production technician

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tool maker

flexographic printing operator

warehouse technician

Panduit

The head of the internal account management team is ineffective, holding no stroke within the company. The VP has a vision that does not make sense to anyone but himself. They lied regarding the SIP bonus plan upon hiring. After a year of working for Panduit the SIP bonus is still not clear. There is no other comp plan. You cannot personally influence the SIP plan. All sales people are pooled together and share the bonus. This breeds a culture of mediocracy. Those working hard with sales talent are leaving. Those that remain are complacent and mediocre at sales. The bonus has been unattainable. Last year, no bonuses. This year is looking the same. There is no transparency with margins/sales goals. They make it impossible to hit 100% of plan. They do NOT pay livable wages. The base pay is way below the national average. There is zero direction for the IAM team. The job description has changed four times over the past year and is still not clear. Not one upper management personal can effectively communicate sale strategy. It’s a struggle to get anything accomplished internally and hard to work with pricing. We miss out on deals on a  daily basis because pricing will not work with us in a timely manner or give competitive pricing. This company is a mess. Multiple departments are losing employees due to lack of good leadership and pay. The entire sales organization’s morale is low. 

Employee benefits are good for the size of the company.  The work is not too difficult but is often repetitive.  Cross training is sometimes available to help with that.

Employee engagement is low.  Panduit is making an effort to improve customer delivery times so that they can grow, but an older warehouse has made this difficult.  This means that they have to heavily depend on labor force to work mandatory overtime, which drives down employee morale.  Recent hiring practices have lessened the workload, but the specter of mandatory overtime is ever present. Panduit is in the process of opening a new distribution center in Indiana, which should solve this issue.

Management is either good or bad depending on who you are and who you talk to.  I feel that Panduit could do a better job of developing and mentoring employees into becoming better managers.  They need to find that line of professionalism when driving the company's objective and that is not always seen by the employees on the floor.

The employees on the floor want to do a good job.  They can be very helpful and most of them do care about the work that they do.

The hardest part of the job for production employees would be the repetitive tasks.  Also, some of the jobs require heavy lifting. If you are not used to it, it can be a bit of a challenge.

The most enjoyable part of the job would be that employees do have a voice in what happens within the company. 

Panduit is a world wide leader and provider of Network hardware components and Software Products for the Enterprise, Data Center and Industrial automation arenas.

Managed the Global Technical Support team for the Intelligent Management Systems (IMS) Worldwide.

Review outstanding critical customer issues. Provide detailed reports to the Software and Hardware groups for Software Bugs and Firmware issues.  Managed Change Management process and developed Process Workflows.  Supported the Professional Services Implementation Teams with critical issues related to installations, configurations and problems at customer locations around the world.

Co-workers were very dedicated to their roles and responsibilities. 

The hardest part of the job was trying to make sure 24/7/365 support was available with a very small team of Engineers.  Downsizing and Cutbacks reduced available personnel to perform the duties of the Technical Support Team.

The most enjoyable part of the job was the people I interfaced with on a daily basis. Customers and internal teams were very flexible and great team players to get the job done.

At Panduit, I have had the opportunity of experiencing the role as a Digital Business Intern and a part-time Digital Business Associate. In my role, I took on many new tasks and projects that allowed me to grow as a successful business woman. My manager was a great mentor and allowed me to gain experience in change management, web content producing, marketing automation, online merchandising, and agile training. At Panduit there are many ways you can grow and succeed. I started as an intern and Panduit gave me the opportunity to continue my success as a part-time employee where I could be a part of a great team. The most enjoyable part of the job was helping to launch a brand new Panduit.com and learn Adobe Experience Manager as a tool. I also enjoyed being a part of the Lead Generation to Sales project which helped me gain knowledge around how the marketing and sales teams operate. This job has provided me with knowledge that I can now use to move forward in my career path. I realized that marketing automation and merchandising are two career paths that interest me and before my internship I was unsure of what I would do after graduation. Now that I am graduated, I am excited for my future.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the functional specifications of the Mobile application built by the analyst.
• Developed technical specification document for the requirements of the web services.
• Developed service oriented architecture (SOA) based design involving designing complex schemas (XSDs) for the registration form of the mobile calculator application.
• Developed BPEL process to integrate various existing services into end to end process flow.
• Configured Database adapter to store the users’ information and to retrieve it accordingly.
• Developed web service for the calculator metrics using BPEL process to capture the information of the usage of the mobile application.
• The calculators metrics collected for the scenarios which include how many times a user has started the calculator app, how many times a user has completed the calculations and the parameters and results of the calculations with the user information.
• Design and implemented the error handling process using BPEL to capture the errors and to perform appropriate action.

Compensation and benefits are OK. The work culture and what its priorities can vary greatly depending on what's important at the time. That said, Panduit tends to turn out an amazing amount of quality products, which speaks to the hard working individual contributors they have. They use a BRAVO award program as sort of a pat on the back for employees who go above and beyond. Just don't expect it from engineering or product management unless you are a darling of the department (see my comment about favoritism in the summary). As an engineer you will either get big projects that will become synonymous with Panduit or spend your whole career pigeon-holed with supporting roles or small projects no one cares about, and woe to you if you're that person.

As a Panduit employee for 3 years, I would describe the experience as being average at best.  A typical day at work is characterized as being status quo with little or no variety whether its answering emails or being on the phone 9-10 hours each day. Although I have worked in highly production-oriented environments throughout my career and have adapted well to my surroundings, there is a lot to learn but little time to learn it. Training is adequate at best as it is described as a "learn as you go" atmosphere. Management places more emphasis on the quantity of work rather than quality and it seems that individual mistakes are more magnified than praising exemplary work. The best aspect of the job is my team. We all work well together and learn from each other on how to do our jobs more efficiently.

When we had continuously pointed out our concerns and offered suggestions they were denied and often looked at as we were complaining or that we were saying we work harder than other tiers in the department when that was not the case. We were only concerned about the customers and the service they were now lacking. 
There is also a very large indication of favoritism going on in the department. While others are allowed longer lunches, extended flex time, project time, how others handle cases, while others are subject to different standards. There is a clear focus on some and not on others. 
There is no time offered to shadow or mentor other departments to grow from cx into another department. 

I loved this kind of work, my coworkers were great and this company offered a great learning experience. The constantly changing management and the lack of communication caused frustration by those who really cared about their jobs. Management would stay a few years make decisions that effected the quality of the website, the database, the department and those workers left behind would have to try and clean up the mess. If you brought any quaility issues to their attention you were viewed as being negative, instead of being thankful you noticed and cared or asking your suggestions on how it could be better. This company used to be a great placed to work were people had pride in doing a good job and management appreciated it now all their interested in is the bottom line offering only the quality a customer is willing to pay for.

Panduit is slowly trying to change it's work culture to be more include and less "old boy network" with mixed success.  On the surface there are programs to bring the company up-to-date on work culture, but behind the scenes on the upper levels it is still an older style of management.  Very top loaded on the upper structure with lots of vice presidents and directors.  This is slowly going away as these people age, retire, or move on.

Advancement is slow once you get near the top of the engineering ladder as they don't know what to do with you if you don't want to be a manager.  Compensation is fair but again - growth is slow at the top of the worker bee ranks.

Healthcare if fair but I have nothing to compare it to.

Coworkers are excellent, fair, and inclusive.  The people are wonderful and I do consider them my family.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production technician 18 salaries reported	$23.17 per hour
Machinist 10 salaries reported	$25.50 per hour
Tool maker 7 salaries reported	$38.57 per hour
Flexographic printing operator 6 salaries reported	$23.50 per hour
Warehouse technician 4 salaries reported	$19.57 per hour

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