machine operator

material handler

mig welder

finisher

maintenance technician

ONeal Manufacturing Services

This is the perfect place for an example of the wrong people in the wrong jobs.  
-They constantly complain about efficiencies for how well you did everyday yet they screw up the times constantly. There are many different work orders with times cut for no reason whatsoever, and some with times that are impossible to achieve (even impossible if the machine runs 100%!). 
-They had a supervisor that when someone gave their 2 weeks in decided to watch the cameras like a hawk finding any reason to find that person (they did). 
-Front offices does no wrong
-Work orders are constantly behind because they put them out late! Why would I be given a work order 1 month past due?! Why wasn't I given it a month ago? Then they expect you to get it done as fast as possible.
-Genuinely great people to work with, some of the best people you will ever get along with. 
-They don't tell you a lick of information during the hr hire on process. They wait until way after you've been there to finally tell you about UltiPro (basically website for everything such as request time off, your pay, opportunities).
-It's a decent place to work at if you can handle that stuff.
-Safety is somewhat of a concern, not really that much.

Worked at Louisville location. This location is notorious for firing people for no reason. The community has very bad feelings towards oneal due to this fact. Every year they get rid of people around Christmas and then work those left all hours during summer. Training of any new blood is minimal. The surrounding community will not step into oneal. oneal is forced to get people from outskirt locations. Any new People who do hire in are thrown on the floor then ridiculed for not producing enough. Those who do know how to  do some of the jobs are worked to the bone  and never catch up due to poor management. Customers and suppliers hate oneal due to poor customer service. The manufacturing portion of oneal was broken off from oneal steel. Why? because it is a major failure. They brought in and got rid of the poor management from the steel side and have them running the failed manufacturing side. Its a write off at this point. Bottom line this is a failed business model with poor management. Their actions in the community have supported the downtrend in this locations neighborhood and you would be doing yourself a service for looking past oneal and finding a well run business with good leadership.

I was in maintenance and loved that department, it was one of the best group of guys to work with and the supervisor was the best boss I've had.

But for every other department outside of the maintenance area was a mess.   Employees had low morale, production supervisors had no planning or production planning outside of "This needs done right now".   Employees had to needlessly do change overs because of emergencies in schedules.   Absolutely no accountability from employees up to the front office, the buck kept getting passed instead of solving the issue at hand.

New employees received bare amount of training tearing up machines and equipment that needed to be fixed on a regular basis.

The maintenance supervisor did a great job at being a buffer for management's knee-jerk decisions that we would have to spend days to change.

The jobs in the plant feature mostly hard work and long hours. You will live here or they will let you go.

The environment in the plant is disgusting including the air quality due to the burn tables.

Mandatory overtime is a constant and ongoing affair (12 hour shifts and 7 days a week for some of the most unlucky ones) with no regard to life and family outside of the company.

Scheduling and planning are entirely ineffectual at doing their jobs properly (leading to the aforementioned overtime)

The management in the plant plays favorites to the point of letting some people ignore plant policy such as attendance while cracking the whip on the hard workers to get more done to compensate.

Ultimately this company is terrible. The only redeeming factor is you will work with some pretty fantastic coworkers.

Not much to say about this place , I went here after I get laid off from the oilfield and thought it would be a nice way to break into a new industry, the pay was poor but during the interview I was told there was opportunity to grow quickly in pay , but come to find out the average raise was about 25 cents. The facility is dirty , hot , and be prepared for constant tripping hazards , I realized after 3 weeks this wasn’t the place for me and I just walked off on my shift lol. Luckily my old job called me back into work so everything worked out good for me (so far) . Also the management in general is just very childish and unprofessional, almost like toddlers , constant bad jokes and profanity. I wouldn’t recommend this company to anyone I know honestly, they will just try to sell you a dream.

Exciting place to work at in the beginning, if you don't show you're worth anything they will keep you in parts cleaning, if they see potential then they will move you to a machine or somewhere else but expect you to get out quantity over quality. Instead of helping learn how to fix your mistakes they play the blame game. They love to play favorites and if you won't work your life away to help them catch up on productivity then you are not an asset. If you're not telling on your other coworkers for things then you don't get rewarded with clothes and nice parking spots.  If you have any family that works there, they don't care about conflict of interest, they'll create so much drama and stress and then spread rumors throughout the shop and isolate you to yourself. 

For starters this company is union. The union employees are great to work around everyday. The  bad management on the other hand will leave you wondering if you work at a circus. They will tell you what you want to hear and not follow through on anything they agree with you. They tell new hires that there is very little overtime or voluntary overtime just to get them in the door and then mandatory them every week till they quit or they fire them because they ran out of points. This company acts like everyone is robots and they can work them to death. They claim to be family oriented but to them you are just a number and they will fire you in a heartbeat, unless you are in the management click. I would not recommend to work at this company.

Told many time "just do more with less" "it is what it is". Not allowed overtime but work load was much more than anyone person could handle. When this was told to the manager many many times I was made to feel that i was told i was not being productive enough. Made mistakes due to the amount of work needing to be done and written up. Always in trouble due to either not getting enough done or not having zero errors. The team did not feel comfortable asking for help as we were made to feel like we were going to get into trouble. Constantly feeling defensive. Hard to be positive when we never heard anything good, just do more but make sure there are no mistakes.

Just dont get hurt here, I will leave it at that. This is one of those places where certain individuals treat it like the playground at recess: my cart my grinder my tape my clamps my merry go round, etc. No cwi. I didnt see a qc on any welded product once.  People are pretty good, for the most part. Management not so much. Dont expect a lot of communication from management beyond monthly safety meetings and quarterly meetimg (in which the focus is the bottom line).

Pros:
1. My direct supervisor and HR were amazing people.
2. The starting salary is above average.
3. They do spend some time and resources to train their employees.
4. Colleagues are friendly.

Cons:
1. No job security: they have a rigorous attendance points system that points can quickly add up. After getting a certain number of points, they can fire you. They sometimes abuse this system to fire people when work is slow without paying severance. Everyone is always nervous that they might get fired out of nowhere.
2. Starting salary is good, but raises are extremely low.

My overall experience is fine, I don't regret joining that company. I learned a lot from them.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Machine operator 38 salaries reported	$21.34 per hour
Material handler 20 salaries reported	$19.15 per hour
Mig welder 11 salaries reported	$21.77 per hour
Finisher 13 salaries reported	$17.69 per hour
Maintenance technician 11 salaries reported	$23.77 per hour

Working at O'Neal Manufacturing Services: Company Overview and Reviews

O'Neal Manufacturing Services

O'Neal Manufacturing Services Ratings

Popular jobs at O'Neal Manufacturing Services

Salary Satisfaction

Job Seeker Tools

Employer Tools

Browse

Stay Connected