senior operator

quality engineer

manufacturing engineer

maintenance technician

shift leader

Mann+Hummel

If you are applying for any position here do it directly through the company instead of through a temp agency, they're understaffed and have weekly job fairs so you'll get benefits immediately instead of waiting 90 days. If you are looking at salaried positions prospects are much brighter at the Dunlap, TN locations so look there first.

I would not recommend working here. There's a reason employee retention here is abysmal, there are months where they lose 90%+ of new hires because the work culture is gross. This place is a revolving door; unless you bag a cushy salaried position there is no hope of a job at this plant being a career if you want to have your time and effort respected by management. It's best to have an escape plan to a company that cares about their employees. If you do manage to stay here long enough that means there's less competition for job advancement, your best strategy would be to get a higher paying/more crucial position as fast as possible.

Anyway if you do apply here be prepared for working mandatory overtime, it seems as if the plant is perpetually behind quota due to absenteeism, faulty equipment, the whims of the market and all sorts of stuff. Production operators get assigned to a single workstation and learn the routine of making one type of part, if you don't mind repetition and keep your head down it could be worth the pay and benefits to you. If you're here long enough they'll start training you on additional responsibilities without increasing your pay ("Cross-training" is a red flag term for this). Logistics and other more specialized work (Forklifts, tuggers, technicians) are still on hourly pay but do get compensated a bit more for their time. This desperation for employees means a lower bar for entry, meaning the occasional "character" can stay for years if they do their job competently enough despite multiple complaints on their behavior to HR. 

Management is incompetent. Salaried big-wigs from corporate continuously make decisions that make life on the factory floor worse for everyone involved. Just this year, they took away paid holiday leave for the week of Christmas, saying "show up to work or take a week of unemployment" citing the need to "unify schedules across all plants". This is despite the fact that they operate independently from the flagship plants in Tennessee. Most of the people are nice enough and are trying to do their best in a bad situation but the air of corporate greed and desperation is rotting the plant from the inside out. Try to get on a shift where the floor supervisors are pleasant to be around, it will make a world of difference. Don't get too attached to anyone though - not only do entry level workers get fed up or get fired regularly, but in 6 months I've seen multiple engineers, supervisors, technicians, and others leave for greener pastures and they are smart for doing so.

The demands of the job revolve around an endless hunger to produce more and more parts with fewer and fewer resources. The quality team and production team are constantly butting heads and the majority of the time the policy is "run parts now, worry about quality later." It is difficult to feel respected in a position where your work is being actively minimized and ignored in order to hit numbers. Everything here is about numbers. Stockholders want to see number go up, regardless of the physical, mental, and emotional toll this ideology takes on employees. Instead of investing more in this plant resources are regularly taken away from it in hopes of turning a profit which has turned into a death spiral as the plant desperately tries to maintain the contracts it already has.

Despite the plant's labor practices bordering on illegal there is absolutely no chance of unionizing in the near future: like many others this company opposes collective action and too many of the employees are unable to afford the cost of striking for their rights due to financial desperation. Couple this with language barriers for some employees and the challenge of organizing across 2 buildings on the same campus and you'd have a herculean task if you wanted anything to change for the better. 

This plant is struggling financially. Mann+Hummel itself is doing great but this location very much is not. I'm not at liberty to say numbers but between the auto market shifting to electric vehicles, supply chain struggles, employee mismanagement, decreasing quality in parts produced, and corporate consolidation the long-term prospects of this plant are grim. If you start here now the plant won't be here long enough to see out your retirement (but the 401K transfers!) 

This should be a temporary gig at best, although I would personally recommend avoiding it all together. There are plenty of other manufacturing jobs that are better so skip this one unless you really can't find something anywhere else.

The parking lot often smells "dank" between 2nd and 3rd shift, make of that what you will.

Work-life balance
It’s a great company but when they are behind on orders they will definitely take away weekends

Pay & benefits
The pay is alright, but the benefits are amazing. Honestly I haven’t worked for a company that offers a better plan for health insurance to date. We have the same insurance that the hospitals use, and out copays for out of network providers are pretty low

Job security and advancement
It’s very hard to move up in this company. Most people there work for 7+ years before they get promoted unless they have friends or family which is a bit discouraging; but this company does not do layoffs. It’s very rare to see them do any layoffs here because there is always a need, but I wouldn’t count on moving up in the company unless you are willing to invest a good bit of your life there.

Management
It really depends on your shift manager and line manager. If you have a bad line lead you will absolutely hate your job, and you’ll always have small orders. And if you have a bad shift manager you’ll feel uncomfortable about trying to make your job doable. You have to figure out the work culture of each shift.

Culture
It really depends on the day. You never really know what you’re looking at on a day to day basis. You may be extremely busy one day, and then the next day you may be moved to another section to find work. If you don’t pick things up fast you’ll get torn apart, and you always feel like you can be replaced if you don’t like your job.

Overall
I work with a lot of amazing people, and I never have to worry about getting sent home because we run out of work, but I don’t get days of unless it is a holiday. But the holidays are paid thankfully. I wouldn’t recommend this job to anyone that can’t handle factory work because it’s a lot, and I’ve had to adjust to be able to handle it. All I’m all if you need work they are extremely reliable. I’m able to go to school doing 8 hour shifts, and I can pay my bills with this job.

I worked here for a day. They make it sound like a great opportunity in orientation, but it was soon clear they focused on talking about giveaways and social events to avoid talking about how exhausting the work is. It turns out the work is simple, but also monotonous. The day drags on and on and you are constantly doing the same several motions the whole time. It's physically unsustainable. I am used to physical work and had shoulder pain after one shift that lasted over a month. I spoke to several people who didn't know why I didn't decide to work anywhere else, and explained that they've been working there 2 weeks and have bruises all over and are sore all the time. You're lucky if you get a line lead nice enough to train you instead of just leaving you to fend for yourself. You may just get one who berates you and refuses to train you just because they don't like the way you look, and leaves you to run a 5 station cell alone. I'm not making this up. I wish it weren't true. People who are less in shape are given easier jobs with chairs to sit on while more fit employees are given tasks that really take a toll on your body and make it impossible to stay long. All of this I either was told or experienced overt one shift. For those who can stick it out, there is a bonus program, and lots of opportunity for promotion because people are leaving all the time.

This could be a great and low stress place to work but the leadership here leaves much to be desired. The often mandated, excessive overtime could be alleviated if the heads of departments could work as a team and lead their people to greatness. Instead, the constant Blame Game hinders all. Lack of working knowledge is also a great pitfall here. How can one direct a department or function they do not themselves fully understand? Floor teams are not rewarded much for hard work nor are they held accountable for lack thereof. The picking area is an absolute mess. Organization is an unheard of concept in any department. It is increasingly difficult to find much of anything needed in a timely fashion. There is no understanding or observance of demand versus ability to fulfill. The manager cares only for numbers and has little to no regard for the people who must make miracles happen with no support. Also very impulsive and has fired or demoted several long term and solid employees with little to no regard for professionalism or respect. Professionalism might as well be a foreign language for the HR department. Stay away. It’s hot and dirty as hades. Roaches in break rooms and expired food in the vending machines. Water machines are left unserviced for months. I have worked in manufacturing and warehouse for the last 15 years and have seen some real messes but this place takes the cake. Seek employment elsewhere. 

It is very overwhelming all the time back stabbing lying two faced trust no one. Stay quiet and be to yourself. A very hostile work environment.  The point system is brutal. Even in emergency situations you get a point.  Example is it you are hurt on the job and need medical attention  a 1/2 point. It is set up on a 10 point system.  If your late 1/2 point.  Leave before shift ends 1/2 point no matter what the issue is. Miss the day 1 point.  If you get 10 points you are terminated.  It takes a full year to remove one single point with no other days missed. Management doesn't know what is going on from one moment to the next.  They are always looking for a fall guy to lay blame on for them not reaching their productivity goals. Last but not least hardly ever having enough product to finish job orders. So you will bounce from place to place or line to line maybe 3 to 4 times a day. Mind you each line will  need some type of repairs  before  starting up. Very stressful and promises are not kept. I  could go on and on.  Stay away avoid the place like the plague.  Maintenance, and Electrical Technician nightmare. Most everything is worn-out and needs repair and replacement.  Parts cannot be ordered because they are no longer available.

Enter at your own risk! I am not one to job hop but I was there less than 2 months. I had to take off due to personal reasons….. sick kid and doctors appointments! I accumulated more points than they allowed in a 90 day period! However this was beyond my control. These are appointments I set up a while back and if I had cancelled I would have had to wait even longer. So I received a point for not canceling and going to my appointment…..  single parents think twice. 

DHL Management who works in the same building as Mann+Hummel accuses you of talking to their employees which keeps them from getting their work done which is completely false! The quality inspectors are there to make sure the trailers are being loaded properly we have no choice but to talk to the loaders and processors to be sure everything is loaded properly! 

 When I was hired on the lead said “I hope you were not looking for structure, because this place has none” and this was 100% TRUE….. I should have ran then!!! I do not like working under chaos and that’s all it was every single day! This place is fairly new in operations and still trying to figure out the kinks…..  

I normally do not leave reviews like this good or bad but take heed!  TAKE THE JOB AT YOUR OWN RISK!  

The management is part of the problem but you hear that for a bunch of places. We have 3 or 4 bosses which is kind of crazy and they change the mgt structure frequently like they are really trying to fix the problem. There are good mgrs but it depends where you work. Our attendance policy officially is horrible but since they are having a hard time finding qualified skilled people they are more flexible depending on where you work and mgr you have. It kind of boils down to the mgr at this place. We have a hard getting basic things to do our job. Every month for example we run out of rags. Our supervisor simply forgets. It's very annoying. There is also a clique where mgrs hunt together. Our supervisors best friend is a leadman. That leadman does no wrong and you can't do anything because they are all together and HR doesn't help. Communication is a joke and has been for years. Benefits and pay are average. For my job we are underpaid by 5 bucks an hour. Insurance is ok and we still have 401k that matches 70% of the 1st 6% you contribute. If they could fix mgt it would be a good place even if they didn't pay better and get us what we need to do our job.

get ready to be yelled at & pressured if you even stop to tie your shoe. 
i learned that the higher your position is, the more you're allowed to get away with. Rather it's what you do, say or allow.
management is terrible & careless for 3rd shift. You can smoke weed but don't be late coming back from breaks. They stand around & talk all night with little to no help when needed, unless cell techs are fixing problems. They follow each other around & do nothing. Supervisor didn't handle any serious situations because they're biased.
hardest part is committing to work for people who don't care about your well being or you personal time. they'll force you to work every weekend & if you don't, you pay for it. They only care for their numbers & what makes them look good to their bosses. very selfish people.
most enjoyable part of work was always going home at the end of it.

After several consecutive years without adjustments for cost of living, coupled with an ineffective bonus program that is based on Reduced Revenue Sharing (meaning that monetary gains are dispuportunately shared from the top ranks to the lower), Mann&Hummel USA has failed to remain competitive as an employer when compared to other manufacturing companies in the area. This is leading to high rates of employee turnover which in turn, is making it very difficult for the company to maintain the good work culture that it desires. Low retention means continuously having to train new hires. This stiffles efficiency and reduces morale while putting quality output at risk. Once the company comes to terms with this and effectively addresses this issue, the term world-class will once again be synonymous with Mann&Hummel USA.

I've observed a concerning dynamic among management, where some leaders prioritize company progress, while others exploit their positions. Lower-level employees are often treated poorly, with managers dismissing feedback and making impulsive decisions that harm the organization. When challenged, managers take it personally and exploit their power. Since joining, I've seen a decline in progress due to the management team's lack of experience. Unnecessary challenges are created for subordinates, with managers prioritizing being right over organizational growth. This hinders collaboration, innovation, and progress. To improve, I suggest enhancing leadership development, promoting open feedback, and aligning decisions with company objectives. Unfortunately, the work culture is very rude, with management displaying unprofessional behavior. Also transparency is zero

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