press operator

quality assurance technician

manufacturing operator

process engineer

shipping and receiving clerk

Molded Fiber Glass Companies

Interesting place to learn materials science, composites engineering, and OEM manufacturing. They use AAIG tools, so it was an awesome opportunity learn APQP, FMEA, and PPAP. The corporate management, engineering, and research people are world class. I was going to make a career here, but decided to leave for a few reasons.

One thing I didn’t like was that they intentionally manufactured goods in the very lowest end of their customer’s tolerances, in order to save materials. This means the reinforcement content was low, the filler was high, and the parts were thin. Ideally, tolerances should be kept at a nominal value. I believe this led to tolerance stack up that negatively effected the final assembly and hurt our customers. This situation may present itself to you if you work here, at which point you may feel as though society and the greater good is being threatened by brazen cost cutting.

There are hazardous materials everywhere, and the employees are, in my opinion, routinely over-exposed to styrene. To make matters worse, they were typically instructed to clean themselves with alarming quantities of industrial solvents to remove the resins and coatings from their skin and clothes. I believe they are mostly unaware of the risks of overexposure.

During my time there, management encouraged employees to use either incorrect or modified materials in assembly of roof caps if  the proper materials were not immediately available. There are potentially hundreds of trucks in circulation that may have incorrect insulation and materials. It was so questionable, certain employees even recorded the VINs of defective caps. Situations like this can be considered ethical dilemmas for engineers and even operators.

This is, essentially, a company that manufactures for very shrewd customers, for thin profits. Ideally, critical thinking and problem solving skills should be employed to reduce operations costs, but, in my experience, this branch tends to call upon their personnel to employ  questionable methods that are considered taboo by many in the engineering profession. 

Ultimately, engineers and managers that uphold industry business ethics will find this place repugnant.



MFG was a great place to work at first because of many very good and hardworking employees plus the job was challenging and exciting. They build very large blades for windmills using composite materials without any automated processes.  I learned a great deal on this type of composite process.  However, I would advise not to relocate to this company.

I was warned to avoid this company and the organization, but I chose to work there anyway. The work environment was full of hazardous substances.  The management treated many employees very poorly. Direct labor worked very strenuous positions, and forced to work 60 or more hours a week, or lose their job. Salaried employees were treated sometimes good and sometimes bad, depending on the politics. Overall, consistently poor decisions made by management affected the quality of the work and employee moral.  Many employees worked under stress and were afraid to work there and left. Such a huge constant turnover created problems with teammate training and coverage of many important job functions.

I worked here for 1 yr in their TX plant, and this review is only for this plant. During the first few weeks, I enjoyed my work. Then it started boring. No advancements in terms of learning, and career. Because of the nature of the work, the place is full of fiberglass dirt/dust. The same old management trying to impose their own things without much care about people. I worked as engineer, and in the beginning of this summer, our (engineering's) office's AC stopped working, and I worked inside temperature range 95 deg F- 105 deg F for many weeks. Management did not care about it, because it costs money, and they are in the separate building with clean office environment, and AC!!!!!
Thank God, I got offer from other company before the temperature in our office raised to 120 deg F.

The work is honest. The maintenance manager is great and will help you however he can. The overall shop culture could use work (too many chiefs not enough indians so to speak). Upper management like most places cares more about making product than keeping the equipment running. Many repairs are band-aids and as of right now the maintenance is a reactive crew rather than proactive. There's only two maintenance technicians per shift (day shift has a welder, tooling, PM guy in addition to techs but they aren't supposed to run calls), there really should at least be three per shift to get caught up and stay ahead. If you don't mind heat in the summer and fiberglass all over you then you will have zero issues with the work.  

My position when I first started was on floor production last stage of blade building. Than moved into shipping department where it was very fast paced multiple duties everyday, forklift operation, unloading of freight, inventory of freight, kit building for various departments, worked directly with supervisors. challenging part was when production parts where not ordered timely and kit building could not be completed. I greatly enjoyed being busy from the time I got to work until shift ended

They deal with composites.
Composites are a combination of two or more materials
yielding properties superior to those of the individual
ingredients. One material is in the form of a particulate or
fiber, called the reinforcement or discrete phase. The other
is a formable solid, called the matrix or continuous phase.
The region where the reinforcement and matrix meet is
called the interface. Composite properties are determined by
chemical and mechanical interaction of the combined materials.
Wood and concrete are composites under this definition.

Was a supervisor for over a year .Mfg wants supervisors to fire people for any reason at all.They want supervisors to be mean and treat teammates unfair.No commucation from any one.There is no direction with this company and they wonder why the cant fill open positions- seems like every 2 years there is a layoff.This plant is the dirtiest plant i have ever seen.STAY AWAY FROM MFG

What is the best part of working at the company?
Personally it was the people I worked with that made it worth coming in and working hard

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having to work around unmotivated people

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's a bit dusty and I don't understand the culture part

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I basically run in circles around the plant

A typical work day at MFG consisted of production support, dispositioning NCR tags, cost savings projects and process audits.

I learned that you have to understand the entire business; from production, quality, engineering and management.

I was able to work with several different cultures including: Somalia, Spanish and Karen.

The most enjoyable part of the job was working with other Engineers on cost savings, cycle time reductions and process improvements projects.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Everything well explained in the interview, rights and responsibilities .  Profits share and fringe benefits.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The adaptation period. Working with fiberglass and be on same spot all day long 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Extremely respectful atmosphere, support from leadership and staff 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Production, production and production

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Press operator 2 salaries reported	$17.14 per hour
Quality assurance technician 6 salaries reported	$22.00 per hour
Manufacturing operator 1 salary reported	$17.09 per hour
Process engineer 1 salary reported	$75,000 per year
Shipping and receiving clerk 1 salary reported	$18.00 per hour

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