agricultural equipment technician

welder

assembler

industrial painter

material handler

Oxbo International Corporation

A typical workday consisted of grabbing whatever projects were placed by the station. Clocking in, and working on them. You clocked in and out of every job, putting everything together in accordance to the accompanied blue prints. When things were going in the beginning, there was plenty to work on.

Downside is when things slow down, people get layed off. I was the bottom of the totem pole, so I was let go. The hardest part of the job was learning a new print. Which was also the funnest part of the job, it's always interesting to look at the new prints you haven't seen. Co-workers were generally friendly, during work hours mostly kept to themselves in the individual weld/machining areas. Most interactions occured with any questions and during breaks.

Monthly OSHA meetings standard, the management tried to make them interesting. Excellent place for starting welders or welders trying to pickup more experience.

Work culture is fairly good in terms of the Assembly department there are some really knowledgeable leaders there that will help you learn and grow in terms of capability and efficiency.
Be careful of joining in on jokes in the department though as they will usually end up with you getting in trouble from management, whom will also join in on said jokes from time to time.
40 hours is a foreign concept at Oxbo, even if you are told so in your interview process. 
Management will order the Assembly department to pull 60's almost every couple of months due to "Unforeseen Circumstances" but then pull it back to 45's when we are starting to catch up.


What is the best part of working at the company?
The other Techs are cool
The management is untrustworthy and driven by there own agendas. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Trying to figure out who is on your team and who is untrustworthy.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
A lot of gossip and people trying to spotlight anyone else's faults so there's aren't shown.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Working on different types of machines and finding out you've been giving the wrong parts for all of them because management decided a quick fix would work but now you have to redue everything.

Meetings about meetings talking about meetings but never implementing changes, if changes are made they stick with it for a week then finger point on why it didnt work so then 3 more meetings are made about it. Seems like they dont want to move forward and fix issues since all they ever do is slap a new person in a position stress them out and call it good to go only for them to leave and rinse and repeat.  Don't bring up change to upper management because the old way works yet the company keeps going down hill. Since H&S was bought out it seriously went down hill. Workers feel like managers lie to them and many are unhappy. List goes on and on. Can't blame the managers too much since there managers are putting them in that situation.

As an assembler on the corn head line, the hours are plentiful. Never less than 40 hours per week, even if it's slow. Plenty of 48 and 50 hour weeks as well. Immediate management is good. Upper management not so great. There seems to be a lack of communication or something between departments, which causes much frustration. If deadlines can't be met, it comes down to the assembler to blame, even if you don't have the parts to assemble in the first place, or have to send them back due to quality issues, etc. Immediate management sees and knows this, but feeling the frustration is stressful. Pay is pretty good, benefits are decent, PTO is good.

What is the best part of working at the company?
If you communicate with management they work with you well if you need to leave for any reason and are understanding 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The lack of parts and work. Then deadlines that force when you get said parts

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Culture could be a lot better. It all depends on how you are as a person. If you keep to yourself, you'll be alright. Many miserable people that have nothing better to do than berate you and make you feel less

What is the best part of working at the company?
The employees you work with try ti stay lightharded and have fun 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Everything hot and nothing is organized management expects alot to get done with little people 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stressful the moral is very low most of the time and everyone is just stressed out and takes it out on each other 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Clock in stress yourself out because things weren't done properly and corners were cut by others clock out

Working at Oxbo was great. Great hours 5am to 3:30 pm, but the training and the people I was working with are not so great. They don't give you hardly any training and when you build something wrong they wonder why. Building 5 supervisor plays favourites especially on 2nd shift. 2nd shift guys(gals) get away with more by not doing a whole lot. They're slackers. Some of them leave the plant and go home while on their shift and don't get written up. Some are on their phones for half there shift and don't get written up. They'll "lay" you off for no reason. Especially if the building 5 supervisor doesn't like you.

Compensation and hours are horrible, management sucks, not a place you would want to work full time. Co workers for the most part were alright, but supervisors don't know their heads from their arses. The pay is awful yet they wonder why they can't keep any employees. Hardest part of the job was getting up every morning at 3:45 so I could make it to work at 5. Easiest part was using the 5% of my brain it took to actually do the work required.

I started at Oxbo as a tool and die maker. From the start there was little guidance, yet I was criticized for working too slowly despite being told to “take my time.” The equipment was unreliable, and design mistakes were frequently blamed on machinists. Communication with designers was frustrating and unhelpful.  Working conditions were difficult — no A/C, poor air quality, and even a fire occurred during my time there. Overall, I found the environment disorganized, unsupportive, and toxic, and I’m ultimately glad I moved on. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Agricultural equipment technician 16 salaries reported	$27.81 per hour
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Material handler 6 salaries reported	$21.83 per hour

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