regional sales manager

area manager

senior mechanical engineer

superintendent

operations manager

Mitsubishi Electric

What is the best part of working at the company?
Both assembly lines are probably the best experience over all. You get rotated to different spots every so often. The work load is manageable. You'll work with many people through out the day.

HR is really good here. Probably the one thing still keeping me here. Shout out to HR.

Also, pay and benefits are pretty good for the area.

Stable work. You'll get your 40, and then some.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The schedule: 10 hour shifts up to seven days a week. If there's a shutdown planned, you'll work 6 and 7 days a week the month leading up to it. You'll get more unexpected overtime than you'd like. It's hard to plan around that kind of schedule.

If you are a hard worker, you will be rewarded with tasks and attention because not everyone is a do-er. Over utilization of "do-ers". Manufacturing lines are understaffed. Burn out and frustration are reals problem overall.

This a boring job. You'll have to find ways to keep yourself alert, engaged, awake, busy, and off your phone. 

Prolonged downtime can be pretty awful sometimes.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Most areas are climate controlled. Lots of fans. The warehouse is NOT climate controlled, but there are big fans.

Culture? Management favors the relaxed. There isn't much support. The path of least resistance is the one usually taken. I think most of the management is pretty burned out.

It's factory culture. "Get those parts out." "Keep that line moving."

There's all kinds of people that work here. Lots of people from abroad. 


What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Assembly line: Clock in. Go to assigned spot, fill out paperwork, work. Repeat 3 times for breaks and lunch. Clock out. Go home. 

Lots of standing. Lots of repetitive motions. Boring. I have my own methods for dealing with the boredom. 

Manufacturing: lots of walking, bending, lifting. Lots to do. Very busy. Clock in, go to spot, work, break, work, lunch, work, break, work, clock out, go home.

Pretty good place to work as long as you are young and have no family that will miss you. The pay is decent you get bonuses every quarter and the benefits are the best I have ever had. It is somewhat air conditioned and it is generally a clean place to work. Large break rooms with large TV's. and standard machine food and snacks. Free coffee. As a tech I work 7 days a week every week and management can't make up its mind what to do with the production/manufacturing schedule. They gave everyone double time for any hours over 48 last year and went millions over budget. Now they have changed the schedule so much to try and cut back that people are meeting themselves at the door not knowing if they are coming or going. They went from three 8 hour shifts to two 10 hour shifts. This means that they try and schedule the operators to work so they never go over 48 hours even if they work 9 days in a row. they schedule so Sunday the beginning of the pay week is in the middle of your  7,8 ,9 days in a row. then they will be off for 5 days in a row. The operators get to take time off but the techs have to mainly use vacation or personal days to get the days the want off and that is still up for grabs.  The company has lost over 300 operators and 5 techs. Most of the techs I talk to are looking for new jobs. We keep telling them something has to give and they keep saying that they are working on it but that was over a year ago.

The management, HR, and benefits are probably the only good things about the company. We had just got done with doing 7 days a week 10 hour days of work for 3 months. They call it mandatory overtime. Then a crew names C-crew was made which was swing shift on weekends. Two morning shifts and two night shifts. They say you get two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch but if you’re in assembly then they expect you to be back from your breaks and lunch 5 minutes early so they can start the line back up and continue making parts. The attendance and disciplinary structure is misguided and asinine, every time you miss a day it is a point against you and it take 90 days for that point to drop off and every time you get a new point your 90 days starts over. If you were to over sleep and are late to work even by 5 minutes it’s counted as a half point. People who have been working there for even half a year longer than you will give you to cold shoulder because people come and go often. They expect you to do your work station tasks within 6.5 (literally, not metaphorically) seconds even if you’re brand new so that they can meet their numbers. Bottom line you start out at 18 an hour and they overwhelm you with work tasks and time limits

What is the best part of working at the company?
The collaborative environment and egalitarian workspaces made METUS  a great place to work.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
In my position, I was often working on several projects at a time. Sometimes I would have several that I needed to finish at nearly the same time, so that could get a little stressful. You just have to remember that they sell HVAC systems, so nobody is going to die if something needs to get pushed back!

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I worked there during a time if rapid growth, when innovation and efficiency improvements were in high demand. I was free to leverage any tech at my disposal to help various functional areas. Most of the team shared the culture of doing quality work and changing for the better. 
What was unfortunate was that when sales took a dive due to inflation, they decided to reduce the workforce by 10%.  My VP decided that despite the vast improvements I had made and would have made going forward, my role was not vital enough to the long term success of the company. That hurt.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A few meetings here and there, some ad hoc deskside collaboration, and plenty of time to zone into doing the work.

Contracted through Adecco. Long term temporary contract. Working 1st shift was a nice change of pace from other positions over my career. Co-workers both full-time and temporary were very personable. Management at the direct supervisory level was fairly competent. Office management and engineering staff on some levels were difficult to deal with and clueless. There is good and bad employees at every workplace. The days would usually pass fairly fast. Some of the equipment being assembled would take days to build. Some assemblies just a few hours. I increased my skill set in wiring and the torquing of different items. My use of hand tools taught me some valuable tricks that I can utilize elsewhere. My only issues with the position would be the lack of work at times and then to much work. I was moved to different job assignments fairly often and was finally able to settle into one project to try to master the one assembly. All of my assemblies passed Quality Assurance standards consistently. I was hoping for an offer of being hired on permanently and they were starting to interview. The hardest part of the job was whether I would become permanent. Unfortunately, just shy of 20 months tenure at my position, the company decided to end my assignment. There was no reason given for my dismissal.

Day started with morning meeting to set agenda and to review previous days training. We were learning to build Electrical Transformers. My job was Coil Winder Operator which was responsibilities were to read Blue Print/Drawing to adequately wind coil to specification. My co-worker and I took turn operating winding table because it was only one reserved for training as the other took notes and observed. The Hardest part of the job to me was the language barrier, since our training took place in Ako, Japan our trainer was Japanese whom spoke very little english,but his instructions were translated by translater.And I must add being out of the country for long periods of time was kind of stressful as well. The best part of the job for me was the experience of learn something that most people have no idea how it works or how its built.Being able to travel the world and the relationship that was built with the Japanese co-workers was enjoyable experience,

If you are always available for overtime and are willing to work your butt off, this is the job for you. The pay was decent and there was room for advancement, but sometimes it was for a job that the line would be going away within a few years. Most of the machines are 30+ years old and do not run well. Techs and engineers always trying to pass off repairs as being good to go, but you have the same issues daily. Management is terrible with communication and does not appreciate the workers as much as they should. If you work in the office, they look more highly on you than running production. Morale is at an all time low there now with covid. When you get hired on, you don't get a say in where you go, they put you on whatever line needs it the most. They will use your vacation time and personal time up now if you are sick. There is no "covid pay"

Applied through a staffing agency and they helped me set up the interview process.

My interviewer were relatively nice at first but at the same time being pretty demanding of things that they could have been upfront with the agency who introduced me to the position before the actual day of. 

The position itself required heavy and hardcore Japanese-level of customer service, not to mention to somewhat act as a therapist to expats who come from extreme conservative business culture. Although I appreciate said interviewer saving me time and letting me know my current skill isn't enough for the position, they tried to "help" me giving job-hunting advices which I personally feel very mansplained despite me hinting and answering them politely all along that I have been doing most of what they were advising me on. The entire interview lasted almost 2 hours thanks to the aforementioned.

The more I reflect on how the interview went the more I feel insulted at the same time and glad that I did not get accepted.

I have been through to many companies to work with before and this Mitsubishi Electric is the best one that I have ever work with.
First of all, the employees here were so beautiful. They were so kind, nice, knowledgeable, educated, happy and supportive.
The job I have been managed so well. It was simple not to hard but sometimes were very busy. The jobs were fun but need to work hard. I have learned a lot from not only this job but also from my coworkers, my managers, engineers who I have worked with and of course I have to include my boss also. They taught me so many good things were related to my work, my plans in order for me to achieve my goal. The management here were so clear and handle very professional from each different department. We are multi-cultures employee here but we always gather together as a big family. We help each other when we need it. The jobs are fun and easy to work with and especially I have enjoyed to work with the people here.They are beautiful, nice, kind and supportive.
Thanks.

There were a few good instances where I learned quite a lot about MEAA and mass production. I learned that when you're just a face and a number, you have little value in a large company. I learned that , despite codes and safety regulation, industrial safety still takes a backseat to profits in most cases. I also learned that industrial scale manufacturing is darker and dirtier than I'd every imagined. 

It should have been a red flag to me when the previous co-op who's position I was filling left at short notice. These types of things don't happen for no reason at all. He was probably as dissatisfied with his position as I was when I left after just one co-op term. 

The hardest part of the job was the lack of applicable work. I was informed that I would be working with PLC's and automation. In reality, I ended up commenting ladder logic programs and having the safety projects I developed axed by bean counters.

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