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JM Eagle

The job is decent. People are very friendly there, the opportunity to advance is very high. The job in itself is good, if you care about what you do and how much you can learn this place will notice it. It is a very fast paced job, and dealing with machine issues is part of that job. I know they are working on some of these issues, so patience with maintenance is key. Training part of the job is slacking, not due to the company not caring, but due to the high turn over rate, there is so many people needing trained management is just stretched out. At the plant level they don't decide much on what is running and corporate don't care how many people they have. Corporate wants those machines to run no matter what. If corporate would be more understanding, and give them time to train people, and shut machines down if the man power wasn't there they would keep people. But being on call all the time drives many away. You don't just work your shift, but also end up being called in to help other shifts. If you love work, and work is life. This is the job for you. If you have a family, kids, or want to enjoy life... this isn't the place to be. If you only had to work your shift, and your shift alone it would be great. If they would cap people at 50 hours a week, and send them home for the week it would be so much better. Again I stress about the hours, that's the killer on this job. Everything else is amazing, I truly wish I could have stayed. But I am a family man, my family comes before a job. 

While at JM eagle. Supervisors won't help or tell you what to do. You have to learn everything on your own or from employees. Most employees have no time to help you understand anything because there are no breaks. 12 hour shifts and NO BREAK...you have to find time to make your own 2-3 minute break. I'd your lines are running and you get backed up you won't have a break. Your supervisor and fellow employees won't notify you if your machine is messing up. So when you come back from your 2 minute excuse. Of a break, you may be backed up with work. They over work you if you have the right hue. If that makes sense. This job is good for the likeable. If they don't like you or don't resonate culturally with you then you will work hard and get no empathy. If they like you and your hue...you can lolly-gag all day and ride the fork lifts. All of the work will be forced on new employees and "colorful" employees. I'm stressing that to say the cultural environment and social interaction is poor. Supervisors will purposely not speak to you and work you hard..kind of superiority illusion complex guys. 

JM EAGLE Meadville PA plant.

Worst employment experience in my life. Currently employed with the company but looking to get out. This company has zero concern for its employees. If you enjoy long hours standing on concrete with no breaks, excess work load, and high stress,  then this is the perfect job.  
The company runs skeleton crews and cannot fill positions due to its bad reputation, leaving the limited work force to pick up the slack.  I have worked 14 hours on my feet with no breaks. (Should be criminal).  If your on swing shift, plan on getting called in early or staying late regularly due to lack of employees. If you work daylight there is no set end of shift, so on workdays you have no life. 
The general treatment from management is poor at best. Management will use work related punishment (work load or overtime) for what they perceive as poor performance.

Pay for the area is good and benifits are above average.

I have always been successful and I'm a hard worker who never misses work, I'm over 40 years old and have never been fired from a job. I mention this so you understand I'm not a deadbeat employee who is disgruntled.

Both the building and the equipment are in disrepair, which makes it a dangerous place to work.  Several complaints have been made about the current conditions of said of the work environment, but little - to nothing- has been done about it.

Several people have already sustained injuries due to faulty equipment.  

There's a definite lack of communication between management and those on the floor.  Plus, those on the floor are often overworked, having to work multiple lines at once.  The machines themselves are in disrepair, and the maintenance staff run themselves ragged just to keep the entire place operating.  

The employees on the floor are often overworked and are put on mandatory overtime, regardless if there's work or not.  Demands on time and so-called "quality" are insane, causing frustration leading to the production of a bad product, which means an increase of regrind.   

So despite the half-way decent pay, it's no surprise that the turnover rate is so high.  

If you care about your health and your sanity, please avoid putting in an application.

Great place to learn what not to do.  I can only speak on the waterworks sales side.

Typical day, Waterworks VP would come in and talk condescendingly to those he did not like, and nicely to those he did, total favoritism here. 

He was supposed to be a manager, but all he manages is his text messaging and YouTube watching.

Before every sales meeting with the owner, he tells us what we should say, all positives, and nothing bad.  He talks down to a lot of people and does not support anyone, waving them away with his hand like he is some sort of royalty.

He blames everything wrong on the owner and then tells us that the owner will fire us and he cannot protect us, but he doesn't even try. He even tells his customers that.

The hardest part of the job is dealing with the VP of Waterworks and his snarky comments and entitled attitude.

The best parts of the job are the health benefits are really good, better than most anywhere, and the people who are not in the VP roles are fantastic and supportive.

1.Poor Leadership throughout the Company (except Production Department)
2.Lack of management/supervisor training
3.Top down leadership is led by fear tactics, instead of pushing thru to the CEO to make decisions, nothing gets accomplished unless true collaboration is gathered by impromptu meetings on a Friday evening at 5pm.
 4.No open door policy, ideas get loss in discouragement, due to Managements inability to deliver the message to the final decision maker
5. CEO ideas of "perks" is free food, and casual Friday!
6. Employee Entertainment committee is ran by a puppet with no decision making authority. 
7. Technology is outdated, due to lack of funding therefore IT department has to collaborate with vendors willing to provide "free services" or at little cost.
8. Some employees are friendly and easy to work with, while others expect you to act in fear as they do...If you have ideas or thoughts of innovation, keep them to yourself or start work search for a better company.

Most all employees will throw any and all co workers under the bus given the chance. They claim  that they are willing to train new employees so that they can be successful in the long run, this is an absolute false claim. The benefits are amazing and that's about the only good thing that I can say about this place. The management, plant manager/maintenence superintendent, have no business being in the positions they are in they are not good leaders whatsoever. They have cut a lot of the perks that went along with working there such as the boot allowance which steel toe boots are required to work here. Also probably worth noting that this plant makes mediocre product that they continue to not be able to sell. If your looking for a place where you can wonder if you will have a job the next day then JM Eagle is the place for you!

Okay place to work if you don't mind living at your job. They'll tell you 5 minutes before you're supposed to leave that you have to stay another 4 hours. Rotating 7 day work shifts. Minimal training your first week and then throw you on machines. Maintenance doesn't care to fix things correctly so you're always dealing with broken machines. Management doesn't care to listen when you voice issues going on. Supervisors and department managers pick favorites. If you aren't a favorite then expect every day of work to be filled with nonsense. Piles of rejects due to machines not running and they'll expect you to fix them all and run 2 lines at a time. On the PVC pipe side anyways. Good money. Awful place to work though. No breaks either despite other departments getting 30 minutes to an hour lunch and lots of people standing around not working. 

Overall a good company to work for.  Privately owned so there is not as much transparency as a public held company.  Company promotes from within 90% of the time.  If you are self-motivated and can learn on your own, you will advance to higher positions.  JM struggles with developing supervisors/managers and there is no formal training nor a succession plan for key roles.  Facilities and equipment are usually old and not in the best of repair.  Pay was low for years but recently has become competitive.  Health insurance benefits are great!  Foreign ownership and some find the culture to be a bit harsh and irrational.  Local managers are decent people that try to do the right thing.  Most of the jobs are relatively easy as long as you can handle heat/cold depending on weather.  One of the better places to work in this area.

I loved working here the money was good, but there is no life outside of work no family time and run on no sleep almost all the time. if you have animals you will never see the back of your eyelids. the days went fast and the years flew by working here. no one wants to work and you get stuck staying over or coming in early almost all the time so them 8 hour days turn into 12 to 14 hour days. even with all the bad i would honestly say i would probably go back to this job as it was a good source of income and a job that definitely kept me very busy and out of my head never a boring moment working here. It was the people that made the place. the shop also is run down and nothing works right and they try to put Band-Aids on things instead of actually fixing it so a fast pace job only gets harder when nothing ever work right.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 5 salaries reported	$25.80 per hour
Maintenance technician 1 salary reported	$27.00 per hour
Over the road truck driver 14 salaries reported	$26.07 per hour
Shipping and receiving clerk 3 salaries reported	$20.88 per hour
Extrusion operator 6 salaries reported	$18.83 per hour

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