production associate

forklift operator

quality control lab technician

logistics associate

fabricator

Fuyao Glass America

I've been there for 3 months, and can honestly say it's stressfull.  The pay and benefits are excellent, however you are treated like a lessor person versus the Chinese.  They blatantly will tell you that they are more superior to Americans, and they show it with no I'll effects towards them.   It's a rotating door there.  More people have come through there in 2 years than are working there.  Approximately 2300 work there, about 600 are Chinese Nationals on H1B visas.  All of them are called "engineers" even though most don't have any engineering degrees.   The communication is horrible between them and Americans. Have meetings and speak Chinese while the Americans are going "huh"?   Confusion with paychecks being correct are a weekly occurrence.  Overall in the Maintenance department, there are more of them than Americans.  They claim no one has the skills they do.  Yeah right.  They are dangerous in how they attack machinery.  Ignore loto, ignore normal US safety standards, pretty much do what they want, how they want.  Troubleshooting is throwing 10 Chinese on a simple issue, and making the issue worse.  1 American fixes the same issue quickly and correctly, but all the while ignored by the Chinese.  Spare parts...what spare parts...most are ordered from China and take forever to arrive, when locally the part exists, but they want their Chinese parts instead.   In other words, their parts are cheaper, but constantly fail.  If you're a maintenance guy who does things the right, correct way...don't go there.  You'll just get frustrated and leave.  It's a waste of your time.  I took a lesser paying job elsewhere, and am much happier working for and with Americans.  You'll get no overtime, but the Chinese will!  You'll get blamed for everything, the Chinese are never wrong in their eyes...even if you had no part in it, they will always throw the Americans under the bus, and claim that Americans have no experience, and are lazy.   Don't get caught up in all the hype about how their bringing jobs back to Dayton..maybe jobs for Chinese or Americans who are willing to bow down to their backwards, communistic ways.  There's something wrong there...something isn't right.  Complain to the labor board about hostile work environment, racism towards Americans,  and you'll get no where.  All they do is say "but they brought jobs back". Whoop de do!  You'll be treated like garbage!  Just ask the 7000 or so who have been there in the past 2 years..one helluva revolving door.  Nuf said!

First of all I would like to say this is a start-up company so I want to make it clear to those of you who are interested you will be apart of a fantastic opportunity that is always evolving.  Fuyao Glass America is in the ramp up stages at the moment.  We've been actively hiring since the first quarter of 2015 currently we employ roughly 700 or so employees at the moment, with plans to hire around the 2000 mark.    We need quality workers please.  We don't want individuals who don't care about what they are producing and just want to collect a paycheck.  If you are one of these individuals then you should look elsewhere.  

Fuyao is a wonderful company to work for! I have been employed with Fuyao a little over three months. I came in, did what was expected of me, I was never late and I worked very hard.  This has opened up opportunities for me already. I've been very fortunate and I truly believe I have a bright future with them.  They offer a lot more opportunity than I've become accustomed to with previous jobs.  The pay is fair, they offer tremendous benefits and 401k (once you become permanent). They truly care about their workers well being and concerns.  If you are hard working, care about your job, are willing to apply your individual skills toward making high quality products for our customers; then you will be an ideal candidate for Fuyao's mission.  The Chinese workers are a great group of people, I've become friends with many of them.  They are professional, genuinely care about their jobs, they work incredibly hard and have very high standards for the company's quality of work.  

There are several ways to communicate to them via on site translators; if non of those are available they use translator apps if they need you to understand something in a pinch.  Most of the time translators are readily available. Typically the communication will come through your supervisors, which are American. You shouldn't have a problem with communication.

Fuyao is a very successful company in China.  The gracious chairman brought his company to America to employ American workers for their factorys.  I personally think this is a wonderful thing for America and our economy.  I hope to continue to grow with the company and do my best to help Fuyao be successful here in America.

I'm not a recruiter I'm just a simple hard working employee.

They're like a revolving door when it comes to employment. They get rid of their best workers and tend to not let anyone know what they're doing and it's not good. My job consisted of placing raw glass onto metal racks, taking the metal or wooden framing from around the glass tieing (securing) it to the rack and placing it on a turntable. I learned how to tell the difference of the glass...air side(ripples in glass), tin side(smooth). Also keeping a log of what glass size the lines was using and knowing how to change over when needed. There are more than 5 lines running and only 2 drivers for those lines. Breaks and lunches have been missed because the lines do not stop and there's no extra help to relieve the drivers. Management is poor because no one seems to know who is in charge of what and they even switched supervisors to different areas when they know nothing about that area and others are on a power trip.Most of my co-workers were a pleasure to work with, but I've worked with some who are not team players and I had to work double time to make sure the lines did not shut down.  The hardest part of my job was trying to break open the wooden crates because it takes longer and if the lines are moving fast it's hard to keep up, trying not to get cut by the glass, and trying to understand the Chinese. Communication is difficult at times. My most enjoyable part of my job was that I did not ever shut a line down and the people complimented my work ethic and wanted me to be their assigned driver. That made me feel good to hear from a fellow co-worker, but never heard it from management.

There's so many negative things about working here I don't know where to start. It's Chinese owned and I noticed that the Chinese people there get to move to different positions quicker and are favored more.  The things that go on in that place never makes sense, for instance they let go of most of the hard working temps just to hire a few new temps. The line I was on had at least 4 to 5 people working. They cut it down to just two people and they still expected the same numbers so I felt pressured to do work that required more people. They gave raises to certain people even new people coming in for reasons that was not explained. I was there for a little over 6 months every day, a good worker and was not given that raise nor hired in. No clear communication at all goes on there and things change day to day.  They expected a lot out of you but gave nothing in return. The place is ran by people who seem to not know a thing about business. 
Oh and beware of the chemicals they use there. I along with other people had allergic reactions to the different primers you are exposed to. There was no concern for my health. I was told by supervisors that everything they used is of no health risk  but my body said otherwise and was made to handle the chemicals again but with a mask that I had to ask for and was told I need a doctor's excuse.  Never mind the swelling and hives on my face. They are suppose to give you all the personal protection equipment needed for each job but you'll usually have to ask for it. Do yourself a favor and look for another place of employment.

I joined Fuyao in November 2015 and left in October 2020. They had so many chances to get things right, but never did. It's your typical manufacturing job: You stand in one place doing one job for 8/10/12 hours per day, sometimes 6 or 7 days/week.  

I knew nothing about glass manufacturing when I joined, but if you're teachable, the Chinese techs will show you more than you ever thought you could learn about glass.  In 6 years, I began to work more closely with the Assistant Manager and Director, so I got a glimpse into the management culture. It is draconian and exploitative. 

I saw several high-performing employees get stuck in a lower position because they were "too good to lose" at that position, so their opportunities and pay stagnated due to the pay schedule.

The most enjoyable part of the job is easily the people you work with, but it's in a "we're all suffering through together" kind of way, while the most difficult part of the job will be the Chinese leadership and American supervision hovering over your shoulder waiting for you to make mistakes.


Skilled & experienced tradesmen should steer clear of this place. It is a complete waste of your talent, ability and time

The maintenance department is crippled by favoritism: People with zero technical experience occupy key management positions

There is a serious lack of material support: Refurbishing outmoded junk "spare parts" will be your new part time job

Also, you will spend a lot of time FABRICATING BAISIC TOOLS so that you can do your job. And you will no longer be allowed to trouble-shoot or think critically, or solve problems: Maintenance "supervisors" will DICTATE to you how to fix; so that means, clueless folks with very little experience will be leading repair efforts, wasting time and man-hours on "solutions" that are insane from the start. Your hands will be tied from day one

Safety is a REAL concern.  You will be expected to work without necessary safety equipment as the norm, not the exception. And most all work is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! Plan on spending A LOT of your own money on PPE that most companies often provide free of charge

Beware!! This place is a dead-end for skilled & experienced maintenance technicians

Turnover for maintenance technicians is VERY HIGH!!

NO OVERTIME!!


I have been an employee at Fuyao for about 6 months now on 3rd shift in the PVC Department an I liked working for Fuyao but it got to be very messy on that shift! The supervisor shows favoritism towards his employees. I was one of the first people to begin that shift in that department out of everyone that started with me, I'm the only one still there. I have asked to be line lead and have been passed over 4 times for new people just coming in and not to mention was suspended for 3 days because I was absent with a Doctor excuse! Not fair!  When there are mandatory work days on the weekends, the supervisor doesn't show up most of the time but Hus production workers are supposed to or they get terminated! The line leads show no real leadership, all they do is walk the floors and tell people what to do when a real line leader will jump in and do work to help his line achieve nightly quotas...not ours! Some of the leads chosen by the supervisor don't even need their position because they have no leadership skills!  Overall, Fuyao is a great company to work for, it's just the people they put in charge and how they run things!

Work-life balance
Its fair!

Pay & benefits
The pay is very decent and the benefits package is awesome!

Job security and advancement
It’s fair!

Management
The management team in the department I worked in was useless! I believe the employees could run the department without a management team within the department I worked in!

Culture
Every man for himself! Period!

Overall
FGA NOW IS NOT THE FGA IT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO! WALKING INTO FGA 2016 WAS INTIMIDATING AT FIRST BUT AFTER LEARNING DIFFERENT PROCESSES, THINGS BECAME VERY CLEAR! I BELIEVE THE CHINESE AND AMERICAN MANAGEMENT TEAMS HAD TWO DIFFERENT AGENDAS, WHICH CREATED TENSION! I MEAN IT IS A CHINESE COMPANY RESIDING IN AMERICA!!! WHEN THE TWO COMPROMISED AND BEGAN SEEING EYE TO EYE, THE PRODUCTION FLOW SURPASSED EXPECTATIONS! MY JOURNEY THERE WAS TRULY PLEASANT AND MEMORABLE UP UNTIL SUMMER 2020! I WILL NEVER FORGET ALOT OF THE GOOD PEOPLE I HAD A CHANCE TO WORK WITH! FROM THE CHINESE INSTALLATION CREW TO CHINESE SUPPORT! IF I WOULD RECOMMEND ANYTHING IT WOULD BE TO CLEAN OUT MANAGEMENT! UPPER AND LOWER LEVEL! HR REPS, EMPLOYEE RELATIONS AND START FROM THE BOTTOM! THAT MAY MAKE A DIFFERENCE PLANT WISE! THE BENEFITS PACKAGE IS AMAZING! I CAN TRULY SAY IT HELPED ME OUT COMPLETELY!

The lack of communication in this place is horrible! Forget about the language barrier. The Chinese employees are not held at the same standards as the American employees. Safety wise, they get away with a lot. Management never knows what is going on and doesn't seem to communicate well with the other shifts. Management definitely shows favoritism. Employees are forced to do others work without the pay increase and then get reprimanded when the work isn't done to their satisfaction even though they are trying to do someone else's job and their own. Don't make yourself too valuable in a position or else they will keep you there and not let you advance. We are told that if we make our numbers throughout the week that we can have the weekend off but then they just keep increasing the number so you are stuck working the weekend all the time. There are even times where they will schedule you to work the weekend and when you come in that Saturday you find out that your line isn't even running. You are then made to work on a different line.

since I have started here, management is way over their heads. They believe that the financial issues this place has is due to paying employees. Not the fact that the build a 3 million dollar line, then decide to move it. Then move it again. poor planning, poor management. in maintenance alone, the  3 managers that were here when I started, 3 have quit. Due to upper management not standing up for their workers, and rolling over for whatever the Chinese ask. Safe or not. Chinese do not believe in LOTO. Which is a big OSHA issue, but when you bring up that or the fact that 90% of them sleep at work, or they band aid critical issues, just to produce glass. There is a problem. I am currently looking for another job. I will not lose a hand due to someone cutting my lock off (which has been done) to start a machine. If you value your sanity, DONT WORK HERE. They are also restructuring ALL of management with Chinese, non-American, and my belief is soon there will be only Chinese working here. They have fired countless HR personnel, the president and vise president. All replaced with people with work visa's.

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