welder

production specialist

production assembler

team leader

equipment operator

Genie Industries

I started working out there in the summer of 2009 and the Terex take over hadn't infected the Genie culture yet and it was still a great place to work. It's a ok first job but if you're looking for a career it's not the place unless you're a yes man or a butt kisser. They say that like a family out there and safety is #1 but that's all a lie and it's about production and the shareholders investment it's not about putting out a great quality product anymore. The team members that do move up into lead , supervisor and manager positions are people who tell there higher ups the answer they want to hear whether is right or not. The kind of team members that they are wanting to join the team are people that don't own up to things when they make a mistake and that aren't honest and that call in sick or show up late on a regular basis but if you tell the truth it will only get you a target on your back and eventually out of a job. In the time I was there I was only late a few times in the 10+ years I was there and I would speak my opinion if something wasn't right. There are some people that work there that are cool, real and straight forward in the upper management but I can count all of them on 1 hand. The people I worked with directly were really cool and we were able to make things tolerable and fun. But if you're fresh out of high school and don't know a lot about the real world and how things work then apply, who knows they might put you in a supervisor or manager position. Hopefully this will help someone out there. Goodluck and God speed your going to need it. 

If this job paid me enough and had good benefits, I would have started taking anti-depressants again. Please learn from my mistakes and pain. Don't apply.

This job wrecked my body, my mental health, my personal time & relationships. You work from 5am to 4:30pm, get home, have dinner, maybe watch a show if you aren't dead on your feet, get little sleep because your body aches so bad, and do it all again. On the weekends you are just resting your body and have no time for a social life or anything else. 

The hours, workload, and environment all start to weigh you down. Hours are long and you earn minimal PTO. When you use your PTO if you're sick or just need a day to recover, they give you a write up. 

They give you write ups for breaking the smallest most obscure rules but provide no handbook for you to read to avoid breaking "policy" which they seem to just make up giving the fact that they won't provide anything in writing with clear boundaries. I suspect this is because to qualify for the higher pay you need to take a company test and you can't take that test if you have any write ups, I only started getting written up when I expressed my interest in taking the test. 

Overall, I would recommend you take any other job. This has been the worst experience and I can't even find the time to get another job because of the hours they make you work. 

Please learn from my mistakes and pain. Don't apply.

I worked for Genie with the intention of building a solid career and contributing to a respected company. Unfortunately, my experience was far from that. Management showed clear favoritism, lacked professionalism, and consistently failed to recognize or fairly compensate hard work. I was often expected to take on responsibilities well beyond my pay grade without any additional support or pay adjustment.

After being let go — not for performance or attendance issues, but because certain members of management “didn’t like me” and we were 30% over staffed — I filed for unemployment, only to discover that Genie provided false information in their response. This has delayed my benefits by 8 to 12 weeks, putting me in a difficult financial position and directly affecting my ability to care for my daughter.

No employee deserves to be treated this way, especially when all they’ve done is show up, work hard, and try to do their job with integrity. Genie’s leadership should take a hard look at how they treat people and how their actions impact families and livelihoods.

Typical day is fine once you get training, but the training is minimal so expect to have to teach yourself some things. I am grateful for this place because it taught me new things that I can take with me for future jobs. It also taught me to have more of a backbone and take a stand, because you will need to have a strong one to interact with some of the employees and management there. Employees are friendly and you will feel like you fit in pretty quick if you have the mind-set of being there for a bit. The hardest part of the job is dealing with management and slow workers. Management has gone through a lot of changes and now they aren't too bad, but they still have a lot to learn themselves even though this company has been around for a while. You will deal with slow workers guaranteed. It is a part of the work place and you might want to leave on time that day but you can't because people are slow at their jobs and management and team leads don't hold people accountable to that so they will continue to do it. The most enjoyable part of the day to day life their is the people you will become friends with. There is a 
"family" atmosphere there and it helps to have those friends there to help you get through your days.
Overall, it is a good company to work for with decent pay and great benefits, but be prepared for bad management and late nights past your regularly scheduled hours.

To put it simple I had high aspirations of what this job could offer me 5 years ago when I started off as a welder and was greatly let down after years of dedication and hard work.  After time the pay becomes decent but honestly this is a dead end as far as a career goes. Managment wants honesty until it's something about them they don't like and you'll end up being the one in trouble. Cycle times for welding are cut down so tight you can forget about quality in craftsmanship as you scramble for 10hrs a day trying to get stuff done to no avail. Pushing daily problems off to the next day, week, and month is the norm because team leads are basically waiting for problems to fix themselves. Moving up in the weld department is near impossible with constant company downsizing and backstabbing of team leads who dont really do much. The last time I asked my supervisor to put me in a different spot because I had been welding the same one thing for 6+ months 10hrs a day and needed change I was told "you can weld this part or go home" so I decided I would do myself some respect and leave this establishment. BEST THING I EVER DID. loving life now good luck on whatever you decide.

It is a great place to work because there is plenty of work to get done and the pay is very competitive within the region. For the most part, everyone works their 40 hrs/week with an option of working overtime on Fridays due to 10 hour work shifts. The company makes and builds Aerial Work Platforms, so it was a really interesting company to work for and had hundreds of employees working everyday. It was a fun place to work because of the amount of people that also worked there which made it easy to make new friends. The hardest part about the job was getting used to the "routine" because it was a manufacturing plant the routine was almost exactly the same everyday. This aspect of the job is what wears people down because there is no actual mental obstacles to put your mind through which made it difficult for me to continue working there. I enjoy putting my mind through different obstacles in order to increase my knowledge about things happening around me. Overall, it is a great place to work with great pay and benefits but not a place to test your limits which I enjoy doing.

Genie is a massive company. They have their business made out of what use to be a manufacturing plant for B-52 Bombers. They have four bays, which allows them to create value streams for all their boom lift production. They have about 3,000 employees, and about 1,200 working at a given time. They have an onsite cafeteria, and lunchrooms to store lunchboxes etc. That is about the only perk in my opinion. Genie uses Aerotek Temp Agency to recruit their "new members" yet whether or not you get offered a real full time position with Genie is up in the air. Genie is notorious for hiring on a large number of people when they fall behind in production and need to make up to meet the demands of their customers. The problem lies in the fact that they will essentially lay off everyone that they brought on once they have gotten caught up on production. Some are lucky enough to get on fulltime, but it certainly is not a company I would feel safe investing my life into. They see people as another number, not an individual. 

Clock in. Team meeting. start production. Work till end of schedule and clean up.  As we are currently shorthanded and a lot of people are stuck in spots they hate due to injury or difficulty simply because there is no one else to put there.

Con:
We are also headed into summer and after last year's heat extremes I don't think I can handle the heat now that a second set of ovens have been added on the other side of the line.  Everywhere else in the plant it is at least 10 degrees cooler. 

Pros
When there is enough staff, the goal is the cross train in other positions to make people more versatile.  This allows variety and makes one more valuable to the company.  

Enjoy the defined nature of the job and the fact that we are encouraged to make improvements to make the job easier and more efficient.  

The job I enjoyed the most was bin striding.  Replenishing the parts to be delivered to line for production.  It was challenging and yet relaxing in the lack of stress.

The practice of work is better than most.  Machine operation, tool use all day, Less OT in 2024.  Medium-to-more active labor and all standing approx 11 hours but varies but not by that much.  Takes some getting used to.  Zero tolerance for foolishness.  Higher range of activity.  Plan to be monitored if working production.  Reimburse for eye and foot protection.  There are short rest times.   Tried for a longer term, had to resign. It gets more difficult if any health concerns, or if you do not strive to move up to mid-level, and the continuous activity wore on me.  Not for people without strong work ethic.  Lunch provided at a reduced rate, but not enough time to get it, so bring lunch, you're going to need to eat something, some jobs like mine, required walking 10 miles daily for years.  

Might be a good place for a starter job, maybe, but long term it's a terrible place for a career. Mgmt plays favorites, shuffles people around for no reason, and isn't open to change or course corrections. Way too much focus on end of month numbers instead of improving things long term. Zero consistency between departments and everyone is silo'd.

It's all for low morale and people just end up leaving anyhow. The worst part is what everyone here mentions, it's that upper mgmt is fine with mass layoffs to make investors happy, so the longer you stay there the more likely you'll be left holding the bag.

If you get an engineering offer from Genie right out of college or something go ahead and accept it, learn some things and make some connections, but definitely keep looking for other opportunities after a year. This place has zero job security long term.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Welder 5 salaries reported	$28.05 per hour
Production specialist 3 salaries reported	$24.96 per hour
Production assembler 1 salary reported	$27.04 per hour
Team leader 2 salaries reported	$24.89 per hour
Equipment operator 2 salaries reported	$23.70 per hour

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