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It was an awesome place to work, but seemed to be that everybody had these cliches and myself, I was there to do a job and support my family not to make friends but socialize with my co-workers and offered my support to anyone of them that needed help to make there 95.7 % percent of fill. You were never invited to go to the afternoon dinners in our department unless you "fit in", they seemed to be taking out the older ladies and replacing with some that had no clue to what materials was about nor how to check the procurement on how long it would take to arrive at our facility.  I had 8 to 10 reports that I had to review daily for parts, work my 4 main filters in servigistics and order stocking parts, transfer form other locations, maintain inventory levels. My co-workers were much older than I and they did not like the new methods of planning, they did not like change and it was for the best of our division. The hardest part of the job was that when we had a customer that placed an order lets say for 150 pieces of an oring, and my minimum to stock is only 200, customer service should contact me and let me know that they have just dropped a packing list for 150 pc of my 200 and I could have ordered to replenishment that stock immediately. Communication was very poor through out the purchasing, customer service, and materials. The system we planned was not an automatic system.  What we saw on a certain part never was the actual count, we would have the system update over night. The most enjoyable part of the job was the challenges of reducing inventory of 30 million in three months and another 30 million by march, which was a success but our percent of fill did fall.  I/We did not ever get a full explanation of why the inventory levels dropping, and were told to not order unless there was a back order.  I in turn started questioning, is not customer satisfaction by 100% more important than inventory levels. Since I left on January 7th, more layoffs, or severance packages, no temps working but I do wish Komatsu pulls through for it was a wonderful place to work and there are good people out there and some not so good.

Over half of my Career with the company, I worked/lived away from the home office, living in Seattle, San Francisco, three times, Ely, NV,Boston, Mass.
I kept in close contact with the dealers and the problems with the machines at the various customers.
With Company Car, traveled to Dealers and to customer construction or mine site, to aid in the correction of the problem, working with the factory -engineering, for improved parts.
Several years, I flew my airplane, to the construction sites and to the mines landing strips, to aid in correcting equipment problems.
Those days, I was off the ground at home base in Concord, Ca at 7 AM,Monday, at mine site 700 miles away at 10 AM,might be there till 1PM, fly to another Mines strip, be there till about an hour before dark, then fly to a city, to spend the night. During the week, visit other Mine sites, Ely, NV,,Tonaph, NV, Apple Valley, CA &San Diego, arriving back in Concord around 9 PM
In Winter BAD Weather, Flew Commercailly to Elko, NV. pickup a car and drive to various mines all week, then Friday afternoon, fly commercailly back to Oakland, CA, wife would pick me up at airport.
Several Years, I travelled many mines around the world, usually those were 2-3 week trips.
Equipment was sold in China, those visits would be 6 weeks, teaching the Chinese how to operate and support the mining trucks. The Chinese, provided housing? and I proviided my food.

If you work hard they treat you like trash. Bad workers are hired full time and treated really good. Supervisor and manger pursue ideas that make  no sense , actually they hate things that make sense. 1st shift are giving god treatment, they don’t clean or organize anything, they get dibs ,and when they complain they get want they want. 2nd is then given the worst of everything and expected to pick up the stack of 1st shift.  2nd shift walks into a dirty place with no charged batteries, Taylor duns, and forklifts. 2nd is 2:30pm-12:00pm. Then on the weekend you expect to be there at 9:00am right after getting of at 12 just to accommodate 1st shift. They run the heat when it’s hot and the fans when it’s cold, it was 105 one day when it was only 60 outside. I was a temporary worker, I quite literally got higher numbers than 90% of full time everyday. They refused to hire me and instead told me to work even harder despite the many others who get very low numbers. They hired 20people before me who missed a lot of days and would only get low numbers everyday. I have worked a lot of factory jobs and this one is by far the worst possible place to work. This isn’t hate speech on any level, it’s the truth and I actually still work there. The pay is way too low , you would be better off working somewhere else. If you do decide to work there then don’t actually come in and do a good job. Just do a bad job and they will treat you good for some reason. 

Really tough work environment. Management has no background in marketing and is very insecure about it, I've ever seen a company make so many unqualified hires. So many managers who transferred from HR or sales to a management position in marketing. They openly bicker and demean one another and their employees. I've never had management run over to my desk so much to tell all about my co-worker's shortcomings. Very unprofessional.

This department is extremely disorganized and it really affects the ability to get anything. Management is unaware of deadlines then freaks out on employees who have been. 

In whatever role you have, you'll definitely be asked to perform management functions well outside your scope of pay, in some cases "ensure other managers are getting their jobs done, they don't have time to check all of their tasks." Expect to do lots of invoicing for managers as well.

I always used to wonder if I was overreacting, but the amount of new hires who are openly dissatisfied within weeks of starting is alarming. To have people looking for new jobs less than a month is alarming.   

That being said, the rest of the company seems perfectly fine to work for and i'd encourage engineers, manufacturers etc. to consider a career with Komatsu. Just steer clear of marketing, you'll be glad you did.

I spent several years at Komatsu, and my time there was a mixture of professional challenges and personal growth. The company offers solid pay and benefits, with structured processes and a strong global brand reputation. However, my experience was shaped more by the culture and environment than the job itself.

While there were moments of meaningful collaboration, I often found the workplace culture to be resistant to change, especially when it came to supporting mental health and adapting to evolving work needs. Navigating internal systems, including HR and management, was difficult at times and left me feeling unheard and unsupported. 

Despite the hurdles, I walked away with greater clarity about my values and what I need in a healthy, sustainable work environment. It taught me how important psychological safety and inclusive leadership are in any role or industry.

I wouldn’t recommend it for someone seeking innovation, flexibility, or a deeply human-centered culture, but it may suit those looking for structure and a traditional corporate path.

A typical day at Joy Global was a long productive day. My co-workers were extremely dedicated to drive towards a zero harm community. Safety first was truly their motto. This positive attitude provided a great working & social environment to be around every day. For my first Internship, Joy Global gave me an excellent experience. They provided me with an efficient on-boarding training program that prepared me for full-time work. After a couple weeks of working at Joy Global I was providing new employees with our Safety Policy & Hazard training every Monday. As well as assisting the EHS staff with various of projects, in which most projects were helpful information for not just the EHS department but for the entire company. The hardest part of this job was adapting to a general industry workplace environment. I was not familiar with mining equipment and the mechanics around each machine and how each employee used the machine. Though, by the end of the summer I felt very confident with myself. I improved my skills in multiple areas, especially public speaking.

Joy Global Longview is a growing, fast paced manufacturer of some of the largest and most advanced mining solutions in the world.  This location’s success is built on the integration of a highly skilled and knowledgeable work force and experienced senior leadership with the drive and passion to succeed in an ever more demanding market.  Each day provides new challenges and obstacles to overcome as the bar is pushed higher and higher with each success.  This location was formerly Letourneau Technologies and purchased by Joy Global in 2012.  Joy Global has managed to assimilate Letourneau while maintaining much of the family focus and Christian values that Letourneau was built on.  This is one of the only places I’ve seen that still have chaplains visiting the workforce on a weekly basis.

If you are looking to work at Joy Global, please make sure you have exhausted all other possibilities.  Bagging groceries, mowing lawns, McDonald's are all better paths to take.  You will be treated better working most anywhere else.  HR and management are a complete waste of space.  Joy hires mostly incompetent managers.

It is a engineering sweatshop.  It takes days just to get a simple drawing released.  Management is clueless on how to run a company.  My six year old has more management skills than most of the managers at Joy.  To be qualified to be a manager, no need to get an education on leadership. However, the non-HR and non-management employees are friendly.  It is hard to tell who is actually accomplishing work, though, because of how poorly managed the groups are.

You don't want to be on the wrong side of history working for or promoting a company that is involved in coal mining when there is clean burning natural gas.

Certain individuals in power constantly berate employees but nothing is ever said to them. Morale is horrible but instead of looking into/fixing the issues, their answer is “there not a team player/ there just negative”. This is because they believe because they are “management” they know how to do the technicians job. Certain supervisors feel they can say whatever they want to techs, but if the techs defend themselves they are punished for it. Issues get brought up but HR constantly turns a blind eye to the issues because they don’t want to deal with it. Managers will give so much to try to bring in new techs but current ones that stick to the company get treated like they should be happy to have a job. Emails are constantly sent out preaching how they appreciate their employees, but this is always just a PR stunt to try to get people to come in. Actions speak louder then words. 

Visually inspect previous shift welding fabrication progress/quality, mark up/indicate on specific welds, non compliance to weld specification requirements specific to component.
Visually inspect fabrication quality documentation, sign of on relevant area's. Communicate identified area's for improvement with qualified welding personnel, leading hands, supervisors and quality assurance personnel.
Address are's of concern to operations management and fabrication supervisors.
The hardest part of the job would be ensuring correct welding heat input , through welding procedure specification requirements, to welding operators performing welds while achieving maximum weld metal deposition rate at optimum value heat input !
The most enjoyable part of the job... is achieving the above in all welding position application 1000% of production/maintenance.

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