laborer

welder

cnc machinist

machinist

maintenance technician

Holtec International

Pros: 
- Good place to stay silent, keep your head down, work, get paid, and go home.
- Not a hard job to perform, most of the time indoors and heated in the winter.
- Great co-workers who resonate with you for the most part.

Cons:
- Horrible top-down culture: It’s understandable that there should be consistency in operations and tight control due to regulations. But EVERYTHING is procedural, even the smallest scenario that could be resolved by having a conversation with the workers are categorized as Write-ups/Warnings in the system. 
- Weak leadership: Management is more focused on work responsibilities and emphasize title privileges to initiate goals, enforcements, and fear mongering. These are the prime evidences of weak leadership which results in even weaker partisanship. Great leaders pave the road by exemplifying behaviors, seek continuous feedback at all cost, and demand genuine respect out of presence, regardless of title or position in the hierarchy. Of which, one will not find take place here. 
- Work, work, and work: Despite the constant emphasis on Standard Procedures and learning Drawings, you will find yourself pushing a broom, organizing racks,  object placements, doing tedious work, and no formal group discussions when the shop slows down to improve readiness and intellectual capabilities. Shop keeping is good, but should not be the substitute of normal work responsibilities. 
- Concerns? We hear you. Just not really high stakes for us to seriously address and resolve them. Unless they relate or can potentially jeopardize our jobs.
- Disconnection between Supervisors and Managers: Oftentimes you will find your Supervisor saying “I’m just letting everyone know, I do not make the decisions, just relaying the message,” then gradually become desensitized to the ability of making impactful decisions, minimizing influence towards the team. Overtime, not even the new guys will take the place seriously, despite the caliber of the manufacturing plant.

> In conclusion: Just do what you can, make money, don’t make enemies, save, get experience, insert resume buffer, put your family first, learn the value of genuine human connection, then make your way out. The people are united under mutual suffering and understanding. It is honestly a cathartic experience from my point of view.

When I first took the job at holtec, I was very excited about working in the nuclear industry. They painted a very nice picture of the company and its culture that was very misleading. After the first couple of weeks of actually working there, it was very clear how mis-managed the place really is. Supervisors are always looking to cure
T each others throats instead of working together. In turn, they come down hard on the workers and focusing the blame for poor production on low level employees that have no control over the situation. They have a "questioning attitude"  policy as part of their culture, supposedly encouraging workers to question things that they feel are wrong or inefficient. But, if you practice this policy, you will soon be labeled as a trouble maker that is unwilling to conform to the companies culture. The pay is really not that good if you happen to have experience in the metal trades. Also, the upper management makes low level workers fearful of loosing their jobs, making it seem that everyday might be your last, if you make a mistake, no matter how minor. By the way, there is no union here and they fight hard to keep it that way. They like to have the power to fire people as they see fit and establish new policies to fit their needs, regardless of whether it is fair to the workers. For most people with talent, this would and should only be a stepping stone. In the time I worked there, it seemed as if the place had a revolving door. Would I ever consider working for holtec again...... no. Would I recommend holtec as a good place to work..... no. I believe employees should be treated fairly and given the same respect that an employer would want. As the old adage states, "you attract more flies with honey than you do with vinegar". This place is all vinegar!

Operations manager and HR are in bed together, literally and figuratively.  This limits support from HR when there is an issue with upper management.  The managers never have positive feedback. Big brother culture to the extreme. They do not keep up with competitive wages, and lie during the interview process. There is no training there, everything is a quick computer course to get you sign off so they can claim expert training, there is no training plan or trainer at all. They seek to employ people with no experience to have low pay rates. While harassing experienced guys they don’t like out the door. All the rules are made up as they go, if you are favored by upper management you are safe, if you are not, they will target you. Focus is solely on discipline, not career growth, to the extent they can’t describe job expectations. They micromanage everything and look for you to mess up so they can fire you. Upper management are not leaders. The upper management spend their whole life just focused on work, and expect everyone else to do the same. No work life balance. No “good job.” They are reactive not proactive. They make easy work stressful because they are not proactive. The work culture is bad, and effects everyday work.

The work is interesting and cool as heck. I was a machinist 1. pay was $27.69. but went higher as you advanced. I left shortly after i got my 90 days. I was in and had it all. Well here's what happened to me. The management was cut throat and a few of the fellow machinists brothers were also. not all. you really had to watch your back there. I knew how to operate the fanuk controls on the 4 machines but each control was special to that machine.The programmer was a pompous windbag that couldn't program a his way out of a wet paper bag. but needs to stay at the sister plant in Candin. N.J. where they are sending all the stainless steel work to. and eventually planning on phase out the Pittsburgh  plant. to run a coarse of 2 years. I was too smart knew too much and could not fit in. i tried to pretend I was a dummy. but they knew I knew things. The name of the game is BLAME it on the new guy. I was not about to be the patsy for some one else's mistakes. that is what that place is famous for. then SAFETY. OIL leaked out the machines every where like a hidden mountain spring. The place burdened you with safety this and that and oil was tracked everywhere, unbelievable. Guess oil was cheap to them. I could go on and on about the place but I quit a job paying me $28.00 hour because they would not let me edit the program and had  me about to snap from the stress. $40. per hour not enough.

All management is a joke...I was one of the first employees at the Camden site....we all were sold fools gold.....They preached to us about starting a new culture.....But that wasnt the case at all....management seeks out and takes advantage of lesser skilled employees to do their dirty work and promises them promotions if they brown nose and try to get dirt on any employee they deem a threat to them or are highly skilled .....All management including HR are soo under qualified to the point where they feel threatened by highly skilled employees....They PREACH having a positive culture but do the total opposite.....Its all lies and a smokescreen.....All management treats the hourly employees like third class citizens...example...before the Camden plant opened holtec holds an extravagant Christmas party with ice sculptures and high and food and drink.....but the first Christmas after the Camden plant opened none of the hourly employees were invited.....only after we all made it clear how we felt...they scrambled and had a makeshift luncheon at a old rundown low end restaurant.....They actually limited what we ate and drank.....THIS PLACE IS A SINKING SHIP......SOUTH JERSEY GAS STOPPED SUPPLYING THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE ALWAYS LATE PAYING.....I WOULD RATHER DIG A DITCH FOR LOW PAY THEN WORK THERE....YEAH ITS THAT BAD....!!!...YOU ALL BEEN WORNED!!!!!....

- Management is very poor. The structure in the IT/Software department is truly amateur hour. Most executives have no clue what they are doing, and do next to nothing on a day-to-day basis. They only got to where they are because they know somebody or are related to somebody. If you are not in on this inner circle, you are at a severe disadvantage with lessened job security. If you think I am exaggerating, go look at Holtec's Glass Door reviews: they are littered with the same remark regarding the PA/NJ locations.

- Pay is horrible. I went from a mid/senior level position at Holtec to a junior-level position at a small [not very profitable] start-up and already had a pay boost of 20%. Moving to another company about the size of Holtec, I was making close to double what I made at Holtec. This alone should deter you from Holtec. However despite all of this, the healthcare was actually very good.

- All of the software positions available on Indeed/Monster/etc do not exactly represent the work, so do not believe them. This job is 100% maintaining horrible legacy code - most of which was not even written by software developers in the first place.

I'll stop there and just say that you should avoid Holtec like the plague.

Holtec offers a decent place to start your career and move on eventually. The company is chronically understaffed due to a combination of frugality and high turnover, which means new hires are often thrown into the deep end with minimal training. 

All power is concentrated in the hands of a few high-level individuals who either micromanage or constantly intervene to maintain their importance. This culture is a direct result of the autocratic president/CEO/owner, who openly criticizes lower-level employees while promoting a culture of profit over quality, safety, and employee well-being. 

At Holtec, task completion is the only thing that matters, as evidenced by the owner's boast that employees get twice as much done as at other companies. This results from perpetually unrealistic workloads and a rush-job mentality that often results in more chaos and rework later on so high-level individuals can step in.

On the bright side, the lack of organizational formality and quality control can provide motivated new graduates with an opportunity for rapid career development. However, the poor work culture and undervalued compensation often lead to high attrition rates.

Stay away from this company. I worked here for almost 10 years and also was on the road crew for this company. Money is good but there is clicks here. If you aren't in the click your just another number. Advancement is based off of popularity, skill doesn't matter. This company would step over a million dollars just to save a dollar. Management is uneducated and if you like to be micromanaged then this is the place for you. The corporate CEO preaches teamwork and questioning attitude however upper management deems you a trouble maker for having a questioning attitude. Management bad mouths upper management to employees all the time and upper management keeps their managers miserable and that filters down to the employees. There good at making mistakes and blaming everyone else but them selves. No integrity here with management. Harassment from management is normal here and upper management loves it. If you complain your labeled trouble maker or fired.

Such a shame this place could be great!  But the management is set in their ways.  There is very little training.   Everyone will expect you to know everything within 6 months, after that they will just be rude and talk down to you.   You are set up to fail from the moment you walk in, you will be completely over worked and you will feel the stress of the job and bring home that stress.    This is not a 9-5 job, they will expect you to work overtime for no pay.   
Your immediate peer group is amazing, everyone there is extremely helpful.    But anyone that is in management will eventually just beat you down.    

Beautiful campus, on site cafeteria, pay is decent, 401k plenty of vacation.  Unfortunately when you use your vacation the work doesn't stop and you will just do double time when you return, or you will work on vacation to try to stay caught up.   

If you decide to join the HOLTEC team just be warned they will micro manage your til you crack!  From weekly reports on what you do, to personal evaluations.   But don’t worry, it’s meaningless and no one reads any of it.  


Stressful place where a lot of responsibility is forced onto new and young employees with little to no help. Everything is always late so the company always focuses on what is the worst issue at the time and there is very little guidance towards success. The training is very basic and not entirely helpful, partially since the turn over rate of employees is very high and most of the knowledge of the jobs is held within the upper management whom also don't have time to train.

The hardest part is trying to work towards all of the deliverables needed, but since every group is so far behind on work, it makes it pretty hard to meet due dates. Then you have to deal with all the outcomes of missing dates from both upper management and the clients. Furthermore, your responsibility is so high in the projects it makes it tough to take days off especially when you are the only person involved on your projects.

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