senior product development engineer

production operator

Fehrer Automotive

What is the best part of working at the company?
Overall, I Loved Fehrer.  We could wear our clothing of choice.  Great, happy staff...a lot of comraderie among staff,  a willingness to help one another.
Sadly, they will not re -hire me.  
A lady would come in 4 hrs early for her shift to help us out.  2x she helped me specifically.
***Somehow, she got sideways with me, refused to help me, but I remember doing Nothing except thank her for helping me.
I heard her whispering to supervisors saying, "I'm not going to work there if 'She's ' there"...meaning me.
****I was, and am, perplexed about what happened.    
I sustained a closed head injury at home, hospitalized 5 days.   
Doctors would not release me to work for 2 months and I was replaced at Fehrer....never to be rehired.  A mystery to me.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Fast conveyor belt.  An hour before my shift ended, I was always Slammed with work.  Stayed over many nights which was ok.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very Nice.  Great comeaderie among staff, a lot of laughs.  I miss it.
Good pay.  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Attend short unit meeting.  Just go to work station and do your job.
When it was slow, I'd sweep my area among other large areas.  (Great Brooms!)

I worked there for longer than a year and ever since I got on the line, they’ve always been short handed. Somebody is always leaving and depending on the supervisor, team lead or anybody above you, they’ll talk to you in any disrespectful way just because of their position. They tell you 5 days work schedule but once you get there, it’s going to be 6 days, maybe 7 sometimes. They might tell you if you do good enough, we can work 5 days but that’s never the case. You can exceed the goal the whole week and still work 7 days. They get rid of all the good workers or they just quit because they realized this isn’t the best place to work, they even fire people knowing they are short when the job is still getting done but not at the pace they like it. Sometimes they’ll tell you that these days you’ll be off but then they’ll switch up on Friday and say your working when they said you weren’t. The parking is horrible, all the ones in the front are always taking so you’re forced to park on the dirt or all the way in the back and it’s only going to get worse since they made a new line

Worked there for a couple months the jobs on the line are very strainful on the body. You literally have to lean over a rail the entire shift in order to actually put your parts on. Honestly don't know how OHSA allows them to stay in business, because that's not good ergonomicly. I worked the weekend 12 hr shift, so I'd work with 3rd an 1st shift. 3rd shift there is under staffed an they expect one person to do the job that 2 or 3 people on 1st shift does. The managers there are by far some of the worst I've ever had to deal with. In my last week there I had a manager come over on our line yelling telling us we couldn't talk as if we're kids complaining about a part being torn comes to find out it's from a faulty machine which we told him from the jump. But still talking down to the lead/ everyone else on the line once maintaince confirmed what we were saying all along he offered no apology an simply walked away. I'd advise no one to ever worked at that place it's the most unprofessional an unorganized company I've had to work for

What is the best part of working at the company?
The atmosphere...I love factory work Yu meet a lot of interesting ppl that turn into life long friends but mostly when your able to go on to work n be happy that's it the best part in it self. The work isn't hard but it's factory work .sometimes long hrs but Yu get paid for the work you do . It's always opportunities to advance and move around if Yu apply yourself they really give Yu options to do so. I miss working there ( relocated) but if I ever move back I'm going BK to work for that company. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Long hrs but it's to be expected as it's factory and it's all about production 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's a mix of everyone all types of ppl good ppl work ethic is strong in that company

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Production and quality ...go in and Rick your line out like a big dawg . Lol

Working at this job was very challenging at times because it was kind of fast pace and you had to be able to produce a certain amount of parts every hour, most of the workers would make it competitive. The supervisor would sometimes push us to go above our production goals and that would even out the numbers at the end of the shift because he believed if u get a good start then the numbers would be where they need to be in the end. The hardest part is when the plant is behind on production and the line has to keep running and they can't stop it or slow it down. The reason why is that it is hard to keep up with work piled up everywhere and the most enjoyable part of this job is I met a lot of people and made long term friends and I learned from this job there's nothing wrong with going above and beyond sometimes it always helps in the end.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part is the team work. Despite the other negative reviews, there are a lot of good people that work here. There are some that will help you if you get a little bit behind but be advised to try not to get too far behind on your work.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Depends on what department you work in but if you get behind in your work, that can get pretty stressful but name of the game is to not let it get you upset to the point of walking out.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is very easy going and it's a lot of different cultures and backgrounds. Different people from all over the world that works here. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
For me personally it all depends on the work load and how quickly I'm able to keep up with it.

Management is inexperienced and not willing to be more proactive.  When given data to back up issues, no initiative was taken to improve the processes.  They  are inconsiderate with work/life balance.  The message is to get the product out the door, no matter the quality or EDI demand.  Employee morale is extremely low and the HR department is the worst I've ever seen.  Until they have management willing to listen and do things properrly, the company and quality of product will continue to suffer.  I liked my team but had very little respect for other areas.  If the management doesn't like what they're told by consultants or employees from sister plants, they ship them out and bring someone new in.

I would come into work and hand out paper work to each cell. I would make sure that everyone is accountable and if someone was not there make changes on the floor. I would go to each cell to check for labels to make sure each cell had their and they were in date range. If they were not i would throw them away, i would print out labels that they needed. I would watch over the floor, answer any questions about parts that an employee may need to know and also if another team lead need to know about a part. I worked well with each and everyone of my co-workers, in quality and other parts of the plant. I don't feel there was a hardest part of my job cause i really enjoyed what i did. I love working with people, enjoy being in the leadership roll position.

Fehrer does ALOT of things wrong IMO!Management is a JOKE and play favorites/Bully people.. they give some pts for stuff than don’t give them to people they like,PTO is ridiculous and so is the pay! Fast food makes more now and fehrer has no plans on paying more! They also pay the same no matter what dept u are in which is CRAZY! Re work does way more work and deserves higher pay but these folks do not care about their employees! Also,the points take a full YEAR to fall off smh!& if u have Covid they don’t care and want u at work and hide it from the 

Whatever you do, DO NOT work here!!! You will get treated like a piece of trash!! THE TURN-OVER RATE IS RIDICULOUS!! They can't keep anybody and there's a new plant manager like EVERY year and new supervisors like EVERY month! One big reason why they can't keep people is because of upper management. They don't take employees concerns serious and when you approach them about an issue, they will turn their back on you. THIS PLACE IS A JOKE!! Don't expect any raises or promotions here either. If you get injured, they will laugh at you and tell you to go back to work. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK!! EMPLOYEE BEWARE!!!

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