service manager

quality control inspector

project estimator

production supervisor

electrical engineer

Paul Mueller Company

A typical day included lots of phone calls, entering information into the AS400 system, checking parts out in the plant and working with people in the accounting department.

Stainless steel tanks are interesting - the way they're built, the way they're cleaned and the way they're serviced. Parts for tanks for medical solutions must be well documented. I learned responsibility in making many decisions regarding parts - whether they could be repaired or needed to be returned to a vendor or disposed.

My co-workers were extremely helpful in this position. Coming into this position as a temp worker, there were few people available to help with training. And this paragraph would also cover the hardest part of the position - asking for help and training myself. My immediate supervisors depended on clerical staff to keep paperwork moving along while they concentrated on types of repairs that might need to be done to tanks that had been shipped to customers.

I loved the sense of accomplishment when a job was well done. I loved the sense of working alone, yet knowing that there were others nearby who were working on the same projects.

If you want to work here you better be on your best behavior. Especially in your first 90 days. They will fire you for simply talking to someone for 15 minutes on the clock even if it’s about work related topics. They have also wrote people up for clocking in 2 minutes after start of shift even if you simply forgot to clock in. Take note that if you aren’t past your 90 day probationary period the union can’t back you up. If you do get hired don’t work in PHE. They hired a completely unprofessional supervisor that will treat you like garbage and won’t address issues you bring up like getting you logged onto the employee website to simply see your pay stubs. You could even tell the man something and he would just walk away without saying anything. Everyone there knows he is terrible at reading/replying to his work related emails but he’s on his phone all day long and will even tell you he was messaging his wife or kids. Then he’ll turn around and write you up for having your phone out. The only thing he does all day long while on the clock is find reasons to write you up and reads the daily safety topic in the morning. If the executives at mueller read this I would highly consider finding someone else to fill his position. Someone that actually does their job.

The co-workers here are wonderful, and offer a lot of help! The management, however, is horrific. If you are too overly passionate about something, or are eager to learn more things, they don't like that. They want people who are more like robots. Come in, do your job, and leave. Moving up the ladder is basically impossible because they don't want to have to try to find someone else to replace you. The pay isn't worth all the DRAMA, and the drama comes from the supervisors, and the management from Springfield(headquarters). You are not a person there, you are a machine meant to be ran into the ground. In some of the areas, you weren't even allowed to leave them to go help out others when you had no work. They would rather you sit on your phone all day than help out a co-worker. Some of the managers there also didn't think helping was a part of their job duties.  All in all, it's just not worth the headache of working there. Aside from the horrible management, the pay is trash along with the benefits unless you're applying to the Springfield location. 

Paul Mueller company was once pretty good to work for. Their divide in union and nonunion is horrible. They put out pay sheets, so you know how much everyone is making. Non union you get screwed! They expect the work if 10 men out of one person. Their office people sit on their bums and stare at their nails. Pyropure division was a huge joke. Guys on their phones all the time. Hiding in bathrooms. They put valves upside down, but because the equipment passed the test stand. They weren't going to say anything. They tighten up the piping so much just to make it fit, once the field guys go out to work on them. They can't get things to go back. There are so many issues with this company and the people in it.

Best part of this company are the people on the floor. The company is top heavy. I believe they care they just can not manage to get from A to B, with anything. Culture is rough. There is a great divide between office and floor, upper magement and lower management. The company is so out dated in inventory control and technology.  They pride themselves on open book management but only do it half way. This company has people that care so much about it and the products. It has great potential, however is limited by the politics of business. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
I worked with wonderful leadership and coworkers. Their benefits were really good. The atmosphere at this company feels like you are working with family. Everyone I worked with were wonderful. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I never felt stressed when working at this company.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fun place to work at. Very professional and always helpful from everyone.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Fun and always busy. Everyday there os always something to learn.

Terrible place to be employed. Preach about culture but fail to live by those standards. Pay was extremely below market value, no annual raises or bonus structure in place. Leadership is shady, continuously lies and will be the first one to take credit or throw another team member under the bus. Extremely political. Old man’s company that will not survive in the current industry.  

I genuinely would not send my worst enemy to work under the field operations management. 

Left for a new company making more than double my Mueller salary.

Over the last few years, management has made a huge effort into making changes to make the company one that you want to retire from. Hard work pays off and is often recognized and celebrated. Open book management style and gamified culture makes the financials of the company transparent and keeps people engaged on helping the company remain profitable. Health care coverage, 401k, and profit sharing bonus structure are all great perks. Generous PTO and paid holidays.

Paul Mueller Company has grown and made strides in the past 4 years to meet or exceed the market in compensation and benefits. They are also constantly growing their work culture to be a welcome and hardworking environment. I am motivated by the leadership team at Mueller by their open communication style with the coworkers here. Their training opportunities and development has significantly grown, to make the coworkers in charge of their own personal and professional growth. 

Mueller was a good paying job with great benefits. The work-life balance was a bit challenging but manageable. The supervisor was not qualified to run the electrical department as he had no knowledge of electrical principles. The supervisor made working tense due to shaving allotted time to build a component making threats of termination while giving no support.

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