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JTEKT North America

If you want to work here make sure you are fully committed to say GOODBYE to your hobbies, friends,  family and your health.  Yes like what others here said the pay is great and benefit are awesome, but you have no life. Sometimes you have to work everyday 12 hours a day and you will be lucky to get one day off every 2 weeks. Other line doesn't get day off for months straight working 12 hours a day. This is not easy job,  It involve repetitive heavy lifting. The management constantly changes the hours and days so if you have kids it is very impossible. The managements are always pressuring us to get our unrealistic numbers. If we don't, we always feel like we are going to lose our job that day. It is extremely stressful trying to get our numbers when the machines are always down. If you are a girlfriend, friend or family of someone higher you usually get promoted while other hard working and more qualified people don't. There are few good things about this company. HR people are hands down nice human being! My co-workers are awesome and fun but I just felt sorry for them because we all looked so tired and stressed out and we all work so hard for this company but felt underappreciated. I wish they would give their employee at least 1 day off per week,should not work more than 10 hours a day and treat people like a human being and not a machine. Even machines breaks and need to rest. I stayed there because the pay is good but after long hours of work and no day off to rest I started to get sick a lot and when I felt numbness and pain in my whole arms, hand and fingers that won't go away, I decided to quit. "All the money in the world can't buy you back good health."

Been working at walhalla facility for years. Past years has seen a negative impact from management:
1. Preach safety, but production comes first
2. Recent job changes that started n 2019 shows nothing but partiality. Seen same people move up with no accountability from previous jobs improvements to justify the move
3. Supervisor shows favorites but upper level is blind, supervisor can’t go to directs house and eat and have personally relation ship and still manage with same level everyone else is accountable for. Some have even brought gifts into plant for favorites for doing personal jobs for them while on clock
4. No control overseeing day force, sup. Adding or changing punches for there favorites to keep them from getting points
5. Plant manager has no control over his directs. Never get an answer from him about anything and never gives support, only focus is bad news or do your job better if you want plant to be here. 
6. Open door policy is just that, you tell or bring a problem to him not long before everyone know. Believe the little HR mini me is the culprit. He is two faced and talked his way into that job by telling on everyone when new HR guy came on board.
7. Seniority does and knowledge mean anything any more, it’s who do we like or what personal relation ship can I get out of it.

Pretty pathetic how they live there lives”lies” 

Really hoping Brad sees through the paper cutter management we have and makes some changes before it’s too late. Realize you here what you want to hear while you’re there then when you leave the talk about what such bull you was told is joke of office


A typical day at work was good. Management & what I learned, they’re deceitful liars & they care nothing about their employees whatsoever. They promise to get you forklift certified back in logistics so that you don’t have to lift the 75lb. pallets but that never happened. They talk to you like a child or like you are somehow less than them. If you go through a temp agency, instead of confronting you about something you may be doing wrong or even letting your temp agency know so that they can let you know what to fix, they just lie to HR & HR lies to your temp agency about having “multiple conversations” with you about the problem & just lets you go after being there for an entire year. I never got an orientation at all. The hardest part (especially when you absolutely loved your job like I did) was being let go over something that could’ve easily been prevented by a simple talk or even a write up. The most enjoyable part was making new friends with some of the amazing coworkers. There are very few employees that are just absolutely amazing & there are also those employees that are just downright rude & unprofessional. If you go to the restroom they call that a disappearance. Each break all of the actual employees through JTEKT do nothing but complain about working too much, this or that broke, so & so isn’t doing their job right etc. Nothing was ever good enough. None of them had anything good to say about that company at all. The meetings have absolutely nothing to do with the temps & its usually always about their bonuses, which temps do not get. Good luck!

In a day at Jtekt you get there for a meeting before your shift starts you are expected to check your mobile equipment before using it,the shift before you may or may not be behind when you come in and you spend your day bringing parts to the assembly line and trying not to let them run out of parts also of they have change overs you bring all the parts for their changeover and try to get the correct count.At the end of the day you are expected to have everything caught up before the next shift.You get a 30 minute lunch break,and there are 5 star machines in the break areas,pretty expensive but atleast its food.You will work seven days a week any time they have orders and if you don't want to do that I suggest not applying.Otherwise you will use all you pto days and then your vacation days because days off aren't excused.I learned to drive a forklift.Management is ok as long as you show up for work everyday but if you miss a day you will be punished for it.It is a Japanese company so the culture isn't bad but they handed it over to Americans to run so it's declining.The hardest part of the job is working 7 days a week and the easiest part is good pay and decent benefits when you have time to use them.

Too many people (HR, management and floor employees) have a reactionary mindset. HR and management priorities are as follow: self, company then employees. Zero tools and effort to help the company/ employees be successful. Management value kinship and friendship greatly. Merit and one's ability to do the job is an afterthought. Lack of ownership, pride and it's always someone else's fault is the overall theme of the company thus the reason for the excessively high turnover rate. Dont let the new side fool you. 90% of production comes from the old side. The dilapidated production lines(old side) are in dire need of some TLC. Constantly inhaling a dirty oil/coolant acidic mixture mist that is floating in the air. The SOP, wiring of panels, PLC logic, implementation and even the utilization of devices is very unorthodox. If nearing retirement, this place may be ok. If starting your career or in the midst of your career, I strongly advise you to seek employment else where because their business model and practices will deteriorate your skill set. 

They blatantly lie to you about your schedule during  the interview.  Once you get on board they throw the true schedule of constant overtime on you.  I was told that I would be working 4-10 hr shifts and would be off Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  However, that was not the case.  It was non-stop Monday-Friday, 4-10's, an 8 on Friday and a possibly 6 hour on Saturday.  You could not plan for a day off - and if you couldn't make the overtime  you had to use a PTO day.  I lasted 6 months.  Currently on my two week notice.  Coworkers who had been working there for several years confirmed that the 4-10 hour shift was not the typical work week.  

BTW the training was complete garbage and the "trainer" spoke in the most "way back of the back woods of back woods Georgia" accent. I am from the area and couldn't understand this Boomhauer. 

As a Die Casting Die Maintenance TL duties are more hands off work which I didn’t like honestly. My die maintenance associates were not what I’m used to working with. They had zero tooling experience or any technical school training for tooling. They were put in the die maintenance shop which is usually a pretty respectable position from other places I’ve been but there it’s like job bid goes up if you have under this number of occurrences and the top seniority willing to work whatever shift you are needed on you got the job. The die casting die maintenance is literally just a bunch of overpaid die cleaners and even that is a compliment for the lack of skill on all shifts in a skilled position and none have any relevant skill for the position. And as the Team Leader of the misfits you are totally responsible for anything and everything that they do which I understand but as a big company they need to fill positions for skilled labor with skilled workers!

JTEKT is great in terms of work/life balance and benefits. Outside of That, JTEKT is quiet awful if you are trying to grow your career. There's no training, no direction or leadership and you'll continuously be frustrated how managers make 0 decisions and everything is vague - aka very bottom up approach but don't expect to get compensated for it. Youll also feel the frustration when your co workers who been there 20+ do close to nothing and it's acceptable.

Work here if: work/life is at the top of your list (i.e the frustrations are worth the flexibility, not working > 40 hours, and decent PTO). Also if you are ok with not furthering career and growth.

Don't work here if: direction, leadership, and career growth is important. You won't find that at JTEKT. Also if you are a hard worker your mind will go crazy with how many slackers you'll have to deal with. Itll drive you crazy!

JTEKT by far is the best company to further my skills as a QE.  The associates are friendly and helpful.  My manager is awesome.  He challenges me to be the best I can be and gives me the support that I need to succeed. 

  The work environment is supportive and receptive to all suggestions. Safety is considered the #1 priority and is proven thru the safety awards achieved over the years. 

 The HR department is by far the best that I have ever encountered in my 26 years in manufacturing.  I say this from a past experience in which they showed me the desire to provide the assistance I needed to get back my health. For this I owe a big THANK YOU. 

 JTEKT is a company that you want to work for until retirement.

The Company is currently reorganizing and closing locations.  The current management has not planned well for these changes and is in complete denial of the impact their lack of advanced planning will have.  Although there was advanced notice of the closures there was no plan in place for knowledge transfer going forward.  All they seemed to see and care about was the all mighty Dollar.  They are getting very few willing to take the relocation and the "Company Train" is going at full speed and the management doesn't appear to see the derailment ahead of them.

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