senior engineer

engineer

warehouse associate

machinist

senior manager

Detroit Diesel

I am a packer for Detroit, only been doing it a few weeks but quickly caught on to the work.

Management is a total joke and plays favorites when it comes to workers. You sit on a line for over 10 hours away. Not allowed to listen to music (expect for Christmas Day I guess) which isn’t a huge deal but that forces you to listen to a giant electric saw all night and ear plugs do nothing for the sound, that thing never goes off. Lots of forced overtime because no one will volunteer (Management doesn’t even stay overtime…)  but you bring home a decent check. This makes it so your work/home life balance is non existent or you’re just exhausted all the time. This job is a good starter job I guess but I wouldn’t make a career out of it in any way shape or form. Just a job to save a bunch of money then move on 

Not a job for someone who doesn’t like boring work or no work at all. Sometimes you literally sweep the same spot for an hour. They don’t care if it’s clean, they just want you to look busy. 

If they think you’re working to slow, they’ll come and force you to speed up even if it means drowning your coworkers in boxes or parts. 
They don’t have work most nights but still expect you to be there on OT. Every day of the week until 3am and every other Saturday for 4 hours.. Management has no direction most of the time and is just as lost as you are. You get three breaks, 4 on OT nights (every night of the week) 

Overall, boring and tedious work, decent pay but could be better, forced overtime is rampant and apparently has been for over two years at this point but the company runs out of work to find really fast. Workers are constantly being filtered in and out as no one wants to stay. Temps are constant being filtered in and out of the packing room.


Detroit Diesel used to be a fun place to work until the Daimler acquisition and the middle management was completely overhauled from Germany. Any motivated worker may have hard time working here for long run. Lack of recognition for work well performed and lack of respect for engineers on the shop floor are few of the aspects that kills talented employees from staying at this company. 
Lot of yes boss people get opportunity to advance especially in quality management. 
This could be a career starting company but definitely not the company to improve yourself and improve your career.

What is the best part of working at the company?
A Strong union, schedules that will work with your life style, teamwork, good benefits, good top out pay. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Because we are a union company getting bumped to another shift or department can be a little stressful but manageable. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is good A/C in the summer Heat in the winter. The culture is great the company has been around over 85 years and still moving forward strong. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day for me is to do what I have to do to meet the company needs, produce quality products and to help my coworkers when needed.

We would take digital boards that ran industrial vehicles and put them through a reprogramming station. If it failed we would test them      on the tester machine and it would print out a receipt. This receipt would have a bunch of numbers on it. we would use these numbers as reference points to find out what's wrong with these boards. So I have replaced many different chips, SCRs, resistors, and other various digital parts. Going through this experience has helped me solder and troubleshoot better.

I enjoyed working with my supervisors, they explained my daily job well. The hours were great, the jobs were easy, and took the last hour to clean your work area. I started working there as a temp. And 3 weeks in to working the big wigs decided to tell first shift in a meeting that the plant was going to begin laying off and planned to shut down completely by the end of the year. My shift which was second shift found out my reading it in the emporia gazette.

Pay is very good and you’re given opportunity for as much over time as you like or can handle.canton PDC is the master hub and produces more than any other pdc and supplies others with parts.  My job title is order picker so I driver a lift truck or reach truck most of the day  and I sometimes do over time in the box shop as well and other places that they need me. If you get a job here stay as long as you can it’s the only place you can make 60,000 a year plus without a college education.

I used to work nights when I worked here and I loved it. Managers and Supervisors were awesome. I started with 4 weeks vacation, I think they match at 6% for 401k, frequent raises. Overall, this place is amazing. There are different trucks or lifts to drive that are different than you are used to, but easy to learn. Only thing that sucks is that most of the people got hired in from knowing someone else, or being a temp worker. 

I work in a fast paced environment.  Some of it is structured as far as getting the day set up but after that every moment is different.  I do a wide variety of tasks everyday which include process improvement, reporting, scheduling, quality assurance & timely delivery.  I have increased my abilities to multi-task 10 fold and due to the industry I have learned an entirely new set of skills that were not present in my previous opportunities.

My work schedule beginning at 5:30 am each day.
My job was to begin disarming diesel engines, once unarmed
Sorted the pieces and put into containers provided.
I learned to know all the measures used tool in that area,
I learned to handle air guns.
The hardest part was when they could not remove certain parts, and had to use
The torch to melt the screw and to finish the job.
What I liked most was to know different people and work with them.

If I had to write a review for this company, I guess I'd say it's alright. Nice benefits...and that's about all I can say that's good about it. If you're at the bottom of the chain of that place you are treated like sub-par trash and get ok pay... that is... if you like living alone and never want to have a family ever. You make nowhere near enough money to survive at that place unless you live alone and on ramen, your whole life cause that's how little you make. Anyway, they have ok benefits I guess.

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Senior manager 1 salary reported	$18.00 per hour

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