machine operator

operator

repair technician

senior machinist

machinist

MORGAN ADVANCED MATERIALS

Today I put my two weeks in at Morgan Advanced Materials in Auburn. Upon doing so they decided it was best to let me go and escort me out of the building (after squeezing another few hours of inspection out of me.) I asked that I was able to say goodbye to coworkers I had developed a relationship with after my year of hard work and dedication to their business. Many overtime hours and days off spent working and giving up time with my son in order to be a benefit to the company. I was told that after I logged my time in the system to each individual job I had inspected throughout the day, I may do so. Upon completing my time entries I was escorted to the hand scanner to punch out. There I was told that I may not have permission to walk around the facility and say goodbye. A real testament to how poorly this company treats the people who allow them to make over a million dollars a month. Thank you to all the coworkers I had the pleasure of working with that made that place bearable to walk into on a daily basis. You guys are the true superheroes of that company and I hope that someday they realize just how poorly they treat everyone there (Besides Management). No one wants a Dickies Jacket, or T-Shirts to flaunt your logo and continue to promote you and your poor business practices. Employees want dollars on their paychecks to show that you appreciate them. Your employees have mouths to feed and bills to pay. Not to mention how insulting it is to hire new employees with a higher title and pay rate than people who have dedicated years of their lives to you. In conclusion, like most companies, Morgan Technical Ceramics/Morgan Advanced Materials cares more about the dollar then the continuous stress they put on employees to get their products out of their door in order to make large monthly profits. Meanwhile keeping their employees in a position of struggle and dangling lunches and articles of clothing from a stick as a reward. Off to bigger and better things! 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great co workers. Yearly cost of living raises. Air conditioned facilities. Cooperative and positive environment on the production floor. Management culture is eccentric so pros and cons in that area. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Eccentric management culture. It’s sometimes hard to figure out what they want and what it will take to get ahead. Just when you think you have it figured out, it changes. And management always has a plan to evaluate and give merit raises or promotions to deserving employees, but it doesn’t happen for one reason or another. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Pros: everyone is friendly. The proper tools and equipment is provided to best complete tasks. Cons: Promotions for hourly employees are rare. Merit raises are few and far between. Management will listen to inexperienced salaried employees but not experienced hourly employees. Management culture is eccentric and the faces and priorities change often. I recommend this company for those who will be content to remain in the position they were hired for long term. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I was an industrial maintenance technician. I repaired machines when they failed and worked on projects to improve the machinery. Unlike other companies I have worked at, even technical employees are expected to follow strict rules if paid by the hour.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Absolutely nothing.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working with a management team who doesn't know anything about machining. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's okay if youre young with no experience and just need a job. No advancement, maybe 3% a year if you're lucky. I worked there 2 years without a raise. Must work overtime to even be considered for a raise. No one knows how to fix production problems. Their senior staff are combative and try to push the younger generation out. Huge nepotism factor as well. They don't have money in the budget for raises but will  hire more engineers constantly. Also they constantly make and hire more management positions without filling actual production positions to make parts. I can go on and on....

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Listen to your manager tell you to do one thing. Set up and run a job. Then a hour later they will come by and tell you to stop running that job and set up and run a entirely different job. Some people get help while others are left on the sideline. You can run a job in 2 hours, while another employee takes 3 days. You'll get paid the same. Management doesn't care because they can't hire anyone. They wonder why their customers are mad at them.

this place is OK to collect a check and probably the norm for companies owned by overseas investors. Just know that you will be working 6 days a week and long hrs to meet profit margins that are simply carrots hanging in front of your nose. A great year for the company means you get a nice thank you and a list of excuses why you can't be promoted or receive a decent pay raise. The management "click" lacks formal education which I dare anyone there or interviewing to ask>?< Management is under-qualified so they make up for it by putting themselves on pedestals, working the "Boxer's" of the company even harder and stuffing safe activity points so far ... that you don't even notice. so unless you are confident with joining high school "clicks" and know how to avoid the Boxer workhorse trap you will like this company. Just watch out for the back stabbers, gossipers, two-faced, know-it-all's... everybody else working there are good people. Company needs to embrace positive smart change because doing what they have been doing is not going to last forever....minimum wage is going to catch up sooner or later. PEACE

There were many great attractions to this job. If you are intelligent and willing there is some room for advancement. Unfortunately if you are on the underside of management you probably will get promised the stars for working your butt off but not receive much in return. Nothing ever seems to be good enough for the office folk who do no manual labor at all. Csr actually lends a hand more than supervisors. No matter the obstacles. And there are always many. There is one gem among the group though. Joe rinehammer. One of the nicest most kind and compassionate supervisors you will ever have the pleasure to know. If you are in his crew it's 100% Worth the leap. 

If you choose to work here the benefits are pretty good. Annual raises are a plus even though they are on the low side. About 3-5%. 401k has always been lucrative. Low starting wages are unfortunate. This place could go far with recruiting if they could just raise the starting pay to 18. 

I worked for this company for 2 years and it was terrible. Management is as useful as a wet noodle and they love to pigeon-hole you into terrible responsibilities as well as causing repetitive injuries, not addressing those and laying you off to cover themselves. Pay is terrible, no one is happy, tons of gossip and back-stabbing childish behavior constantly. Very noisy environment, managers and higher-ups treat you like a child and play excessive mind games as well. There are many dangerous chemicals and extremely unstable flammable materials. When I was there the large kiln actuality started on fire and almost hurt innocent people trying to exit the building. The fire dept took a very long time to arrive on scene because they thought we were having a fire drill. Most of the people there are very depressed standing all day in a very repetitive job. I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone. Beware!

At Morgan Advanced Materials, you'll likely get along great with your close co-workers and in my experience, my supervisors were generally friendly and largely remained hands-off. However, there is a huge disconnect between the management in the factory doing the actual work and the management in the front office. For instance, they cannot afford to lose people because they are perpetually understaffed and forced to work great amounts of overtime. However, if a new employee misunderstands their strange and antiquated points-based system and accrues too many points, they are terminated with no questions asked and not a care given for either the employee or the needs of the factory. In particular, their human resources department is a joke and are totally apathetic to the realities of the day-to-day on the factory floor.

My advice to anyone looking to work here is to stay away. The shifts offered are 8 hrs but, turn into 10 hrs of mandatory ot every week. A coworker stated it's been this way for 20+ years. Management doesn't tell you that when hired, they tell you there is A LOT OF OT AVAILABLE. They purposely disguise the truth instead of just hiring for 10 hr shifts. The environment is toxic and no one is happy but, they stay because they NEED their jobs.  Speaking of environments, this company uses silica and doesn't make employees aware before they hire people. The pay is really low. Breaks (10 mins) and lunch (20 mins) time doesn't allow enough time to eat, rest, or any other stuff you need to do. Benefits are similar to other companies but, can be better considering the low pay. No perks for discounts or anything like that. PTO could also be better.  The only good thing about the company is your paid holidays.

Leadership doesn’t have a handle of slowing business, and not transparent about what to do about it, that or flat out doesn’t know themselves how to improve general business (sales) which is alarming. Those with work ethic and wants to see positive change tends to get overlooked and disregarded versus those who are there to collect a check. Sales is slow and sales team nonresponsive to the customer but somehow Sales and other support functions have stronger job security than Operations personnel, they continue trimming Operations until there’s no resources to produce while keeping those who hurt sales in the first place by being non responsive to both big and small accounts (customers)

I learned a lot but nothing that I could take with me to a similar work environment. Management were nice people but some of them work a lot harder than others. Culture there is that the front office gets everything as far as budget and tools to make work easier and the floor personnel are forgot about. Low wages and not very progressive when it comes to cost of living. Raises are minuscule, if at all. Cleanliness and room temperature and being upright running around for the duration of shiftwas the hardest part.The most enjoyable part of the job was lunchtime and some of the relationships built with some of the other floor workers.

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