maintenance technician

production

tool and die maker

technician

electromechanical technician

NEMAK

I was employed for 13 years at the company. Worked my way from bottom to the top. Started as a GP. Became a master trainer. Utilized as a back up die caster. Then went to the floating position for a few years before becoming a team lead. The money is good. Which is what keeps you there. The environment is not so good. There is room for growth I will not deny that. But a lot of the running of the company os based off of buddy system. Upper Management & HR is toxic. The job itself is pretty repetitive. But the ideas they implement to improve, get chaotic & never seem to work out the way they envision. So it feels like you're always back at the beginning & just trying your best to keep the floor running. 1st shift is the golden shift, like at a lot of other companies. 2nd shift gets off pretty easy as well. 3rd shift is the red headed step child. 3rd shift Management is wonderful. But they get talked down to the harshest. Lack of support from upper management & engineers. So you're literally left fending for yourself with the 3rd shift team. A lot of times, components or tools you need are unavailable due to the company not ordering them or not having them in stock. Then you're left having to figure out what to do to keep the jobs rolling because it's not an option to halt production just because you don't have the necessary tools/components to complete the job. Work environment is very fast paced & harsh. Some people doing multiple jobs at once, which gets very overwhelming for employees. The job & environment has cause many people to develop anxiety & can literally change people. In an unhealthy way. There's not a lot of recognition from upper management on doing a good job. Even when production numbers are good & you we're running with a low number of associates. Which happens more often than not. Turnover rate at this company is one of the highest out there. Work environment is hot and dirty. There are a lot of oil & water leaks that are all over the floor & go into the working area. Die Casters are & gp's area. Which can make for an unsafe working area. A lot of the fixes to the machines are just band-aided. So no problems or issues with the machines ever truly get fixed. They bandaid the problems to the machines & run them until it's time to change the dies over. None of the workers ever believe a word that upper management says about the changes being implemented to make the work place better for them. Money is good, but the way the conditions of the company make you feel, the stress the company puts on you to meet rates, the expectations to do more jobs at once & the stress of being short staffed are not worth the money. Over my time with the company, I've witnessed them get rid of too many good, honest hard working employee's while keeping bad ones. There's also a lot of unnecessary drama that takes place on the floor. Which should not be an aspect you have to worry about every night when going to work.


All the techs I work with are really easy to get along with and most operators too. Some of the floor managers are really cocky and only care about numbers. It's seems like we do a lot of things just because they have been doing it that way, not because it's how it should be done. Sometimes they do things that don't make much sense as far as managing goes and you have no say. Techs work 12 hour shifts and get 6 months off out of the year, I love that. Pay is high and vacation kicks in a year. You can stack days off with vacation and get 10 days off at a time only using a couple vacation days. Equipment is old and needs to be replaced though they have made many upgrades like screens and plc 5000 which is making the electrical issues slow down and a couple other things but needs more. All fanucs, but operator have to use them in normal start up so that can be troubling since we have had so many new operators lately. Communication isn't very good on any shift except days. Most the time you heard something as a rumor and have to ask someone if it's true. Can get up to 110 or hotter in the summer depending on where your at in the plant and it doesn't run as good in the summer. Techs have to be in the ceiling a lot so it can get as high as 130 in the summer but no big deal in the winter. But winter months things run so good that it's way less a work load. Lots of welding and making things work because the parts are not available. Tons of fork lift drivers but maintenance has to share forklifts with production. Will but you tools and helmets. Many leads are retiring soon so team lead/ day shift is coming available very quickly but nights has very likable people so most stay on nights. Safety could be better. You will learn a lot here due to the environments effect on Equipment and techs.

The management of this company could not be more slap-dash, incompetent and altogether embarrassing. Your average day will consist of being told 5-10 contradicting things from scrambling top brass who clearly are in way over their heads. So much so in fact, that verbal abuse and public shaming are regular weapons in the upper management's arsenal, as they desperately try and prove to their employees that they are not utterly incompetent. It's not fooling anyone.
It is clear as day to anyone who works there, that the problems the company has (and will continue to have) are down to impotent and amateurish management and it is unlikely that that will ever change.
In the interview, I was assured of flexible work time, a hour lunch, only to wake up a few weeks later to the harsh reality of the crux of the issue: Ghost will tell anybody anything if they think it will make them money, and their word is literally worthless. There is a small core of hard-working, who have done nothing but apply themselves whole-heartedly to the tasks at hand, (including a great amount of mandantory overtime) in a extremely hot environment.
Overall, my experience there, was very dissappointing, because the "team" I would be working with painted an rosy picture, but trust me, the thorns were thick. The production manager and supervisors were not held accountable for any actions of obvious poor quality in order to make production.
They need to clean house, starting with the corrupt Production Manager, down to the direct team leads reporting to him. They can't even keep a HR Mgr. for more than 18 months.
That should speak volumes.

I enjoyed my time at Nemak, although the work could get stressful sometimes. As a maintenance tech in a paid apprentice role, I did learn a lot from the company and from my fellow co-workers. Even as a maintenance tech apprentice, I did accrue my paid vacation hours for one year with the company, even though I was not offered a full-time position. This aspect of the company shows that Nemak is a great place to work from a benefits/paid vacations standpoint. I only left Nemak because I was never offered full-time employment after a while, and some business did slow at the company that required, from my observation, some layoffs of temp workers early in 2019. Although I did not perceive job or career advancement opportunities within Nemak for my own personal perspective, I would still highly recommend people to apply here if they are great workers with good work ethic, exceptional punctuality and attendance history, and a desire to be part of a great international work culture in automotive industry. Also, if your desire to work here is in line with being a maintenance tech, the pay for maintenance tech roles (once hired at full-time, that is) is very competitive for the area. Great company overall I had the opportunity to work for. If I was eventually offered a full-time maintenance position within the company, I would surely accept it even now that I am not with the company currently.

First day of work I was told to be their 30min early to meet my supervisor. I showed up 30 min early waited 15min the supervisor to finally show and when he did he just turned looked at me and walked away without saying a word. Someone then met me at 5min to punch in time to kinda gave me a run thru things left me at a work station and never returned. Asked employees how to and what to do and the majority of the responses I got was "IDK" Supervisor was not around at all and certainly uninformative. When assigned a new job nobody was around to help or even direct where you have to be, they say you have to be an adult and figure it out for yourself. One first has to know what to do. I worked their for 2 months when I stay at jobs for years. Company dosen't care of your well being and you are told you can only use the restroom during you scheduled breaks and will refuse if you ask "Not Exactly Legal" Safety glasses aren't enough protection you have to ware goggles like your going into a science lab. Overall they will not give you the tool to succeed but will to Fail.

Nemak has been good to me, but it has been a tough and sometimes very demanding job. Most complaints that I see come from the ones that think they are hard working but in fact are not. I've had very good supervisors but you never know how the next one will be because of the turnover. Way too many plant managers come and go also which results in inconsistent polices and culture. The upper mgmt also does not communicate well which results in distrust and widespread rumors. The pay is good for the area but becomes stagnate after you reach a certain level. They really do not give you the tools or opportunity to max out the pay scale you we told you can achieve. All in all, it is your average big company that seeks profit over much else and whether or not they survive will be a direct reflection of that culture. No company is perfect but not sure this one is striving to be any more .

Pros:  pay can be good if you initially negotiate a good salary.  Co workers are great.  

Con: Managers steal credit for individuals successes to climb ladder leaving you behind.   Zero accountability for incompetent co workers so you have to carry the load of the team.

Nemak also baits and switches your responsibilities regardless of your role/position normally leaving you in a role diffrent than you were hired on as.

HR is worthless and full of snakes.  Managment will pat you on the back one day and then discard you the next.  Promotions are a joke as you are lucky if you get a raise with it.  Best recommendation is to work no more than 8 hours a day because you'll be treated the same if you work overtime all the time vs being a below average engineer.  There is no incentive to go above and beyond.

Overall Nemak is a miserable experience and the only way to move up the chain is to be the right nationality so good luck if you are American if you expect to work your way up.  Have to be European (German) or Mexican to get up into upper mamagment.

Management is lackluster. I wouldn't even call it management. Micromanaging. They treat you like you're a machine here. A robot if you will. I worked on the weekend shift. 12 hour shifts Friday-Sunday. Sometimes I'm on the same line the entire 36 hours. You get so sore you can barely wake up just to do it again. Air Quality is breathing in a nasty steam that gets you sick. Summer its 90+ degrees. Its a sauna. This place is running itself to the ground and its showing. Upper management overpromising customers and making the lines so fast you can't inspect the parts. Then complain we're not making quality goals. Bonuses are an absolute joke with goals that are unattainable. The most I've gotten for a year is 200$. There are other options. Do not work here. I am only here because the hours worked with my life. But please go elsewhere. This place was killing me and my body. Every morning I woke up to go I regretted every moment.

Hostile work environment about sums it up. 

Was told during my interview process I would be able to train on my home shift (2nd) and found out day 1 that I had to train on 1st for a minimum 3 weeks.

Everyone in management gives you a different answer when you ask a question, if you even can talk to them - since they are always running around putting fires out (sometimes literally). 

Didn’t even meet my supervisor in the first 4 days of working there. 

Constantly felt like I was being scolded like a child. Wasn’t treated with respect. 

There are known dangers that could be corrected but they just blatantly refuse to. They say safety is the first priority… but in reality production comes first. They will continue to run broken equipment. 

They blame the heat and physicality of the job for the revolving door of employees, but in reality it is most likely the toxic culture.  

Avoid if you can. 

Break room is disgusting.  Broken picnic tables and filthy.  No place to wash dishes, disgusting food in the vending machines, Dirty microwaves and refrigerators.  Makeshift dirty Rubbermaid cabinets to store your food.

On the job training is not included.  People seem to stand around and talk instead of working.

Typical day is long and hard.  Be prepared to get yelled at for the most ridiculous things if you are not Spanish speaking, even if you are a hard worker.

The place seems to be a write-off for Nemak International.

If you want to talk about their "GREAT" insurance, FORGET IT!  they just cut it down to the bare bones.  SO DO NOT GET HURT.
They cut our benefits from 80-20 coverage to 50-50.  That is the worst thing they could have done since most of their good to great workers are older and need more coverage.  NOT LESS!!!

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