quality manager

key account manager

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We start our day at 8 am beginning with a 10 minutes meeting that allows us to make a last check up before the day starts. From 8 - 9 am, I have time to suggest improvement to my co-workers, to make phone calls or to prepare the seminar. From 9-11 am, the seminars or the treatment sessions start and everybody is leaving the office to give the best as a teacher or therapist. After the sessions, I am there for my co-workers as a supervisor to reflect about the seminar or treatment session.The lunch break is from 11.30 - 12.00 am in that we try to spend time for relaxation. From 12 - 2 pm and 2 - 4 pm, we are working again in seminars and treatment sessions or use the time for calculating data, reading new papers, writing own papers. From 4 - 6 pm, external doctoral students have meetings with me and I help them to calculate data, to write proposals, prepare posters and to understand my corrections in their first papers or MD thesis. That time is the most innovative and creative time. For 6 - 8pm, I have time for meetings outside, interesting talks in other departments or for skype calls with my colleagues from US whereby these are expanded mostly until 10pm. 

My co-workers do respect my management philosophy with democratic and cooperative strategies that demand to think independently, responsible and to behave cooperative. Sensibility, empathy and intrinsic motivation as well as healthy behaviors are our teaching and research topics that influence the atmosphere in our institute. Not everybody can fulfill these demands of the group due to still too less life experiences, a personal development in process or even a mental disorder. It is a challenge for everybody to cope with these issues and I learn each day how to maintain and improve our skills that have a great influence on our performances.

The hardest part is the low amount of time for research caused by the mix of teaching and research typical for Germans universities. 

The most enjoyable part is the interaction with my co-workers and students that give us a great resistance and a deep joy when we could solve a research question, could help a patient to become pain-free or receive verbal rewards from our students.

I worked for this company for almost 2 years, and up until Fall 2019, I really did love it. This is a clean, organized, efficient shop, and everyone there was fun to work with. However there are some alarming trends with this company. They have a history of layoffs, and just had a huge one in July, letting go of over 80+ people in 1 location due to Covid. The majority of the jobs were brought in by 1 client, so when that client is slow, you are also slow. And in some cases, so slow that you are sent home for the day, or days (this happened even prior to Covid). Back in the Fall of 2019, there was talk about shutting down for Thanksgiving week and Christmas/New Years weeks because the #1 client was shutting down. That same time in 2018, we had tons of overtime. Prior to this discussion, management made us put in our vacation time before the holidays (there was no roll over at that time, so if you didn't use it you lost it). If you didn't have PTO, that shut down was unpaid. Management started off strong, and I really thought I had support from my Shop Supervisors. But Supervisors were getting switched around by upper management to cross train, and Leads were demoted back to production. This resulted in a disconnect between supervisor and shop floor and I felt like my advancement became stagnant. But I think a lot of that feeling had to deal with waiting for jobs to pick up gain, and just when they did, Covid hit. Had there not been such a down turn in job orders, followed by Covid, advancement and opportunity would probably be different. And as frustrated as I am about being laid off, and seeing them advertising on here, they were still a great company to work for, and I really loved my crew. Ignoring Covid and the rest of the stuff 2020 plans on throwing at us, the only thing that I felt was truly negative was that the company had all their eggs in one basket. And you were at the mercy of whoever held that basket. 

Well-established, little privately owned manufacturer not well known but worth looking into. Been around for over half a century and so have most of their long-term employees but positions in the production area reopen on a regular basis. With some dedication and patience you can grown in the ranks in a decade or so once one of the managers retires. Hiring is done at group job fairs. The managers pick the candidate and then decide which job to place them in. You can apply for any production position, no experience needed if you're liked or a referral. On-boarding consists of three days of scintillating videos followed by a pizza lunch with your new manager. In-house hr is very helpful. They answers emails and buzz the entrance door open on time. Every time we have a payroll error they are quick to email the payroll dept at corporate to look into it. And they treat everyone like family. Whenever you need help, everyone gets involved all the way to the ceo. There are no secrets here. Everyone embraces your concerns. Your problems are everyone's problems. That's how much they care. If you get sick you can work from home unless you're an hourly employee. Safety is paramount to them but so is time-management so they don't get bogged down with time-consuming investigations. They are incredibly accommodating too if you can't get along with your manager they just move you to another one and since there are no formalized job descriptions, the transfers are effortless and hassle-free. There were very few layoffs at the beginning of the year but nothing that can't be remedied with another party. Their sole patron is still going strong so if you're looking for a stable company with a century's long, impenetrable company culture then this is the job for you!

The idea behind the company is good. They will put you through machine school, match your 401K, give you PTO(Don't expect to be able to use it without accumulating points), give you sick time(make sure you give them 48hrs notice on when you're going to be sick), and give optional weekends off. However management is only consistent with changing your job description and lying to you about promotions and raises. Management is very consistent with always asking you to do more without proper pay incentives. They are always contradicting themselves on what they want their shop floor workers to do. This makes it near impossible to properly train someone for a new position. They are constantly changing their work procedures for the whole shop causing their late orders to constantly rise higher piling on more stress to the shop workers. The place is in shambles. They have a high turnover rate amongst new employees and most of the long term employees are disgruntled and constantly complaining about how bad management is. They also have a bad habit of not adhering to certain policies mainly involving pay. You'll find a lot of good hearted people on the shop floor working the machines, however. You'll enjoy working with a lot of the people here, but be careful of management.

Arranging and scheduling future meetings and conferences for over 350 people.  Make sure video equipment, laptops, printers, and phones are up and running properly. Pull reports for each department based on sales reports, and sales analysis.  Master Service Agreements between our Company and other Corporations so that we may provide special pricing or other arrangements with that organization. Organize training sessions and training materials for each session. Prepare reporting manuals for monthly budget meetings for upper management and board member.  International travel arrangements and accommodations for top executive and board members.  Remit Pre-Qualification Forms that include our safety information from our OSHA 300 and 300A logs and our EMR ratings.  

Management could be challenging due to important company deadlines.  As we work as a team to achieve those goals.  The most enjoyable part of my job is being able to help our customers have total and complete satisfaction in our job quality and performance.

As an intern, your standard pay is based on what kind of degree you have. The higher the degree, the higher your pay. As far as the work, you'll be assigned to an upper-level manager who gives you a project to do. The thing is, it's sometimes impossible to get with the people you need to speak to because those people are overworked and have VERY busy schedules. Everyone you meet is nice and wants to help you with whatever they can, both on a personal level and at work. You definitely have to learn lots of things on the go, there is no formal training or introduction. If you don't have a sense of initiative, organization, public speaking skills, and AUTONOMY, you're not going to survive. As an intern, it was difficult at first because you don't know what's going on (and half the time, no one does either). But you will learn how to piece random bits of information together and see the greater picture.

Bosses with no leadership ability, no expertise and no intellectual capability to reflect their lack of competence; no feedback culture, hierachical leadership style irrespective expensive and multiannual "leadership courses" bought in; those, who are open-minded and try to bring in new and transparent behaviors have no chance in such an environment. Nearly no diversity! Unequal payment.
They treat their products with more respect than their employees! Swiss headquarter is pretending to have the ability to run a global group, actually they are acting like an accounting department with no idea how to handle challenges in an international environment. Mobbing is a common tool to get rid of people who are making up their mind.
Trust is the major and global problem!

This company has the potential to be an absolute machinists paradise and an all around great place to work except they have gotten one particular thing REALLY wrong.  They promote decent operator/setup people into management positions and these people are terrible managers.  They literally knock the wind right out of everyone on the floor.  They also hire QC personnel that have no passion for their job and therefore are not good at it.
I know no place is perfect but I have never seen a more saddening waste of potential in my 30 year career.  I may not be the one who can fix it all but I have had a long successful career in machining and manufacturing (Ford, Tesla, Space-X and WEIR).  Moreover I can't find another manufacturing professional that knows Hoerbiger that doesn't have the same general opinion.

HOERBIGER at Pompano Beach has a good work climate even though it has been better in the past. You find good people throughout the organization. However people have been brought in and promoted that do not see any value in cooperation or communication. They are focused on their bosses agenda, which is not always the best for the company. Management is multilayered and local managers have local and global bosses, which makes it very challenging to get to something everybody agrees on. Also each boss wants to promote their pet project, which is making it challenging to get people to focus on what is high priority. If something is changing it is done usually with last minute communication or no communication at all.

Management does not care about you as a person, they want boards out and they do not care about anything else, not even quality, if you are not meeting their unrealistic expectations, you will get written up and you will not receive your raise at the end of the year. Overtime is great for the bank, but you are forced to work overtime as they decide, and there is always over time. You never have the option of only working 40 hours. If you like long, long hours, terrible management and unachievable goals this is the place for you. I feel bad for anyone who buys their engine parts from them, the quality has gone completely downhill since new management took over. I know, I've worked on them. They just want them out fast and you get reprehended if you don't. Terrible terrible terrible 

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