welder

assembly technician

maintenance technician

laborer

fabricator

MAC Trailer Enterprises, Inc.

You can give a company nine years and eleven months of your life. You can average five hundred to seven hundred hours of overtime every year. You can learn every position in your department and beyond. You can perform major repairs, weld entire show trailers, and reach the point where you are completely capped out. When you ask what the next steps are to grow within the company, you receive no clear answer, only a runaround.

Management consistently claims they are not the ones making decisions on pay brackets or career progression. This response comes from supervisors all the way up to the plant manager. Meanwhile, people with less overall experience and knowledge become trailer masters, make more money, and receive profit sharing. At the same time, you are asked to handle work and repairs that current trailer masters cannot perform.

Over time, this wears on you. The lack of any real future within the company becomes discouraging, and you start to feel taken advantage of. Eventually, you stop volunteering for overtime to remind yourself you have a life outside of work, because your life used to revolve around Mac. Even then, you still get all your work done, often finishing your schedule in three and a half days, with quality that exceeds employees who have been there for over twenty years.

After nine years and eleven months, I was laid off just short of my ten year anniversary for no longer being considered reliable. That put everything into perspective. Extra effort, overtime, and flexibility were relied on for years, but they did not translate into long term security or growth. Once the additional work stopped, the value of experience and commitment disappeared with it. Anyone considering this job should understand that there is no clearly defined path forward.

If you're new to building trailers you can start here making a couple bucks less then a guy that's been working at Mac for years.   The pay gap between new and seasoned employees is a laughable joke. 

If you have managed to work at Mac longer then 5 years,  and make it to the top of tier 3, there isn't much more to do at the company.  
Even after you prove yourself, work hard and learn all there is you can. You will Generally feel like there isn't a path forward, like you drove into a brick wall. You'll feel like you're only option is finding another job. Because There isn't any room for advancement, or promotion. Especially if you're a work horse. They will rely on you heavily, and lean on you constantly. Run you down, work you to death. And expect you to appreciate it. Even when there are other people just standing around doing nothing.

Moral of the story. It's pointless learning anything and going past what is asked of you. Do the bare minimum.  Do it slow. And get paid about the same as the guy down the line. Doing all the things you didn't do. 
  
 

The management at this company cares only about more production. That seems to be their only goal. How much more can we push out and how much harder can we push our people. We were told roughly a year ago we would be working four days a week and ten hours a day. For most of the employees that hasn’t happened very often if at all. We are regularly asked to come in early for twelve hour shifts. And the amount of work they expect is unrealistic. Your work to home life balance is almost nonexistent. You won’t be eligible for promotion unless you are a family member or friend of someone who already has some kind of position of authority. It is common occurrence for new hires to start out making a dollar or two less than an employee that has spent a decade there. There are good benefits and they do pay well compared to most places in the area. But with all the hours you work you will have little to no time to do anything you enjoy or have anything resembling a normal life. 

Great place to work.  My job comes with new challenges every day.  Not only do I have the support I need in order to complete the job, but I'm also encouraged to ask questions and provide my own insight.  This makes me feel as though my role with the company is essential and drives me to work even harder.  I learn new things all the time and I feel that I am consistently growing as an employee.  All employees seem to come together as a one large team in order to support and assist one another.  Sometimes you do have to ask, but help is always provided to those who need it.  It is a fast paced environment and it can be stressful at times; as is true with any job.  The difference is the way you feel at the end of the day.  I like knowing that I've accomplished something, and I like knowing that I'm appreciated. 

This company isn’t the greatest when it comes to taking care of their employees especially new ones. If you have car problems then forget about working here, if you need to take your family to a doctor then forget about working here because it will only cause you trouble in the end or even terminated. This IS NOT a family friendly company, they have a point system and if you need to take a family member to a doctor you will get pointed for it which I think isn’t fair, especially if you have a wife/husband (especially veterans) that CANNOT drive themselves and you have to take he or she to the doctor, they will still point you for it. Their hurting for workers but can’t reach a hand when it comes to little life problems especially car problems. So in the end I would not recommend MAC trailer to anyone, it’s not worth your time.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They pay well. You may have to start out at a fairly low rate, but if you are a good worker you will get a lot of large raises. I got 7 dollars in raises in 3 1/2 years. Have good work ethic and they will keep the money coming.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Some jobs require you to do a LOT of work in a short time. It depends on what exactly you are doing, but some positions will have you wondering how you could possibly get done by the end of the job, especially when often times the parts aren't even burned by the time you should be starting the job.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
There aren't very many drug addicts or alcoholics there  and that can't be said for a lot of other welding jobs ove had so I'd say the work environment and culture are pretty good.

I worked at this company for about a year when I started it was ok. but as time went on and people got fired or quit because poor working conditions and management was a complete joke! I was a welder that was forced to work 10hr days and 99% of my saturdays. Then as time went on they want more and more and give you less and less. At the end before I left I was working 7 days a week 5-10s and 2-8s on the weekend. Overall STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE if you have any sort of life outside work or if your a proactive thinker that wants to help your company succeed.. This company don’t care about the employees feedback or hard work they just want more and you have basically zero chance of moving up unless you kiss butt faster than the speed of light ..

What a trash company. I haven’t even clicked in for my first day while I was sitting waiting to start my shift and the first thing I hear is an employee scream Fu&$! After my first 30 minutes and HR leaves my area a coworker comes over and tells me I can’t park where I did because that’s his and no one parks there.  I’ve never worked where the company had no fans to help with the heat and stuffiness or to help vent the welders mess of smoke, the proper tools and asking for them is ignored. HR is on a power trip she acts like a child who’s never been told to hush and listen. No support no one skilled enough to do anything but stand there and drag their feet all day. The hiring process is dragged out for what reason I have no idea because they don’t check references or prior work history either. 

JUST DON'T DO IT-Whatever they tell you to get you in the door.
Dishonest, misleading statements during interview about employee value and company culture and atmosphere.
Witnessed multiple terminations in very short period of time with no warning or coaching attempts.
Every company has turn over, but I have never witnessed the volume of terminations at any previous employer. 
Shame really, the product is excellent and employees should be able to feel proud and valued for doing their job; Not fearful and worried about getting fired without any warning by a company that could care less about them or their family.

Alot of the employees, your potential coworkers seem to be "silently quiting" no one does much more then the bare minimum, and there is a vast Disconnect between management supervisors and employees.  Sometimes its get it done, doesn't matter if it's wrong,  

 Or it's the opposite end of the spectrum, that everything has to be perfect. Can't put your tools on the shelves have to put all your stuff on the floor. 

It's all a back and forth, with quality, expectations with cleaning, house keeping, how you are treated.  One week something really matters then next week it doesn't. 

   There is just no point in thinking outside the box, or telling anyone your ideas. You will gain nothing from it, and definitely won't get any credit.



Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Welder 19 salaries reported	$25.03 per hour
Assembly technician 8 salaries reported	$22.88 per hour
Maintenance technician 4 salaries reported	$24.38 per hour
Laborer 6 salaries reported	$24.00 per hour
Fabricator 9 salaries reported	$22.88 per hour

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