equipment technician

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industrial electrician

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KTH PARTS INDUSTRIES, INC.

As a Salaried Sales Engineer my day at work was very similar to any office based position. I worked off of my laptop, attended meetings and worked with my Sales group to develop quotes for continued business with our primary customer (Honda). While the physical office environment and nature of work seemed satisfactory, the culture of really getting to know your co-worker seemed to be lacking. After being there approximately a year and a half, I never felt my coworkers to be my "work family" as I've experienced in previous jobs.

Many of my coworkers were great people. I encountered many intelligent people with a lot of auto industry knowledge and background. Furthermore, the management seemed to be prudent leaders that acted ethically. KTH strives to be the best and the management and its' employees are conscientious of maintaining its' status among competitors.

When it comes to the Management it must be noted that the company is Japanese owned and managed. They're quite traditional when it comes to managing in a hierarchal sense. Decisions are not made quickly, it's challenging to get an answer to a question (Japanese culture = collectivism .... American culture = individualism), and hard for a 20-something American that is fresh out of college and is taught to think for yourself and challenge the norms.

The hardest part of my job at KTH was feeling engaged in my job and feeling like I was a part of the "club". It made it challenging to want to go to work at times.

I understand that many of the items I've touched on are neutral to negative... however, I wanted to ensure I touched on the key things that eventually drove me away to seek other opportunities. Nonetheless, there were enjoyable parts of my job - getting involved in price negotiations, analyzing financials and interacting with our customer often challenged me and I had some fun in the process.

They hire many, many temps with the promise of being hired full time, but that is not true, temps have a two year contract, then another two year contract. The pay for temps is very low, they get dirty, baggy, tore up uniforms, covered in grease every day. Workers are treated like small kids, yelled at, told they will be walked to the door if they talk, caught not working, wondering (to go get gloves, sleeves) Full timers have nice uniforms, full size lockers, showers, rest rooms in the locker room, temps go home filthy. Temps work a long way from the main break room that serves hot meals, full timers are close, they can eat good hot food, but no, not temps. What is really bad about KTH is they use Adecco for hiring temps, Adecco never tells the truth, we where all told it was temp to hire, that is not true at all, that we would get over time-not-that we would be machine operators -not-no machines to run, all automated. AND THAT WE WOULD HAVE INSURANCE!!! WHAT A JOKE!!  How does KTH/Adecco get by with being so dishonest.

If your hired straight in by the company, it pays well.  I applied and was not hired by the company despite having a good attendance history and some factory experience.  Therefore I got a job there from the Temp Service.  Its a little over a 3 dollar an hour cut in pay vs being hired in which is typical of such temp service jobs.  After talking to several coworkers, I was informed that young people with no experience are normally hired in right away but they dont usually bring in too many people over 30ish without being a temp first.  It is a easy job from a mental stand point but is very physical which would explain young people being hired straight in.  You will be tired and sore everyday and the overtime is ridiculous.   You can plan on working every Saturday but they wont make you work Sunday.  Most of the co-workers are cool and will help if you ask.  If you decide to work there, dont do it threw the temp service as you will be greatly underpaid for the work that is done.

This review is for the manufacturing  floor. This company makes sub-frames for Honda. Actually robots make the sub-frames with help from a few hundred humans. Hard not to think of RoboCop
when you look at all the huge machines twisting around welding
the sub frames together.
KTH has a large temporary work force. This is how most people get hired in. Temps get about 9-11 dollars and hour and work 11 month assignments after which you can apply to work as a non temp. If they hire you, congratulations as you are now a decently paid slave. If they decline to hire you after you apply you may no longer work there as a temp or otherwise. You are done. The work is hard and very fast paced and physically demanding.

I went through a temp agency and have been waiting for an interview to be hired on but they keep putting it off. People you work with are very nice and everyone tries to work as a team to get production numbers accomplished but every day the numbers get higher and higher and nobody ever meets their goals which leads to working the weekends. It's a very tough job you'll get dirty everyday and be sore and tired when you get off. They always put new hires on the hardest lines and lose them within a week yet complain about not having enough employees. The pay is terrible as a temp and you'll never advance anywhere until you're hired on.

Benefits are out of this world! Best benefits by far for any company ever! And I mean that!

If you in the Weld department you WILL GET OVER TIME! Whether you like it or not.. depending on you group leader they might be able to find a replacement if you cant stay late. But not likely. 

Their attendance policy is the worst attendance policy to ever exist. If you have a family emergency oh well. They dont care. 

There's so much more that goes into the attendance policy that I cant type.it would be a book.  Just be aware if your at a point in life where things could possibly stop you from being able to go to work or even be late by 7 minutes this job will not work for you. 

The work is very physical but not difficult. Management is better in the front half. The back half doesn't care about anything. As far as promotions, they set up the people they want for advancement with the tools they need rather than considering those who work hard to move up. There's great benefits. Besides paid vacation, holidays, and great insurance, there's a great incentive program, quarterly attendance bonuses, a yearly Speedway gas discount card, employee appreciation lunches, and other small perks. All in all, it's not a bad place to work. Factory life just isn't for me.

I will say the pay and benefits are not bad. Management at KTH don't even know what they are doing half the time and people get promoted that shouldn't be, it's a who you know type of thing sometimes. If you are a hard worker no one will ever truly recognize that, they will say thanks maybe but then use you even more but a useless worker will just get put on something easy so you can pick up the slack. There are a lot of people leaving and more will go and management are too ignorant to try and make some decent changes to get them to stay.

What is the best part of working at the company?
It has a good medical benefits with small monthly payments.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not much information about the job and you have to learn yourself!

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great co workers but the office building and furniture are very old.  It doesn’t feel clean and open space.  Since it is in the same as a manufacturing facility, it is very loud when stamping machines are running.

If you like getting screamed at and things thrown at you this is the place for you! Senior Management and team leaders are great but it’s the assistant managers section leaders that ruin this place. Weekends constantly threatened and forced overtime. Forced to help out on other lines without proper training.  The place is hot, dirty, and no real organization.  The uniforms fall apart constantly, hope you don’t like pockets cuz they’ll be gone two weeks after repair. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Equipment technician 2 salaries reported	$30.39 per hour
Maintenance technician 4 salaries reported	$32.12 per hour
Industrial electrician 5 salaries reported	$33.49 per hour
Facilities technician 1 salary reported	$31.87 per hour
Buyer 3 salaries reported	$55,333 per year

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