field service engineer

mechanical engineer

senior mechanical engineer

manufacturing engineer

engineer

Hamilton Company

Hamilton Company stands out for its exceptional reputation in the industry. The company's products are top-notch, a true reflection of the brilliant minds that design and develop them. Working alongside these talented colleagues creates a stimulating and rewarding work environment.  Another major perk is the positive work-life balance that Hamilton prioritizes. This allows employees to excel both professionally and personally without feeling burnt out. The company culture is also a major draw. It's refreshing to see the CEO actively present within the building, fostering a sense of connection and transparency among leadership and employees. Overall, Hamilton fosters a supportive work environment where colleagues feel valued. 

However, it's important to acknowledge some recent changes in management that have caused a slight dip in the overall positive culture.  While the core values remain strong, addressing these adjustments will be crucial to ensuring a consistently positive experience for all employees.

Despite these recent changes, Hamilton Company remains a great place to work. The company's strong reputation, talented workforce, positive work-life balance, and supportive culture create a valuable work experience. There's always room for improvement, and I believe Hamilton has the heart to address these challenges and continue to be a top employer. 

Hours: 7:30 to 3:30, Monday - Friday. Occasional unpaid overtime depending upon workload and personal preference with  limited flex time. Team collaboration and  cooperation across multi-departmental platform. Highly professional environment across engineering, finance, purchasing, inventory management, shipping and receiving, quality control and manufacturing. Management for the most part is well balanced and professional. One of my skill sets is 'learning' and I learn something every day. I enjoy solving problems and presenting solutions to all involved. 

There were no real 'hardest' parts of the job. There were many  challenges ranging from dealing with difficult suppliers or non-conforming suppliers  and meeting tight scheduling issues between suppliers, manufacturing and domestic and international customers with unique demands and needs. 

The most enjoyable part of the job is team collaboration, successfully meeting demands of a particular project, developing means for open and meaningful communication for the work community as a whole.

I really enjoyed working here at first but then started to see the favoritism and true colors of everyone around me. The production supervisor is cool but let’s the leads do whatever they want with no repercussions! They walk around on their phones all day and only help the people they favor leaving the others to fend for themselves. I sometimes felt like I couldn’t approach anyone for help because they would get annoyed and have an attitude, then just do whatever to fix the problem without actually trying to explain it so you never really learned anything but we’re expected to know! There’s no communication what-so-ever between anyone. The stress is not worth it and constantly being made out to feel stupid or like you did something wrong all the time takes a toll on you after awhile. Everyone feels the same way but doesn’t speak up because the pay is decent and they don’t want to get retaliated against or treated differently. They over hired and overworked people just to fire everyone months later!

The HR and management is an absolute mess.  There is constant inconsistencies in messaging that can be frustrating for anyone looking to advance their position in the company.  For example, temps are told that they would be hired on after 3 months, but are consistently hired on after 6-9 months.  This means that there is no sick leave or benefits for “temps” for 9 months to 1 year!  Unacceptable to employees with families that need those benefits.  I’m all, it was a godsend when I was able to get the heck out of there and into a real job that values ALL its workers.  

Work hours are pretty much 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily, but most salaried people donate half an hour to an hour every day. Salaried employees get paid straight time after 45 hours, which is good, but means that it takes an act of congress to work more than 45 hours in a single week. These hours are great for work life balance, however lunch is only 35 minutes. This makes going out to get food tricky as there is no cafeteria on-site. Most people bring their lunch. 

Culture is very "old School" and systems are also very dated. If you're coming from a more modern company, this can be very difficult to first get accustomed. There is a lot of room for improvement and obvious ways to increase efficiency are easy for newcomers to see. Unfortunately, convincing management to abandon the old ways of doing things in favor of modern and common industry methods is extremely difficult.

Pay is excellent.

The job itself was easy to understand but everything is thrust upon you without any real chance to stop and ask yourself if you fully understand how to do everything. Lots of responsibilities was thrust onto me that I should not have been given without a reasonable degree of time to gain experience. Some of the machinists do treat you and your job like their own personal aaron boy. Lots of company equipment you are told to be responsible for only to have disappear before your told about. Job included having to clean a special machine involving hazardous waste without proper training and equipment. The basic job of recieving inspecting stocking raw material you can learn and understand. Kitting raw material to work orders also doable. It however is thrust upon you and it is expect you are a maximum speed quickly.

The job isn’t too difficult once you get the hang of it but the lack of pay is what makes it worth looking elsewhere for work. The people are alright but there’s no room for growth here - Like at all. You’ll get stuck at the hourly rate you start with for about a year and if you’re lucky, they’ll give you a measly 50 cent raise after your first year. Raises here can happen every blue moon so If they can save money, they’ll do just that. For a multimillion dollar company, you’d think they’d compensate more for the volume of work they ask for on the daily but it’s not that. They give an end of the year bonus but i’d very much rather have my hourly bumped up than that. The schedule isn’t bad but again, everything’s expensive these days. If you don’t have another job, this one isn’t gonna get you far. 

I am great full for the opportunity Hamilton gave me to work, as well sharpen my skills and to learn from mistakes.

I hours are fantastic! generally 7am-3:30pm. 
The company's benefits are a great incentive to consider.

Now the bad part, the company is run as a dysfunctional family.
Workers and managers are consistently trying to make each other look bad. 

The work is straight forward and easy. But things can be demanding because one can be left on a island, there is not really a team atmosphere.

There is no identity or vision for quality,  Hamilton has a 30 year culture of If It Fits It Ships, Speed Speed Speed!!

I really enjoyed my time at Hamilton. I liked the technology, the business was strong, and I had a fair amount of autonomy. I worked hard, putting in more hours than most (but not all) of the people I worked near to, and I enjoyed that my work really made a difference to the business. However, some of the people there really should be fired for their lack of professionalism. Some of the people create a truly hostile environment that wouldn't be tolerated at many other companies. Though it is not a small business, many of the people have a small business / small town mindset.

Hamilton does nothing to invest in employee retention, meaning they are quite comfortable with the idea of high employee turnover. It never ceases to amaze me why this company does not care to put forth the effort in making this a more successful workplace. I meet people ALL the time who held roles at Hamilton as Engineers, Process Technicians, Marketing, and HR personal, and the story is always the same. It's a horrible place to work. The only people still there are the old fossils who were present at the ground-breaking ceremony. And they will fight tooth and nail (and lie) to make sure you NEVER infringe on their longevity.  

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