controls engineer

automation technician

system engineer

press brake operator

assembler

Daifuku Intralogistics America

A general atmosphere of apathy is what can best be said to describe this company. Uncertainty that came with being bought out by Daifuku and the company restructuring has lead to a decline in the overall attitude from everyone within the company. They keep going through upper management as people keep leaving so people gave up here and that's bled all the way down to each individual site, especially Phillipsburg. Couple that with working with three other companies under one roof for daily operations and an overly ambitious customer who demands the impossible and you'll get a recipe for a very stressful work environment even before you get to work on equipment. The customer asks the impossible and the company will bend over backwards to ensure the customer gets what they want at the expense of their own workers. Understaffed and underequipped we we told one week "Just do what PM's you can and do them right" and the next week "Why do we have so many overdue PM's just get them done" and given weekly meetings about our performance and told "you guys suck" because the workload of an entire facility was placed onto one shift missing 2/3rds of its workforce. Mistakes are amplified and scrutinized despite subpar training and an apathetic approach from management. Every single thing you touch at this site you are told by management to take pictures because you can and will be accused of everything they can come up with to save their own skin. 

A typical day for me was to check my email. Take care of shipments that went out the previous day, wait for orders to be brought to me so  I was able to ship them through our system and process the labels to get the shipments out the door. I was also responsible for LTL's and scanning and filing invoices. Plenty of day to day customer service interaction.

I learned a lot during the year and a half I worked for this company and am very grateful.

My customer service manager (main) was wonderful, very understanding and flexible.

Co-workers were great as well, but just as any job there were good days and bad days. At the end of the day we all worked towards a common goal-getting the customers what they needed.

Hardest part was dealing with certain ignorance but you learn to ignore and deal with it. Also during slow times it was hard to keep busy and I prefer for my mind to be constantly stimulated. Always having something to do.

Most enjoyable part was the job and the constant flow of business (when it was constant)

Very unorganized as in management, to much favoritism, poor training. It's not a hard job when you're properly trained, you're left to learn things on your own, and when you make a mistake you're the one to blame especially do to the fact you wasn't trained properly. Then when you approach the situation about everything that's going on then you get targeted they don't like you. The company can do better if properly managed when it comes to business you can't bring your personnel conflicts in that type of setting as a lead, know where the talented  at and properly place them, just because you don't like no one doesn't mean leave them in the low part of the barrel. When it's strictly supposed to be about production, and they wonder why there employee rate is such a high turnover. Team work make the dream work there's no I in team. There should be no big I's and lil U's when it come to these type of jobs you'll never get no where. The main problem is within the company it self until they solve that it would always be a problem.

Pay did not meet the median standard for the career. Many people were underpaid even with a shift differential. A substantially apathetic work culture with a defeatist attitude due to management having little to no ability to negotiate anything with the client without substantial pushback or outright rejection. Working conditions were frequently unsafe with a systematic inability to repair them. A large focus on "getting things up" over legitimate repair. Turnover is ramping up and doesn't appear as though it is slowing down. But if you keep your head down and don't cause any real problems then the job is doable. The benefits are pretty great and the medical is actually very affordable. If you want A job then this is A job. But the best employees have already moved on for better.

A difficult place to work if you like to get thing done in a efficient manner and keep clients happy. far too many road blocks with all the rules and procedures to do anything. Seemed that they have good people working there but they are stuck on a ship with nobody at the helm, nobody listens to average person here to fix or streamline procedures. When I started here it was all about the employees and very friendly feeling but that changed after a couple years and it was all about covering you tail, more important to have the paperwork than to do a good job for the client. A lot of good people here so hopefully they can right the ship at some point.

It is a weird atmosphere being on sight  at Joliet was not settling. The people you work with on team are not supportive its everyone for them selves. When there is important meetings to learn from your team will sometimes not include you leaving you clue less on a task that must be completed. There is nobody you can trust. When I started the leads told me that everything was going to fail when Go Live such as their testing and conveyers and that eventually people where going to get the cut. They going through people to use them as escape goats. The people on the team are not happy and moopy. Their are no written warning or second chances when it comes to clients and projects. 

Automotion is a pretty laid environment to work in. The dress code is casual and the work is easy to pick up on. Being an order picker, my time at work was pretty much spent maneuvering throughout the warehouse gathering materials needed for my picking lists. I learned a lot about product quality and how important accuracy and efficiency are in my field. I also was able to acquire new skills as an order picker; such as learning to operate a lifting machine, stand-up and sit-down forklifts and assembling parts to be used in conjunction with other parts to complete orders. My overall experience with Automotion has been great.

My typical day is arriving at work at 5am and making sure the parts are stocked in their bins for the pickers to deliver to each department.

When I am finished stocking parts I may print Gerber labels for shipping or assist in any other area that I am told to help.  Many times, an employee is off work or sick and a department needs some help so I will be put in another department.

Working at this company, I've learned to be adaptable.  The hardest part of my job is getting up in the morning, but when I'm up I'm moving.  

I enjoy having a busy day.  As long as I'm moving I feel productive.

manage accounts and vendor communication for several company locations.
Learned to quickly adapt to many different custom made software programs. 
Successful meet dead lines with high volume of work.
My team of coworkers make going to work a pleasure even in a fast paced environment.
The hardest part of the job is keeping up with daily changes in procedures while becoming JSOX compliant after the company was purchased.
I enjoy just sense of accomplishment for a job well done and completed on time, regardless of the obstacles that occured.

Very very very high potential to be an awesome place to work when the right people are in place..management is the problem. It’s easy to come up but then they play you and use you...in my experience they seem to hate those who have a voice and those who have a back bone..in other words....those that stand for truth and are not afraid to speak up...other than that the job has super fun potential to be a wonderful place of work...and in many aspects it is a good place to work..but there are snakes and vipers in there so be aware..over all the job is good...
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