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Company: Dragon Products
Position: Mechanical Engineer

A Typical Day at Work
A typical day at Dragon Products involved a balance of engineering design, problem-solving, and collaboration. My workdays often included reviewing drawings, supporting production processes, troubleshooting equipment issues, and working closely with other engineers, operators, and management to ensure projects stayed on schedule and met quality standards. Each day brought new challenges that kept the work engaging and intellectually stimulating.

What I Believe I Learned
Working at Dragon Products allowed me to apply my mechanical engineering education in a real-world industrial environment. I gained hands-on experience with manufacturing processes, equipment operation, and practical engineering solutions. I also strengthened my skills in critical thinking, technical documentation, teamwork, and adapting engineering theory to meet operational demands.

Management
Management at Dragon Products was supportive and approachable. As a recent graduate, I was given the opportunity to learn, ask questions, and grow into my role. Leadership provided guidance while also trusting me with responsibility, which helped build my confidence as a professional engineer.

Workplace Culture
The workplace culture at Dragon Products was collaborative and professional. Employees were knowledgeable and willing to share their experience, creating an environment where learning and teamwork were encouraged. Safety, quality, and accountability were clearly valued across all levels of the organization.

The Hardest Part of the Job
The most challenging part of the job was adjusting to the fast-paced industrial environment and learning to manage multiple priorities at once. However, this challenge ultimately contributed to my professional growth and helped me develop strong time-management and problem-solving skills.

The Most Enjoyable Part of the Job
The most enjoyable part of working at Dragon Products was seeing engineering concepts come to life in a manufacturing setting. Being able to contribute to real projects, solve practical problems, and grow as an engineer so early in my career made the experience especially rewarding.

A typical day of work beings with me arriving every morning at 7:00 a.m. and following up with the projects we have in progress for our customers and provide them with updates as needed. I return to the office and enter about an worth of Work in Progress parts used on the projects the day before. I also provide support for the outside salesmen throughout the day by quoting and researching parts for their customers. I provide support with the shipping and receiving for the parts as well. I preform daily counts in order to keep up with my inventory control duties. We recently laid off a number of employees.This has given me the opportunity to become more experienced in multiple jobs throughout the company. Now that my responsibilities have doubled in the company, I have learned to manage my time very effectively and also, I have become even more detail oriented than I was before. The management at Dragon Products is outstanding. They have trained me well and treated with the upmost respect. They have allowed me to prove myself in the company and have rewarded me by giving me more responsibilities in the daily operations at Dragon Products.

My day at work starts off inventorying products. inspecting and filing work orders in order to turn then in. I look and carefully inspect items that require repair and replace items needed on work order. 
The work is high demand due to production is in high demand.
Communicating with my boss and co workers are good and we work together to get the job done. 
Safety meetings and other job related meeting are on high demand at times due to the numbers of employees working there. meeting work orders are a must due to the deadlines that other companies require.
I am asked by managers to due other jobs and fill in for co workers when they are not able to be at work that day. The company is in high demand so work to meet the demand is a requirement . the pace is fast at times, so I must meet the work order in the timely manner so they can ship off the products as needed.
My satisfaction comes from knowing the job is completed properly and that we all get along as best as possible at the end of the day. the work is done and no problems with supplies missing or ordered wrong. 
Good place to work.

● Work-life balance
Worst boss I ever had. Very inconsistent horrible language and lies constantly. Stirs up drama between other employees to make himself look good. No chance of raises or advancement or raises

● Pay & benefits
He would let his favorite people take off when wanted but others he would make use their vacation. If you were a women you could come and go as you please

● Job security and advancement
I can’t speak for the whole company because I didn’t work at other locations but the management in San Angelo is awful

● Management
Don’t work there it’s a dead end job with no chance of advancing. Horrible leadership. Talks about other employees behind their back lies constantly etc

● Culture
Culture is awful nobody I know wants to be there

● Overall
If it were not for plant manager it might be a good place to work. I loved my coworkers but management made it miserable. They will lay you off as soon as things get slow after promising you a week earlier you were safe.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Best part is that I always have a paycheck every 2 weeks, and I never have a rainout, freeze out, mud out, have great bosses, and employees that work here. Could not ask for better. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Trying to finish a project on time to go to the Equipment Show..

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Everyone gets a long good,  we do a lot of professional welding and fitting here. We all have our days, like most places, but you get hired if you can pass a welding test. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I get to work 1 hour early, make coffee and get things ready to start my day,read over prints, and finish where I was at the day before. It goes by fast,  10 hours a day.

Turn in Production report from previous work day,recieve work orders for that shift, then touch base with each operator to confirm dutys, make sure materials where properly available, ordered any materials needed, managed production and machines as well as operators to insure orders where completed promply and efficiently, made sure parts where delivered to proper departments, conducted safety meetings weekly, reported any equipment failures to maintenance, kept moral positive toward working efforts, finished the day by proprly shutting down plant and overseeing operators machine maintenance for next shift!

show up start working and only stop for breaks.
I learned how to wire up the seelevels on the side of tanks.
the management area in the company was good for the most part, but some had favorites and treated them better.
the co-workers were friendly but i couldn't understand the language they were speaking (spanish).
the hardest part of the job was that i couldn't get around certain chemicals because i was allergic to them.
the most enjoyable part of the job was that i was not forced to do anything that was too hard or too heavy. and i had fun with what i was doing.

I felt that much needed to be addressed at this company due to the lack of accurate documentation. My final position as Quality Assurance Engineer helped to standardise the assembly methods and procedures in the manufacturing shop. The drawings I was creating helped the shop leads have a real working guide to assemble their products. 
The head engineer was an amazing individual and I had voiced that I would have liked to have met him many years earlier. I learned a lot from him as well as from the others employed in the shop and engineering dept. 
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A typical day at work was getting the job done and helping others when needed. I've learned how to drive a Fork Lift and assemble trailers working with differnt tools and valves. Management was good because we had a good hard working crew. I must say my co-workers didn't all get along but we still got the job done. The hardest part of the job i must say was getting in side those hot trailers to work. The most enjoyable part of the day would been lunch time and finish time.

Really enjoyed working for Dragon Products.  The group I worked for was moving toward becoming more standardized between locations and away from the mindset where every location just did whatever to make it work.  Pre-COVID, my group was working on streamlining processes and getting employees in the right roles/positions.

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