Héroux-Devtek Inc.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay was pretty good overall.


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
There are no set hours for the maintenance department. You could work 8hrs up to 14hrs per shift. There was only first shift maintenance and you were on call 24/7. Communication is beyond sub par and there is a lot of inner company politics to combat.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
A lot of stressed out employees due to poor management and scheduling. Employee's are nice and help each other out. The company does make an attempt to show some appreciation to the employee's with shop lunch, family day, corn hole tournament and cookout etc.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
High stress and over worked due to lack of employees in the maintenance  department. I would work a normal shift and then have to  go right back just after getting home to repair a break down, not family friendly.

Where do I begin. There is absolutely no structure or organization. The systems are chaos and haphazard and the tasks being asked are close to impossible with how  they are set up. The leadership and most of the staff cannot get through 1 sentence without sever peofanity. There is no sense of professionalism. The employees are constantly yelling at one another. And the issue starts from the top. The VP of operations is the biggest offender of motivating his staff through the use of fear. The word fire is used on the daily and acted upon often. 
The company does not have a career goal structure set up, to enhance employee engagement and give the staff a metric to work towards. 
This also is probably why people can be fired based on the mood of a few individuals. There is no way to measure if you are doing a good job or a bad job. 
This place is a cluster.

I worked here for 14 months and would implore anybody seeking employment to look elsewhere. The management of my facility married into the job and is incompetant with poor people skills. He rules by sheer intimidation. Employees are unhappy, professionally unfulfilled and lack direction.Coworkers are always on edge with very little commadarie. It is a screw your coworker mentality. The office personnell snub their noses at the machinists who actually keep the company moving continually driving a wedge between white and blue collar workers. A six day workweek is mandatory and my immediate supervisor logs 70 to as many as 97 hours WEEKLY. It is a slave shop. Until the corporate office in Canada realizes what is really happening in the US, I say stay away!!!

This was the worst job I had in my entire career. Sure, every job has good and bad days - but the local management was family inherited and has no clue on how to manage. If you like intimidation, taking care of the bosses friends and working long hours - this place is for you. If you want treated fairly - don't go near this place. They are owned by Canada and they could give a rat's behind about the US. It is just an entry way to Boeing. They scrap more parts than the good ones they produce every day. Their turnover is ridiculous. They say they train you - but would not give you the time of day if you asked. STAY AWAY!!!!

Corporate is located in Canada. They do not care about their US sites, they use them as pawns to make more money, meanwhile they pay them far too little for the amount of work they want done. They drive people to health and mental despair with the amount of stress they put on their staff. Vacation and benefits are pretty bad, especially compared to their Canadian counterparts paid time off.  They fill any important and/or management positions with transfers from their Canadian facilities which has proven ineffective. They will expect you to put your job above everything else in your life to only treat you poorly.

Typical day is dealing with a plant manager that is clueless. Have not learned much. Management needs to learn how to manage get people with experience and don’t just promote someone because you can’t find anybody else seems to be the case there. They do not give much to the employees there. They expect you to work your tail off so the VP can get his 300k bonus while you might get a raise and some pizza. It explains why they have a hard time finding people to work there. If you are looking I would keep looking and not think about working here. 

Large company with tons of potential. Some of it's managers can be do a better job. Some don't understand the value of employees and how to develop them. Morale can be low at time due to senior management turning a blind eye to such subjects, as if they were going to go away by ignoring them. Great personnel with lots of experience. I'll most likely still be working there, had it not been for Covid.

I was there as a temp and actually finished the work I was brought in to do within a week. They had figured it would take about 3 months. Instead of letting me go, they found other work to keep me with them, and stated they wanted to hire me. But the company was owned by a Canadian firm, and transactions were slow beyond belief. I left for a permanent position.

Would say good place to start but not finish. Training is non-existant and blame is passed on to operator. Compensation and health benefits are extremely minimal at best.

I have a great deal of freedom in my job, I am trusted, and I can tell my experience and work ethic are appreciated. Management is easily accessible and approachable,  they sponsor company events throughout the year, and there seems to be no divide between hourly and salaried employees 

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