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LH medical is a great place to begin your career as a CNC Machinist.  The pay is lower than average and 401k match is virtually non-existent but they are very flexible as far as attendance/tardiness goes and are family first from that standpoint.  Time off requests are generally respected and approved with no issues, which can be hard to find some places.   If money isn’t your main motivator, LH provides an enjoyable and low stress work environment.

If you apply there you will notice the wages are lower than other shops. They will tell you that can be made up by the fact that they work a 50hr week and after 90 days you will get a review and a bump in pay. Both are lies. As far as the review you will have to constantly ask when are they going to do it and say you are going to leave before they will do your 90 day review. Even the yearly reviews scheduled for January dont happen until mid year if at all. As for the 50hr week that has disappeared under the new shop foreman. He is strictly a numbers guy with no idea how to run a job shop and zero people skills. Morale has never been this bad. Some people are interviewing at other shops like never before. This is where you become just a number. Remember the 50hr week? Like most shops there will be slow work times. Before they would have people clean and make things the shop was in need of so you at least worked 40hrs. Not now. He will put you on 32 just to make his numbers look good and not give a **** about you. You might want to have that in the back of your mind when they make their offer.

Would have goven this place better marks had I left a year ago. It's gotten that bad in recent months. 

There's is zero direction for the place. Turnover is extremely high, which is not very common in the medical manufacturing field. They make the wrong decisions on a daily basis, then lean on the handful of skilled and hardworking people they have to follow through with basic production activities, never mind the new work which takes weeks or even months to debug just to get parts out the door. Inexperienced managers and programmers making the shop floor help do their work. 

The scrap rates are some of the worst I've seen in my 20+ years in manufacturing. Basic standards are not adhered to. 

It was a decent place to work on the off shifts a year ago, but not any more.  

They do not have regular reviews, not do they give out raises on a schedule of aNY kind. The raise I got was a joke, I wish they'd kept it.

They tell you that they will start you at $15.00, this is to do skilled machining not button pushing, and that there will be "BONUSES" to compensate. In the past 5 years there has been one "Bonus" and that was 5 years ago. You had better already know how to do your own set-ups, prove out new programs, read G-code, make all your own tooling adjustments, and how to pull and set your own tooling. Oh I almost forgot you also have to run your own CMM's once you go to an off shift, which you will be own for at least five years. You will not fake it till you make it here, it is sink or swim with no pay. Oh and the performance reviews and raises are lies also. They only do a performance review if they feel you have screwed up, and if your really lucky you will get a cost of living increase of 1-3% a year. 

I've been working here for about 18 months and so far this is the best job I've ever had.   When I make a mistake they simply tell me that I made a mistake, they don't drag it out and make me feel like I don't deserve to have my job and they don't make me feel like my job is in jeopardy.   To be fair I've never made the same mistake twice and over the course of 18 months I've only made like 3 mistakes.   I've worked at places in the past though that the very first mistake you make and every mistake you make they treat you like you're a horrible person and make you feel like your job is in jeopardy.   This is not the case though at LH Carbide.     So far all my superiors are very respectful and supportive.   They make me feel like I have a bright future in the company. 

If you want to be lied to, underpaid, have job INsecurity, mandated to work overtime due to management being clueless or unethical. This is the place for you. 

This place sees new all time lows every day. The biggest issue is the management. There are too many under qualified individuals in positions they aren't qualified for. They believe good machinists are a dime a dozen and everyone is expendable, besides management of course. They forget that without good machinists there would be no product.

If you know how to suck the chrome off a trailer hitch and don't mind your jaw getting rigorously exercised to move up the chain of command this might be the place for you. Just look at the the guy in charge of shipping, he's a pro.

This has been a job I'll surly never forget. 
LH Medical is an if your not a part of the in crowd, then you're out type of place.. no matter the amount of effort you put fourth towards your work. You are NOT appreciated. 
Everyone in the company only wants to "achieve" a job title & the ones who have, only reached that point due to being a part of the in crowd as I said before.. The director of logistics last came from Starbucks if that tells you anything..    
Their's absolutely NO communication within the company also. You'll always be blind towards the direction of the company..  
The gossip on the floor is atrocious.. I could go on forever.. 
Everything about this company is beyond toxic.  

Good place to work with the exception of a very biased management team. Policies are fair and the benefits are equal to other positions in the trade. The biggest drawback to production employees is discrimination as policies are not enforced equally to the employees. One person misses a day and is written up and another employee with the same absentee rate misses a day is not written up. If you suck up to the boss you're good to go but if not your bad. Quality lab management sucks too  another one that you must suck up to in order not to be written up 

When I started working at LH there were many long tenured employees that worked collaboratively to accomplish very positive project outcomes. Senior management changed and so did the management culture. Many veteran employees were lost to indifference and so was the organization's ability to perform at an extremely high level. Cost cutting with no appreciation of back-end outcomes lead to severe labor pool and equipment shortcomings. Micromanagement and loading the management structure with "yes men" lead to general disorder and timely project completion became chaotically elusive.

In the Milling Department especially there was a severe lack of communication. The manager would tell an employee one thing and tell another the complete opposite of what was said previously. No matter how many employees complain, HR, leadership, and ownership didn't do anything about it. LH Medical is a joke if you're looking for a job where you're looking to learn something new. Training is horrible, machines crash constantly because of improper training. Steer clear of LH Medical! 

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