opportunity to advance. the overturn of employees was very high which caused more training and downtime.

At first everyone starts out as a temp to hire. After your hours are up then you convert to permanent. They say you get hired depends on your reviews. How hard u work. How u perform. Your attendants. Etc. But that's all lies. Even the ones that dont perform get hired. So all the hard work that you did was for nothing when you could of done the bare minimum like alot of lazy workers there. After a while, everyone gets paid the same amount which I dont find it fair for those who has been working for more years then others. They dont appreciate hard workers. They seem to promote workers that have a connection with the boss. Everyone here is practically looks for jobs elsewhere. 

Management very poor not a good working invironment to work with. Very stressful Production manager very unprofessional"Gossip", Micro managed,curses in front of Supervisors and others. Always makes bad comments & very rude. 
Production Manager not capable to descipline to his own action constant complaining is not only bringing down morale, but also undermining the efforts of a new Supervisors/Managers.
Production Managers not prepared for handling their own workforce as a whole in order to prevent negativity from infecting all other employee's, does not know how to set standards behavior.

When I started at Draexlmaier some 7 plus years ago it was a great place to work, they cared about employees and showed respect and appreciation. That has all changed! If you want to be worked like a dog treated like dirt and work 7 12 hr shifts in a row, come to Draexlmaier where there is always openings because no one stays.
Management is a joke, they have no clue of what it takes to keep an employee, earn respect or do their part of the job. People should earn their jobs and move up because of what they know not who they know. There are still some good people there but even the long term people are leaving.

The plant management team is horrible, they only care about those in their clique and promote within the clique. The logistics department is really horrible as both the warehouse operations manager and the logistics manager should not even be managers at all. They down grade their employees and only talk about firing people. They are trying to cut heads without letting the community know they are doing a lay off. The employees rule the roost and supervisors are left to fend for themselves. Management is running everybody off and no one wants to cares.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Technical lead 13 salaries reported	$41.50 per hour
Maintenance technician 15 salaries reported	$42.45 per hour
Production lead 5 salaries reported	$34.43 per hour
Production supervisor 6 salaries reported	$95,000 per year
Production engineer 4 salaries reported	$32.83 per hour

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