welding engineer

warranty engineer

supplier quality engineer

senior mechanical engineer

senior controls engineer

Hino Motors

I appreciate a thorough review, so that’s what I’m providing. 

You start as a contract employee (VTM)  and must prove yourself before you are hired as a full time team member. Work hard, do your job, and come to work as scheduled. COME TO WORK!! The company operates on a point system for attendance. Even being 1 minute late will get you a partial (.25) point. Once you have 6, you’re done. You get sick and miss 3 days when you haven’t earned any time, that’s 3 points. You sleep in and call off late, that’s a point for calling off, plus a partial for calling late (there’s a chart that shows the exact points). You don’t want any points when you apply for full time. There are a certain number of slots and having higher points can keep you from being considered. You do get 8 hours of emergency unpaid time once you’ve been there 30 days and you earn 24 hours of PTO after 1040 hours worked. 

VTM starting pay is $12 and FT is $13.25. You don’t need any prior experience, as Hino will train you. It’s not easy to find better starting pay locally. 

The benefits are really good once you’re full time. 401(k) matched $ for $ up to 3% and .75 on the $ for another 3%. For less than $250 a month, my family is covered for medical, vision, and dental. Once you reach your out of pocket maximum, everything is covered. I’m not an HR person, so I’m not going to try to give you all the details. The benefits are one of the top reasons employees stay with Hino. When we are working overtime the way we are now, you won’t leave at 2:30 unless you have a doctor’s appointment FOR YOURSELF ONLY. If you schedule an appointment for after 2:30 and fill out a time off request (that gets approved), and bring back a doctor’s note, you aren’t assessed a point. This is for you only. If you need to take your child to an appointment, the regular ETO and PTO apply. If you have no time available, you are pointed. 

As an assembly plant, they need a body in each process to run smoothly. Most processes have a TAK time (currently 8.5 minutes). If we are building 68 trucks, you’ll do those same tasks 68 times that day. Due to things like being understaffed, employees leaving for various reasons (life) during the day, high turnover, call offs, etc. there is often scrambling to cover spots to keep the line running. The team leads and reliefs are normally covering a spot and not really available to lead their team or step in to cover a process when someone needs to step away for whatever reason. 

You start your day at 6 and 2:30 is the regular end of your shift. You get 2 10 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch. When working until 4:30 or 5, you get a 3rd 10 minute break at 2:30. You have to be back and ready to go before the 10 minutes are over, so breaks are more like 8 minutes. If the line goes down close to a break time, they will often send everyone to break early to reduce wasted time. Lunch is at 10 and I’m personally not a fan of having lunch earlier because we don’t have something we need to run. 

 There is a summer picnic for employees and their families and a Christmas party for the employee and a guest. Both are very popular and they have some fantastic give aways. You don’t have to be a full time Hino employee to attend (VTM and family are included). Full time team members get the whole week of Christmas off as a paid holiday. 

The company expects to be your first priority. They can add up to an hour of OT without prior notice daily. They can add a Saturday production day as long as they do so by Wednesday of that same week. We have worked 62 hours 6 of the last 8 weeks and 52 hours each of the other 2. When things slow down in the summer, there may be weeks we won’t work 40 hours. We usually have the option of coming in and doing non standard work because they recognize employees need/want 40 hours a week.

If you’ve never worn steel toed shoes before, do your research before buying them. Buy shoes that are 1/2 size larger than you normally wear. Timberlands are great!! I was not prepared for the pain caused by walking 16K steps a day in steel toed shoes! 

I believe Hino could be a great place to work if the company would embrace changes that make employees truly feel appreciated and valued. We are moving the rest of the Williamstown plant to the facility in Mineral Wells next month and I’m hopeful things will improve once things are running. 

I hope this essay helps you make an informed decision when considering coming to Hino.

Starting out, the schedule was 6-2:30. If overtime was needed, they would let you know by lunch. After they moved to mineral wells, there was no schedule. People would be asking at 2:30 whether or not their team members were allowed to leave and most of the time the answer was no. They also threw Saturday’s into the mix. Basically the schedule was 6-4:30 Monday through Saturday. They push the logistics workers too hard. People were leaving physically injured and they claimed it “wasn’t work related.” We saw people leaving in wheelchairs and stretchers constantly. From injuring backs to having panic attack’s. Their point system is very flawed. If you have kids it’s almost impossible to work here unless you have a support system outside of work. They point you for anything and everything and don’t even count kids doctors appointments as excuses. And even with a doctors note, you get pointed, just not as much. So if you never get sick, don’t have kids, and are okay working 60+ hours a week, this job would be perfect for you.

I worked at Hino Motors Manufacturing, right after I graduate from High school, it was an internship for Quality Control Technician. I like it and it was great, I really enjoyed working there. I learned a lot on the job, when I was in high school I took up Advance manufacturing and learned about quality control, which was pretty good because I took what I learned out of the classroom into work field and put it to use. My co-workers not so much communication I was someone who stay to myself and notified my supervisor or manager and team leader of any wrong, or any questions that I had to ask. I keep to myself to get my work done. I was someone who kept her distinct and know who to talk and who not to talk. The hardest part of my job was learning how to get use to working because I wasn't a working person and being on my feet a lot and not passing out. but I management. This is a really cool place to work. I would work there again.

When you start training in the deujo Hino promises to be a great experience somewhere you can work till you retire. However, you soon learn that managers play favorites,the point system is extremely unfair and geared to make you fail. As a temp your job is threatened on a daily basis because they can replace you at any time yet they are always needing people because people walk out daily due to work loads or long hours or lies in general. If you get hurt and are on short or long term disability when you come back to work they find a reason to terminate you ( 3 of my co-workers good! co-workers) are gone because they claim to be safety oriented and yet they never fix the safety issues after someone gets hurt. If you want to keep your job keep your head down and never complain, there are many good people at Hino just none in management.

I worked at Hino for 2 1/2 years and never became permanent. So no job security or benefits. The management at the job was the worst ever they didn't know how to manage a company. All I can say is if you wasn't a close friend, kissing up to or sleeping with the warehouse manager then you wasn't getting far in this warehouse. I was promised time and time again that I would be next to get hired on but it never happened and eventually they fired me for hear say. Which I don't understand cause the whole entire time I worked there the supervisor and manager made  comments about my butt and I know I didn't say anything when I was working there cause I needed my job so I dealt with it 99% of people deal with workplace harassment cause they are afraid of losing their jobs and if anybody checked the background of the warehouse manager they will see a lot of harassment

Started the day at 5:30 AM made sure production numbers for team member was ready and avaiable made sure team members follow safety rules, made sure all paper work and team members times was done on time.

The one thing I learned is the how to multi task things.

The management there kept chaanging and they sometimes looked out for themselves.

My co-vworkers for the most part was good hard working people, there was some who worried about other people in-stead of doing their jobs.

The hardest part of that job was the rules changes and the lack of respect that is showed

The most enjoyable part was the benefits they offer.

This isn't a good place to work unless your only concern is working. The job is basically 6 am to 6pm most days. Once you start working there and they place you somewhere they refuse to move you to any other department. The managers and team leads will try to talk crazy but they knew not to try it with me by the time I was done working there. They'll blame people for what's going wrong when it's a team effort. They want you to be at work all day everyday and on the weekends too. The lunch breaks are short and there is no time to leave for lunch unless you're not coming back at all. The pay isn't that good and you will be tired everyday coming home from work.

This really isn’t a bad place to work some days. Management is shady and causes very low morale. It’s all about the trucks first and the employees last. Without the working men and women that place wouldn’t be running. Not to mention the very lousy pay to add to low morale and carelessness of employees. Feeling overworked and underpaid for what’s expected, will do that. The insurance is alright. Don’t plan on having a life some days, they will wait until Thursday last minute to tell you you’re working Saturday. We also do more than Toyota in Buffalo, WV and get paid a lot less. It’s a joke. You will work until you die here, there’s no retiring from this place for the people who actual work their fingers to the bones. 

- provide necessary sub assembly parts to meet finished goods ,requirement to be shipped to parent company (Toyota),
-how to avoid repeating the mistakes I made yesterday.,
-possibly reactive instead of proactive in the area of continuous improvement,
-something like family is the corporate culture at Hino.,
- hardest part of job is accepting mediocre performance.
-pay is great and feels like being a part of something greater than yourself.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I was able to add to my resume but that is about it

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Believe what they tell you about doing your job well so you can move up, that is a complete lie work ethic means nothing to them all it takes to move up and get promoted is kissing the right behinds and be a yes person never question anything.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Childish blind leading the blind

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Walking on egg shells making sure you do not offend anyone

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