production supervisor

assembler

quality assurance manager

shipping supervisor

manufacturing technician

Pamlico Air

Maintenance craft. This means maintenance everything up to and including bathroom facilities. Just so you know. Worked a 4-10 5:30-4:00 schedule, not bad. The people all around were fun to get to know and work with. Its a busy place, forklifts everywhere and people moving about. You know, manufacturing! Facilities are well lit and pretty clean. Maintenance though is regarded as a production person with a wrench, you must provide tools and dont have a maintenance office or area that is able to be secured or organized. The maint guys need more of an identity as a dept.The work is all reactionary , with no PM schedule, but that is not for a lack of trying. 
That being the case, the workload is not heavy, and sometimes 10 hours seems to drag on. Not a big complaint really.
They are trying to get the W.F. plant up to snuff after two years of changing management, hopefully they can get it all ironed out.
If you want something that can challenge you as far as automation, robots, PLCs, and the like dont look for that here. If you like more of the mechanical side of machines and basic electrical you'll be good. Bonus, you get to see how air filters are made. Like a lot of how they are made.. every day... all the time... So its not some hot factory with molten iron and big processes. 
They do pull "mandatory overtime" often, so your 4-10 turns into a 5-10. I didnt sign up for that. You end up with two different shifts of maint personnel trying to find something to do when the workload for that dept didnt really increase just because theres the week and weekend shift working in production. Some people like the overtime though. I wanted 3 day weekends. 
The break room is spiffy, sometimes people bring in put lunch lunches to make the day a bit more personable. I hadnt been in manufacturing before, maybe thats a normal thing, i dunno but its nice.
Now the warehousing of the boxes of finalized product is another issue. Theres sooooo much stored it takes up about 60% of the building, and when the warehouse is full, they stack these pallets of boxes (going about 40 feet high) everywhere. Blocking electrical panels, eye wash stations, emergency exits. If there was a fire, i'm not sure it'd be easy getting out of there. That part was worrysome to me. Big time. They are running fast and loose on that aspect. Perhaps that will change but i wasnt going to wait around to find out. I had another offer for a job i wanted and took it. But i did like the people i worked with, and would have stayed there otherwise. Like i said, it was "a job" but not a career.

Walking in, you might think that there's so much opportunity for improvement.  You'd be right, but it'll be brick wall after brick wall.  Even if you're a master of "managing your manager," there's a deep-seated "good ol'-boys" club that extends into corporate who are extremely unprofessional and abusive to the people they should be facilitating.
Pay is low even for the area so you might expect a structured operation where your job is fairly easy and salaried folks will only work 40 hours.  You'd be wrong.  There's no structure, chain of command is undermined, and fear and stress are used to motivate.  60+ hours is the norm despite promises made to get you in the door unless you just give up.  Nobody can make any progress with just 40 hours.
You might think they've got to support you with people and be open to giving you a budget to get things done.  How else do they expect you to succeed?  You'd be wrong again.  Instead of staffing a department and paying for good people, they expect the managers and supervisors to do everything themselves while they chase out "veteran" staff (anyone with over a year) with low pay and absolute disrespect.
If you're not yet convinced, there are safety issues everywhere, the roof leaks all over and has for as long as anyone there can remember, and the section of production with AC maintains a consistent 80°.  Ask folks who have been there a while about locked bathroom doors.
Small glimmers of hope from new HR and Safety at corporate level, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

The management there don't know what they are doing nor do they know how to talk to people. They have favourites. if your not one of them then your always in trouble or don't get what you want. None of the management is on the same page . the management on hand lines are a whole lot better than the ones on belt line . i was a feeder and inspector. I got moved to hand lines and it was a lot better till the management over them started moving everyone around. They had me building and i hadn't built . i only did it two days .i can build but not as fast as they want you too. They also don't consider the people they have you working with may slow you down as well . due to the fact i was unable to make 155 to 200+ filters an hr. I was let go and so have so many more . yes the pay is good and the days and hrs. But to have to do all that and put up with management that don't have a clue or no what they are supposed to do or get all the product you need to do your job ,IT'S NOT WORTH YOU SANITY !!!! WITH IN LESS THAN A WEEK I HATED MY JOB DO TO EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON THERE . RECONSIDER IT. I'VE SEEN SO MANY PEOPLE COME AND GO IN THREE MONTHS CAUSE THEY QUIT!!!!!!!! If you are sick and they have you leave or you are called do to an emergency you het points towards you .

There was hardly a day that went by where we did not have sufficient product to load trucks; inventory is perpetually unorganized and a mess to include product not being in the correct place, labeled incorrectly, or people being completely incompetent and passing over full bins before claiming short product. There are one too many workers that make the same mistakes over and over again and despite retraining, are not replaced or moved to another area were they might be better suited. The constant mistakes have a obvious trickle down effect and continually cause issues in terms of reconciling paperwork, leading to holding trucks in detention while waiting to be loaded/get finished paperwork. Management is aware of issues, but despite constant discussions no real changes happens. 

Work-life balance
The work life balance is okay. Even though you work four tens Monday through Thursday it does help to balance everything out because you have Friday Saturday and Sunday off.

Pay & benefits
The pay is well they start at $12.75 an hour. after 90 days you can get their full insurance package which is very good it covers everything dental medical and vision

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at Pamlico Air, I think I believe it's very good for the security if you will show up and be dependable you will have a job. However as far as advancement goes that's another story.

Management
In general, managers at Pamlico Air our professional and approachable.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at Pamlico Air is okay. The age group is generally between 20 and 40 but it was a respectful group of people

Overall
My experience working at Pamlico Air okay outside of standing in one spot for 10 hours it wasn't too bad. Some people can handle that and some people can't. Also the glue in the factory was very strong so that is another factor to consider if you want to work here

The inventory was not kept up with there times when we was looking for items and they weren't in location, was still on truck or didn't have it on rack.  Items on rack not labeled correctly and keyed in the system with correct location and quantity. Quantity for certain items that they no longer have in shop need to be taken out of the system. Return  area one side with diecuts on pallet and box labels on pallet. The other side for work orders pulled with all items of the work order the supervisors was signing out each order that they are going to run on the line.

This place started out a great job, but unfortunately the manager seen something we didn't and changed company's and from that point on the company as a whole just went down hill. They started hiring too many new people to "run" things that they had no experience in and there for a lot of the "OG's" found other jobs with different company's due to the fact of being over looked and under valued. But I did love my positions as Checkpoint personnel and also line lead over 20+ employees and I believe my supervisor would agree not only that I was a great leader but a great team player.

I rated this company with 3 stars primarily based on my experience during orientation. Unfortunately, the situation was not ideal as I encountered language barriers with the staff members assigned to assist me. the HR manager's behavior during orientation was unprofessional and displayed a lack of enthusiasm for her role. Additionally, I observed a noticeable lack of diversity among the employees during the tour of the manufacturing area. Consequently, I decided to conclude my search for employment elsewhere.

Don't work there the supervisors do not tell the truth and will stab you in the back. The air conditioners are shut off when the office people leave and it gets hot in there. There is no water fountain in the building. There is a sink in the break room but no cups or ice for water. You have to buy cold water. The quality standers for the filters change every day. This place is about numbers not quality. They send out some pretty bad filters. You are threatened with your job daily. Horrible place to work.

* Duties as an assembler at Pamlico Air various. On the assembly line there are four different tasks to keep the line going. Pamlico Air has most of their assemblers cross trained, but keep them performing the task their best at. Feeders feed the Die Cut through the machine for the two actual assemblers to build the ﬁlter in a timely manner. Sending it down the line to be inspected, and molded into a perfect ﬁlter. There’s also L-Sealing the ﬁlters, the tower, and FTS section. Boxing and building pallets are also one of the things you are cross trained on.

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