operator

manufacturing operator

assembly operator

senior financial analyst

training consultant

Phillips-Medisize

It's as the title says, working for Phillips-Medisize as an operator is just a paycheck. Typical day was show up in the morning and get your assignment from the PSS or lead in charge of the day. After that you typically go and clean the cleanrooms and get to work after. The tasks are beyond mundane and boring. You will mostly either be inspecting and bagging parts or you are put on some assembly line and mostly test out the line itself. Management is beyond a joke. They think they know everything because they spend most of their time in meetings and because of that they treat anyone on the production floor as a number and easily replaceable. There is also very little in the terms of advancement. If you try and pursue something in a different department  they will claim you are training but expect even more work to be done and for you to work harder, but without a pay raise or a title change. If you question anything about the entire process or critique it, you will be reprimanded and possibly demoted back to your base position for quote "bad attitude or unwilling to learn". Management will also try and dangle the position in your face in order for you to work harder. As for the culture its pretty much do your job and keep your mouth shut. Its production vs admin for the most part. The most enjoyable thing was the people that also worked production, 90% are just working for pay and the other 10% were boot lickers for management, they would go to management if they heard anything that could be disruptive. At the lowest level there is no security if management fails at their jobs and the work coming in slows to much , they will layoff the majority of the production team. There will be no warning, the layoffs will just start. Last thing is if you are going to be an operator be prepared to also be a cleaner and sometimes assistant material handler. You will do many things that arent part of your job, so be prepared. 

There are a lot of great employees here who care deeply about their job, and will help others learn and progress and just want to do a good job. 

Unfortunately this is undercut by the Operations manager, who is unprofessional and bullies his employees through threat and humiliation, and consistently fails to live up to the standards set forth by the corporate structure at Koch Industries. This manager belittles his direct reports in front of their peers, reacts emotionally when something goes wrong often times jumping to premature conclusions and causing more stress and confusion than necessary, and is out of the plant more often than he is at work. All of this is made possible by abusing his close personal friendship with the plant manager and regional HR director who make it impossible for reports to be filed about this misconduct to any effect.

The pay at this facility is well below the average for the area across the board, from entry level employees all the way up to engineering positions and supervision. Raises are almost nonexistent, and if they happen at all, don't even account for inflation.

Indirect employees and other salaried support positions - expect to work excessive overtime up to and often exceeding 12-16 hours some days. This is not to mention the expectation of being on call 24/7.

Supervision- Do not expect support from management in any area, as more often than not, you will be left out to dry. You will be pressured to cut costs in nearly every area, including staffing, training time, and cutting corners in quality.

Overall, i would rate this workplace very low, and would not recommend pursuing a career here unless you have no better options. It would not be such a bad place if not for the aforementioned few "bad eggs". 

The good....Fair starting pay, great schedule with many days off, great 401k and medical benefits, good at having periodic random perks (ice cream socials, mini celebrations, overtime bonuses etc), easy work, good ability to move into other positions etc. 
The bad....completely bogus attendance policy that has a clause that makes absences within a rolling calendar year unable to fall off sometimes for years at a time if you have 2 or more absences. For instance, 1 absence is eligible to fall off in 12 months, a 2nd absence within the same year (even 11 months in) means a verbal warning and both absences now have to wait for a full year from the 2nd instance before they can fall off, and a 3rd instance (again think another 11 months in) before that year is up readjusts the year wait etc etc. Meaning good people can find themselves fired due to a build-up of absences that wouldn't otherwise find themselves fired if they did a traditional rolling calendar year with each absence automatically falling off after 12 months, which would be easier to follow, fairer,  and easier to manage than the current system. Hard to get decent raises, staffing shortages, job instability for temp workers as you may get laid off so go direct right away or asap, poor management from supervisors, poor coordination in keeping things running smoothly, with times where people are needlessly waiting around for hours for a job startup. 

I just started the production position through a staffing agency (contract term 3 mo before direct hire) and and VERY unimpressed with the management. Mostly young uneducated adults, lack of clear communication and direction with much disorganization and conflicting or contradicting directions and instructions so everyone is confused and frustrated.  Some of the new hires (even on their first day!) are literally yelled at and bullied by permanent employees for 'doing it wrong'. A lot of foul language and horseplay, even though company policy states this is grounds for immediate termination. Nothing is done - Lord of the Flies, children running the plant.  Shifts are 12 hours with short breaks every 2-3 hrs and a 20 min lunch.  Bathrooms are shared, so ladies be prepared to  straddle the urine spray and poo smears on the seat and urine puddles in front of the toilets.  Pay is ok, but rumor says they do not convert to direct hire at 3 months as promised, sometimes drag it out to 4-6 months which means you do not get your benefits or the pay increase that comes at conversion.  Seems if they want to retain good employees they would be more professional and also follow through on written contracts in a timely manner.  If you need a job, this is an easy-in, but with so many companies hiring in the area with comparable or better wages...continue to look.

A typical 12 hour day would start off by getting to your press and fixing the previous shifts mistakes and wondering just how long you will be there. You may stay for 2 hours or 12, it all depends on how many presses are working at the time and if you were on "THE LIST". 

If not enough presses are working than your job description changes from Press Operator to Janitor. If the thought of spending 4-12 hours a day cleaning twice a week suits you than this could be the job for you. 

I myself learned very little though if you are looking for a first job and don't want to do any real moving or work than this job might be for you. 

The culture may be one of the worst I've ever worked in. This is a very PC / Corporate workplace. Even saying things such as Sir or Ma'am will end with you being brought into a managers office to discuss how offensive it is. If you enjoy the idea of working with folks who seem to be straight out of middle school and gossip is your thing, this might be the job for you. 

However, this is not a hard job. The real struggle most people will have it staying at a press and not getting wrapped up in the different group/cliques that operate the place.

Working on the twelve hour shift was my best experience with a job. I liked the schedule the most. I would arrive at five a.m. and clock out at five p.m. I had four ten minute breaks and one fifteen minute break. My usual day consisted of different jobs. From 5-7a.m. I would usually do laser work. Then from 7a.m.-3p.m. I would usually be working on one of the assembly lines. Lastly I would package parts from 3p.m.-5p.m. 
         I learned that teamwork can achieve a lot in the work industry. Rather than one person getting left behind, stop and help out. If everyone helps everyone things run much more smooth.
         Management didn't ever seem to know what was actually going on out on the floor. They did in fact have a firm grasp on numbers but the older people that worked there for 20+ years received the same Christmas bonus as someone who just walked in. To me it just doesn't seem right treating people that way after that much devotion they've shown to you.
         Hands down the best part of my job was meeting everyone on every shift and seeing how many people work together the way they should.

I started the shift being told there was no overtime, which I accepted because I have prior commitments and if I wanted to volunteer overtime I would. Not even a week after I started they want us to work 12 hours of overtime a week, but I can't do it on my scheduled day off. I have to either work 2 12 hour shifts and an 8 hour weekend shift OR 1 14 hour shift and an 8 hour weekend shift. The management hasn't gotten me a number to even clock in or out with and I can't log into any of the machines. The day I started I stood in the break room for a half hour waiting for a trainer and nobody even knew I was starting that day and I still am to be put on the schedule once the 8 hour schedule is changed over. I am apauled at the way they run this company and with this new overtime I don't see anyone sticking around especially since it's also one of the lowest paying factory jobs in the area. I've been here a week and already have applications in elsewhere. DO NOT WORK HERE!

The 12 hour shift schedule takes some getting used to if you have never done it before. It was very nice to have two week days off every week. The drawback to working here full time was having to work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday every other week. Also, the 12 hour days become a very big mental drain after a while. Physically, I got used to the schedule. 

A typical day at work consisted of a production meeting in the break room right away in the morning where our team leader would update us on what production lines we were running for the day, any special events or promotions going on, communication alerts from quality and/or engineering, and any other necessary updates. We then went to our first position for the day. 

Here I learned a lot about cleanroom practices, common production principles, and work ethic. 

The most enjoyable part of this job was meeting dozens of people and making a lot of friends in my time there. I am still close to many of the people that I met there.

They do not have their stuff together. Constantly sending people home, advancement promised in interviews but only happens if you want to be an occasional back up. If your hired at one facility prepare for a lay off or getting sent home due to lack of work or sent to another facility where they offer you to take the company car. This does not leave you any situation to leave in case of emergency or the option to say no to going to different town to work than the one you were hired in . HR does not know what they are doing PERIOD. They will monitor how long you take your breaks with a stop watch, you get a 10 every 2 hours and 20 in the middle of the day for lunch. This starts when you leave the machine, if your are in the “white room” it will leave you with no break.  In the interview get timelines for your advancement! They will most likely lie about it but good to ask. They do not let employees smoke on property but will make the JUUL pods in another facility. Kind of hypocritical. If I were you I would look somewhere else, very little benefits to being there.

Managers don't care about their employees. Instead they like their rear end kissed and covering up their own issues. There is plenty proof that the brown nosers get promoted there instead of people whi are better qualified.The people at the top (Operation Managers and higher) NEVER EVER spend time on the production floor, totally absent.  VPs require salaried professionals to fill out timecards and account for every hour of their day including admin time. In over 4 years as a senior engineer, I never met a manager from HR until the day I was laid off; the only time I met HR was when the clerk gave me my benefits packet when I was hired and when they kept giving me disrespectful random drug tests over and over and over (nice way to show trust in employees!) It seems like their managers are 2nd string leftovers from other companies, not visionary whatsoever!  Their parent company Molex is callous and cold, and they are owned by the Koch Brothers.

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