proposal engineer

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project manager

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Metso

The company is poorly lead from the top down. 

The CEO of the Outotec division where I worked made little to no effort to maintain any resemblance of control over the employees he managed. This resulted in a very unprofessional culture to exist within the division I worked, particularly within the Project management/Engineering/Design departments.
The culture within the Engineering/Design department was especially poor with the employees having a "Do as I please" attitude, with little to no urgency to meet any project deadline or generate quality designs which met the customer's expectations.

Although the division I worked at claimed to be ISO 9001 certified, I found little if any of the company processes, procedures or standards were even documented. When brought on as a new employee I was told if I wanted to learn the company procedures and standards I was to ask more experienced employees. The leaders of my department were even proud of this lack of documentation calling it "Learning the Tribal knowledge". Consequently the word of mouth method of learning company procedures/standards proved to be inconsistent from employee to employee depending on who you asked.  The lack of any documented standards within the Engineering/Design department also led to rivalries existing amongst the employees, who often competed/argued with each other over who was in control over nonexistent undocumented standards.

The Outotec division I worked for deferred its payroll duties to another division in Canada which suffered from a high turnover rate. The resultant turnover problem led to many mistakes being made to employees paychecks, including misreporting payroll tax deductions, and missing HSA deductions on employee's paychecks.

The benefits offered by Outotec offered are lackluster at best, with poor dental & vision coverage.

If the poor leadership, management and unprofessional culture at Outotec can be overcome, the variety of engineering projects offered/generated by Outotec for its customers, are very interesting. An Engineer/Designer would not be performing the same repetitive tasks from project to project, making for a fun place to work.

In conclusion, avoid this company unless you are absolutely in need of a short term employment solution.

I really love working for my company, it has helped me grow in my professional and personal life.  My co-workers are wonderful people and I truly enjoy working with each of them.
 
My job spans over all department.  I am responsible for people being able to do their jobs correctly, by providing them with the necessary tools and information to do so. In order to achieve this I must also help steer the atmosphere in the workplace to be a positive and enjoyable one.

My other responsibilities include, project reporting, time management, compiling data for reporting to corporate offices abroad.  

One important lesson I have learned is, sometimes you need to reach/think outside the box in order to accomplish greater achievements. I understand being a manager is helping people be the best they can be and empowering them to take pride in a job well done.

I would not recommend working for this company locally. As a whole Metso has some great ideas and products they are well known for worldwide...however the local mining and construction team is made up of poor leaders. Training is non existent and meetings to inform team members of completing work and preparing them for success never happens. Everyone is on different versions of software and the IT department fails to keep up to speed. Many people are hired as temp workers to fill a need only to be released later. Metso of Columbia is stuck in their ways that have proved time and time to not meet the companies long-term goals or benefit their employees. There are few positives...the office is quiet and they have excellent 401k matching and profit sharing as well as health benefits. If you desire to work for them avoid the Columbia division but be prepared be part of a process that is extremely inefficient and no one willing to listen to anyone's ideas regardless of how beneficial. Lots of broken promises.

A typical day at work would be finishing purchase req's , making sure the scheduler has the parts to maintain the production plan.  Contacting my employees and vendors to establish communication.  Talking with management for goals to accomplish. I learned to become an overall better Manager by communication, leadership, attention to detail, motivation, and innovation. The management style was hands off and someone that you would not be afraid to approach with questions. The same with co-workers, this was a company that made sure the employees were appreciated. The hardest part of the job was dealing with suppliers that you had to micro manage. Finally the most enjoyable part of the job was the freedom as a manager to make changes that would benefit the company.

If you've ever heard the saying "A bad manger can ruin a good company", this place is the perfect example.  The company itself is good but the managers ruin that on a daily basis.  We have good benifits, alot of time off and it's a laid back work environment.  The problem is management.  They don't seem to have a clue what they are doing or what direction we are going.  Most of them don't know about the product.  They are weak and too afraid to hold people accountable.  They promote people who miss huge amounts of time and then wonder why everything is always late.  No organization within the departments.  Constantly being asked by multiple manager to do contradicting things.  No communication across departments.  The entire aftermarket management are weasels and not to be trusted.

Sales drawings for new customers. Approval drawings for new jobs. Fabrication and assembly drawings to complete existing jobs. We were split between our industrial jobs and our recycling jobs. I did all the budgeting for all recycling equipment. Metso, a recycling group, bought us out about 5 years ago (formerly B.E.S.T inc.) and it seemed to be somewhat of a downward slide. I ran a 5 man engineering group when we were purchased, it was down to myself and one other guy at our closure. They cut funding for the industrial side, when the work slowed in recycling side they had nowhere to turn but to close my location.
Excellent co-workers, everyone worked hard. B.E.S.T. management was great, but Metso didn't pay to much attention to our small manufacturing group.

When I started at Metso Automation I was an assembler on 3rd shift. After a year I moved up to production planning. My day consisted of running reports for the manufacturing supervisor. Than I would go through my reports for scheduling jobs on the manufacturing floor. Check all availability of inventory as well a safety stock. Than I would run my report for items that would need a purchase order to vendors. 
Than I became a trainer for the for manufacturing. I would go to several different location to train new employees in a new start up
for manufacturing. Than I moved to quotations dept. I really enjoyed working for this company. It was well ran by management

Their actions speak volumes.  They show what they think of warehouse personnel on how they treat you. Only office personnel matter. Lower pay and poor treatment if you work outside the office even tho you work harder deal with more problems, you work inside office, better pay and treatment for alot less work and making huge costly mistakes that slow down production and cause orders to be late cause theres no accountability for office personnel who constantly make mistakes cause they dont care know their jobs. TREAT YOUR WAREHOUSE WORKERS EQUAL TO OFFICE PERSONNEL, WE MATTER JUST AS MUCH IF NOT MORE!!!

Recent management changes may make the Metso facility in Clarksdale a more profitable, positive, and secure place to work. Lack of SAP training caused many of the production and past due customer issues, but with a new Production Manager, that will be addressed quickly. The Clarksdale area has almost no rental opportunites to white collar type professionals, only options are to buy or commute, but not sure "where" or how far a commute would be and hardly any big name restaurants like Oliver Garden, or chain type steakhouses, not even a Captain D's, Ryans, or Golden Corral. And no theatres, bowling alley, only a couple of golf courses. But Tunica is only about 30 miles away.

Metso is a supplier of technology and services for mining, aggregates, oil and gas, pulp, paper, as well as process industries. The Company operates Minerals segment, that covers mining, aggregates and recycling businesses; and Flow Control segment, that includes valves and pumps businesses. Metso offers a range of products in categories, including wear parts, spare parts, lokotrack mobile plants, crushers, feeders, screens, conveyors, grinding, separation, pyro processing, bulk materials handling and slurry pumps. Its services include field services, life cycle services for mining, repairs and refurbishment, chamber optimization and engineered upgrades.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Proposal engineer 3 salaries reported	$95,500 per year
Machine operator 1 salary reported	$19.00 per hour
Project manager 3 salaries reported	$90,100 per year
Logistics manager 3 salaries reported	$75,172 per year
Technical sales manager 1 salary reported	$166,350 per year

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