assembly technician

assembler

grill cook

delivery driver

merchandiser

M&C Assemblies Inc

This job is not a joke they say make $800 a week more like 400 if you're lucky and you will do much travel to find this work. never any work. Half the time is spent locating items and finding people to get them down for you. Retail stores don't like assembley technicians. In their eyes we are just in the way. Expect cold attitudes and friction from store associates and management. You will not get paid if you do not work! This is piece work, You only get paid for completed items you assemble if there are any available. Starting pay is 42% commission of total daily invoice and after 2 years no raise. You do not choose what you assemble You are told what to assemble and in the order they need it if necessary. Grills take average of 30 minutes to an hour to assemble and take 42% of $22, which is the highest paying grill, and you can do some rough estimates of your daily pay. Expect to work in the heat assembling picnic tables and lawn furniture and lawn mowers and wheel barrels. Bicycles pay LESS than $4 / piece. Takes 25 completed bikes toake $100.
That's on top of locating items on assembly list, which usually are somewhere in topstock, finding the right person to bring it down with a forklift, cleaning out the assembly area which usually takes half an hour, by the time you actually start assembling it could be past noon. After all that you have to find a manager to sign you out and count everything and you are tossed from department to department to find someone to do this. You must throw all styrofoam, plastic, and cardboard away at the end separating both separately. This takes time people. You will be sent to a store that's up to 50 to 100 miles / day often to find work. The work is supposed to already be there and be in an area that can be accessible to put the stuff together but it never is. All of that is supposed to be taken care of before you get there and it never is. You supply your own power tools tables anything you need to do this job. You are also paid as an independent contractor so you must pay your own taxes and there are no benefits no nothing else available. When you start you must learn how to assemble all of these things by yourself using only the manual and over time you will become proficient but in the beginning don't expect to do more than two or three grills in a shift. Some are very complex and take much time and all items are heavy some way more than 200 lb. You move all this stuff around no help unless you bring it and pay for it. No breaks on this one fellas. High turnover rate also. 

Starting with the good; you have free reign over your schedule because you technically work for yourself. That being said, we begin getting into the bad.

You only get paid by the item you assemble, naturally and understandably. The problem is most items pay the "company," not you, anywhere from 8 bucks for less expensive items like wheel barrels and fire pits to 45 bucks for big ticket items like log splitters and snowblowers. You only receive 45 percent of each item you assemble if you show up before 9:00am, otherwise it's 42. 

Doesn't sound too bad. Sounds like if you work fast, you can make a lot of money, right?

Here's the problem. You have items like grills that have anywhere from 20 to 40 pieces. You have to follow the instructions to ensure the quality of what you're building. Now you think, "I'll get the hang of it and know how to put them together without following the instructions." But there are many different variations, and they are all slightly different. Even moving quickly, it takes 45 minutes to an hour to assemble one grill. And most of them pay 15-18 to the company, meaning for an hour of work you are making 7-9. And because you are technically a private contractor, you must then put aside 30 percent of your 7 to 9 dollars to pay in taxes at the end of the year.

You spend an hour or more not getting paid everyday just to hunt down all of the items the store wants you to assemble.

You spend another 45 minutes to an hour not getting paid to clean up all of the packaging from the items you assembled and checking out with a store manager.

There are no benefits, no career advancement, no future.
 Huge waste of time, would not recommend.

 A typical day for this job would be to go to whichever store you normally work at,(some managers will give you an invoice before, and sadly you have to ask some managers for an invoice daily). Find the manager or one of the managers depending on the location and see if they have anything to build for the day. Once you figure out whether or not you can work, you then log into the toolbox app and start your invoice. Overall unless you don't have any experience in building any grills or basic household appliances then there's nothing to learn other then what assembly style best fits your speed. Management wise is pretty well, I currently don't have my normal manager at my location so we have one temporarily covering the area, and overall he hasn't been to helpful but I'm making it work. Towards the workplace culture it's straight forwards. Keep your space clean and don't be rude. Everyone is nice and easy to talk to you. The hardest part of the job itself would be whether or not they actually have work available to you (sadly they will not a lot of the time). Other then that it's all up to you on how the work is. But everything is commission based so you can only earn money from your speed and the products that need to be assembled. 

Not a bad place to work once you understand the pay percentages. I usually arrive early (6am) since i can get a higher split on anything completed before 9am. As well as a higher split once i complete more than 10 units for the day. Since you are an independent contractor, management  is nonexistent. They set yoyr schedule the day before and you go there. Walmart seems to be the largest contract, with Home Depot second. Scheduling can be frustrating. I have been turned away from locations or only had enough work for a couple hours on more than one occasion.  I know of several locations that have told me they cannot get an assembly technician scheduled and they have several weeks worth of work piled up in the garden center. I know of others that were forced to change to another company because they cannot get a technician from M&C. I lost two great opportunities because i could not get scheduled at either location.  I try to run it like its my own business since im a 1099 employee,  but its very difficult/ impossible when you dont make your own schedule and rely on others for your success. For example,  today i had nothing scheduled despite the fact there are several walmarts begging for a technician.  

I absolutely loved the stores that I serviced. Transition from Assemblers Inc to M&C had some growing pains, but during that phase, the travel pay was an issue. New systems in place, completely understandable with new leadership. My problem was with the payments for my mileage since I was traveling well over 100 miles twice a week to service a store. When I tried to address it with my immediate supervisor and the finance department, I was given run around about needing hotel receipts etc, even though I never stayed in a hotel. I tried to rectify the situation for about 3 weeks, during which I still serviced those stores. I couldn’t keep paying to work, so I left. I hope the company has sorted the issues since then. It really was a fun job that you could really thrive at production.  Christmas time and summer time you really can make a lot of money, and help knowing you’re contributing to making memories for families. 

This company has given me the necessary tools and experience to be my own boss and conduct my own lifestyle comfortably.  The people that I work around or with are respectful and friendly. This job saved my life. Paying my own way was hard at first to adapt and learn but I'm more than satisfied with the values i have seen on my deposits.    I also enjoy this job like, love it. I enjoy  when you learn a build and seize to have to look at manuals.   That's where the money starts rolling in.   Wouldn't change careers for anything. Been here going on 4 or 5 years. I am more than happy with my choice and the company allows you to travel and they DO pay for mileage, and they DO take care of the people that want this.  8/10.  Would recommend to anyone wanting to work a flexible schedule and feel somewhat accomplished vs a 9 to 5 dead end.     

So far its been okay. You will have to be self-motivated, not easily discouraged, and unless you have someone who will put in equal effort to help with the assemblies and will split them evenly you will need to be self-reliant. I've had a few issues with co-workers always wanting to build the easiest/highest paying items ie: toolboxes,mowers, patio furniture. They send people to the store and they build what they want but expect the workers that are there every day to build grills needed for display or customers which some have alot of small parts and packaging and they simply take too long to build to justify getting 45%-51% of $20 while other items can be done twice as fast for 45%-51% of $15-$20. There should be more oversight on fairly sharing the more difficult and less desirable items. 

If you work super fast and super hard and you're good at assembly, you'll probably average 12-15 bucks an hour overall before paying your own taxes. It's a 1099 job. Some days 8 or 10 an hour is doing good because some items will take longer to assemble even though it might only pay 5 or 6 bucks to assemble. There are items that have 60-80 fasteners plus 20-40 parts and only pay $5 or $6 to assemble. Others might only have half that and pay $10 to assemble. It seems there's not a lot of thought that goes in to how much you're paid for an item not is the pay scale fair whatsoever. Different stores will pay different amounts for the same items too. Your wages will fluctuate depending on how long it takes for store personnel to get the product dropped and to the workspace, clean up all the trash and cart it off and find a manger to sign off your work. The assembly is the easy part. Company itself is very disorganized and confusion is the norm. It's often not clear even to managers how much percentage you will make. If you only need to make 300-400 weekly this is a decent job. Otherwise, best to look elsewhere.

A typical day of work with m&c assemblies is getting to work before 9am and yet somehow you're still not ready for work cause the people you work around don't care about pulling your products down from shelves or are NOT in any way in a rush to help you when you appear in the store to build THEIR items, but they get mad when you haven't started working on their products. Unprofessional business, these guys barely respond back to you when there's something urgent about work to discuss. Basically you have to at least assemble 10-20 products a day in order to make a living working for these guys and depending on the area, that's definitely not an easy feat. If you're single with no kids this job is perfect but if you have a family of 3 or more this ain't the place to settle in with. 2 stars, this job would be great if the pay per item you build is higher and if your managers responded to troubleshooting problems but sometimes you're left alone a lot to figure it out yourself.

I don't know why most of these reviews seem bad for this company. I loved the job as long as it was busy. There's too many techs in certain regions which cuts down on potential income. You better hope you have some hustle about yourself or another part time job or some gigs when it slows down if you dont save your money while your gwoppin. As a regular tech there was months where I made 5 grand but then there's those where you'd be lucky to scrape 2500. If you work everyday,have a high mechanical aptitude and let them know that it's got to be worth your time to travel to the location then you will be fine. You better have your drill/drills and all proper sockets,wrenches,etc or your not going to make any money. You work at lowes,go buy what you need when you see fit. Great pay,great communication if you have a good regional manager,no micro management. I'm trying to get back on with them now actually.

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