manufacturing engineer

assembler

senior manufacturing engineer

tool and die maker

quality assurance inspector

IDEX Corporation

I ended up leaving there due to personal reasons (outside of work) that I was having, but I will say that it was a great place to work.

There are a lot of employees with families, who work hard and strive for excellence on the systems side (I was not as familiar with other parts of the business that were not part of the systems department).

My boss listened to me if I had a question or an idea, and the engineers were great too (provided that you were respectful of their time and brought important things to their attention, as they were very busy and had many responsibilities).

If I were to critique the business in a caring way, I would say that they have entirely too many meetings for management and especially way, way, way too many meetings for the engineers, which impedes their ability to work on what they were hired to do.  Often times the engineers have different projects that they oversee and it can be a bit much sometimes, in my opinion.  Also, there is too much of that California, soft hearted mindset towards giving individuals direct feedback.  Instead of speaking directly to a person who is causing an issue by their procedures, there is a tendency to tell an entire group about the issue and act aloof as to who was the cause of the problem and ask the entire group to be more mindful of the issue and work to prevent it from happening in the future.  This can sometimes be okay, depending on the issue as it can inform a lot of people of one mistake that many might encounter if they were not informed, but usually, it was just a method of avoiding hurting someone's feelings at the cost of not addressing the issue.  I asked my boss to directly tell me if I ever messed up or had the wrong idea of how to do something, for that reason, because missing critical feedback is missing a chance to empower others to do better.  Ultimately, it can hurt an employee's chance of success and promotions in the long run if feedback is not adequate.

Planning was not the best either, which ultimately hurt the business and caused a lot of layoffs.  There was a lack of thought put into a lot of business decisions or forecasting possible trends in the market or even in simple things, like systems for hanging up cleanroom coats were a general frustration for all, and lockers being put on the opposite end of the building from an employee's job site might be.  Also,  the contracts that were made with the business customers that the products were designed for gave all power to the customer to make a decision on all changes, which might sound good from an outside perspective, but in practice, it meant that any and all changes would take over 6 months, at least, to be approved unless the issue was causing critical failures.  This resulted in things like, needing to perform very specific and hard to do actions to account for failures in a design. For example, if a cover was not fitting as expected, the cover might need to be pushed as far over to one side, at a certain angle and screwed down in that position tightly so that it wouldn't move over time and this might be part of a permanent undocumented procedure that was necessary (still within the bounds of what was allowed/specified by the instructions, but much more complicated than the original procedure).  Several things about each unit at each station became this way over time and many times, they were not addressed until an updated version of a product was rolled out as it was much easier to just do it that way (but that only happens every 2 years or so).  So, basically, sometimes the customer would need a lot more of a product than usual and all of these extra specific steps would slow down production significantly compared to what would happen if they were addressed, and the customer is not aware of all these extra steps, so it doesn't appear that you are working efficiently, but you are doing 30% more work on every unit at ever station, and all of those steps must be perfect for the unit to function as intended, pass tests, and not return for repairs in 6 months.   With an increase in production comes an increase in failure rate, so extra time added to the process to make each unit then turns into extra time trying to fix failures and testing, etc and it snowballs sometimes.   

The people I worked with, over time, became like a family to me.  I am not sure if that is consistent everywhere within the building, but for the people I worked with, everyone was real close.  We helped each other a lot, and people really cared about how you were doing and hoped for good things in your life.  Everyone took pride in their work, and doing a great job.  I think work feels the best this way, but it was also essential for working in systems as there are a multitude of steps to complete to build highly technical products and all of those steps must be done correctly, as specified, for the products to work as intended.  This can be problematic but its still, not a big deal in the grand scheme of how I evaluate whether a place is great to work at.  IDEX was the best corporation that I have ever worked at when it comes to valuing its employees and respecting them, and paying them well.

Work was easy, but management has literally zero idea what they're doing. Simple issues perpetuate until they become major halting points on the production line due to management not listening to the production staff and their needs/ideas. Would be a great place to work, were it not also for the lack of consistency in managements ability to commit to raises and better compensation for production staff, and actively putting people in positions to fail due to lack of training and quality specifications. Management gives nothing but excuses as to why they do not have proper work instructions, and refuse to look into it further either. Any attempt at getting any sort of real, tangible information is met with excuses and backlash. You will be fired before they try to help you build your career, as they would rather move on to the next sucker they can pay the lowest to do the job. You will be low-ball offered, and they won't even let you attempt to negotiate said wages. They won't publish pay ranges or any pay transparency information knowing very well they pay lower than the competing market they claim they base their compensation on. Overtime is only offered when numbers drop or when they need to rush at the end of the month to catch up on their negligence to pace through the month properly. Opportunities to advance come just as scarce, and they have zero intentions of being as punctual about processing the requests as they expect of their production staff's attendance punctuality.

Expect breakdowns, constant oil and coolant leaks, poor quality castings. They want you to clean,  but every mop head is soaked in oil from oil leaks, basically spreading more oil,  and no one empties mop buckets.   Their machinists will leave dirty mops and mop buckets in another cell for another machinist to take care of.   Micro managed,  every minute of operation is tracked by computer and even 5 minutes of down time has to be explained.   Maintenence issues constantly,  and difficult to resolve.   When machining a part for the first time,  you'll have items out of print.   You get a "That's how we've always ran it " response.   But on the wrong day,  they'll go bonkers over it.   I've learned that this place is going down hill for machinists.  Management and office personnel barely communicate.   Have an "open door" policy but everything has to be initiated on a tablet first.   That's if they even respond or acknowledge.  Culture is OK, but I believe it's gotten to the point where you really need to walk on eggshells in the shop for what and how you say things.   Hardest part of the job is just getting the things that you need to run a smooth shift.   Also,  they make constant changes to their policies and it's sometimes difficult to keep up with.  The most enjoyable part of the job,  is just about nothing.   Very toxic work environment.


IDEX is highly decentralized, which gives local business units and departments a tremendous amount of freedom. The corporate function is very small for a company its size. IDEX sets the tone and provides tools and parameters and trusts its leaders to run their businesses. And it works. But you have to be OK with not hiding within a massive corporate structure.

Over and over I talk to colleagues who say this is best place they've ever worked.  The company hires for people who will fit in the values-based culture - Trust, Team and Excellence. They give people the freedom to do their job. I have yet to encounter a jerk anywhere across the company. Seriously.

If you like playing political games, this isn't the place.  Egos are low here.  There's also pride in knowing your company is making thousands of different products that are truly making the world better, from the Jaws of Life and other emergency rescue tools, to components inside DNA sequencers changing healthcare, to pumps used in all kinds of key applications, from energy to food production. How can't you like a company that makes chocolate pumps?!

There is too much favortism at this work place. Too many lead people and too many supervisors for this small of a company. There is no structure and no consistency among the supervisor/lead people. They all have different rules for different people depending on who you are. They cater to their "friends" or the "hot girls" and let their "friends" and "hot girls" take extended breaks, use cell phones in non- permitted area's, come in late/early, leave late/early, work whatever hours they want to work. There is no structure to who and/or why so many people are working so much overtime and yet the orders are NEVER caught up. Unfortunately, there is also entirely too much inappropriate behavior and talk among coworkers that should not be happening and that apparently doesn't matter to all of these lead people and supervisors either. It has the potential to be a great job but it just wasn't for me. Good luck.

A typical day at work is doing the same thing over and over. I believe I have learned more from my coworkers who get no recognition for their knowledge than my employers. Management is neglectful and inappropriate. Workplace culture is good amongst employees but not good when it comes to upper management. The hardest part of the job is watching people who have no idea what they are doing just socialize and get promotions when HR is telling everyone else they can’t give promotions to anyone. The most enjoyable part of the job is just the coworkers on the shop floor.  The shop floor is helpful, team organizing, and respectful and that’s the only reason I still work there. The only reason I look on indeed every day is because of management, upper management, and corporate. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great work environment & great people. Great benefits & lots of PTO! IDEX takes care of their employees! Very happy to be a part of the IDEX team!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I live 45 minutes away. The only negative thing I can say about IDEX is it takes me an hour drive to and from! 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Environment is great, climate controlled shop & well maintained equipment. The culture is great and diverse! Everyone treats each other as one wants to be treated. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Productive & friendly. I have the opportunity to learn something new everyday.

I worked in different areas of Banjo in my almost 9 years employed- I loved working with my peers, however, management is severely lacking- they set policies but do not follow them.  Brought a new manager into my department that had no people management skills and would talk down to her employees, she was not consistent with her “rules”.  I went to our HR department at Banjo several times with documents that clearly stated how she would flip flop, was told to deal with it.  Was unable to change my position which forced me to quit a very stressful work environment - not knowing what you were getting day to day from senior and middle management. Benefits were good.

cover your butt if you decide to work for this company do not trust management because they will throw you under the bus HR is on the management team and will not hear what you have to say above your manager work is rewarding because it's challenging but the lack of engineering knowledge you'll get blamed for their faults also their education program if it's not something that they want to send you to school for you have no chance of getting the financial assistance from them

well i come in and try to get a head start on my work.. help people that need help. try to keep up with my work load.
I've learned to that to come in and do your job. lend a hand where some one needs help.
to respect others  even if they don't respect you.. I've learned to volunteer to come in and help keep going. and to keep our customer's happy and coming back..
the management is awesome they are great people to work with.. 
workplace culture is awesome..
the hardest part of the job is where you hear people talking about how much they


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