field service technician

welder

project engineer

manual machinist

regional sales manager

What is the best part of working at the company?
The Best Part of working at GEA is the Freedom to work and express. The Team Leaders are respectful of each team members views. There is a Scope to work on Diverse subjects which also helps to gain New Knowledge as well as contribute more to the Organization

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Targets provided are given a very Low Lead Time which results us as team Members to put in 60-70  hour weeks regularly. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Good. However, there seems to be no mitigation plan for Business Dips, resulting in uncertainty for Employees which leads to a Low Morale. Hence , seems to be a Lack Trust in Leadership   

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Its normally Busy (80-90% of the time) . As our Group supports almost All Business Lines, we are either at SIte or working on Install/Engineering/Change Order Estimates

Blue collar force was a great force. 75% stand-up guys. 25% localized to warehouse employees who were pampered and refused to help out when asked. Plant supervisor was a P.O.S.. Came and went as pleased, played favoritism, bullied employees, very distant personality. Human resources lied to unemployment when they fired me-they said I quit, which I didn't, which delayed my unemployment benefits. Terminated through no fault of my own is what unemployment said. Failing company-5 years ago there were 120 shop floor employees. As of September 2016, there are now 35 shop floor employees. Worse scheduling department of any company I've ever worked. Bent over backwards for a company that didn't deserve my work skills and performance.

Working at GEA is uninspiring. The culture is very poor and management is complacent. Furloughs happened in 2020 and were often threatened afterwards. There is high turnover and many positions are left unfilled which causes everyones' responsibilities to increase. Problems are made known to management but never addressed.

If you desire to serve customers well and produce high quality work, then working at GEA will leave you frustrated. You will constantly hear about meaningless KPI's. All innovation has left York and now happens in Germany. It seems that the York location exists simply to serve the German interests.

GEA HR department constantly makes mistakes at financial cost to their employees. They will admit their mistakes, but not correct them.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The office location is the best; it located Colombia MD. Coffee and snacks are available; it’s free

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The stuffs are not cooperative and don’t want to give you the right guidance. Their system had an issue ant to fix the issue need to call outside of the US. It takes time to go back the dairy routine.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Not bad, but there is an opportunity to make the working environment more friendly 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It was a stressful day because the luck of mentorship in the company.

On a given day, during the early hours you will find me full of meetings and speaking to the customers and project meetings; proactively – Will check priorities are for the week, meeting with team for half hour to communicate the clients’ needs and organizing the team schedules around the client’s priorities. I do this on Monday so that the rest of the week is well organized and we can effectively use good time management. Rest of the week goes in delivering the product(s), updating the status with the client, answering emails and calls from our global teams.
Some weeks requires traveling within the US, South America or Europe.

Everyday the bosses walk around complain that nothing is getting done fast enough and they turn around and talk and laugh and have a great time discussing their weekend plans. The leadership forces overtime on you while they go home. Leadership is VERY POOR. I would not recommend working here if you don't won't to be driven crazy. The pay is good but the Leadership ruins it for the bunch. My advice to this poorly lead company would be to lead by example.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great products though out the division and benefits 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Micro management and management power struggles 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very independent, they did not share resources easily, training was nonexistent 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You had to set your schedule in week in advance, not considering new leads, emergency calls etc, no flexibility

Travel is 100% of the time. Can be stressful getting to and from job sites. Love my job, don't always love the location. Per diem doesn't always cover actual cost of food depending on prices of location of job site. Eating is not convenient if the hotel doesn't have a restaurant when job site is remote. Only get paid for 12 hours per day even if travel times go over 12 hours (sometimes approved, sometimes not) which is common when traveling coast to coast especially during inclement weather.

As a contract employee, I was not  party to the corporate benefits, so I can't comment on them,.  As a company employee, I can say that the corporate climate, relative to others, is solid, secure, comfortable and friendly.  I enjoyed going to work every day.  The assigned work tasks were challenging but the project team was always supportive and the work was completed successfully even under difficult circumstances.  I would work there again anytime.

Be careful. Finance has all the power here and makes terrible decisions which negatively impact all other aspects of the company. Outsourced accounts payable equals suppliers not paid on time. Upper management is out of touch, ruins morale and causes talent to flee for better opportunities. Or the company will simply give you a salary increase only to lay you off in its newest round of "restructuring". No loyalty to employees here. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Field service technician 13 salaries reported	$36.19 per hour
Welder 14 salaries reported	$25.36 per hour
Project engineer 9 salaries reported	$94,944 per year
Manual machinist 2 salaries reported	$34.50 per hour
Regional sales manager 13 salaries reported	$115,769 per year

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