material handler

assembler

machine operator

welder

chemical technician

National Carwash Solutions, Inc.

Currently still employed. I don't plan on leaving either. Great pay, great health plans( packages switched at the start of 2018), vacation, paid time off, company vehicle, phone, tools, bonus money opportunities, and training. You get rewarded for hard work, no problems for working and doing what your asked & nothing more. And eventually canned for not doing your job. If you need tech support, we have guys that are employed to just help us figure out & fix the problems we cant ourselves! Our own people doing that! Parts guys doing the same thing! You need literature or manuals for something. We have them! You need parts for someone else's machine. We have them! Machine down, & factory is on back oder. Just look up the part in the companies inventory. And see which techs where have the part you need! I have had a few techs from other states over night me a part for a downed unit of a major customer . . I mean what else could you really ask for?. . . .  So yea, its true. For the most part we are under staffed ( service team ). What do I see & get out of that? All the over time you can handle! Overtime = more $$$, when guys just want to do their 8 and get out. I see double time = $$$$$$......Which is the only reason we go to work in the first place. . .Which most dont.   For me,  I am about 1 year into the company. I started out just like the rest. Lost & confused. But with a positive attitude & outlook, & some hard work. You find your way. I  already have lead multiple large jobs, shop & site rebuilds, and complete in bay & tunnel remodels, installs, and special projects. . . . And I am just a normal guy. Nothing special. Yea, I do have a bit more skills in my bag than the rest. But my biggest tool is my work ethic. I am willing and ready to work everyday. So I have excelled quickly here. I have watched others do the same. One of the biggest obstacles is the customers, and unfortunately...A handful of your co workers. Which is expected when they bar is being raised, shining light on the lack of work truly being completed.. .  Really in the end. Just work, and do your job the best you can. Management leaves you alone. Which when you hire on. Its very clear what they expect of you. If you do your best every day to complete them, you will have no problems. If you don't, then you get problems. Just like every other job. . . . The complaints I hear about are from the ones who don't want to work, just want to be in cruise control. Do their 8 and get out. But honestly. With an attitude like that. The same complaints will be said at any job. All the same cons as the rest. But only the pros of the best. 
But honestly....What do you expect from one of the leading car wash manufacturers in the world.They are 1 of 3 only manufacturers to employ their very own install, service, and sales team! No 3rd party stuff. Checks direct from the company. . . .  This is a great company to work for. All the tools & benefits in the world to help you excel, are at your finger tips. . . . That is, if you even want to see them. . . . You just have the will to learn, work hard & progress in the company. And you will. . . .

There’s a lot to learn. A lot of experience needed but a lot of experience will be gained. You won’t grow sea legs for at least two years. You need to have a good amount of power and hand tools in your arsenal for mechanical and electrical repairs. This job is for well suited for well rounded technicians with life experience. Ex. Wiring, piping, cabling, difficult to remove bolts and nuts. Usually 3/4” or 9/16”
You will gravitate towards a few good coworkers and benefit each other’s support and team work.
Management is helpful and understanding as much as anyone can be that is overloaded with responsibilities. So the work is more on the independent side except for fellow techs that are usually always there for you to answer questions or support with a second pair of hands. There is also a decent help line for techs.
You will need to stand on 8’ step ladders often and they are usually on uneven ground. So not a job for a klutz. You will need to carry gear boxes up the ladder and install them.lots of the equipment is rusty due to environment. It can be frustrating to work on the rusted out wet equipment. Looking up parts get be very time consuming until you learn the ropes. Receiving parts to your house can be messy and add clutter of boxes if you don’t manage your parts well. It’s hard physical work at times but gives you reward when accomplished. It’s rewarding talking shop with coworkers. The equipment is interesting. The environment is decent. Prepare for partial exposure to the elements of summer and winter. A person can do well here if prepared with tools,, knowledge and if you put in your best effort. Occasional trips to Iowa for training. It’s a nice facility of manufacturing and trading. It’s a place you will be proud to work for.

• Responsible for daily, weekly and monthly Cash Reconciliation. Sent daily cash status and receipt reports to RVP’s and owners.
• Responsible for all aspects of month end closing; which consists of reconciling balance sheet accounts, entering journal entries and reviewing sales and expenses. To ensure deadlines are met a month end checklist was created detailing specific due dates.
• Integral part of Implementation team for new Accounting software – Greentree. Spearheaded the transition financial information from the old system into Greentree. Point person for Greentree process questions.
• Created Excel templates for the financial statements which pulled information directly from the system.
• Recorded vehicle and asset purchased into Greentree. Point person for adding and updating inventory locations.
• Responsible for uploading AP Invoices, Inventory transactions and journal entries into Greentree from Excel.
• Prepared monthly sales tax for several states.
• Responsible for the reconciliation of the Due To Due From and Intercompany accounts.
• Responsible for reconciliation the company’s three credit cards. Operations collected the receipts from the technician; I then verified that all of the charges have been entered in the system also if there were entries made in the system that were not part of the credit card charges. Communicated information to operations to correct; if items were not corrected in a timely manor the items are written off to Credit Card variance.
• Assisted in the creating SOP’s for the company.

I worked as a Graphic Designer at TSS (NCS) for almost a year. My experience was a very interesting one to say the least. I did start mid pandemic so this may explain a few things but I started out with very little actual training. I shadowed a few employees for a few hours my first week in which I learned that EVERYTHING you make here is in Adobe Photoshop. No vectors for clients, and that nothing here is done "Industry Standard". This place is ran like an agency with the exception that you are the only point of contact with your clients and held responsible for their responsiveness (or typical lack their of) and you are expected to hit a quota based on a dollar amount weekly. This can be stressful and means there was weeks where you'd complete 20 jobs, and still not get close to your quota because they were all very small orders. Other weeks you would get 5-7 approvals and blow the rest of the design team out of the water because they were huge jobs. The nice thing about TSS is that they manufacture 80% of their signage on site, so you can easily step back into the shop to see the process and you are able to physically touch most items if you have any production questions. The staff for the most part are very nice and the rest of the design team are very helpful. If you are a new designer looking for experience what you learn and do at this company will NOT help you when you leave. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The company had limited strengths, and there were opportunities for improvement in areas such as management, communication, and employee support.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?

The most stressful aspect was inconsistent communication and unmet commitments around employment status. I was informed there would be an opportunity for permanent hire after six months, but that timeline was not honored. In the seventh month, I was let go due to lack of work, making it difficult to rely on the information provided.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment lacked accountability and consistent oversight. After being moved to a different department, my personal work belongings were discarded without notice. Additionally, there was an incident where another employee completed machine documentation and signed my name without my authorization, which raised concerns about workplace integrity and process control.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day involved navigating a fast-paced but highly disorganized environment. There was often a lack of communication, unclear expectations, and inconsistent workflow, which made the role more stressful than productive.

We leave home in our company van heading to the first vehicle wash site for service or preventive maintenance. After three or more sites we call it a day. During the day, we perform customer service as well as sales and repair service of the wash system. We also keep in contact with whoever is setup as dispatch for that day. The manager was very nice as long as you met their expectations for the day. Everyone I worked with were cordial, knowledgeable, and all around good guys. The hardest part of the job was the actual work of dismantling and reinstalling parts on the car wash. Also, sometimes troubleshooting would get overwhelming but the issue was always resolved. The most enjoyable part of the job was knowing you accomplished something and made the customer happy. Also, meetings were enjoyable because we were together as a group at least once a month.

This used to be a good company to work for back when it was still a family owned business, but then the founder decided to retire and sold the company to some investment firm. Ever since then things have really gone downhill. Product quality has fallen behind along with technician support from the factory, employee health insurance seems to get more expensive every year with less coverage, and the pay raises they give are a joke. They don't even send out a coupon for a Thanksgiving turkey anymore, they've gotten cheap and greedy in every department just like every other American corporation. It's all about satisfying the shareholders and keeping those executive bonuses rolling in while the rest of us get squat. The company is plenty profitable enough to go around buying out other companies, but they conveniently can't afford to give the people down in the trenches who are doing all of the actual work that generates the profits a decent raise that actually makes a noticable difference on our net pay.

I been in this industry over 10 years. Fun and exciting job with a lot to learn and good industry to gain many skills from
Plumbing, electro mechanical, plc, networking, high & low voltage, definitely getting your hands dirty. As with any company you have the good & bad . In the last 1-2 years the company has grown and the headache’s with that have grown as well… some of the territory managers are ok and some lack basic management- leadership skills and don’t belong in those positions. The company has shifted and brought in a few managers and they have resulted to micro managing to the extreme. For the most part you are on your own as a tech but in some of the territories they have built good teams that communicate and work well with each other. But none of this is recognized. Many technicians are looking to walk away and are tired of this old micro management style that ends up destroying morale and many technicians don’t want to work here anymore.

Typical day at work: Dispatch techs, approve time logs and work orders daily. Conference Calls 3 time a week providing multiple reports weekly that required maintaining 12-14 hour work days.
Daily interaction with customers to resolve any and all on going issues with the car wash equipment.
Management: Very professional and knowledgeable.
Like so many companies in today's economy, we tried to provide service above and beyond the call of duty with a skeleton work force.
Most enjoyable part of the job was working with the customers and employees in identifying an resolving technical issues with their car wash equipment.
The hardest part of the job was trying to take care of our customer base , with the customers being scattered in a large geographical area with so few technetions.as our target was to always provide same day service.

The manager was new so he had problems with time management and offering assistance with some of our most basic requests. 

RYKO uses an antiquated system through Lotus Notes that is extremely buggy and slows down your productivity. It also is like a logistical big brother and micromanages everything you input.

Every day you are putting out fires so to speak and customers are rarely happy with the level of service you provide because they are constantly losing revenue.
 
RYKO offers maintenance programs for their car wash equipment where you pay several hundred a month, but, when something major goes wrong... They don't want to spend the money to fix it right.

You get a verbal beatdown every day from customers and supervisors and I went home every day feeling bad because things were not operating as designed and my employer was ripping people off!

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Material handler 3 salaries reported	$24.00 per hour
Assembler 1 salary reported	$21.00 per hour
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Welder 1 salary reported	$25.51 per hour
Chemical technician 2 salaries reported	$29.75 per hour

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