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Absolutely terrible management with no idea how to improve culture, performance, or quality. No accountability whatsoever. In management the worse you perform the easier job you get. No one gets fired in management, they just get moved to somewhere easier. The good supervisors are jerked around constantly and taken advantage of, expected to work 12 hours a day while the lazy get easy positions and work about 8 hours a day. Good supervisors are severely underpaid for what they have to put up with. Horrible turn over with management because the culture, job and work force is so bad.

Speaking of work force....Average absenteeism is around 15%. Nearly impossible to run the day to day and out of the workers that do show up, only 20% are remotely decent. The other 80% are adults that act like little kids, are lazy, toxic, get away with murder and refuse to put in a hard days work. The union has completely ruined this place. Workers get fired numerous times, but somehow get their jobs back. HR has no back bone and lets the union do whatever they want. People cry all the time their jobs are too hard, even though there isn't one hard hourly job in the building. These unionized workers don't know what a real job looks and feels like. The union will be the down fall of this plant.

Nothing that happens on a daily basis prepares anyone for the future. It's just firefight mode over and over again. No one in plant staff leadership has a vision for what the next few years, months or even weeks should look like. 

The company is building a brand new facility in Texas. The writing is on the wall that this plant may not be around for too many more years. Can't blame them though for wanting a non union work force.

Member of North American Truck Division‘s “Weight Team”

Verified and corrected weights of trucks as well as systems and individual parts through audits on scale data, coordination with multiple suppliers and creation of CAD assemblies.

•Built CAD assemblies for detailed weight analysis and distribution calculations
•Modified and relocated features to reduce weight and improve weight distribution
•Developed new algorithm for calculation of fifth wheel weights
•Conducted monthly audits of newly produced trucks including presentation, organization and analysis of trends
•Carried out complete audit of weight of all transmissions used by Navistar
•Developed CAD skills, technical knowledge, organizational skills, attention to detail

Member of Platform Group

Tasked to analyze and troubleshoot problems from all truck components. Worked on numerous project initiatives to improve and fix chassis, steps, interiors, sensors and fuel tanks issues.
•Gained familiarity and experience with multiple components through detail work
•Designed new bracket for relocation hood switch to avoid an interference problem
•Developed, managed and coded the addition of new steps onto TerraStar
•Redesigned bracket and created new layout to add TV into ProStar Long-sleeper cab
•Developed knowledge of engineering processes and methodology as well as corporate environment
•First-hand knowledge of production lines and manufacturing techniques from multiple business trips to several assembly plants
•Volunteer Fire Warden and First Aid Certified, responsible for evacuation of section in case of fire or other emergency

GA, Offline, Supply Chain, etc., every department was all managed differently. 

Department's can change schedules as needed, they don't have to adhere to that proposed 4/10 schedule. Schedules were forever changing.

No proper notification, last minute notifications extending from 10hrs to 12hr days, generally working 6 days a week, with 1 day off. Or if you lucky you might get a weekend or very rarely a 3 day weekend, it's was all very inconsistent.

"Offline" was a complete circus show, managers getting fired, supervisors forever changing or leaving, team members forever getting fired, people getting promoted to team leads with absolutely no qualifications. The leads want to pretend they are busy ordering parts when they really aren't, just wasting time, terrible work ethics from the bottom all the way to the top. 

Incompetent supervisors and team leads, who can't make competent decisions. Leads act like they are supervisors, nobody follows proper chain of command, just a complete mess. 

Your also working amongst first timers, unmotivated, low level, amateur team member mechanics who dont have any mechanical experience, this is their first time working around Commercial Trucks, so you have to be careful working around them in terms of safety. (Accident Waiting To Happen)

Overall Offline department was a complete joke! I don't recommend working for this company, you would have to be desperate, your not valued and viewed as disposable.




I gave this company 10.5 years. I got nothing out of it. We got a small severance package, for those workers who stayed until the very end. I did not advance anywhere. I know how to do everyone else's job and I wasn't even the lead technician. I knew how to operate all the engines in our family and knew how to operate every single test cell. Regardless of the data system: stars, itest, Adapt and Alpha. My only regret is I wish I had worked here sooner, hired when I was younger, I could have left this company as a millionare with all the unlimited overtime that was offered. 

Final thoughts. Please young professionals if you read this, stay away from this company. They don't care about you, your co workers or your family. This company doesn't even care bout their customers. They only care about the share holders. Stay away from this company, unless you want to work  and get paid good money. At least before they laid me off, I got my money. 

A great place to work if you are willing to play along with the charade. I was hired for a project that my manager insisted on, others pretended to agree but in reality no one actually wanted to implement. They paid me to update an excel report everyday and be a flunky just to make my boss look important. You are allowed to leave early, read books at your desk, go out for looooong lunchtime walks. You can see the job as a stepping stone, make connections that would eventually allow you to move on to better things, that would give you a sense of purpose for a while. In my particular situation, I came from a background where people took pride in making and fixing things, so the experience purposelessness wasn't for me, I started with memory and concentration problems, then irritability, anxiety, and a feeling of being emotionally drained. Overall, I would say...it was good. You know ain't all good, ain't all bad.

Typical work day consist of making sure you are logged in to the cisco phone.  Certain managers are very strict about punctuality your computer needs to be running and logged into phone on time.  If not logged on exactly on time then you are considered late in the (WFM) Work force management system.  Only CSO ( Customer Service Operations ) Uses WFM.  You have to log out of communicator to even use the bathroom and if you do not then it will count against you as not being productive in WFM. Lots of system issues and lack of urgency.  You can be on time at work but marked late by WFM because computer can take almost 20 minutes to start up.  Learned alot about Internationals Engine platforms and Parts distribuition and sourcing. Co workers are easy to get along with but some tend to use vulgar language and can be childish.  almost everyone comes from a technical background which makes it easy to pick up trends and make good connections with the peopel you work with.  Hardest part of job is the WFM system and annual reviews are now being stongly based off the WFM system.  It is hard to get help and new information through engineering which increases tension when trying to support the product and provide troubleshooting steps to field support.

Another example of a once great company with a long history going down the toilet.  How do you expect a company to change or transform when management is the problem.  No direction, no vision, no focus or willingness to change.  I would not be surprised to see this company filing for bankruptcy in the next 1-2 years.  I hope not because the only thing good about the place were my co-workers.  Executives are currently keeping investors happy with all the layoffs and plant closures but when the music stops and there isn't anything left to cut, there won't be a chair left to sit on.  You can't cut your way to profitability NAVISTAR MANAGEMENT!!!!  You have to have a good quality product that customers want to buy.  Not a thrown together mess of the cheapest foreign supplier parts and out-dated and tired designs.  The reputation of this company is ruined because of poor management decisions and high warranty costs that come from designing and producing junk. 

•A typical day at work - wondering if I will have a job tomorrow

•What you learned - how NOT to run a company

•Management - Utterly horrible.  The only thing there fit to manage was the Titanic, and its only because we all know how that turned out!!!!!!!!

•Your co-workers - the best part of my job

•The hardest part of the job - getting up and coming to work everyday

•The most enjoyable part of the job - when I quit

Navistar is a great place to learn and grow as an engineer. In Product Development, every day and every project is different and there is no shortage of new things to work on (you definitely don't just work on one thing day in and day out). However, it can get a bit overwhelming due to the nature of having an "agile" engineering force. Engineers are expected to know a lot about many different areas of focus even if they have little experience with it. The pay is decent (but could be better) and the PTO is great. The culture overall is nice as well. Most coworkers are energetic, smart, and always willing to help out. However, I do feel that there is more in-fighting than necessary and an insufficient level of cross-team communication. I believe this is mainly department specific and not company specific and predominantly due to a few toxic managers amongst these groups. 

I worked as a project based employee and was very satisfied with the company, went above and beyond for their clients to my best ability hoping to make a long term career there. The salary, benefits, hours, breaks were great. Manager was good but some staff members had attitude while coaching. I tried a lot to retain within company and worked to my best ability however I guess the pandemic was a factor and I was cut short once my project ended. Since being let go I tried an army of ways to apply and join the company again for many roles similar or identical to my previous one in the company however, each time I got turned down. I think their recruiter is extremely picky with a mind of favoritism to chose applicants of their own preference, they dont care about what you did for the company. I will not apply to this company again. Their lack of loyalty and rejection of my applications for senseless reasons for that many times have dropped my faith to this business. I really wish they had given me a chance to prove my loyalty to their business I guess not, They neglected my intentions to help them grow. 

Days in Navistar are very busy & no one will ever be bored.  The day to day tasks always provide new excitement in the position you would have.  
I had the ability to learn how to utilize Microsoft Office Suite, the opportunity to provide successful presentations, multi-task, and to work towards meeting deadlines either in a team effort or by leading a team.
The company has a diverse group of people working there with a diverse background.  I had the ability to learn from different managers as well as learn from those that reported to me.
The hardest part of working at Navistar was learning curve when I moved from various positions within the organization.  The benefit I gained was the knowledge of Purchasing, Product, Marketing, & Customer Service.
The most enjoyable part of working at Navistar was the ability of making new friends with each position & the ability to see the cycle of providing service to the user of the purchaser of the trucks, to providing parts to the PDC's, then the dealer, purchasing product, then creating programs for the dealers to purchase product from us, negotiating contracts with suppliers, & then marketing programs & products to dealers & end users.

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