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When I get to work,  I begin to organize my work station. . Once I know what kind of product we will be running, I make sure I have the materials I need for the job. During an average of two hours  before each break , I run my station to the best of my knowledge as safe and fast as I can. Whenever there's a problem with the line or if I'm low on material I call on my team leader,  forklift driver or maintenance to help me fix any problems I can't fix on my own. Management has been fair with me during my time here. I've been able to use vacation time on emergencies. I feel that I've always been treated fairly. We are involved in the company's  business by having company meetings almost every 2 or 3 months. If I'm working with other people on my line, I make sure we all know the line , if there's a need to break eachother . We all work together as a unit and within the time I've worked for Martinrea,  I've felt as if I come to work each day with my work family. We all respect eachother and sure, there's people we get along a lot better than others. I've learned to put myself in the company's shoes when times are hard. Some of my favorite things about this company is that I can get as much overtime as I can. I got hired on after my 90 day probation,  full benefits, frequent raises. Seniority plays a big part on getting overtime but for the most part, I've been able to work up to 72 hours a week. The downfall to working these many hours is being away from my family. My wife knows why I put in so much time in this place but it's never easy being away for so long. That would be the hardest part of the job plus the commute.  While we lived in Frankfort and even now that we own a house in anderson county,  my commute has been 45 minutes to an hour. During the snow season, it's been dangerous getting to work which is why I think it's time to find something a lot closer.

Absolutely horrible management, no work life balance, absolutely zero idea of how to actually reach their own lofty production goals or how to schedule any department to facilitate accomplishment of assembly/production goals for that matter... ... "Quality" is a punch line to a bad joke, as is the thought of having day off without taking a point/personal time/or vacation time.... In simple terms, you,your career goals, accomplishments, and frankly,  you as a human being...  do not seem to matter... Safety is about the only thing i can say that they're attempting to do right. however, even that leaves some serious room to improve Simply due to an absolute and complete disconnect between the folks in the office making the decisions and the plant floor/ reality of the situation... They Seem to be Operating under the idea that no matter what, someone will always be right there to replace you... Reality is that they've been through literally just about everybody at every temp service/employment agency within a 50 mile radius and have utterly and completely given themselves the well deserved reputation they currently have. which is one of a company that cares so very little about their employees its disturbing....

A great place to roll up your sleeves and enjoy making quality parts for top automotive manufacturing companies.  A place where Safety, Quality, Productivity, and Human Development are the primary building blocks of our core business where our strength is in our people!  Family oriented with work life balance initiatives in mind such as four day work weeks.  Great benefits with 401K and company match.  Paid vacations with paid holidays!  An on-site fitness facility open and available to all employees 24/7 as part of the encouragement for being healthy.  An open market concept with fresh choices for food during breaks.  Training and development allowing for upward mobility and a positive open communication path between workforce and management to solve problem issues together as a team concept.  A great recognition program that show-cases individuals and teams for achieving and surpassing targets!  Great location, Just off the I-64 corridor only 15 minutes from Downtown Louisville, KY.  The hourly production workers are represented by the UAW - Local 2383.  Martinrea is a great place to have a stable solid career making top quality parts that showcase the talent of our people with pride in their work!

In my time I spent as a welder at Martinrea, I got to work in an extremely fast paced environment with great co-workers but a poor management staff. The day consisted of myself and two others constantly hand welding rear cradles for the new 2016 Chevrolet Malibu. I never received specs to weld as well as any blueprints to follow when completing this work task, we asked the supervisor and higher management to provide this to us and they refused constantly. There was very poor ventilation for our weld fumes. The management could have been much better in my opinion, we had a shift lead who fired workers because of his personal view of them. There was also an issue of the management staff putting off workers worries about how safe of an environment we were working in. The co-workers were great to work with. They were all full of energy and made the day fly by. The hardest part of the job would be working with the shift supervisor, to try and better the shift numbers, as well as relationships the workers had with any management. The most enjoyable part of the job for me was my pay, I felt like I was getting paid what I am worth, and it made me felt like my schooling wasn't for nothing.

at first i loved wirking there. i was on 3rd shift. everyone was friendly and didnt mind helping you or answering questions. but as soon as i got into the job for 2 weeks it all changed. my supervisor was unprofessional. she would give dirty looks and talk bad about everyone. she would also tell us if we missed one bad part we would be fired. so your just scared that your jobs in danger everyday. and if a girl started working there on 3rd shift, she wouldnt be there long beause the supervisor would fire her out of spite. the only people who were able to be team leaders were her guy friends. there were more qualified people for the job but she would make sure her friends got the job.
other than that it was a good place to work. it pays good and they give you plenty of hours to work.
i still speak to my old co-workers. they were fun to work around. they were always upbeat and positive.
the hardest part of the job is keeping you line stocked for parts while still running rate. they dont have an extra person to stock but they do expect you to restock and get rate every single hour.
and the most enjoyable part of the job would have to be the co-workers. that was really my favorite part. everyone tries to help eachother.

I'm not sure there is a "typical" day in the Information Technology world.  Each day is filled with new requests which makes it challenging to attend to the daily maintenance needs and longer term R&D needs of the facility.   IT personnel are considered to be on call 24/7 without exception.
  
There are definitely opportunities to learn because it's a "sink or swim" environment.  The expectations are very high.

Historically there has been a high level of turnover within the management teams at many of the facilities which can make it challenging to maintain cohesiveness and longer team team goals. 

In general, most co-workers are pleasant and reasonable to deal with.  Many of the employees are dedicated and hard working and deserve to be commended for their dedication and effort.

The hardest part of the job is keeping up with the very large workload and managing and scheduling longer term tasks.

The most enjoyable part of the job is interacting with people and taking care of their issues.  In general the people are appreciative of the help and support.

My experience with Martinrea industries making auto parts for GM is been an eye opener as far as the auto industry goes. The level of automation is more than I have worked with. I like the robots they eliminate a lot of labor but on the down side also jobs. Some of our managers really know the industry some make mistakes, we all do. I'm still learning how i can best run the assembly lines it seems there is always something we can improve on. My crews for the most part are good, some are really good at welding and running the OP's. A lot of what I see is the lack of motivation and lack of work ethics. No matter who you are or what company you work for you have to care something about your work and the products you assemble! The hardest part of the day I think is when the robots start faulting out and sometimes the start of the shift. The most enjoyable part of the day is knowing your crew has made a good run seeing the production numbers up where they should be and clocking out!

I started out as a Salaried Lower Management position,  of CNC Trumpf Laser Technician,  it's a maintenance position. A year later, they made us Techs all hourly.  My payrate was $25.50 an hour.
4 years later, it was $27.06 an hour. Great pay, right.
But, unfortunately I never got time off and less I went to the hospital or I took my vacation pay. They worked me so many hours I made over a hundred grand a year for the last three years. 70 plus hours a week. My health went bad my feet went bad my ankles and my niece. The hospital gave me some time off on my first day back my boss told me I had to start working 12-hours the very next day two hours later I walked out and quit. I could not handle working 3 months at a time without one weekend off basically I got one day off every 3 months and I just couldn't handle it no more. I Hope they've changed since then because I would gladly go back and work for them if they would at least give me one weekend off a month. Thank you.

Almost nobody stays more than a few months. Everyone is miserable. all the supervisors are never on the same page and none really know where to send people. You'll be trained the first week in one place then after that work in practically half the shop and supervisors will wonder why you're not making rate (300 parts per hour) when you don't get more than a day to get used to any department/cell. The robots break down constantly due to poor design and Martinrea doesn't want to spend money or time to fix them. A lot of mandatory 10 or 12 hour shifts.  You'll be working 7 day weeks for weeks on end. Sometimes more than a month without a day off. A lot of times they don't warn you ahead of time that everyone suddenly is working a 10 or 12 hour shift that day instead of 8 until the 2nd break. If you can't lift a certain amount of weight or can't handle the hotter mig weld area, the supervisors will send you there anyway, even knowing that's too much for you. Management and other higher ups couldn't care less about their employees.

The supervisors and management don't know what they are doing.  They ask regular co workers how to do things they should have been trained for. Very unorganized place to work. They don't tell you in advance that you have overtime, they just say we have overtime when you get there or fired. I have children and that's to hard to do that. At the becoming they tell you all these great things but it's all lies.  They don't give you the raise in 90 days like they tell you. If you have family there and they don't do well they discriminate against you or the next person that's family. It's like high school in there drama and bunch of perverts working there. Very uncomfortable! The o my good thing is they give convicted felons a chance! Please don't work there, other great places to be. Just have to search little. Not Unionized so if your sick and you call out and you've already worked overtime, they don't pay you for it even though you've already worked the time. That is not fair.

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