production supervisor

extrusion operator

quality assurance inspector

maintenance mechanic

splicer

Ilpea Industries

This place is a revolving door and just recently I've seen why. I started out in splicing which was an easy job except for the number of gaskets you're supposed to make every day. For some of the tables they can be insane and I never got above 80%. They want you to reach 100% after you've been there for a few months and to maintain that 100% pretty consistently. They've will give you ramp ups and want you to impove your numbers every few weeks. Dont reach that number 3 times and you're gone. I was thrown back in extrusion without any training and was never provided any the whole time I was there. I had to learn most of it on my own with occasional help from the lead op. He tried to train me as much as he could but he always had his own line to run while doing change overs and helping the other new operators. Some nights I had to wait an hour for help for what turned out to be simple fixes had I known and been trained all the while being written up for low production. Illpea doesn't care about its workers just the numbers. This place had a reputation for being one of the worst places to work in town and they've earned it.

What is the best part of working at the company?
In my own experience, upper management always listened to my input and respected me very well as did I have the utmost respect for my upper management colleagues.  Where I worked was union plant and even the employees were easy going ( most of the time ).  It was like a big family that had their spats at time but we all had a job to do and we did it well.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Old equipment that was in need of constant repair 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Family like / Busy.   Everyone helped each other when someone was struggling until I could come around and make sure they were getting back on track. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I was a supervisor at this company so I could sit and tell you everything a supervisor does but in my case.  I went way beyond my pay grade and it was because the company took care of me.

I enjoyed the first week. After that it seemed like everyday was worse and worse, I had issues with my position (or lack of training for position) and I got stuck in notching which was not what I was hired on to be. I was promised a splicing trainee position, which was never given, and ended my employment after I realized that the favoritism was never going to stop and I was being approached by junkies and rednecks almost every day trying to find a reason to get in my way. Long story short, I left before I even really started due to the management and lack of training, as well as the absolute lack of class in their choice of employees and supervisors. Horrible work conditions and overall personal experience. I wouldn't recommend that anyone subject themselves to the ignorance and blatant disrespect of this company. 

There's no training and real incentives  for employees. People lay out of work all the time and force the ones that do come to work everyday work every weekend  in many cases because production gets behind. The pay is not good and the management is slack and not professional. No opportunity for advancement  they don't appreciate or seem to care about there employees. Overall it's horrible work environment.  They have work that needs to be done.

I would get to work in the morning and spend the first half of the day finishing everything second shift wasn't made to do and then the second part of the day catching up on my job that was 4 hours behind. Then most the time had to stay over and finish my job or at least get done what I couldn't during my normal work day. Also, if for some reason you get on anyone's bad side and management they'll dock your pay to 80% until they feel your fit for their company again.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The workers and management they always are thinking about the employees 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The only stressful part of this job is trying to make your percentage

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is good but the only thing is that the work place is very hot in the summer 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A little stressful at times but good overall

The job was really not that bad. Paid based on percentage of product made. Make more get more money. The first 15 years it was easy to make over your 110% and get paid top dollar but then they raised the standard when everyone was making the top dollar. a scheduled day was 8 hours but if someone on the next shift called in YOU are expected to stay over or come in early to cover for them with only hours notice before your scheduled shift ends. With low staff this amounted to a lot of 12 hour days.

The upper management were very pleasant. I learned to do many jobs while I worked at ILPEA and received numerous training classes from ISO Auditor Training to ADP payroll training. The hardest part of my job was terminating employees that failed to meet requirements of the job or attendance. The most enjoyable part of the job was training the employees in the policies, procedures, safety and work instructions of their job.

What is the best part of working at the company?
All the hours you could possibly want and more overtime than you probably want.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Loudmouth cussing management., very disrespectful to coworkers.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very loud and very busy. always a push to get more work done.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very fast paced, the line is moving very quickly always.

Typical day at work is cleaning your table off, loading table with parts, and splicing them together. I learned how to work with different type's of molded jig's and profile's. Hardest part of a job is meeting quota's of some of the profile's. Most enjoyable is the extra money you can make in incentive. The pay per hour is very good.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production supervisor 2 salaries reported	$52,500 per year
Extrusion operator 2 salaries reported	$22.42 per hour
Quality assurance inspector 3 salaries reported	$16.67 per hour
Maintenance mechanic 3 salaries reported	$25.35 per hour
Splicer 3 salaries reported	$14.75 per hour

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