machine operator

journeyperson electrician

technical operator

test technician

senior project engineer

LG Energy Solution Michigan

Management lacks accountability and responsibility in day-to-day operations. Employees who raise legitimate concerns about workplace issues face retaliation rather than constructive dialogue. This creates a hostile environment where staff feel unable to voice important feedback.
Training and Onboarding: 
New employees are frequently placed in positions without adequate training or preparation, which impacts both their performance and team productivity. The lack of proper onboarding procedures creates unnecessary stress for both new hires and existing team members.
Management Style:
Micromanagement is a significant issue, with certain managers involving themselves in established team processes in ways that disrupt workflow and undermine team effectiveness.
HR and Workplace Safety:
When incidents are reported through proper channels, there appears to be inadequate follow-through and resolution, leaving employees feeling unprotected and unsupported.
Overall Experience:
This workplace has fundamental issues with management practices, employee protection, and professional development that significantly impact the work environment and employee wellbeing.

If you in a production area, you can quickly work your way up and earn good wages. 

At upper levels, many of the engineers, managers, team leaders and part leaders are Korean. Often, English-speaking skills are not good, and communication is difficult. Written communication such as manuals, instructions, expectations, and emails are often in Korean or poorly translated English. 

As they move toward more automation, it will require more highly skilled employees and there will be fewer production positions. 

HR seems to "side with" and takes direction from leadership without considering or advocating for the  workers' concerns. Production workers that have been promoted to leadership from within often do not have good leadership skills.

Cultural events intended to make the whole company feel included and valued tend to cater only to those in the upper levels.

Benefits are great including 100% employer paid health, dental and vision insurance plus 3 weeks of vacation to start.

Work environment is generally clean and temperature controlled.

1. A typical day at work
- The facility is large and well-structured. I worked with various departments, and most colleagues were kind and supportive, making the daily environment pleasant.

2. What you believe you learned
- I learned the importance of diligence and integrity in a high-pressure manufacturing setting. It was a good opportunity to experience Korean corporate culture firsthand.

3. Management
Management lacked experience and the will to provide proper training. There was very little mentorship or professional guidance for new employees.

4. Workplace culture
- Typical hierarchical Korean corporate culture. Very disciplined and structured, but can feel rigid.

5. The hardest part of the job
- Communicating with an inexperienced manager who offered no clear direction or support.

6. The most enjoyable part of the job
- Working with great, hard-working coworkers. The people were the best part of the experience.


Pay is decent, benefits are excellent and the place is clean.  These perks  come at a cost though.  This company is run by people who are completely out of touch with their workers. They keep piling more work on people with no additional compensation or support.  You are expected to work every holiday.  Safety is a joke here.  They took away all the first aid kits on the floor.  We are told to follow certain safety rules when OSHA is visiting, but otherwise we have to ignore issues in order to get our job done.  Every day we are told that we are being watched and they are going to fire more people.  Extremely negative and stressful work environment.  HR is only there to write people up and monitor your every move.  Rules are made up and changed constantly and we still don't have an employee handbook.  They like to keep everyone guessing and feeling insecure.  I would look elsewhere if you want to have a more positive work environment.

Supervisors are clueless allowing drunks to run amuck,  individuals to take 1.5-4 hour long breaks at times. Laziness also runs within some supervisors with some admitting to staff they didn't get higher individual progress report scores due to additional paperwork being necessary. Meaning they didn't want to put the extra time in to do their job. Consistent quality issues with material that gets escalated daily for 6 months with no solution costing them thousands of dollars daily. No wonder why we had a 14 million dollar recall from gm battery products. Tons of stress from running machines with no support whatsoever. And when they do "support" often times they have no idea/ refuse to listen to the problem that's persisting. 

Even given the rules to me and while complaining could potentially close my window of this job. The ones making the issues and never stopped their actions. Attempted only a few problems that was on their behalf leaving me only react to threatening and being gullible to leave my inability to realize the true meaning of why their actions are this way. I was honest, I signed a paper stating that somethings was only responding regarding my safety. Additionally, you never see my complaints, you never find my reports after someone reports the actions I showed. In conclusion my work ethic has not been tarnished and what you people only done was make your character worst. YOU KNOW WHATS TRUE YOU PEOPLE KNOW WHAT YOU SAID TO ME FOR NO REASON. AND EVEN WHEN I IGNORED MOST OF THE REMARKS MADE AGAINST ME. (DISORGANIZED LABOR)

Company has potential to be a great place to work and start/continue your career. However, the most disappointing areas are HR, recruiting Team and the Upper Management. If you can ignore all those huge red flags, then you will survive at LG. 

HR lacks experience in handling work related problems and are hard to communicate with. 

Upper management misses the mark in leadership and caring for employees, they'd rather have a facade of a good looking building than providing basic necessities like gloves for operators to operate their "high-tech" and "no contamination" machines. 

Recruiting Team struggles and seem to refuse to understand the work process and work load. 

This year has been a big year for this company in terms of putting it straight in the trash can. 
If you have a family, there is no reason to apply in general. You will point out just trying to care for your kids.
If you enjoy seeing daylight; don't come here, they expect you to always be here and get visibly irritated that you would want to have ONE day off. after working weeks in a row with no day off.
The 12 hour shifts sound good until you realize you have to fill the open spots on your off days because they continuously fire people for no good reason.
They have fired over 40 people in 2 days because of breaks?  They are supposed to be hiring people and you just see everyone getting walked out

What is the best part of working at the company?
It's a significant player in the renewable energy market.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Unreasonable/impossible labor demands from leadership.  When their plans don't pan out, the worker is thoughtlessly punished.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The good:  LG Energy Solution Michigan is a very multi-cultural company.
The bad:  LGESMI leadership makes little effort to see things from workers' perspectives.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Busy, busy, busy, without the confidence that I will meet leadership impossible demands; never knowing when I will be able to go home.

Everyday I would hear nothing but coworkers complain about not being able to take care of kids, not my problem. If you have kids and kiss the ring, you get to complain and get promoted, despite the fact all of us deal with this place being a terrible workplace. Not my problem buddy. Also, terrible work. Your main job here is to write down exactly what they want, which is a five page essay on your machine's performance. Actually running the machine at a proper speed and number of parts is like 2 percent of the job, the other 98 percent of the job is lazy engineers complaining about having to do paperwork. 0/10.

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Machine operator 7 salaries reported	$21.86 per hour
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