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Mirion

In my opinion, Mirion is a great stepping stone to obtain either research or industrial experience that later on gets you a job that pays much more. Mirion in my opinion is not a 'forever job'

In my opinion the company focuses too much on new production rather than customer service and repair production. Customers are less likely to place a new purchase if they are already waiting for several units in repair.

Corporate management is entirely detached from production management. As a public company, corporate only cares about increasing profit for shareholders by increasing production and cutting cost. In my opinion, they are doing this backwards. They are cutting costs by cutting employees, pay, and benefits of production facilities which is in turn hurting production. 

Corporate is urging general managers to cut costs by any means. Job security is at risk, and job advancement is practically nonexistent, despite how hard production directors fight for it. Corporate meanwhile is filled with so many VPs, managers, and directors, that it's hard for the produced cash flow to go anywhere else. The money is not reinvested into the cash producing factories or employees, it is used to further expand the overhead corporate structure, which cannot entirely prove the need for it's existence at this size. 

As the money is not reinvested into the production facilities, production does not grow. Which means the only way to make more cash flow, is to cut cost from those very same production facilities (as the corporate structure will never cut cost from itself). This causes our production facilities to be working too thin and lean, starving off the experienced workforce, and being unable to train replacements. 

When production is exceeded, rather than that cash flow being reinvested, production bonuses are cut. 

Though labeled as an "Engineer" this position is involves no engineering of any kind. The job is exclusively the repair, maintenance, and installation of equipment and software sold to customers. It is a technician position. You will learn exactly what is needed to repair, install, maintain, calibrate, and diagnose most issues with their specific equipment. The most difficult part of this job is dealing with the stress of having no personal life and being constantly squeezed by Corporate. The technical work is simplistic, rudimentary, and can be done by anyone with a high school diploma. The logistical work is obtuse and mind-numbing.

The position for Field Service itself is a personally rewarding, semi-challenging job that gives you a rather unsupervised position. The job is remote and thus has no direct presence of supervision. You make your own schedule–to a point–and you manage yourself for the most part. This is great for people who like to be very independent and never show up at an office day in and day out. Be aware that this fact is sold as an "invaluable" and "unquantifiable" perk to the job. However, it is nothing more than an attempt to shift responsibility away from the employer about maintaining a work/life balance and provide a flimsy rational for reduced compensation.

The work/life balance at this position is nonexistent. You are expected to meet all customer demands but given far more customers than one can reasonably handle effectively. This makes the highly-independent, self-scheduling quality of the job a double-edged sword. Work weeks are long (48-60 hours), and you will not be compensated in any way to account for this. Travel as an FSE is stated at ~75%, but in actuality is 95%+. This is the expectation for this position.

Staffing is overly lean, which is the primary cause of the lack of a work/life balance. This will make you irreplaceable. You are unlikely to be fired but also likely never to be promoted or given any kind of lateral transition. Staffing issues have been a well-documented and ever-persistent problem, lasting well over a decade.

The Corporate office is solely focused on its Shareholders to the exclusion of all the employees and any sense of long term profits or growth. Compensation packages shrink year to year and teams are continually leaned down. Company performance can only negatively affect your compensation. That is, no amount of exceeding profit targets will ever be reflected in your compensation. Instead, the team will receive verbal thanks for their dedication. Decisions are made unilaterally and with no apparent consideration for those they affect.

Management does care about its employees, however, they are hamstrung by Corporate and lack any real power to effect change. They will attempt to make things right, but can do little more than pacify agitated employees given what few powers they wield.

The position fulfills an array of administrative support activities for the corporate office.  Reporting directly to the CEO, the Executive Assistant provides executive support in a one-on-one working relationship with each member of the local Executive team. The Executive Assistant serves as the primary point of contact for internal and external constituencies on all matters pertaining to the Office of the CEO. The Executive Assistant also serves as a liaison to the board of directors and senior management team members and oversees special projects assigned by the CEO. The Executive Assistant must be creative and enjoy working within a small, entrepreneurial environment. The ideal individual will have the ability to exercise good judgment in a variety of situations, with strong written and verbal communication, expert administrative and organizational skills, and the ability to maintain a realistic balance among multiple priorities. The Executive Assistant will have the ability to work independently on projects, from conception to completion, and must be able to work under pressure at times to handle a wide variety of activities and confidential matters with discretion.

Ever since Mirion Technologies bought Canberra Industries, things started to go downhill.  Jobs from upper management to production was being eliminated.  Though it is normal for a new company to do this, in this case, Mirion was a competitor of Canberra and its main intend is to close the company in Wallingford.  But since nobody would buy the building because it was too expensive, they started to eliminate positions, various departments including production which was already cut to the bone and leaving employees to do multiples tasks at once which was highly stressful.  A great majority of us had years at the company and Mirion was getting rid of highly experience individuals leaving those who had minimum or no experience at all.  It was no longer beginning to feel like a family and it was extremely hard and sad to see a lot of good employees let go.

I am writing to share my experience working at Mirion. Based on my time there, I cannot recommend it as an employer. I found the management practices to be significantly lacking, and there was a noticeable lack of respect shown towards employees. This challenging environment ultimately contributed to a situation where I felt indirectly pushed to leave my position.

My advice to the company is to listen to your employees, give them support for whatever they need, and keep them up to date with what is happening with the company. Explain your wall of stats to your new hires. Lastly, communicate with your employees, especially your new hires. 

Working here was exciting for me and I was devoted to the company from day one until the last time I sent an email.  However management sucks!  There is no support from management what’s so ever. People in this company are not held accountable. You have these long timers who only got a job here because they were friends of EVP folks and HR looks the other way.  

Multiple occasions where you ask your director for support via email, teams, call and you never get answered.  Total disrespect. I hope things change now under new leadership and as much as I would have loved to go back to work for a company that does good in the world, to put myself in such toxic environment in the IT department is not worth any salary.  

Wages are below average for production/test personnel, but the atmosphere is positive. The major flaw is outsourcing; thinking they can get a better product cheaper. Bottom line, they should leave production to the pros! We that are in Meriden! Outsourcing leads to "you buy cheap, you get cheap". So many cuts in employees leaves those of us in production spread thin and multi tasking. Really afraid that the outsourcing will ruin the reputation of what has been a really reliable company. Major kudos from buyers when the product is made here. Many returns for service for outsourced products. Seems like the "almighty dollar" makes many decisions. BAD decisions!

There was a high volume of data entry every day. I was responsible for 5 of there companies billing to process on a daily bases. I learned how you use there Accounting Software (4th Shift). Uploaded invoices in the computer for their weekly check runs. Posted and journal entries in the general ledger. Balance all check runs in Excel spreadsheet.  Reconciled Bank Statements and balanced them monthly for JP Morgan. The manager was very helpful in my training process. This was a very friendly atmosphere. Work with all departments in the finance office.

A very small facility, Very friendly full time personnel. All worked as a team...  However, a very weak internet/intranet set up...   All Codes, Standards, procedures and drawings were only controlled in hard copy....  No intranet (windows explorer) access to controlled copies of documents.  No implementations of storage and maintenance procedures or Conditional Release procedures.

Marketing and selling Dosimetry (film badges) to Dentists and Veterinarians in the US. Sent out quarterly mailings to potential customers to sell our products. Increased percent return of direct mail orders by 200%, 

I learned a lot about the products we sold so that I could write better copy for brochures and mailers. I reported to the Vice President of Marketing who was very knowledgeable about the products. Great working with the Vice President of Sales who knew how to train the salespeople and sell the product.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Welder 7 salaries reported	$31.22 per hour
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