operator

fabricator

cnc operator

packer

process technician

Hexcel Corporation

It has its challenges, just like any other place you could work. Pay and benefits above normal found in the area. Shifts went to 8 hour shifts in May. 

Probably the worst part is the high number of operators that think it is managers or leads jobs to solve their own problems. So many complain, but offer no solutions and stand around half the time. My 2 kids are more mature than 75% of the operators I have to work with.  It's sad to have so many people looking for jobs and have those who don't deserve them taking them from those who would happily take it and love it. Whenever they hire again they will have a large pool of good operators to chose from and they can finally get rid of all the wastes of space that walk the shop floor.  I have seen and herd of operators purposefully not listening or doing the wrong thing just because they don't care or think it is funny to make Vestas mad. I worked on 3 different crews but the worst one is definitely red on line 9. The operaters just complain the whole time about their self created problems and because they can be really lazy unless management is around. Yellow was probably worse but that crew went away during layoffs. Blue has been my favorite crew to work with try to get that one! I agree management could be better but you can tell they try their best unlike most of the operaters attitudes there. They try to get feedback and ideas from us, but don't always follow up, but they also all have way too much on there plates half the time. The biggest problem is the leadership they get from their bosses. They take safety really seriously and is one of the things that they seem to do consistently well. It can be a little over the top but that's better than not having enough. If someone isn't safe it is typically their own choice and not because they are forced to do something unsafe. Always can get anything you need for safety usually. They emphasize looking for bad parts of our product a lot too. I learned a lot about what FOD is. The schedule can be a little crazy too when switching between different kinds of rolls to make. It was fun to learn how to use a crane too.

Opportunity to work on various parts  what is generally pretty good,  although the amount time  working on rib cords and sheer ties was more than I liked.  Wish the demand would’ve allowed me to work on more interesting and  complicated parts. Got a little boring working on the same standard parts over and over again.  Would’ve made the day more interesting and gone by faster  if we were allowed to work on different parts.  At least we were allowed to have headphones while we were working on the same tedious parts  to be able to cope with the  monotony of those jobs.  If they ever made it a rule where we couldn’t have our Headphones  but still made us work on the  Rib cores and share ties I would definitely want to transfer positions and keep learning new parts.  In my opinion it’s hard to stay focused on monotony and not staying focused  was what allowed FOD  to slip by unnoticed.  I found it interesting that the rib cords and she retires ties which had a high FOD rate  also had the same people doing them day in and out for a while like a right of passage for the new people which the senior people didn’t want to do.  Part of the problem was that their quota  for making those was high so people had to do them a lot.  If it were me I would have spread those parts up to different rooms so that demand for one group of people doing them all the time was smaller.  I think doing one once a week would’ve been OK but  There were weeks where all I would do was those parts and I was the only one.  I think the total quota was four per day and I know there were more than for Layup rooms  where they could have spread them out more I don’t know why didn’t.  They probably felt it was more efficient keeping them all together in one area but I would argue if the people doing them are getting fatigue and causing FOD you’re not really being more productive having to scrap those parts or rework them.

You work 12 hours rotating shift. If someone in your crew gets sick, you will cover your work area and somebody's else work. They do not   call for a shift replacement and they cut down your overtime. The week calendar starts on Tuesdays as opposed to Monday so you lose 8 hrs on overtime. The account department do not know mathematics. The accountant added me as a single person (I was married) for my state taxes and they never gave me back the extra money they took.There is no management and or communication between employees and company. If you are in management you will get promoted when someone leaves the company and or gets fired Supervision is unqualified, abusive, blind, disrespectful and take wide advantages of being a white collar job. Supervision will be late or not show up at all for the entire shift (B shift, specially), no justification whatsoever; you are on your own. There is no official training but they force you to sign papers for the training they never gave you so they can fire you over their lies and outrageously incoherent "policy." They don't care for safety. They "bandaid' company safety rules and do not even know OSHA exists. In the space of tow years they had five Industrial Hygiene Safety Engineers, they come in, they see the mess then take off. None of them wants to lose their licence and certification over non compliance. Actually, their HR Manager told me they do not accommodate OSHA regulations, so if you present  them an OSHA issue that you should be watched over and protect they will fire you instead of comply. So, overall, if you want to risk you life and be underpaid (unless you are Union), go for!

Worked here for 8+ years now at the Burlington location. The pay is competitive for this type of work in the area. Overall the management team is reasonable and tries their best to be open and communicative. 
Strong emphasis on safety and that is demonstrated with both words and actions. I do feel that its a very safe environment (in terms of a manufacturing environment). 
There are clear ways to increase skills and pay and a variety of rolls and types of work. Work culture is also good. You have the usual gossip and shop floor disputes and there are frustrating "politics" to navigate at times. 

As a whole, the site is slow to hire (leads to being understaffed and lots of overtime at times) but the flop side to this is that they are also slow to fire (unless you break rules or do something wrong). 

The Aerospace industry is cyclical and we just had a big down turn in 2020. Lots of layoffs. But starting to pick back up here in 2021 again. 

What shifts your work is dependent on seniority so new hires will typically have to work grave or swing shift. :/ (But they do pay extra if on one of those shifts)

Overall a good and reasonable fair company to work for. 

Hexcel really could be a dream job. The work is ridiculously easy once you learn everything. The money is soooo, so good. But you’ll hear the term “Hexcel High” in due time. & You better believe it. There’s 30, 40, 50 year olds that act like they’re in high school. Tell one person something and the rumors will fly. Everyone will know who you are and will definitely talk about you. So keep your head down, keep to yourself, trust no one and just work. Besides the people, the schedule is horrible. Even if you adjust to the rotating *days - graveyards* 12 hour shifts - the forced OT is crazy. At this time, most people on the lines are averaging about 200-300 hours of OT since the beginning of the year which would be about 50 hours of extra OT a month. Management sells you on the fact that you will work only 14 days a month and will have 7 consecutive days off monthly (in addition to the other random days you have off). But won’t tell you that you’ll be forced to work 4 of those 7 days off, every other day, and you won’t know if you’re working until the Wednesday before. Example: your 7 days off are coming up which would be Friday - the following Thursday. You will find out on Wednesday that you actually have to work Friday morning, Sunday night, Tuesday morning and Thursday night. They don’t even give you time to adjust your sleep schedule. & On your days off, all you’ll want to do is sleep. It’s exhausting.
It comes down to whether you want to make good money or if you want to see your family. You’ll have to choose one. You don’t get both.

This company is a bit unorganized, but if your an outside of the box thinker it is a relaxed atmosphere that pays really well for what you do and the benefits are outstanding and it is fairly quiet with music playing!  The temperature is about 72 degrees year round. The hours are a bit unconventional for a regular Monday - Friday based employee whom wants to be home on a regular schedule because of kids and a home life balance.  Production employees are expected to switch shifts between night 12 hour shifts and day 12 hour shifts every 2 weeks. Although you only work either 2 or 3 shifts in a row before having 2 or 3 days off. The product is sticky but cloths and shoes and all PPE are provided for you so no damage happens to your own cloths. Lots of cleaning when the machine goes down.  They have upped their safety so there is no urgency nor the feeling of being rushed.  The culture is about doing what it takes to produce a quality product! A breath of fresh air in comparison to what I have experienced in the past.  Really a decent place to work with co-workers whom are happy for the most part but may have minor complaints, however no substantial issues!  Everybody seems to be on board with making the environment a nice place to spend your time.

Great pay, great benefits, Great schedule (if you can handle alternating day and night shifts), Great crews to work with! But the management is absolutely terrible and they hide a lot information from you, NO ONE is on your side!! You always have to look over your shoulder and walk on egg shells. I recently got suspended for messing up paperwork and I was suspended for almost a whole month after passing my drug and alcohol test, they kept telling "we will get ahold of you soon, give us five business days for a meeting, then give us another five business days to make our decision, but then give another ten more business days just to tell me I'm terminated and then we will back track to when you were first suspended as your termination date,, so we dont have to pay another month of benefits... the people in HR are very deceitful and in the five years I worked there we went through six different HR people and the last two said that they left because there is so much sketchy things they were asked to do, that they had to leave because they will not go to prison for this company. If you are a yes man and plan on never having a voice in a company this is a great place to work.

Hexce Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah, West Valley area; it's a 24/7 carbon fiber production plant operation focus only on their billion industry products profits. The company has no employee appreciation program of any kind, no community engagement or programs of any kind, no recycling program, no pro-active safety program (Safety manager average staying with the company is less than 2 years), nonexistent training program (Identifying the need for training was a law observance compliance rather than an employee educational matter, assessing the need for instructor-led training was left to availability rather than qualifications, defining training objectives was done by micro-management, no training design, developing/actual training was putting your employee signature on a updated regulation that was read but- not questioned/understood- not demonstrated- not practiced-not evaluated by a senior,not-certified/approved/passed/no certificate generated after "training" compliance; no post training evaluation or follow up whatsoever).

This place sucks! Absolutely no job security, they will find any reason to fire you if management doesn’t like you, supervisors and HR hook up so if you make an enemy with either your screwed, lab is not union so they always take the brunt of any little issue even when it’s clearly not their fault, there is absolutely no organization of procedure on anything, management has poor communication skills, oh and the kicker THEY PENALIZE YOU FOR USING THE SICK TIME THEY GIVE YOU!!!! They give you an “incident” for using sick days, you get 7 they fire you, some people have hundreds of hours of sick time accrued but they can’t use it because they are maxed out on incidents. Management and HR love to talk behind your back and pull you in and interrogate you and bad talk you, they keep spreadsheets of all the mistakes you have ever made and they judge you heavily on them. This is the most toxic work environment ive ever seen, the only redeeming quality is the pay but even then you can’t exactly move up unless you are tight with management.

I drove 40 miles each way for this job and I didn't mind it at all. This company gave quarterly bonuses if we made a profit and stayed below the scrap margin, to all of the employees. The supervisors, managers and engineers worked side by side with all the employees. Everyone had the same goal in each dept. and I never heard anyone say, "That's not my job". I was trained very well and became a trainer. I worked with engineers and R&T to set up and develop new product lines. I assisted in creating and maintaining process documents. I trained employees on the new CCC machines, (Continuous Composite Corrugators) and we made a huge profit. I also have experience with operating single corrugators, sheeter, bailer, foil coater, encap, wash & dry and adhesive machines. I did quality inspections, wrapping and packing. I drove a forklift and used electric pallet jacks.

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