pump technician

maintenance technician

maintenance mechanic

materials technician

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Guardian Industries

The management does not abide by their own rules. You will see managers in cells with no protection. If you challenge the managers or supervisors 9 times out of 10 they will look for some petty way to retaliate. HR is almost non-existent in this place. They tell you to talk to your supervisor if you have a problem or call a help desk. If your supervisor is the problem, no one seems to care or hear you out. They say no phones on the floor which is understandable, but again why does management not abide by their own rules?  You guys have walkie talkies, and offices for a reason. Text at your desk, not on the floor. There seems to be too many managers but never enough floor workers. The managers don’t seem to care about workers complaints and the supervisors are all terrified of the managers. The supervisor is doing HR’s job, while they designate a “line organizer” to play supervisor, but offer no benefits for someone taking on extra responsibilities. They say the more you know the more value you create, yet when you learn how to do something new and do it well the company do not think a raise is required and if you do get a raise it’s pathetic. The company does not really motivate their employees, if you make high production numbers, no one says good job and there is no rewards. They want you to come in with the best attitude and expect you to work hard with little motivational factors. They’re mad if you just show up and do the work and clock out, but yet create no motivation. The rotating shifts are awful. I’ll give the company the benefit of the doubt that they do warn you about the shifts, and there are tips posted to try and help out with sleep cycles. In the end the cons of the rotating shifts and long term effects on your physical and mental health are just to critical to ignore. Why does the company not just have a permanent day shift and a permanent night shift? The place also needs more trainers, it seems like cross training around the facility is much harder than it needs to be.

I feel like all I do is work or stand the entire 12 hour shift, while I watched the friends of the boss and people the management are afraid of because of connections stand around. And trust me there are a lot of people like that. 

They constantly pull you from your job and make you do other things that you weren't expecting. If you work in one department expect to have to cover the line regardless of what you do. The line is always understaffed and everyone has to make up for it.

The boss is always around but not in a good way. If you have nothing to do because your waiting for something to finish they WILL harrase you. Management is always on edge and everyone suffers for it. They also routinely disappear when work picks ba hick up, so if there's a problem you can't find them, but again if your waiting because things are slow they are always on your back.

They will force you to work on your days off so you could work for an entire month with no off days and in the off chance they scheduled too many people you only got to leave if you are the bosses friend or you got to leave only if their friends say they wanted to stay.

They are constantly understaffed and refused to fix the problem, as they saw it since some people had to work extremely hard everyone should and since the same people never took days off you couldn't either. I heard that when we had the blackout of '06 they still made people come to work and if you didn't make it they wrote you up.

You also will work one month of days and one month of nights which would be okay if they respected the transition days. Depending on if you get off on days Saturday they could make you come in Sunday night for change over and you'll have to adjust some other way.

Let's start with the positive because there's alot of cons. The good thing about this company is the paid vacation and easy work not to hard to catch on and some of the people I met. Now let's get to the cons because I worked in assembly and there was alot of problems. let's start of with how poorly the place was managed and organized it seemed like management didn't care about the problems in the plant because it would go one ear out the and out the other. It was a safety hazard to work in some cells to the point we're your legs would get cut or almost tripping over things. The overtime was cruel and forced on you there is nothing wrong with overtime but if it's forced on you and you had something planned or have kids that are not old enough to watch them selves you were out of luck because they were not to understanding. They seemed to not understand that life happens so basically if anything happened like getting sick etc.. you would have to take a half/or a full point. It got so bad to the point where a bunch of people where high on there points due to them not really working with you. Some of the team leads and supervisors where unethical  they could really  use the 10 principals of mbm because there was a ton of unfair things going on the floor. leaders are supposed to have integrity but that's not the case. So overall I recommend this place to someone that is single  with no kids or girlfriend/boyfriend/ not married. But wouldn't recommend the place overall  because there's alot of problems that seem that will never be solved unless they put there foot down.

Typical day at work involves meeting with operations supervisors with department head and process team, discussing safety topics and performance. If the process is going well you may work on a recent quality issue, a process project, or you may be working with data to track part of the process.

I learned about the glass industry from Coating to Tempering to the Raw Line Cutting and the Hot End batch process, specializing in one of those areas.

Your supervisor will have more determination over your bonus, advancement, work/life balance, and raise than your performance. Most supervisors do not take good enough notes on their employees throughout the year to make a good case for raises. I know of several employees that were not even given an annual review their first year.

In many cases departments will go without supervisors for 6 months or more at a time. Management can and will step into your department's business to 'help' with troubleshooting, inadvertently throwing their weight around decisions without insight into the process, causing things to take longer and hurt department KPIs.

Most enjoyable part of the job is that base vacation starts at 3 weeks now. It could also be the daily challenge, so long as you are comfortable owning all of the ire of monday morning quarterbacking managers who also are not going to back the projects you suggest to remove the issues in the first place.

Hardest part of the job is that in order to get anything done you have to convince the people above you that it was their idea to get the money flowing on projects; the company, despite its "MBM Transformation" principle, does not want to change.

years spent of 12-hour swing shifts in summer temps of over 120 degrees wearing full body Kevlar with metal ringlet inserts that burn flesh on contact while working, so also long sleeve shirts and pants. This was accompanied by not being able to smack the mosquitos biting you constantly because you were constantly moving to catch each sheet of glass normally timed at a 3 second interval every other sheet. We would do this for a month 6am-6pm 36 hours short weeks and 48 hours long weeks with regular mandatory extra day overtime every 2 weeks. Then on our rotation week for the month during our second set of 3 days off in a row we would switch from am/pm to pm/am or vice versa. 
Winters weren’t bad and in G49 the work was easier but much more stressful. It was a proud line of work, and one that has awarded me with patience. Sifting through code or spending hours in a repetition making the same thing over and over with only one change at a time bothers many people I’ve noticed yet doesn’t affect me at all. I spent 12 hours straight twisting, catching a sheet of glass, carefully putting it in a box, counting what number it was, and turning to get the next in seconds. Me doing anything for any amount of time is not something I ever can bring myself to consider work if I’m also doing it sitting down lol.  


A typical day consists of (10-12 hours) managing fabrication processes.  It involves working with the shift management and Sales team to ensure 100% customer orders are filled in a timely fashion.  I learned how to manage a process that is continuous moving in a high tempo environment, where the customer comes first.  Some of our orders are due a few hours before they will be loaded on a truck, and we have to get them ready to ship in a very short period of time.  The management team continues to improve the work environment for all employees (from the floor hands to the supervisors to the managers).  They are heavily involved in our day-to-day operations.  My co-workers work well together.  We are always helping one another, as needed.  Based on plant priorities, all managers understand that sometimes sacrifices have to be made by one department to benefit the whole plant as a team.  I like that part of my job.  We watch each other's back.  The hardest part of the job is trying to always keep our customers satisfied and happy.  That can be a challenge when you only have so much time to get demands met without failing a customer.  The most enjoyable part of the job is being diverse and inclusive in everything we do.  We involve the floor hands in some of the decisions being made since it will impact them too.  This company encourages everyone to give input all the time.

Been with them since March 2015, I was a temp agent all the way up to February 2016 when I got hired on permanently and I've worked all 3 shifts here from 1st, 2nd & 3rd. I use to love it and very easy work until their new terriblle management and changes came in. They work you like slaves and you rarely hear good job. They worked us 7 days from November of 2017 to April 2018. They stopped giving bonuses in 2016 & refused  to give permanent employees who have been there multiple years raises and you basically have to win a popularity contest just to get one. Same also goes for paid vacation days, they will only approve vacation days to their favorites and deny you if your'e not one of their favorites. The employees in the environment act like they are in high school and is constant drama.There is no such thing as Job security here, when somebody in management doesn't like you they'll make it a mission to get rid of you. Do not make plans on weekends here either, Very unorganized warehouse, from the schedule where they wait until the day before your last day on the schedule to tell you that you have to work weekends and it's been mandatory each time since late 2017. They only allow 15 minute breaks and your breaks start as soon as breakout comes to the line so if you're working in the back and walking to the front it's more like 12 minutes. They don't let you go outside on your breaks for anything.

The first 33 years of employment with this company, I considered a great place to be an employee. We had a good group of people and was a family friendly atmosphere. Management was always considerate of the employees and maintained good relations with them. Advancement was available to all employees along with training to accomodate your new job. Wage increases and reviews occurred each year, as long as the economics were there. I worked for 9 years for the Plant Manager, and loved my job while working with him.

The last two years we had management changes, and the work atomosphere changed. We hired a Plant Manager who never had a secretary before and was use to doing for himself, so besides doing some travel arrangements or expense reports, he re-assigned me to HR. Through job eliminations, I was assigned as HR Admin/Receptionist. I was not able to train with the previous receptionist on her duties and was assigned other duties with not enough instruction. I managed to do the job despite being left out of the HR staff meetings. I was made to feel like I was not wanted there by continuing to add to my duties, while trying to keep up with the switch board, visitors in the lobby. I can say that the last two years were very uncomfortable . My job was eliminated.

The best part of my employment were my fellow employees that I worked with through the years.

My typical work day started at 8:00 a.m. and ended at 4 p.m.
I would start with filing product paperwork and entering data into excel spreadsheets. Most days consisted of auditing manufacturing processes throughout the warehouse and over viewing our glass inventory for quality checks and verifying locations. I created a lot of work instruction documentation for operators and factory workers.
I learned a lot about working with others, solving conflicts, confidentiality, safety, and auditing employees/processes. I became extremely proficient in all Microsoft programs, excel especially (coding with macro). 

Management was always very helpful, I felt comfortable coming to them with problems, I created great relationships with all of the managers in my department and with HR. They made sure I had a good balance of hard work and fun during projects. Everyone was very personable.

The workplace culture was very diverse and taught me how to effectively work with others and understand their perspectives and work ethics.

The hardest part of the job was implementing changes with workers who had been there for years and were set in their ways.

The most enjoyable part of the job was working with the Quality team and solving problems with the use of Lean Methodology practices.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The company contracts , are the best part . They allow you to retain work for a few months with the possibility of being recruited into 32bj union . I’ve became an employee for Guardian Services and quickly became a 32bj union member after work just a few months prior to my acceptance . 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
To be frank, the most stressful part about working at the company is not being a permanent employee, with full benefits , retirement plan or pension . I would love to have dedicated years working for the company , rather than a few months .

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Everyone whom I had encounters with at the company treated one another as a close knit family , everyone from the guards to the grounds keepers, the personality’s and hearts of each person made the company .

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Arriving to the work premises at 8am or at other times 7:30am depending on the site I was sent to work at . Following a daily routine of heading to my work locker to put on my work boots and head on outside with my broom and dust pan to sweep the surround building property , attending to the lobby , elevators , common areas and restrooms and offices , removal of trash and recycling.

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