production lead

manufacturing engineer

production scheduler

quality engineer

production manager

Kongsberg Automotive

Its all smiles and they pretend to be good to you, but most of the time? No, thats not how they really feel about you. It pays decent but they have very unforgiving expectations that it seems even they cannot fulfill, as they will ask you why you haven't gotten your efficiency up, yet not train you at all. If you request for actual training so that you can understand, instead of being thrown in a station, you will only get training once they feel like its time to get off their Behinds and do their job. Most of the coworkers are very nice. If you injure yourself on the job, they wont take it well, and will act as of you are burdening them for reporting it. I wasnt trained properly for the first few weeks no matter how many times I requested for help, I was doing things on my own and my efficiency suffered for it. It wasnt until I actually got help, was my efficiency up. They fired me anyways. Didnt even pay me correctly, skipped days of work I did and I practically worked for free. Do not work here unless you have proper experience with warehouses, and are firm when asking for help. Because they will blow you over and force you onto a station you arent good at, even after multiple requests to move.

Norland Plastics was a good place to work. I started as a machine operator and worked there for almost 14 years before closing its doors.Through the years I was able to advance to different positions throughout the company. Starting out as a machine operator and ending as a front end floor lead. Each advancement took on more responsibilities. After Norland was bought out by Kongsberg Automotive and new management took over the atmosphere of the work place change. Due to poor management. Even though things changed I still enjoyed working with the people that I had worked with for 14 years. I learned a lot in the area of manufacturing and what is expected of an employee. I worked 10 years on 3rd shift and 4yrs on days. Hardest part of job was writing up people and keeping it non personnel. I truly enjoyed the people I worked with and learning different things especially Quality Control.

During my time with Kongsberg Automotive, I branched out of my sales role and did everything I could to understand all areas of the company.  From planning, creating and displaying expositions at international venues to assisting in facilities audits, I wanted to act like a sponge to sop up all the experiences I could.  Most of my days consisted of traveling to customers for visits which included analyzing any current issues they were having while offering our diverse product line to new and current platforms.  With the assistance of my coworkers I learned about all realms of vehicle platforms by using each others strengths to constantly challenge the group.  With the support and direction of my management team, I know as long as I tried my hardest, failure was never an option.  During my tenure at KA, I found my sales voice and for that I am forever grateful.

A typical day would be come in have everyday meeting in front of cork board. Then go to center get everything set up make sure we have a accepted first piece. After approved we begin running in our cell with saftey and quailty first. The management was very good if we had questions about parts or anything releating to workflow we got answers. Most co-workers were easy and realiable to work with. I would have to say the hardest part of the job was not the work only if there was issues with the parts or machines that made us have downtime. And if you have down time your not making parts to hit production. My most enjoyable part of my job was i loved what i did i knew so much and just something that i would like to continue doing.

I have been with this company just shy of two years now, I enjoy the work, I enjoy working on internal and external sales sides. Contact with the customers and internal meetings about programs along with the everyday sales work of cost break downs and so on. The management is not the best, there were several issues with my immediate account manager and those were all ignored, I have attempted to work with him for over a year now and cannot do so. The work environment is not friendly or welcoming at all. I feel this was a good learning opportunity for me to work with a manager I could not get along with, work on new tasks and remain working on remaining tasks. It has been a great experience overall to learn from this time there but it is time to move forward.

Expecting to do something new everyday when I went to work and it was. Love the fact that I was shown from a co worker how to start off a typical part and how I can pick my speed up and get my numbers up to get them out in time for the truck to leave. Being happy knowing you did good everyday you came in an how fast you are wanting to go today and get things out of the way was a great feeling. I would say the hardest part of my job was when the machines start to tear up or I need a specific question on something I don't like how some workers like to pick fights because they don't to help and would want you to figure things out for yourself and blame you at the end of the day why things didn't go accordingly right. Your at work to work not to make friends at the end of the day I'm going home to myself

Kongsberg Automotive management and team members live the mission and values of our company by being creative, accountable, acting with integrity and through team work. 

We work everyday to be better than the day before through being open-minded about our performance and finding way for continuous improvement. Teams are highly encouraged to work together to satisfy customer expectations and improve our profitability.

Our teams work to maintain transparency and honesty in everything we do through responsibility for our actions and making and supporting business decisions through experience and good judgement. We support each other's efforts professionally and personally to ensure all functional areas are aligned with each others objectives.

As a production scheduler , I would schedule work orders according to customer requirements to meet customer demands on time.

I worked with all levels of management  and all employees.

As a production supervisor  , I worked with my employees and monitored both quality and production.

I helped in Warehouse and the Cutting Department.


The hardest  part about my job as a Production Scheduler was getting the lines to produce only the amount that was required for that work order.

As a Production Supervisor,  hardest part about my job was getting the material from other departments on time.

I loved working at Capro / Kongsberg Automotive . I loved all the people there. I was there almost 21 years , most people were like family.

Every little thing was a crisis.  Constantly got requests for urgent but menial tasks with immediate and unreasonable deadlines.  
CEO has no personality.  Comes to the sites and doesn’t even talk to employees.  Most people don’t even know what he looks like. 
They struggle to attract and retain talent and it shows.  Most people in the auto industry have never heard of Kongsberg.  No employee development, poor leadership, poor HR, no cool products, no new technology, no flexibility with employees, and major European micromanagement.  Very siloed structure for a small company.  Everyone has their own separate reporting structures up to Europe which creates a lot of issues locally.  Toxic personalities run rampant in this company.  


What is the best part of working at the company?
The employees are by far the only good thing about this company. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of leadership, lack of communication on a daily basis was unfortunately a normal practice at this facility.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment was as expected for a manufacturing facility. However the culture was that of a company that thrives off of exploiting temp-to-hire employees.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
The typical day of a automation technician is very busy with trouble calls throughout the day nonstop.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production lead 13 salaries reported	$75,000 per year
Manufacturing engineer 1 salary reported	$85,000 per year
Production scheduler 1 salary reported	$25.50 per hour
Quality engineer 2 salaries reported	$88,750 per year
Production manager 12 salaries reported	$118,250 per year

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