electrical assembler

assembler

manufacturing engineer

equipment maintenance technician

manufacturing supervisor

Nortek

The Okc Coil plant is not where you want to be, save yourself the wasted time and energy by applying elsewhere. They will pull you in with promises of advancement and upcoming raises, "the Pay Matrice", that never materializes, but is always "in progress" or "coming soon". They will gas light you endlessly and act shocked and hurt when you call them out on it. Will lie straight to your face with a smile yet still expect you to come into work every day with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. They will refuse to give anything in writing/email so that you can't hold them accountable and prefer all talks to be held in person because "It's more supportive of a team environment to have face to face talks!". No, it's to limit legal liability by preventing employees from having any record of what was discussed so that management can easily deny ever having said things and later paint you as a disgruntled employee making up lies. If you do decide to work there, set up a voice recorder on your phone and try to conduct talks over your personal cell to keep a record of what was discussed (oklahoma is a one party consent state for phone recordings) or if in person talks are held, type up a follow up review/ email immediately afterwards, detailing exactly what was discussed/promised and ask the parties involved to sign and date the notes for your personal records(they will make up an excuse as to why they can't and then try to shame you for lacking trust in them and "the team", telling you everything you need to know about their "integrity"). Protect yourself, be vigilant. To whomever is reading this, you deserve more than they will ever offer you. Please love and respect yourself by finding a job elsewhere, at a place that will actually value you and lift you up, not crush you down. Best wishes.

Locally the Tualatin plant is a great place to work.  Local management cares and will work with people who contribute to the team, and much of the time "team" feels like "family" which is great.  There are also a number of amazing performers locally and a culture of excellence in nearly every area.  The higher you get in the food chain, however, the worse job satisfaction becomes.  There are many at the top who got their jobs due to friendships not performance potential and it shows.  High performers at the bottom usually pick up the slack for poor middle or upper managers and end up checking out early as a result, meaning over time there are more survivors/cronies than performers beyond the plant level.  Certainly there are some great people and leaders above the plant level, but it is the exception not the rule.  There is also a undeniable sense that top leaders feel they are beyond fixing problems beneath them.  This is fine in a company that is already working near 100%, but when development and change is necessary it means that many leaders are not actually providing leadership.  They stay "top-down" and complain about problems below them, but rarely actually provide solutions or support to those dealing with the problems.  This is enormously frustrating, feeling like your team could win a Superbowl if the front office had the same culture of excellence as the key players.  If you get an opportunity to work for the Tualatin plant, the team, the family, take it.  If you want to excel higher up, to work with the best upper managers and change the world as a company, stay away.  It is not that kind of company.

The individual workers at Nortek are amazing! I've made good personal relationships with them. Upper Management is the biggest downfall to the company. They show absolutely no respect to the employee; They will publically call you very derogative things. They are point happy. I got pointed during bereavement leave and also got pointed for medical leave with a doctor's note. They act and preach safety, but they will pretty much toss you into any situation regardless of the risk then will right you up for the same situation they put you into. They refuse to answer phone calls or respond to texts and say you didn't try to communicate with them. They will attempt to invade your personal life by asking questions about any little small detail. When being hired on they tell you shifts are only Monday-Thursday 6 am-4:30 pm with the occasional Friday's but once hired on it turns into mandatory Fridays and Saturdays and will give you not even a day notice on it and if you can't come in due to personal or family reasons they will point you and take earned PTO without asking. The HR department has gotten better but could use more lines to serve the workers better.

My first year at Nortek was excellent. I enjoyed the job much more than I anticipated when I first started. I excelled at my responsibilities, took on my own side projects to make my design process better, and built solid relationships with colleagues from every department.

Maybe due to a change in leadership or COVID happening, priorities shifted and we were in constant "rush to get things done" mode for the next 2 years, and there was just no time to address anything other than production work, so messes and inefficiencies and low morale built up in my team. The management began micromanaging and controlling us in unreasonable and unneeded ways, and it made it difficult to be invested in the work anymore. 

The management does not care about you as a person, and will fire you on a grudge, even if your work is good. It's a shame, because many parts of the job were great, but I can't recommend it anymore until they change their priorities.

Management is not receptive to productive ideas from employees who know their jobs. Many internal issues due to poor management. Inventory discrepancies are a huge problem that management cannot get control of. Employees are penalized if they are injured on the job for up to a year and are threatened with termination if they get injured again. If you just want a job then apply but if you want a long lasting career go somewhere else. 

I went through Aerotek to get hired on at Nortek. I was lied to and told that it was four 10 hour shifts and that overtime was not mandatory but it is. I was also told that I would never be lifting anything heavier than 15 lbs by myself. I was lifting things a lot heavier than that. The breaks are not like they should be. Usually, it's two fifteens and a 30 minute lunch. No, you are expected to be back in your area and ready by the time break is "over." Which sucks if you're a smoker because the designated smoking area is clear across the parking lot. And the schedule is so wonky. You don't officialy find out if you're doing overtime until like, Tuesday or Wednesday which by then, it's too late to say you can't. I could go on, but overall it was a pretty negative experience for me.

This company will work you into the ground and replace you the next day. I watch people with kids get fired for have to leave early or not being able to fine anyone to watch their kids because they we working 55+hrs 6 days a week. The turn over rate is atrocious, in the first 3 months of 2021 90 workers had quit due to long work hours and horrible management. If you only care about work and have no life outside of it maybe it’s the company for you but for most people this company will leave you burnt out and wanting something else. I worked there from 2019-2021 and it was the worst working experience I’ve had. The leads, supervisor, and managers don’t care about you they just want to make their money. The H.R. department will not be the bridge between the workers and management their supposed to be. 

There is a lot of work and you learn a lot of skills. There is a lot of hands on training. But, there's also mismanagement of employees and lack of accountability for workers who are not productive.  Hard workers work a lot, others work a little.  Responsibilities are not delegated evenly.  Hard workers frequently have to pick up the slack for non productive workers.  Yet no accountability for people who disappear to the bathroom for half an hour. 

There is frequent mandatory overtime. The benefit of constant overtime pay has created a culture to cruise through work to work overtime for bigger paychecks for many. 

Your temp status will be indefinite. During your time as an express temp, you are paid 9.84 an hour. This goes on for minimum of 6 months to a couple years.  Management is selective in how he manages employees.  New people in shipping/receiving aren't treated well. Backup spotter will spend the majority of the time inside working in LTL which is the worst place to work in the facility.  You will be expected to be subservient to the senior people. A lot of banding and wrapping of pallets. If you do want to work here, ask to be put in Service Parts. A much preferable working atmosphere, with nice people and good supervisor.  Unfortunately, backup spotter, and regular spotter must work in shipping.

Upper management is all about numbers, they don't care about their employees at all. I worked there for 3 years without injury and I accidentally cut my hand and got fired for it. They make you take super hard tests to get more money that nobody can pass. They make you rework other welders work from the day shift/nightshift transition. They promised us headphones one year if we worked really hard and got out all the products at the end of the year and we did it but they never gave us headphones. 1 year later, they said we can buy the headphones ourselves.... They have security cameras everywhere and you have to sign out to go to the restroom.

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