manufacturing engineer

forklift operator

director of fleet services

mig welder

machine operator

KNAPHEIDE MANUFACTURING

a typical day at work. Get to a meeting. leave the meeting and rush rush rush. management always is looking for something too say either your working too slow, if you make a mistake on your first few weeks on the job they will make you cut it apart and dock points, you forget your safety glasses and go and ask for a pair before going on shop floor you will have points docked showed up 2 min late? points docked. it adds up and gets you fired. And if you aren’t in their union it gets real shady. The best part of the job is when i actually get a chance to work. if the " coach " or manager even catches a glimpse of you not doing something he will say you were standing around when the wasn’t any product to work on. I did learn how to weld better and take my bathroom breaks faster as well as eat faster. they pushed me to quit and when they realized i would quit they fired me or " let me go "

I worked from Jan-June 2020 and it's a great place to work but I missed 2days and I got fired on my probation hearing which ended in 90 work days, that's almost 120days. The line I was on didn't do there job like they supposed to. Management let them be children. I didn't fall for that and can read people. I'm an adult and when it comes to work then I work and when I come home then I have fun, if that's what u call it. The principle, is that I did my job better than what I seen there but bc I didn't agree with shift manager about switching everyone around instead of keeping people where there good at, I got let go since the last probation period guy missed more days than me. It's who you know not what you know at kneipheide. I'm really upset about it even though I'm on unemployment, I wanted that to be my career and it got flushed just like that

What is the best part of working at the company?
Paid weekly and the pip program 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Micro-managing your every minute. Plus the favoritism and lies. Plus seniority doesn't mean anything really. They wasn't there for me in my time of need.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's a narcissistic Entourage of management. That's usually not even experienced with your job at all. To Tell you the professional at your job. How to do it.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Go to work with my head held up. Leave work with my head falling down. Days are fast and hard on the body physically.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They talk to Thier employees like they are children and belittle you. It's not a place I'd send someone to work

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Cantask questions bout a job you'll get screamed at by the boss and told to ask someone else he doesn't have time always tension working here and gotta be walking on egg shells to keep your job

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very dangerous work don't use safety first the main goal here is get the job done on time and worry bout safety last

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Worrying bout what your gonna get screamed at next

Worked there 5+ years it went down hill fast have family that’s been there 20 plus years amd they would leave in a heart beat... have to go to the bathroom you in there too long or go too many times the “boss” will come in there looking for you.... pride them self on being “family oriented” that’s a joke I got fire because a family member got covid and I had to quarantine.... want to feel like your in prison go work at knapheide.... boss talked down on others behind there back l.. never and I mean NEVER felt appreciate in the 10 years I was there... wish  I could go back and never walk through the doors... 

I would start the day with paperwork, then I would use 5S, Lean, and Theory of Constraints to help improve operations around the plant. I learned about the Theory of Constraints and how to implement 5S, Lean, and the Theory of Constraints. The management was very loose, this was to provide a better learning experience for myself. The hardest part was fighting resistance to change, I enjoyed the rest of the job.

Really good paying decent place to work.  They really take care of their employees and really a decent place to work. Knapheide had really good benefits and really understanding about family issues.  Clean environment but a ride or die environment.  It felt like they wanted a person to eat sleep and breath their company. It is a sink or swim type of a business if a person couldn't do the job fast enough supervisor would find a way to get rid of them before their 90 days were up, I was just fortunate enough to be good at what I do.

Knapheide as a company is doing well, and as a result they need to hire a lot of new people. However, as a result, there is a lack of resources for training new team members. The overall company culture is great, but I feel like I didn't have the best of experiences. I was put on a team with extraordinarily high expectations with little training and a boss that didn't give me adequate feedback or goals. I could see other people having better experiences on different teams.

This used to be a great family company. They treated their employees as their most valuable asset. As the reins are passed down to the next generation.  This is no longer true. The president either doesn't care or isn't aware of what happens on the ground. The turnover rate is extremely high. There is no system of feedback from the bottom to the top. The culture has become very toxic. 

Your coworkers are great and will help you with any thing. Management is poor, they don't get involved in whats going on unless its bad and then no mater what its always your fault. More worried about getting trucks out and getting paid then if the customer is happy. Service manager speaks to customers poorly and has offended people on several occasions. Was to on several occasions that you are to good of a mechanic and I cant afford to loose you when I applied to be promoted

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Manufacturing engineer 4 salaries reported	$70,125 per year
Forklift operator 3 salaries reported	$23.23 per hour
Director of fleet services 2 salaries reported	$42,250 per year
Mig welder 1 salary reported	$23.45 per hour
Machine operator 2 salaries reported	$23.09 per hour

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