machinist

senior financial analyst

quality assurance inspector

project manager

production operator

FLSmidth

This was my first job out of college. Entry-level college positions offer good pay, good benefits, and relocation if needed. Pay is above average for Tucson, but not competitive outside of a lower cost-of-living city.

During my tenure, two Senior Executives were quietly fired for extortion and endangering employees in blue-collar positions. This includes a near-death incident that avoided reports. Both executives had long histories of these complaints.

There is a lot of direct favoritism for key roles in the industry, mainly in engineering and designing large systems. Several senior employees received their positions without any relevant experience and education. I know personally multiple people with Engineering degrees who were not offered positions that fit their educational, certification, and work experience. The people who received these positions lacked all education, work experience and certification, but were favored by management. The justification was that the people they hired could learn on the job

The department I left had been restructured numerous times and did not have clear support, or direction from management. There is not a lot of outside experience in managing these departments. Most senior management is home grown, which is a problem when spinning out a new department. Overall there was not any investment in training or providing outside resources.

In summary, this is a decent position for Tucson, AZ in terms of pay, benefits, and time off. Tucson is a low-pay, low-cost-of-living city, so the salary will not compete with larger cities like Phoenix. The technology stack is significantly behind most companies' standards, so prepare to do outside training to make yourself marketable. Also if possible, this firm runs on nepotism, so try to always become management's friend. You will be limited based on job skills and scope. This can affect you when looking for your next position. I would recommend this job for someone who wants to stay in Tucson, but have an exit strategy in mind.

FLSmidth offers great opportunities whether you enter the company fresh out of college or as a Sr. level employee. Almost all of the executives started as Field Service Engineers and grew in the company to their current roles. Pay is fair and they offer a traditional corporate benefits package. The company great about giving annual increases and they always happen on the same date every year.

The GMs are great to work for and encourage you to work to obtain the next level in your career. Most of the employees have spent their entire career here and act as great mentors. There is always training available if needed. 

The company also offers a great work/life balance. They have flex hours so you can decide what time you want to come in the morning and then you can leave 8 hours later. If you have an appointment or want to attend an event, it's easy to leave early or extend your lunch. You're just expected to work an average of 40 hours. In the Summer, if you work 30 minutes extra during the week, you can leave around 2:00 on Friday afternoon. FLSmidth also offers full tuition reimbursement and has sent tons of employees for graduate degrees.

I really enjoyed getting up and going to my job at Decanter/FL Smidth every morning. The people are wonderful and the job itself was the best ive had. I couldnt ask for better people to work with.

I handled all the day to day operations in the office. I was the only office person so I handled, payroll, AP/AR, invoicing, petty cash, reports, filing, scheduling appts, meeting preparation, you name it I did it . Our home office was located out of state, so I was trained on what I didnt know and then left to do what I needed to do. I am the only female in a company of 42 employees. We all worked well together  and my co-workers are absolutely fantastic. 

I came in everyday, did my work and loved it. I never thought I could run an office by myself and get everything prioritized and completed, but I did  and I am so pleased that I learned this about myself while in return helping out a great bunch of people.

 Unfortunately due to the economy we are shutting down this South Carolina plant and moving operations to our Johnson City plant.

I will surely miss this job and the wondeful people who gave me a chance and the cionfidence to do what I didnt think I could.

Generally the coworkers and management were good to get along with. 

The hardest and most painful part of the job was finding surprises as engineering calculations, models and drawings were reviewed. Layoffs consolidated the remaining work so there was no time to develop any guidelines for marketing,  interoffice cooperation, newbie engineers and designers, or even a common basis for review.

The most enjoyable part of the job was developing new designs to meet client needs...

However clients changed their needs and design work became a chase game to keep up with changes.

I learned hiring local interns to help with calculations was very efficient and cost effective, mandating very complicated software and cloud storage was counterproductive for idea sharing, lack of standards hurts on many levels.

There’s no way the shareholders really know how this company is being run; everything is a cluster-f. Strategy decisions are made before they even have a plan of how to get there, big structural changes  happening every 6 months, fearing for your job, etc. 

You won’t get paid what you’re worth, but will be expected to “prove yourself”. Upper HR management is the worst. No one at higher levels even know what most of the people below them even do.  They care more about the low level blue collar workers than the people trying to make it a better place to work. Individuals are in mgmt positions they shouldn’t even be in. No one really cares about you. 

Culture is horrible. The blue collar people run that place and get away with doing whatever the heck they want. They listen to the constant lies of the workers instead of the people with integrity. Your efforts will never be rewarded. 

Good luck trying to 

Overall, I enjoyed working as a Commissioning Engineer for FLSmidth. I got to travel around the world and see a lot of interesting places and meet a lot of great people. The work was always interesting and I enjoyed working in the field instead of behind a desk most of the time. However, there is no work/life balance. I would often travel from project to project without much time between and I was basically on call 24/7. The R&R schedule was variable and never really promised to us because it was either a critical time in the project or there wasn't anybody to cover my position while I was gone. Management would try to make up for the missed R&R later on if possible but that wasn't always possible if there was another project to go to. There was constant restructuring and layoffs happening back in the office with management and office support but I never felt my job was in danger since I was a field engineer.

A typical day at FLSmidth started with opening the front office, turning on machines and preparing for the flood of calls and visitors.  I would be swamped with phone calls and visitors from 8am till 4:30pm.  Both calls and visitors would come in waves through-out the day.  
My co-workers were wonderful to work with.  the Management was often over-worked and out of reach unless they needed to communicate with you.
The hardest part of my job was getting people to relieve me at the front desk.  It was a high pressure position and most admins were less then excited about helping out there.
The most enjoyable part of my job was meeting people from all over the world and learning about their cultures.  It was fascinating and I loved the people that I met.

I mostly enjoyed my time at this company. I still remain in friendly contact with the General manager. I learnt a lot and did many varied roles in my time there. This company many varied aspects to it, including robotics, mining construction and spare parts, to name but a few. I worked in the warehousing part of this company, where you had to be prepared for mining breakdowns, when they would need a part straight away. The pressure was on to pick and pack the part and have transport organised, often within an hour of receiving notification of the initial breakdown. 

I left this company due to a medical misdiagnosis, that had caused me problems for 20 years. Now that the medical profession has now correctly identified what was causing my medical issues, I am all good to go again. If it were not for this misdiagnosis, I would still be there happily doing my job.

Being a Field Service Engineer I am the customer facing team member of FLSmidth.  This can be challenging when the customer has had a bad or poor experience.  Since I am often alone in the field I must do my best to inspire confidence in customer, win his trust and win his business.  This can also be very rewarding when the customer has had a poor experience with the company and I can manage to change their mind.  I have always tried my best to please the customers I meet and give them great Customer Service.

Sometimes, because this is a large world wide company, I don't have control of how the customer is handled after I have passed them off to the next team (sales, engineering, etc.) I often need to follow up and "prod" those groups into keeping in contact with and getting the customers needs addressed in a timely manner. This can be very frustrating at times.

Enjoyable place to work.  Dedicated employees who work hard and are willing to put in extra time in order to satisfy a customer and meet their needs.
  I learned a whole new career working at FLSmidth.  Having a degree in one field and then given the training , experience, and opportunities to develop an entirely different path.  I started as the low man on the totem pole and was transferred to three different plant locations and at each location learning different aspects of the job working with a wide variety of personalities and learning and growing with each transfer.  Opportunity for travel to locations I never would have dreamed of going to on my own and working with such an interesting and diverse group of individuals in the process.

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