maintenance mechanic

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KIK Consumer Products

The job itself is not difficult. Overloaded, but not difficult.Unfortunately, certain members of the most current hierarchy of this particular plant are extremely inefficient, trustworthy, or knowledgeable in their rolls. This results in an atmosphere of total chaos and disgruntlement. The incessant micromanagement, the misplaced emphasis, the complete denial of accountability, the total disregard for the welfare (or knowledge/experience) of the people actually producing the finished product, coupled with the lies, racism, and bullying associated with their particular style of Draconian leadership, has caused a culture of discontent, blame, backstabbing and misery throughout the plant. Although compensation has increased in recent years, it is still far from adequate for the responsibilities attached to this position..
  From day to day, shift to shift, or even hour to hour (or less), no one knows where they will be, what job they will perform, or even the length of their day.( Ten minutes, two hours, eight hours, 10 or 12 hours??). The complete lack of time management skills causing people to have to work weekends( while the aforementioned sit home with their families), only to be sent home early on Tuesday( or another) for lack of work. Should you request time off, your job will be threatened, or time outright denied. Approved vacations can be rescinded, scheduled holidays "moved". It is all about numbers at this plant, and you will work overtime to make certain people appear more capable, whether customer demand exists, or not. Despite the claim of a five  day work week, you will work six or seven the vast majority of the time. "Mandatory" is managements favorite word!
   For line leaders, be prepared to be the scapegoats of the plant. You will be blamed for every mistake, whether it was your responsibility or not, or if you were even present at the time of occurrence. ( nor does it matter if it was even your department!) Also, be informed that procedures and rules only apply when it is convenient, or they can be used against you. Your hours will be consumed with attempting to make work a plethora of poor decisions made daily by your "uninformed" leaders. Accept this, you cannot change it. No matter what, you are wrong and "they" are right. 
   Christmas bonus for hourly workers will consist of damaged product from an earlier time. 
   I hope this limited review helps someone from making an ultimately poor choice. Throughout my tenure at this facility, I personally have experienced all of the examples stated and many, many more. Choose wisely.

Unfortunately,  I cannot rate this company at a high level.
Management was horrible lacking any communication with one another and the burden of error was placed upon the employees.
The job itself was very stressful.  Sometimes working a twelve hour shift and only taking a break (including lunch) "IF" you got one due to large volume of freight shipments arriving.  When you did take an "unpaid" lunch break you were supposed to take your two-way radio with you for any calls of trucks coming in.  After your break the security would time you on how long it took you to walk back to your office and once you arrive to your work station your phone would already be ringing before you even got to take off your coat and get settled back in.  They would be demanding you to get another truck in the door.   Another part of the job was to input purchase orders into the computer system.  If a purchase order was not open to enter I had to call the supervisor at his home in the middle of the night to get out of bed and open the purchase order....Oh, before calling I had to climb upon the desk on my knees then stretch my neck up high to get his phone number taped to the wall......That was absolutely ridiculous!!!   I once attempted to photocopy the phone number and tape a copied sheet at eye level near my computer but apparently my supervisor did not like that and ripped it off the wall and made me climb upon my desk each time to get the number when I needed to call.   
In addition to this....I had to smell chemicals from the lab on a daily basis and also the sewer that sprayed up from the manhole just outside the office door.  I felt this was an unhealthy and stressful  work environment therefore, I begin looking for other employment.
However, I can say one good thing that the co-workers were the best part of this job.  As far as any enjoyment their wasn't ANY!!  Each day I arrived at work I had that "soured milk" feeling in my stomach. It was time to move on two better things.

If you’re looking for a job to work during the coronavirus debacle, don’t work here.  And even after this is all over, don’t work here.  We make bleach so obviously the company is doing well right now, but the best they can do to try and keep people at work is a measly weekly bonus that you have to work overtime to get.  Other companies that don’t have a product in such high demand are offering much more to their employees still at work.  They also don’t seem to care about safety and social distancing at all during these times.  They’ve stepped up cleaning but as far as trying to have less people in the building at once or having less people going on breaks or lunch at the same time, they’ve done nothing.  They’re not taking temperatures, they’re not offering masks, they’re just posting some letters from the CEO saying how proud they are we are making them money still but can’t give any of that money back to us or even pretend to care that we’re putting ourselves and others at risk.  The way companies are handling this situation says everything about them.
Even during normal operation, it just is not a good place to work.  They think a 1-2% raise is a lot once a year, if you’re even lucky to get that. The work environment is depressing and if certain products are running you’re likely to go home with a runny nose and cough.  When it’s busy there’s 2-3 people coming and going every week.  When it’s not busy, people leave and don’t get replaced which puts strain on everyone else.  The only upside is you work 4 10s and get a paid lunch.  But that’s only if you’re filling production, other departments don’t get paid lunches and work different schedules.  Overall would not recommend working here unless you can put up with being treated poorly and have no other options.  Come for a little while to see how it is but you will want to leave in less than a week like most people.

As far as warehouse jobs go as a whole, its not the worst job in the world. In fact its one of the better warehouse jobs I've had.
Theres a serious lack of communication between workers and management in all departments. Its a thankless job. Management does nothing to make you feel valued as an employee, no gratitude in the slightest. Favoritism seems to run amuck although it is always denied that it takes place, even when it happens right in front of you. Always short staffed which you can look at as either good or bad. Yes you'll have to work harder, but you're definitely going to get your hours and then some, so take that as you will.
Going above and beyond is rarely if ever appreciated. Its always about what you didn't do rather than what you did do. 

Its a fast paced job during the busy season (Summer), and very very slow paced in the off season (Winter). 
Depending on what shift you work, predominantly 2nd and 3rd shift, its a very laid back atmosphere and its easy to work because you don't have management breathing down your neck and/or trying to micro manage everything and stressing you out by making you work even harder than what's necessary. 

If you're a tolerant and patient person, you'll make out just fine. If you hate to work and are just there to collect a paycheck and go home and just worried about when lunch is, this isn't the place for you.


I was a compounder and everyday we had management telling us to follow the batch card and follow SOPs. Then they would tell us “ unofficially “ to do what you need to do to get it done. This includes not sanitizing tanks correctly, forging documents or running product through a hairnet to get it to pass analytical testing. Then they wonder why they have stuff growing in their product. I took a stand and refused to forge documents and cut corners in the batching process. I started sending emails to the plant manager, compounding manager, and to HR. In return I was told I was lying and that I was going to be fired. They offered to pay me so many weeks of full pay as long as I signed paperwork saying I would not sue them or call the FDA. Advancement is not an option if you don’t have the right connections. When I had 2 years experience within compounding I applied for a team lead position. I was passed over because I didn’t have enough experience. A year later another team lead position opened and I applied and was passed over again by a guy who only had 11 months as a compounder. I had three years in at this point. I took the “ deal” when I had 4 and a half years in within the compounding department. Management does not care what happens there as long as they can play dumb when something goes wrong. They do not like you telling them the problems before hand.

I ran an accounting office of one.  I supplied daily, weekly & monthly financial information to local & division management.  Worked with the general manager & supervisors.  All were good employees to work with.  I was involved in budgeting & forecasting.  The accounting system used was Oracle's Enterprise 1  system, which was installed in 2009.  It replaced the Macola accounting system.  The most challenging part of the job was coordinating the development of financial information without an accounting staff's assistance.  Periodically involved in off-site KIK controllers' meetings.  It was good to meet with associates and exchange information that could be used to improve efficiencies and accuracy of information at the plant level.  Involved in the payroll process & the capital expenditure process.
I commuted 55 miles one way per day.  That was a lot of miles driven in 13 years.  I'm looking to cut the commute down a bit.

Start at six o'clock a.m, charge pre-mix tanks and prepare vessels for batching process. Produce products according to batch record to completion. After batch was complete,set up finishing process,which consisted of filtering batch from first floor to third floor. Check all piping lines,valves,pumps,and sanitize presses for finale product. When batch was complete,we would start all over again. Day ended at six o'clock p.m.

A wealth of manufacturing knowledge, that became a way of life. Learned every facet of the organization, and became a production lead-man,and helped run the department.

Greatest management team I have ever worked for, was proud to be a part of it. Started quality circles, and work design teams, and helped set up for ISO certification.

Finest group of individuals I have ever worked with,truly a pleasure.

Equipment failures was definitely the hardest part of job. Always trying to minimize downtime.

Everyone employed at this company all had the same common goal,to optimize our production goals.Truly amazing, very rewarding.

Used to be a good place to work. Then new management. Too much micro managing. Cut many jobs. One person responsible for multiple machines doing many jobs at once. Keep talking about safety but your running back and forth to load one machine and un jamming another. No time to do maintenance on machines or cleaning them. Line goes down you get sent some where else or sent home. Maintance is a waste of time there. But they shut all lines down on thursday for 15 minutes so everyone xan go sweep the warehouse floor all three shifts do it in the same spot. No proper training procedures after an hour your left alone. This is one place that needs a union. The new management is from a plant that shut down and they are forcing people to switch shifts and are bringing in people from out of state to fill spots. Good workers are quiting.
Fire alarms not working. Alarms for the gassers are not going off when levels are too high. Bundling machines catch fire often.

You will be told in the interview process that there is an initiative to shift the culture within the organization.  Do not be fooled.  You cannot drive change if no one is willing to do so because of a belligerent CEO.  You will apply for a role, expecting that your job responsibilities will be aligned with the job description once you're hired.  You will quickly realize that this is not the case.  The company lacks so much organization and efficiency, that you'll be forced to handle responsibilities equal to 2-3 people.  There is no work/life balance.  If you are unable to meet the unrealistic expectations, be prepared to be berated both privately and publicly, have your level of intelligence questioned, and find yourself questioning your self worth and value add constantly.  You will witness extreme bias in hiring, promotions based on checking a box or who someone knows, inconsistency in practice and more.  With the job market as strong as it is, this company should be a last resort.  

I've been employed as a maintenance technician at the Hampton, GA plant for 6 months. For the most part management don't have a clue what they are doing. We work excessive amounts of overtime. Always running out of supplies. Managment refuses to listen to ideas and feedback from employees. Having a its my way or the highway attitude. Never admits to their mistakes even when their clearly wrong. Work schedule never consist , always scheduling overtime at the last minute. The worst part is my manger is racist towards blacks. He fires only blacks for anything and gives the whites a pass on everything. Makes inappropriate comments about minorities. I was hired along with four other white techs and I'm the only one that didn't receive a (90 DAY) pay increase. He finds every excuse to prolong my (90 DAY !!!!) review. He lies constantly about everything and blames everyone else for his mistakes. I do believe that outside of the Hampton facility this would be a great company to work for.

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