quality assurance inspector

assembler

team leader

shipping and receiving clerk

planner

Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing

I initially enjoyed working here, but over time I became increasingly dissatisfied with several aspects of the workplace.

1. Responsibilities outside my job scope were frequently assigned to me by employees from other departments, which created additional stress and made it difficult to focus on my primary duties.

2. I experienced unprofessional communication from certain employees, particularly when seeking clarification or assistance on work-related processes.

3. In my experience, there was inconsistency in the application of company policies. Some policies were enforced despite not appearing in the most current version of the employee handbook, which created confusion regarding expectations.

4. I was informed that I would receive a performance review after three months. Later, management indicated that compensation and pay structure revisions were being evaluated, but no updates were provided during my remaining nine months with the company.

5. Communication between departments often lacked consistency. On one occasion, I followed instructions provided by my supervisor for completing a task, only to later be criticized by another department for not using a different process that had never been communicated to me. Attempts to explain the situation were met with an unprofessional response rather than constructive guidance.

Overall, I found the lack of clear communication, inconsistent processes, and limited follow-through on employee development concerns to be challenging. Based on my experience, this was not a positive or supportive work environment, and I would not recommend it to individuals seeking a workplace with strong communication, professionalism, and clear expectations.

KMM is a great place to work at. Yes, it can be stressful at times, but name any place you've worked that isn't. 

The flexible hours are great, they offer health, vision, and dental insurance, 401k, PTO and Sick time. 

Most of the disgruntled employee's are just over sensitive to the fact that they couldn't hack it. It's a niche industry, and it's not for everyone. 

I saw many people come and go. Some did great, had awesome workmanship, took pride in their job, but found a higher paying job elsewhere. Others that came in, you wondered how they managed to tie their shoes in the morning. Those people had the hardest time following the simple rules put in place. All that's required is that you make your 40hrs every week, the building is open from 4:30AM to 5PM. Stay clean (meaning stay off the pipe people, crack is whack), and work the shift you scheduled yourself for!

As long as you communicate with your supervisor you can come and go as you please,) as long as you hit 40hrs by close of day friday. (be sure to clock out and then back in when you come back. This should be a given, but some people have the IQ of a tree stump). Some people would come in early, leave to take kids to school or daycare, then come back and finish their shift. 

So to those of you who dissed, it's probably better off for the company that your no longer there.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The flexible hours were helpful and the team focused culture.
 The best part was knowing the whole was created by each part working together. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Being aware of the importance of getting it right. Making an important part of a plane that will be flying hundreds of people everyday 


What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It was a culture of teamwork first and leadership coaching every team member to be their best.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Clock in, check in with the team for daily goals. Getting your task started and work through to the end . Always being aware that you are a single part of a whole. Finishing your task and passing it off to the next step.

Upper management completely under values all of their good employees. you could work yourself to death there and they wouldn't compensate you for it. I worked there for five years and moved up positions from and operator to quality inspector, to Team Lead to Engineer and applied myself, learned EVERYTHING there was to learn about KMM and was still under valued. KMM doesn't want good employees, they want cheap ones. and that is all due to upper management and how they run things. They also play favorites and most of the supervisory staff is under trained and has no idea what they are doing. Like I said, if you just want experience in a manufacturing setting and ok with being under paid than its a great place to start but as far as long term... there is no long term.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Flexible schedule, engaging work, overtime pay bonuses, room for growth, determined focused, hardworking, dedicated  coworkers. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with employees that don’t take pride in their work. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Kind, caring, focused, determined, dedicated, hardworking people that take pride what they do. Very little gossip and drama. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Prioritize and assign tasks, meet with my team, complete daily and weekly tasks assigned to me. Review read, write and organize technical documents. Prepare for and attend  meetings. Teach, coach, train and mentor team members.

This place doesn't accommodate families very well, 
If you are a single parent that has to watch after children and be gone for whatever reason to take care of them,
 Management snubs their nose at you and DEMANDS that you maintain 40hours or more a week!! otherwise that employee can be subject to immediate termination for failure to maintain weekly hours,
 Don't even get me started on lack of having work due to late winter blizzards/storms....There again they expect you to meet unrealistic quotas and claim that failure to do so can cost $10k per occurrence.

Once you figure out some of the processes, it wasn't a difficult position. The flexibility to come and go as needed was great. It helps if you have kids or have other appointments to attend during the day. It was nice being in a "family" group. You had a lead to report to. Disagreed with how raises were handled. Based on quality (which makes sense) but you could never get 100% for quality or if someone wasn't tending to the quality position well, you would get penalized. Only had one raise over the 6 years I worked there. There are pro's and con's to working here. Take the good with the bad I guess.

If your not one of managements  favorites then you won’t get anywhere and even then you never know who will get furloughed or laid off until that call comes and it definitely will come at some point. It’s not a very secure feeling having a job that you never know when the call will come and you’ll be out of a job. They don’t care about their employees only about their management  who could careless about the lesser people working under them. Benefits and a 1% match for retirement is laughable.

Difficult living up to managements expectations.  Constant worry about job security. 
Enjoyed the work given and self made schedule options.
I learned a lot about aerospace electronics and dream of being given a fair chance to succeed.
You could have all the skills needed and be a star employee along side people that arent interested in the position at all but at the end of the day its a matter of popularity within the company to be welcomed long-term.

The day is typically a very busy day.  In the morning you must review e-mails that you have received from the prior day.  After e-mail reviewing you will order materials as needed from the MRP.  You are responsible for tracking your orders and reporting to manufacturing supervisors. Their are weekly meetings that are required to attend.  

The most enjoyable part of this job is communicating with all the suppliers throughout the United States.  I also enjoy working with all my co-workers.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Quality assurance inspector 1 salary reported	$18.56 per hour
Assembler 1 salary reported	$20.00 per hour
Team leader 1 salary reported	$19.06 per hour
Shipping and receiving clerk 5 salaries reported	$18.16 per hour
Planner 4 salaries reported	$18.53 per hour

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