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What is the best part of working at the company?
The best thing is that it's a small plant and everyone is in your business, policies are changed constantly to benefit the company and training is haphazard at best.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with the clique environment.   The training wasn't organized and everybody was tested differently by different people who have different ideas of what u do and don't need to know in order to work the unit alone.  Operators that have been there for years even argue among themselves about certain procedures.  Procedures for certain tasks are regularly dismissed and we diverted from the written procedures constantly.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's like volunteering to serve jail time.  The people there will stab you in the back at every turn.  This company loses an operator at an average of 1 every 6 months 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Show up early just to get a half ast hand over and then get blamed for the information not being relayed to you.  Suggestions that hangovers should be written was immediately met with resistance.

Every work day started with a tool box safety meeting. Here you are read the night orders which consist of work that was done from the previous shift, upcoming work that needs to get done, safety topic and other key factors that are work related. Next, you would be given work permits that will allow contractors or other departments to perform specific work\jobs\maintenance in your unit. Next, you would load up your "pride gun" in which a unit walk-thru is performed. Here is when you monitor critical process equipment for temps, levels, sound, vibrations, leaks, pressure and anything abnormal. Next, insure "get ready's" are achieved if you have specific equipment that need to be ready for maintenance the next day. These are done by a LOTO system. Finally, the constant monitoring of your radio so you can stay in constant contact with your board operator, other operators, your team lead or any other critical information delivered These are jus some of the daily work routines you perform, but are not limited to.  These are jus some of the daily work routines you perform, but are not limited to.

There is no clear direction, professional or personal development or proper project development. The site management relies on what seems like luck and good fortune to execute projects. There is no technical leadership or training or KPIs set for unit performance monitoring. If you decide to take a role here, make sure you are willing to compromise your professional integrity to make calls without sufficient data and have tasks assigned with no direction or guidance. Failure is the only option here. 
Additionally, there are no technical design books to help you learn the chemistry and nuisances of making acrylonitrile. 
Furthermore, an estimated 30-40 percent of instrumentation is faulty or doesn’t work. When questioned why these items were not taken care of, the response is always “Was there a work order?”. The saddest part is, the manufacturing manager was the DCS controls technician and is fully aware, as is the technical and site manager, that these are not working. 
There is no money to get these things fixed properly, only money to keep the site hobbling. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Safety and be trained properly on your job responsibility was the top priority

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I have 34 years working as a chemical control room operator.When I started working for INEOS  I had no experience in working with computers. My past  jobs has been manual to run a unit so not only did I have to learn a new job.I had to learn computers, so that was very stressful.Once I got the hang of it, it was all good and that was the best place I have ever worked. also, I would like to add that working at Ineos we worked as a team less stress. my previous jobs I worked alone as an operator.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I no longer work for INEOS  In Whiting Indiana however, when I did work for INEOS it was the best. I love the concept of working as a team.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
When I worked for INEOS  I felt safe because I was working with qualified train people.

Typical day at work looks like this: good days are REALLY good, but the bad days are long, exhausting, stressful and sweaty—as any challenging job would be. However, there are more good days than bad. Typical day is making rounds ensuring equipment integrity, and responding to process issues. Hardest part of the job is the summer time. Extruder buildings are VERY hot in the Texas heat. But, you’re never working alone. The culture is very collaborative and centered around being a team. Management listens to manufacturing employees and collaborates with them well. Same deal with contractors. It can be tough to get into leadership positions because people usually retire from INEOS rather than quit. OT is usually plentiful, but rarely-if-ever forced. You’ll be on-call several times per year, but most long changes are protected. 

was going through a difficult time in my life with mainly family issues as a primary caretaker, for a elder family member. No one from management seemed to care, since it was made  evident later after I was let go that they felt I was "disconnected" and had my mind on other things. No one ever asked how I was, or expressed any issues with my performance. after working 14 days straight for a shutdown I was let go the very next day. 

The worker though are very nice and others within the organization such as lower management, salaried individuals, and hourly workers were very good to work with and had  great expericnce to share.

the resident contract manager is a cocky, and arrogant, so just be aware.

The day would normally begin with passing through security gate and checking in lab to see if any packages were delivered for warehouse.
If so I would take package into warehouse to be checked in and entered into SAP system for inventory. I worked closely with merchant and journeymen who's responsibility was to fix. repair and maintain the operating resources to produce solvent, synthetic oils, modern plastics and preserves for food and drink. The hardest part was working around a chemical facility, that without warning something could explode. I enjoyed working with other professionals who really took pride in their field of work.

I work 12hr shift both days and night. Nights seem to be a little more challenging but since I’ve been working nights over 20 years I've got use to them. Every day may bring new challenge so you can't get complacent that’s what I like about the job. I don’t have a problem with management because in my opinion if you do what you’re asked to do there will be no problems. I am team player and work well with others. I am also willing to take on tasks alone. The part that can become difficult is working with others that are not focused on the task at hand. I enjoy being with my co-works because we look out for each other. We spend so much time together we have become like family.

The operators are constantly backstabbing each other and the management is TERRIBLE. Management pretty much picks and chooses when they want to enforce rules...according to who it will effect. They could careless about the operators and constantly practice favortism. HR is completely blind to the incompetent management they have in the plant and the way policies are manipulated. To make matters worse, the union rep is the biggest snake of them all. Operations has zero respect for  management and most contractors that work in the plant. Money is great but the drama and stress is far from worth it. Truly a miserable place to spend your career.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Benefits were great Bonus program was decent when the company met all its targets 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management was terrible HR also covers up a lot issues within the plant. No chance of career advancement. Raises were terrible also 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The culture was not so good the company likes to cut a lot of corners they put safety last when in a pinch 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very stressful job description changes almost randomly. Management tends to promote incompetent employees

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