senior manufacturing engineer

welder

software engineer

senior assembler

mechanical engineer

Nordson

Management has changed everything. Will take advantage of hourly workers at every opportunity. Rounding time, not allowing covid time for testing and if you do test positive they make you jump through hoops to get something called company time to avoid investigations from the W.H.O. No opportunity to advance for hourly. Will not listen to concerns. 3% raises or less are the norm and they aren't based off merit. They are based on how generous the board of directors feel that year. Implementing auto manufacturing processes in a medical molding plant has been terrible. Made up KPI's to show a fake success story of their implementations. Hourly workers are the first to let go and hardest to replace. They asked many of us to work many hours of OT to meet demand and have trouble replacing the hourly workers they let go so you are stuck doing multiple individuals jobs. no incentives to help them meet their goals but have a "DO THIS OR LEAVE!" mentality. Upper management has zero experience in certain fields yet have more knowledge than everyone and refuse to listen to reason. High turnover rate since changes have been implemented. Their "lean manufacturing" is overworking several hourly individuals and try to find ways to replace the ones they let go with an even less dollar figure salary. Morals are always in the wrong place. Treat their workers as if their name was their badge number instead of humans with compassion and mutual respect. 

Pros: 
Great Customers
Fantastic Co-Workers
HSA Company Contribution 
PTO, Paid Holidays, Full Benefits

Cons: 
Mandatory OT (10-hour shifts, 6 days a week) for Production Employees
0 Employee Retention = Constant High Workloads
“The End Justifies the Means” Culture
Non-Competitve Wages Below Management
On-site HR Openly Biased Against Employees
2+ Month Long Hiring Process
No Job Security

This is not the place for an avid worker. You will be taken advantage of and given more work than you can handle. Additionally, the amount of work they saddle on you never stops because they are constantly firing employees, especially long-time employees who were already doing 2+ people’s work.
You will be disappointed if you think that handling this workload will get you positive recognition. They like to downplay employee achievements in order to justify giving no raise or very little raise at all.

You will get negative attendance points for everything including car breakdowns and apartment flooding. These negative points prevent pay raises, upward mobility, and even department transfers.

The HR rep can always been seen by the GE’s side at all hours, so the HR office is always empty and HR is unavailable to the employees. When you are able to see HR they are openly biased against the employees to a degree that makes many wonder why they even have HR.

Please avoid this place. Regardless of your work experience or job needs, you deserve better than this.
If you must work here, aim for Customer Service. They are close-knit and will take care of you.

What is the best part of working at the company?
This was a great company to work for they treat their employees very well it was a very pleasant experience i loved going to work everyday and I actually enjoyed my time there i learned so much I learned how to build & wire components that electrical experience I'm taking to my next opportunity not to mention it was a very clean place to work and I enjoyed all the extras they provided to us they are an amazing company to work for I'm blessed to have had such an amazing opportunity I hope the company does well in their transition moving to South Carolina

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I think the most stressful for me was the commute but the pay eased that stress they paid very well 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It was a the most relaxed work atmosphere I've ever worked at the supervisors didn't really bother u as long as u were making ur daily goals it was a very easy but educational experience for me 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I work on the assembly line wiring fiber optic boxes for Amat I always made my quota and exceeded it most days im i felt very appreciated for my hard work management was very respectful and rewarded our good work ethics

Nordson is a strong employer who has been a very beneficial company to the Amherst area for many years. Being employed at Nordson went well and it was a very enjoyable place to learn great things.A typical day at work can involve running production on a wide variety of CNC machines, or setting up new jobs for production. Each machinist is required to be able to set up and operate his own machine he is assigned to. The management of Nordson is very thorough and experienced. Their team works very closely together and are committed to 100% customer satisfaction The people i worked with have all had a great career with Nordson and have been able to provide very well for themselves as well as their families. The hardest part of the job is that sometimes on the newer machines they have, the programs for new parts aren't all proven out, and if you need to make revisions or edits to programs, quality control and the engineering staff aren't available to give you the okay to run the part, or help with problems. Most enjoyable part of the job is that it is one man to one machine, Union benefits, plenty of overtime and a pleasant environment.

Management is very driven to achieve quarterly fiscal results with little regard to long term effects or organizational stability. 

Tremendous brain drain over the past three years with most of the talented and good to work with people retiring, leaving untrained and inexperienced new comers and nobody to train them or pass on critical product knowledge. 

Internal interviews are treated like external candidates and it is expected that you will have already been fulfilling the duties of the new role even though you can't do that while fulfilling your current role. 

Attempts to change titles, responsibility, or take on larger more challenging tasks is met with confusion and slight hostility from management.

Great to work for if you can find a good manager but it is likely that a good manager will either be pushed out or outright transferred to another non-managerial role or even another facility once word gets out that they are effective and good to work with.

The individual co-workers are great to work with and everybody is very friendly and helpful. 

This used to be one of the better companies to work for in this area. In the last two years or so, this company has changed a great deal for the worse. Employees are not treated with any consideration or respect. Employee turnover went from around 3% to 40-60%. When people do leave there is absolutely no effort made to retain them, even people in critical roles. The hiring process is a joke and for every person they hire, 2 leave. The people that are left are burned out, over worked due to chronic short staffing and have zero morale. Management refuses to enact changes to improve this environment. Management tells us that we are growing because they keep adding equipment but that extra equipment only serves to stretch the workforce even thinner. Only part of this can be blamed on the pandemic. The true responsibility rests with an oblivious, apathetic management team. Tragic.

If my title was not enough, let me explain in more detail. The high turnover  rate at Nordson Medical should be some sort of indicator of the culture there. The work culture is stagnant, worsens every year, and will not improve in the forseeable future. I worked at Nordson for many years and I have seen a continual downfall in their treatment of employees. The culture is so bad within the last year 3 different managers left; two were fired. The company expects more and more of you while eliminating the few perks of the job. Remember all of the years were there were Employee Appreciation Days?
Take a look at the number of employees who left in 2019 alone. I am not talking about "temps" either. 
The only reason why Nordson was valuable to me was because I got to learn first-hand how awful working for a corporation is. I was a number, would have always been a number, and when you become proficient at your job, you will die there with your 2% "raise" that doesn't even account for inflation.
In conclusion, Nordson Medical is a place to go when you give up on all of your life's aspirations.

Great benefits and solid 8hr days with overtime available when requested. My only gripe is due to it being a Multinational Corporation everything outside of your "job" is handled by a third party or subsidiary. I.E. everthing is done online. HR, Payroll, Time off, Health Ins etc. Are are handled online with thru different websites (which are linked thru a hub which is ANOTHER login) and usernames and passwords. It all seems cobbled together should all be like other business' i.e. have an HR ONSITE. everything is online I havent been able to see my paystubs in a month because i forgot PW or username or maybe thats my Employee # but i really enjoy it although the nature of the place doesn't bode well for someone looking to climb the "ladder" them spots are filled and theres too many people jockeying for any "promotion available.  Favoritism clearly plays a role here ive seen people literally do NOTHING all day and wonder how TF did this person get into that position. But thats sort of the same anywhere 

It is a good company, good benefits, decent environment. 
Your position can be eliminated WITHOUT WARNING.

After moving my family 6hrs away from everyone and everything they have known. My position was "eliminated" on a phone call the DAY AFTER SURGERY FOR WORKERS COMP. "Layoffs across the division" they said. I was at 110% of budget heading into the last month of the fiscal year. It's funny when they cut 1 of three in the SE but keep the other 10+ in the smaller area NE. It seems as if they prefer to keep people that do nothing as opposed to the people that make recommendations and do the work for a living.

The company has been making a lot of purchases...and when the stock falls because the companies aren't where they need to be. The staff gets cut.

The feeling at the corporate location among the employees was very segregated. Very chip on shoulder/water-cooler gossip/complainers.

I would say that as a manufacturing operator, the job was so easy. At first, it seems to be hard because there are a lot of things that you need to understand. However, it is a job that you keep doing the same procedure everyday so that will make you learn it quick if you are willing to learn the job.
 It depends on what department you be working on but some department require you to be sitting down while doing the job and some department also need you to be standing and walking most of the time. 
The management is a not bad at all but not the best also. People are respectful and they are good. 
The hard part of the job is when you will not be able to reach your goal within your shift but it doesn't mean it is your fault but simply because there is a problem with the material itself.
The part that we enjoy the most is when the job is running great with out defects on the materials.

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