production assembler

maintenance technician

puller

customer service representative

construction laborer

Fleetwood Homes

A typical day of work would entail me reading the cards for the house I am working on, and allows me to know how to build my main panel.   I would then install the panel, the wires, and grounds on the house and quickly move to the next house.

I learned that you need to find a pace of work that works for you.  Go too fast, you make mistakes.  Go too slow, you get behind.   

The plant manager I worked with was a one of a kind guy.  He would bend over backwards to help his crews in one way or another.  The man was a great leader and kept our lines going very well.  My immediate boss did fairly well, although he liked to rough house sometimes with the other workers.   My lead was a stern, old fashioned gal.  My immediate crew called her the bear.  You never poked the bear, ie, don't buck her and you'll do alright.

Co Workers.  I'd say half were really great people, and the other half were horrible.  I dealt with a lot of unsafe workers, such ones dropping the concrete-based siding strips literally adjacent to the location I am working on.  I've had people jump on me, write on my clothes with permanent markers, rip my clothes, and harass me on a frequent basis.  I always tried to be professional, but that was hard being surrounded by these baboons.

The hardest part of the job, would working in an insulated home, in a metal work house, during the summer.  Or when the dry wall installers rip your wires and you have to stop working on your house to go fix their mistakes.  Or co-workers who don't speak english, and constantly install the plumbing incorrectly so that it knocks out outlets and boxes, that you have to fix.   The other hard part, people and departments played the blame game way too many times.  

The most enjoyable part of the job was going home.

I was happy to work for them from 7AM to whenever the last supervisor was ready to leave.bBut for the fact of the matter the management well they do like they do  anywhere else they make you feel wanted and then when you finally don't stand up to there expectation you a dissapointmet. And when you are brought back and given your job back and a two dollar raise well you mite be ok but don't let a family member get sick and need your undevided attention because when you go to the DR and get a note it don't count in your favor it only allowed them to take my 8 points that allowed me and my 3 weeks of paid vacation oh but I forgot when we got a new GM and HR lady I must have missed the memo that said  anyone hired back before 6 months was up only restored everything but your vacation so excuse me the owed me 2 days but I should've had none because I wasn't back quite a year but on returning back I was made aware that  my vacation included but no one rembers that just like no one recalls me dedicating my life to that place for 4 years granted the last year there 2018 when the family member was sick I gurantee u one thing it was not self inflected by consuming to much alcohol.

Where do I start? Management is garbage everyone in the office should be fired they have no idea what they’re doing and they tell you what you want to hear to keep you working. They give anybody a lead or supervisor job as long as you kiss butt. The only way for advancement is to kiss butt. If you don’t let them take advantage of you you will get no where. Once you show them you work hard you get rewarded with picking up slack from someone else’s job and 2-3 more jobs on top of it. They will promise you a raise to keep you and never give it to you. The health insurance they provide can’t even be used at our local hospital you have to drive an hour and a half to Lewis gale in case of an emergency. You can’t even take pride in the work because all of the material is about as cheap as they can get. I’ve seen studs break in half as soon as they hit the table. The only reason I would recommend working here is it’s easy to get hired if you need a job. Top floor pay is $11.75 and the “bonus” they say we get we don’t get. If you apply do not believe anything anyone in the office tells you. If you’re doing a 2-3 man job by yourself and show them you can do it congratulations you will never get help. Overall I’ve worked over a year here unfortunately and I am looking elsewhere cause they pay an hour ain’t worth it

Measure, cut, and bend wire and conduit, using measuring instruments and hand tools.
Trace out short circuits in wiring, using test meter.
Strip insulation from wire ends, using wire stripping pliers, and attach wires to terminals for subsequent soldering.
Examine electrical units for loose connections and broken insulation and tighten connections, using hand tools.
Construct controllers and panels, using power drills, drill presses, taps, saws and punches.
Drill holes and pull or push wiring through openings, using hand and power tools.
Clean work area and wash parts.
Maintain tools, vehicles, and equipment and keep parts and supplies in order.
Transport tools, materials, equipment, and supplies to work site by hand, handtruck, or heavy, motorized truck.
Install copper-clad ground rods, using a manual post driver.

Pre-shift meeting 7 am sharp! Work fast, meet production quota, go home. Paid break at 9:30 am until 9:50 am, and unpaid lunch at 12:30 pm until 1 pm. 
I learned a lot about the process of building a home, the lighter side of the construction industry. 
Management cares, but means business.
Very productive and fun environment (at least the dept. I was in) but there is a bit of a tough atmosphere, lots of varieties of music playing, some of them quite vulgar despite company policy.
Hardest thing was the fast pace and the pressure to put speed above quality of work.
Most enjoyable part of the job was making new friends and learning new skills.

Hey to work and have or daily production meeting. Then go to our work areas and get our great on, look at the production sheet to see what style of homes we are going to be building and get the necessary materials to meet the criteria. Discuss between our crew who is going to work there and go over equipment. Get started, make sure all pieces of siding are cut to the specification for that house. Place the siding on and make sure it's flush with all the windows and doorways cut out. Nail it up and continue until house it's done. Then repeat that same process once the next house is moved into place. At the end of the day or equipment away, clean our work area have team meeting about any problem areas or ways to get better at the job. Go home

What is the best part of working at the company?
Paid holidays is about the only thing I can come up with because there are no real painters there no one listens and is more like a daycare rather than a job

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part was no one listen no one remembers what you tell them on the next day. Always repeating the same thing every day.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
is about a handful of people that I care to work around. The rest is like babysitting and repeating yourself daily and not caring about the work they do quality wise.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Typical day is like a daycare centre and people they don’t know how to follow directions and always fixing other peoples mistakes daily

I enjoyed working at Fleetwood fairly good work environment. worked for them the 1st of the year went 
into work several days very sick they would not let me go home, one day I just left because I was so sick. 
I was recently hired back by the Foreman & plant manager, but when production manager came back from vacation 
and he was notified of the two higher ranking managers hiring me back, he did not approve so they let me go. 
seems as if the chain of command was backwards. Production manager told me "I don't think you're ready" had 
not even given me a chance to prove that I could do the job, the 2 higher ranking managers informed him that
I had worked very hard and productively the 2 days before he came back,
but production manager still let me go.

Honestly from my experience from that place is terrible. I had an old man, who was my supervisor at the time puff his chest and abuse his power to fire me. I was not in a happy place during this time and he was sounded happy when I he fired me. So I did what anybody else would do and that is by reporting Fleetwood that they have a fragile old man who is way beyond retirement age. Not to mention the fact that I didn't get a chance to use my skills and knowledge from residential electrical skills and knowledge to use but rather hammer small blocks of wood to either a stud or joist. This company doesn't utilize their employees very well and probably never will. I'm glad I don't work there anymore.

Work is an everday common challenge to meet production quota.
Ive learned the role of managing the department alone supervising 17 employees.
Management very stuctural and forward and stern to meet productive needs.
My co-workers play a tremendous effective role when needed for assitance.
The hardest part of my job are the employees under me not meeting the prensentee obligations, departing before schedule, underqualified upon higher and/or discontent with their line of duties to meet production as a team effort.
The most enjoyable part of my job is the title I carry and able to pull the department together to meet the productive time requirements set for the incentitive extra pay worked for per week.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production assembler 28 salaries reported	$21.39 per hour
Maintenance technician 1 salary reported	$40,000 per year
Puller 1 salary reported	$20.00 per hour
Customer service representative 1 salary reported	$23.00 per hour
Construction laborer 1 salary reported	$20.33 per hour

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