operating room technician

machine operator

maintenance technician

operator

senior maintenance technician

Kobelco Aluminum Automotive Products

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay and there is free soft drinks in the breakroom. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management is horrible, HR has caused a publicly known bad image for the company, and the lack of communication, respect, knowledge and desire to correctly do their job from the other techs and engineers that are there. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
You come in to 4-5 pass downs, and the previous shift almost giggling about it when talking about it. When you get to the equipment that needs serviced you find that the previous shift was troubleshooting or replacing something that had nothing to to with the problem or was incorrectly installing the parts and you've got to disassemble it all and then put it back together. And there is a lot of work/repairs that are done that are known as "screw the next guy" where the tech will do as little as possible, take shortcuts, or make adjustments to keep from properly doing the repair, and then you spend 2 to 3 times as long troubleshooting all the hacked repairs and jumpered inputs to find and and resolve the problem. It boils down to laziness and lack of respect for the people you work with.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You come in to a mess, start off by fixing the previous shift's half completed pass downs, you get those done, while other calls pile up. You finally get caught up. Take break and the calls pile up again. You try and get the calls done and then get your paperwork caught up. Then the next shift is waiting on the maintenance carts complaining that they had to wait 5-10 min on the cart and couldn't care less and are ungrateful that your not passing down 4-5 calls to them.

For starters, I’d like to address the pay. 
Kobe pays based entirely on previous experience. This means there are workers who have been there for 1-2years making less than people who got hired right through the door. This tells employees that the company values experience elsewhere rather than within their walls. 

Next, the work itself is not awful. Very demanding as far as being on your feet, but not overly physically demanding. Expect fatally hot summers, and brutally cold winters. If you’ve worked in a non-temp-controlled environment before you’ll know what I mean. Molten metal is very hot, surprise. 

Next, the schedule is a 2-2-3 schedule so 12 hour shifts, working 7 days out of 14. What they don’t tell you is that turnover is so awful that you’ll be working mandatory overtime pretty regularly. 


Management is awful. Just, simply put, awful. If a manager can’t trust their employees to do their jobs, how are the employees expected to trust the manager? 


Morale is terrible due to overtime constraints, inadequate pay, overbearing management, and a lack of incentives for employees. The lack of incentives includes no bonuses, limited PTO, and a strict point system designed to go through employees as fast as possible. 


For the most part, the job is not awful; actually, I quite enjoyed the work I did  there. But the company is just plain awful, and needs a drastic overhaul if they ever intend to be profitable. 

The job itself is pretty alright, you're constantly moving back and forth, building things and watching a line for 12 hours a night. It's just that the management is so strict with times and safety it is hard to stay in this job. One accident with a forklift and you can be suspended for up to 6 months, changeovers have to be done in a very quick matter but the short time is what causes a lot of problems to be either looked over or not seen at all and then you're stuck cleaning up a mess of ruined billets 2 hours after startup, repeating the changeover process again. There is a lot of overtime due to the unbelievable turnover rate, some people have told me they've had to work 6 days weeks multiple times in a row. HR wants to find any mistake you made just so they can fire you and find someone else to replace you in a week. The pay is pretty alright though but good luck earning enough PTO throughout the year to use it until December.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Pretty physically easy to complete daily tasks

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having knowledge about improvements, while not being able to find anyone who understands these concepts and can affect better changes/decision making. While watching regular and regressive changes being made.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Illogical and untrusting much of the time. Lack of demanding physical conditions lead to toxic behavior such as finger pointing, complacency, and constant complaining.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Constant amazement at the willingness to wrongfully diagnose an issue and promptness to implement an irrelevant remediation, while marveling over lack reason or logic applied to decision making.

Don't follow the orientation handbook they give you that is revised for 2019. It lacks information. I called HR to discuss the issue and get it resolved. He then decided to laugh and go by other company policies (not kobes) by saying I would have been fired anyway. Severely unprofessional and you can tell he just didn't want to do his job. I reported a day I left early and they decided themselves ton of to investigate the matter, to instead fire me and say I simply walked off. Which was very very very untrue. Apparently telling me trainer in charge of me, and my team leader was not enough. Handbook specifies otherwise on the 24 hour suspension.

I was hired on the same day I applied for the job, the hr team was very nice and really cared about getting me on my desired shift. That being said the pay just isn't enough for the work you do they'll give you more responsibility than most jobs and less pay than most jobs. Also all departments pay about the same wage despite certain areas being objectively more dangerous and difficult than others. If you ask most people how long they've worked at the company the answer is usually less than 1 year there's a reason for it.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Pay is above average if you can stay long enough to top out.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management has no idea what happens on the floor, and is more worried about someone who's finished their work sending a text than someone who doesn't do their main job but spends the day walking around.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Generally your coworkers are good people and the work is fairly rewarding. If you can stay out of management and HR's view, you'll have a good time. It's not temperature controlled so during summer it gets up to 120 degrees in some areas.

A frustrating place to work. They tell you you'll make more money than you will with overtime, not mentioning that you'll lose most of the OT pay in taxes. Mandatory 12 hour shifts and 5-6 day workweeks which they call "work-life balance." Machines constantly breaking down, managers are stressed out trying to hit ridiculous production quotas. Education on the job consists of you watching other people run the press and educating yourself when you're able to tell how it works. 

Don't get me wrong, if you have kids to feed this place will pay enough but if you don't have to work here, I wouldn't 

This place is a joke to work for. I lasted about 3 months. It is very dangerous and very hot. Just miserable. The office personnel and mangers never set foot on the floor unless they have visitors coming and then they loss there minds because it’s a hole. Expectations on supervisors, employees is a joke because the have not help to complete them. This is a last resort for a job and then I would seriously go work fast food before this place.

Good place to work most people just dont last in the summer because heat/ humidity. I started in the fall so I got to work through the cold all the way to heat. If you do what I did it gives yourself time to adjust. Management is alright I just try to stick to doing my job, a lot of the stuff we do could be streamlined. And dont get me wrong it is hard work but I enjoy that, there is room for rapid advancement and opportunities. Mandatory overtime so as much hours as you want which can be a pro or a con. Only 3 breaks 2 15's and a 30 minute lunch

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