concrete laborer

quality technician

industrial painter

maintenance technician

fabricator

Fabcon Precast

Please take this review seriously as I am the type of person who takes what I do for a living seriously so I always put in my best at work and expect to earn a living at whatever I do at my present job. If you are like me and care about your health and you are a person who wants to live and doesnt want to die than you need to do yourself a favor and not apply at this job. This job is HIGHLY HAZARDOUS to your health for the longterm. Just a little common sense would tell anyone that if you are going to work everyday, and the job entails you breathing in concrete dust which causes silicosis, aka a form of BLACK LUNG, and plenty of sawdust which is known to cause cancer, and when you get home if you blow your nose for a half hour straight all you get is black out of your nose in the tissues, what do you think your lungs are going to look like. They say they lowered the percentage of silica in the concrete but as I just said above if what comes out of your nose is all black what do you think your lungs will look like. Also nobody at this job is health conscious enough to try and minimize these hazards at all. It takes a RARE person to stay at this kind of job as I have shown and will continue to show.
Also certain job tasks when performed improperly can easily take your leg off without warning. This part is scariest only because nobody cared to show me the proper way until i was there about 4 months into the job. So thats 4 MONTHS of my life in danger because nobody cares to look out for their fellow employees.
Also a month after I worked here I got the worst sore throat ive ever had that wouldn't go away for months. 
The starting pay rate I thought was going to go up after working there a while. NOT SO. After your 90 days your starting pay rate will continue to remain and they will begin to take out an astronomical amount of union dues which they don't tell you about when you get hired on they left that part out, and some money for medical at the same time. Mind you the medical WILL BE TAKEN OUT REGARDLESS, they took medical out of my checks after 90 days i never even signed up for it nor did i ever even receive a card saying i had medical at all. Now to have all this taken out of your meager starting pay rate will be a big difference. 
I'm still behind on bills thanks to this job so financially it wont do you much good, and your health I guarantee you will decline the longer you work at this place. What I care about most is the health hazard part, so I hope people who read this take my review seriously and if you care about your health please don't give this job a try. You will regret it just as I have.

I was a casualty of COVID at the Savage facility. I understood the rationale back in March 2020 (temporary furlough) and used the opportunity to pursue other philanthropic and personal interests. I was told at the time there were 30 of us. However even when demand picked back up later that year, we were all told in late June that effective in 5 days we were terminated from employment. Now, the labor content is a fairly small component of the overall expense of the finished product. Fabcon ended up paying out 100% of their bonus structure due to the strength of sales and other indices. This had not happened for years. Here is a company that has little to no loyalty to the employees. It will terminate without cause at any given time. This was done throughout my 8+ years there and I heard similar stories going back before my time. Good employees that were making significant contributions let go for performance reasons or discontinuing that role without any documentation. Very shortsighted.  Now I see they are trying to hire back some of those same positions that were eliminated a few years back. Do yourself a favor and take a hard pass. You will thank me later.

The culture is currently toxic and has been that way for some time.  Most of the office people are afraid to lose their job so teamwork has taken a backseat to individual accomplishments.  Fear of failure is common so deflecting and defense are daily tactics being used for survival.

Job accountability is all over the map depending on the supervisor / manager.  Many employees that work from home have little to nothing to show for results but continue to be employed and even promoted.  Others do minimal work with no consequences.  Unbelievable.  A large percentage of the company seems to have either a manager or a director title but provide minimal leadership.  Corporate office is completely out of touch and, in general, stays on their own island in Quentin.  Little interaction with the manufacturing sites other than the regular beat down.  Only worried about themselves and the bottom line.  Senior management are puppets for the private equity ownership firm.  House cleaning at the very top is needed.

I have been employed here for 2 years.  I have had a mostly positive experience, but here lately my boss and his boss have really been hard to tolerate.  I think they are having some problems at home or are worried about their future financial stability, because they have been very pushy and short-tempered here lately.  My boss likes to gripe at us when he makes a bad decision and gets chewed on about it.  We also sat down and talked about me possibly getting a pay increase. My boss approved a $2.50/hr raise for me, but his boss (the plant manager) told me that I would not get that raise because they "do not give raises based on merit".  That comment let me know that this company does not care about it's employees, only it's money.  So I am actively looking for a new job that hopefully shows a little appreciation.

I worked in Quality for two years. I was one of 2 techs that had both PCI and ACI certificates. My management didn’t even have that. We poured out of spec. both summers I was there and there was absolutely no commitment to quality. I can’t even tell you how many panels delaminated due to pouring above 95 degrees. When concrete temps got that high no one would answer their phone or texts and MN would say pour until you think you’ll loose the bed. Batch operators and QA techs had plenty of experience to realize everything was going to be junk but production rules the day. So if you have your certifications don’t even bother wasting your time. As for the employees they are wonder and will work with quality unless you walk in like their superior like a couple of techs did while I was there. 

Work day: really hard working depending on how fast the work has to be done. I learned a lot from my supervisors also from my coworkers. For example I learned how to become an expert at welding and how to set panels. I learned about safety and how to go about it in a more sufficient way. I sat down with management and we talked about safety. Different ways of getting the job done faster, more safe, and easier. My co-workers took the time out to train me the correct way. The hardest part of the job is making sure we get the job done before the timeline. The most enjoyable part of my job is getting rewarded for the hard work that my team and I accomplished.

Unless you are one of the "good old boys or girls", job security at any level is non-existent.  Like so many employees before me, I was unceremoniously let go without warning.  What starts out as differing opinions on how to run plant operations turns into a termination on a day you least expect it.  It doesn't matter that efficiencies have never been better or profits never been greater, it comes down to whether you fit into the "club" or not, i.e. those that came up through the ranks and can only see doing things "THE FABCON WAY" because that is all they know.  I doubt if any of them could exist in another environment.

There are so many other companies that are run well and treat their employees like they matter, STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Benefits are good, vision, dental, medical and 401k. They even give you a boot allowance every year.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The hours are extreme and training sucks.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
People have a mindset because it's construction they talk and act what most people perceive constructions workers to sound like. Supervisors act like  clowns, F bombs dropped on a daily. They tell you to be safe but work you crazy hours- how are you supposed to be rested after working 16 hours a day. People are just rude, not all but way too many.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
there is no typical day, no such thing at this place.

Any employee who shows aptitude, shows up and cares can advance very quickly here. There is also a program available that pays for gained knowledge every six months through testing. There is a lot to learn here as the product type is custom and changes often. Management is hands- on and very approachable. Strong safety culture. The workplace culture is typical construction culture. The hardest part of the job is the moving start times when things get behind, or adding a day to the end of the week when production is shut down for mechanical issues. Most enjoyable part of the job is making new friends on your shift. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
You get treated like a person, not just a number like most businesses these days. Plus they are family oriented and have company events for employees and their families. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
There's a lot of dangerous equipment so you always have to pay attention. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Laid back, culturally diverse 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day is like hanging out with friends doing what everyone enjoys to do while being productive

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Concrete laborer 12 salaries reported	$20.77 per hour
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Maintenance technician 5 salaries reported	$27.55 per hour
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