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Gillig provides a work culture that is inclusive and made up of close knit teams that work together to build custom buses for cities across the country. The scope of work tends to be repetitive and not very challenging for even an entry level employee. The benefits are great and their is a definite path to move up within the company, but promotional schedules are based more on time with the organization, rather than performance. The Gillig way is the old way, and they struggle with basic organization and engineering workflows. Learning the process of how they execute in house design processes and documentation is more challenging than the design work itself.

Gillig is a good place to work. Great benefit and 401 k plan. Only downside is the lack of respect from supervisors and very little room for advancement. Overall a very decent place to work with great pay. a typical work day can vary from smooth flowing to kind of stressful. Coworkers are sometimes rude and make inappropriate jokes. The hardest part of the job is keeping up with the speed of the line and doing a good job in the given time to do it in. The most enjoyable part of the job is knowing I am making a good living and that the company itself cares about its employees.

I have worked corporate America for a long time - GILLIG walks their talk better than any company I have ever experienced! I am so blessed to have landed here. As I watched how the HR and executive team took care of the impacted employees during Covid, I was truly humbled to know that I worked for a company that had a focus on keeping employees whole during such an uncertain time. I believe we would be hard pressed to find a company that did for their employees what GILLIG did for theirs! Nicely done!

Many mornings as I pull into the GILLIG parking lot, I feel the need to pinch myself as I feel so blessed that this wonderful company found me! From the people I work with, the leadership and the old fashion family values, this company is the best! Many companies talk about "family" values, but neglect to really live them out - This culture cultivates the true meaning of "family" values in the most unique way I have ever experienced!

Hey... if a recruiter from GILLIG reaches out - you may just want to take the call - I did and I feel like it was the best call of my career!

Gillig was once a great place to work! Not anymore! Anyone who is not an office worker will be treated as a machine! Your concerns are shot down, safety is a joke! Processes are a bad joke from the 50's, the company uses the r and d department to build the fixtures needs for assembly. Unfortunately its always crudly built and you will need to fix it to work! Engineering has fast turn over due to programs being out dated and fear of being left behind in the industry, this creates a burden on the assembly worker to MAKE IT WORK!

What is the best part of working at the company?
Had no deductible medical insurance. That is all I can think of. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They required you to work Saturdays occasionally for inventory, even if you worked in Corporate. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Most people were promoted to jobs they had no experience in and ruined those departments.

Great family-oriented culture where about 25% of the workforce has been there for 10-20 years. Everyone works together in synergy for the main goal of building quality transit buses based on the production schedule. Amazing horizontal and vertical transparency on all stages of the build from the suppliers to the customer and between cross-functional teams. 

I went to work as a welder. I have met a lot of good people. I miss my brothers and sisters. At Gillig we were a family away from family. The company takes care of their employees

I worked here as an intern for 3 months over the summer. My experience was positive, challenging and rewarding. Every single employee I met at Gillig was enthusiastic and willing to help. Everyone from the president to the factory workers treated me with respect. Even though it is a fairly large company, management was very accessible and treated everyone the same, no matter his/her position.

We would clean floors,paint bathrooms and lines on floor,remove floors and apply new flooring,fix air hose, put up parking lot lights, remove tape off the busses, and clean up paint spills. The hardest part of the job was finishing everything on time, I would usually finish everything i needed to get done but everything we did had to be at a fast pace. The most enjoyable part was always having something to do.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Mechanical engineer 14 salaries reported	$108,759 per year
Senior electrical engineer 8 salaries reported	$119,636 per year
Maintenance mechanic 16 salaries reported	$45.64 per hour
Field representative 9 salaries reported	$121,667 per year
Buyer 9 salaries reported	$103,889 per year

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