forklift operator

production supervisor

controls engineer

quality engineer

production operator

Piston Automotive

What is the best part of working at the company?
This company is good to work for as long as you show up, do your assigned job and be team player. The work is slightly physical and fast paced. But overall not a bad place to work.  All jobs have positive and negative things. You are given many opportunities within Piston Automotive. They also offer college education reimbursement for job related classes.  
You can apply via website or through temporary services. Starting pay is around $15. Once hired as full time employee, you get 1 week vacation and personal day. 1 week shutdown in July and Christmas/New Years shutdown at the end of the year. (Partially paid time off or use vacation time to have some or all paid)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
When people don't show up or call off. Those there have to pick up the slack. When machines are not working properly causing downtime.
Work schedule for days is 6am-2:45pm, but there are days you work until 3:15. 
2nd shift is 3:45-1am, but could run longer due to machine problems or supply orders just like on day shift.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Multi culture personal. Pleasure place to work, friendly people to work with. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Most days run fairly smooth, people are pleasant  and go by quickly. 
Breaks are every 2 hrs and lunch is 45 minutes.

What is the best part of working at the company?
It was not a job for me because I didn't l8ke doing the same thing everyday and my daily hours depending on how the hoe group does or if the machines break or don't function properly . Maintenance literally takes hours so you'll be down until they get there then if they can e en fix it. So you have to stay until you get you parts done for that day and 95 % of the time if it takes until 4 am you'll be there and considering you go in at 3:45 pm that sucks!!! It happened a lot plus it's not fair there and the supervisor on 2nd is a strict , demanding , and not very nice person to ANYBODY! 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The frustrations with if the machines stop working which happens very often you know it's gonna be hours and you can't leave until your done with your 800 plus parts that shift literally! Also if you work with slow not comprehensive people you can't get done until the other people do there part  which done don't want to!

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I say it's a 5 /10 not horrible but another of inside drama. People dating people then dating new other people that also work there! 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Ugh LONG AND AGRAVATING EVERY DAY

A typical day at Piston Automotive involves ambitious, innovative, hard-working co-workers with commitment to quality, customer service, integrity and teamwork. We begin each work day with a informative team talk along with the daily goal. Working for Piston I've learned the value of team work, productivity and respect. Our management has done a wonderful job with understanding our views on productivity and has done wonders on showing us we are important to the companies growth. My co-workers all understand how the production line run and does a great job in moving product out for our customers. The hardest part of my job would be to hear that my team did not preform our in a timely manor, our produce moves by quota. It is always our job to meet or exceeded this daily quota. Last but not least the most enjoyable part of the day at Piston would be to see all of my co-workers present and ready to start the day with no eras in line production.

A typical day working for piston went by fast. We kept the line moving and if someone fell behind. We had someone that was sided off on every job on the line. They would make sure if it was a problem with a someone they would get the help they needed. 
   I honestly learned that practice makes perfect. Not everyone can do it right the first time. Don't get mad and upset just keep a open minded.  Also lesson to people that are trying to give you pointers on how they do it. But not everyone is going to do it the entirely the same way. There's different ways to get the same outcome.
   Management was easy to work with if you needed something as long as you ask in a timely manner you was going to mostly get it. 
      Oil bolt this was the hardest station on the line to to get down. When I finally got it down then it was the easiest station to work at
     The most enjoyable part. The people who worked with me. We all got along great. And wasn't afraid to help one another.

Be specific when asking questions at the interview. And i would advise everyone to ask questions, do some research about the company. Their tracking system as a bit poor though. If anything gets misplaced or miscanned it would be hard to figure out who did it but they are open for suggestions. I am a team player and i was terminated for some racks that were broken while being unloaded off the truck. The con about that is that so many different ppl have their hands on it that its hard to pin point who did what and needs to find a system that will track that in future and i never received a warning about it the first time.

Started off on the production line. I was determined to learn all that i can so i would be a great asset to the company. So within 8 to 9 months i learned and was certified on the whole line which consists of 12 stations. About a year and a half i wanted to be off the line so i signed up to drive the hilo. Materials department i love. Jumped on a hilo and learned more about the other 3 production lines that was being operated in this plant. Great people. Great place to work. If you love to talk and associate with great people. Piston is where you want to be but you better be ready to clock in and WORK. 

A Shift Mon-Thurs 6am to 5:30pm
B Shift Tues-Fri 5:30pm to 6am
C Shift Fri-Sat days & Sun-Mon night's

I worked all 3 shifts. But i am on C shift now. I like it because i get tp handle all my business on my off days.

Worked here for 3+ years as production employee. Started as a temporary employee and worked into permanent position after 90 working days. Worked on assembly line putting together parts. Fast paced environment but not too bad. Pay is not the best but not worst. Was making $16.50 when left. Benefits seem good. Hours arent too bad, work 40-45 hours a week depending on how Ford runs. Management mostly good...easy to get along with and laid back. Supervisors need work on people skills. Nothing really hard about job. Some stations harder than others. Lots of games played with union. Fun laid back environment, tight knit work force. Kind of wish I would have stayed with company. I make a little more now but deal with lots of drama. I would recommend.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Honestly you can come to work smelling like POT. From the team leader to the big boss they don’t care. You can leave on your breaks to hit the bottle or smoke pot. Lmao

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The unpredictable workers who  argue. Or if u make one small error you get gaslighted. Mgm. Lock themselves in there office you can’t just walk in. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Depends on the day if it’s Friday and we are off Saturday. Happy ) if we get behind blame DANA. Lol  it’s perfect for felons etc

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Just working hard to catch up . It’s not hard work. It’s UNION but boss work on the line the workers take no pride in UAW they don’t even have union meetings.

Work was a home away from home. Early is on time so I enjoyed being on time to work everyday. I started out learning to work well with others and assisting other co-workers with work. As a team leader I learned to manage a team of 15 as well as problem solving and I loved taking initiative. I love working with people so I used my time to encourage other co-workers trhoughout the day. The hardest part of the job I would say was the times we had to wait for something to be fixed to continue production but we were always able to find something to do which may it that much more exciting. The most enjoyable part of the job was Leading the team reducing our scrap and increasing revenue for the company.

They promise you the world when you interview, and once you start working ,everything is changed.HOURS,basically, and lack of management, I was asked to place jumpers in logic for a very important assembly station, when a something fails within station, I refused it, got very upset.  I have told management, I can work nights, that I am a day kind/guy. They tried to put me on night shift for 6 months. Maintenance manager, has a title of a control engineer, never graduated from college in any engineering degree.I worked as I was told at least I would have a desk, never did!, I could know or where to place my lunch bag, and laptop. List goes on and on. ZERO communication and if I fix something, they don't say thank you, other way around, they get defensive, was a big mistake, wasted my time.  I would rather be homeless, working for this company!

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Forklift operator 1 salary reported	$20.51 per hour
Production supervisor 1 salary reported	$71,000 per year
Controls engineer 4 salaries reported	$102,875 per year
Quality engineer 3 salaries reported	$84,551 per year
Production operator 19 salaries reported	$17.88 per hour

Working at Piston Automotive: Company Overview and Reviews

Piston Automotive

Piston Automotive Ratings

Popular jobs at Piston Automotive

Salary Satisfaction

Job Seeker Tools

Employer Tools

Browse

Stay Connected