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Precision-Strip

A typical day is, when you're hired at PSI they inform you that "you might have to work weekends."  At least that is what was explained to me when I interview for the company 7 months ago. This boils down to working every Sunday through Friday 5 months in a row. Thats six days a week, with the possibly of working another 12 hour to 7  hour shift on Sunday nights. Which on average rounds out to about 67 hours a week. The plus side of the company is they have a great starting pay of $15.00 an hour with overtime pay at time and a half. And they inform you in the training that a  normal work day at PSI is 10 hours plus two hours of overtime as opposed to 8 hours in a normal work setting. But if you look closely, you'll see that they take part of your overtime pay out in the 30 min lunch that you have. So you work 10 hours at your normal pay rate and 1 1/2 hours at your overtime rate. The other 20 min break is paid.
    When you start at the plant you're assigned, differs between plants, you start on day shift to learn and get an idea of what a day is like. So for about a month or so, you're working 5 am to 5 pm. and the possibly of working Saturdays. This involves, learning how to package material with bands on the line, in racks, and on wooden skids. So if you're not in pretty good shape this job can be rough on the body. Because you're constantly moving, stooping, bending, reaching, banding, walking, and what not.
    Never mind the fact that the shifts are 12 hours a days with a 30 min lunch and a 20 min break at 9 pm and 1 am of the shift. All that aside, the training is mediocre at best, you spend a week up in Tipp City OH, they show very outdated OUSHA videos that are very dry, learn how to use a bander, take some tests on the protocols of the plant,measurements,tolerances of material and safety. A perk is that PSI dose pay for your flight if you live out of state and a rental car, hotel, and provides a food allowance for the week. A draw back during my training was, they didn't provide transportation to Tipp city for the group I was with. I had to use my own car and they reimbursed me for the mileage, but the company has cars, trucks and vans that the use for other employees, and that didn't feel very professional. They do put you up in a decent Holliday in express or Lyqunita inn. While you train they will have a lunch that they pay for once or twice during the training. Around the third or fourth day they walk you through the plant and let you use a 30 - 40 ton capacity crane to lift a coil of material that is 15,000 lbs and move it from one bay of the factory to the other and safely set it down on the grown. Thats about 500 yards total. Scary at first but doable with the grabs they have you in to pick up the coils.  If you run a crane in your main plant, you might be required to learn how to use whats called a C-Hook. This hook varies in size and weight capacity but is not easy to get accustomed to. There is a lot that can go wrong with the C-Hook so I opted to not want to run it.  Mind you, that you have a spotter/trainer with you while training but that is not the case when you arrive at the plant you're assigned to. They have you do some banding and work with others in the plant that are in the job you're training for. Also there is some brief fork lift training, I mean brief. As in you stack a rack, stack some skids and drive around some cones. Not the kinda of training I would expect from a major metal processing facility that relies heavily on fork lifts and cranes. I had maybe driven a fork lift a couple of times in my life, but never the amount that is needed working for this company. 
   This is where I encountered my first sign of negativity of working for PSI, the workers at the Tipp city OH pant, seemed disgruntled, overworked, and the job relies heavily on others to be on point to keep the line producing.  Many of the workers said: "Why the F*&K you want to work here." Didn't leave me feeling any better about the job I was being assigned. The line stops producing, the company is not making money. Everything comes down to the line running, no matter what.  
   On the last day of training they have a luncheon with the main staff at the headquarters plant in Minster OH. This was a pleasant time, where different staff member talk about their time with the company and how they moved up and such. The president of the company a long with his main staff are present. I was in the Army way to long to know when someone was blowing smoke, and thats the feeling I was getting while at the luncheon, a lot of smoke. But I needed a job so I stuck with it for seven month, 12 hours a day at lease 5 days a week and one 7 to 12 hour shift on the weekend.
   Upon returning to my plant, I was faced with different obstacles: learning how to stack racks with material in them, skids with coils on them, running a crane, banding coils on the line and keeping up with all the other things going on in the plant. Some days were fast and grueling, somedays were slow and dragged out. My main concern with this company was the lack of training or certification to operate a forklift, crane or other heavy equipment in the plant. I had practice stacking and unstacking racks and skids, but when its 3 am in the morning and your on your 4th day straight of working 12 hour shifts with very little sleep, your bound to have an accident or spill material. I also was not a fan of working 12 hours a day for 5 days straigt and only one day off. If you have kids, family or a personal life, say good bye to it. Because you're either sleeping, eating or at work and thats it.The weight of these coils is no joke, were talking about coils as small as 200 lbs to coils at big as 60,000 lbs. Mainly I was responsible for packaging material for shipping out, This involved, pulling out racks from inventory that where a lot of the time stacked on top of each other with as much as 13,999 lbs in them or less defending on the coil size and gage. Then you would also have to pull skids, this never made sense to me. With a world of technology, we still have to use forklifts to move small stacks of skids of coils out of the way to get to the one you need. Some time it would take me an hour or longer to get a skid. That was a colossal waste of time, money and man power. The plant I worked in is putting in a crane system that is automatic and is run by a computer but this will take at least 6 months to a year to install if not longer.
    I had four spills during my time at PSI and that cost me my job. The first two spills were months apart and the last two spills where a couple of days apart.  I was at fault for all of them and I glad no one was ever hurt. After my last spill I was politely asked to resign because of my health/meds on was on and safety to others in the plant. I accepted their offer to resign and have moved on with my career search. If you want to work your life away for a good pay check every Thursday, paid holidays off, and a nice 401k, PSI is the place for you. I on the other hand was not so lucky,  many of the other workers said you're going to drop stuff. Well, I dropped to much stuff and not here I am writing a review on Indeed.com. Hope this information helps you in your decision making process. Good luck and I have no hard feelings towards the plant or the company. I just feel like they need to have an overhaul of their: training and management situation.

Expect to work 50-72 hours per week. I worked as a crane operator at the Talladega location and management turnover is an issue, as well as favoritism, inconsistency, and lack of support. As a crane operator expect to walk 12 miles a day on average on concrete that is covered in oil while wearing metatarsal boots. You're main job is moving steel and aluminum coils weighing 3000 lbs - 75000 lbs around the building. Crane operating is largely a solo job, while packaging techs work on a line with 4-7 people. You are subject to the music they play unless you bring a bigger, more powerful, system. Loading and unloading trucks and rail cars. Also loading the processing lines (this can be very stressful). The tools required to perform your job aren't regulated and, for example, you can spend several hours tracking down a handheld scanner, which is required to do anything on the crane, and fall very behind on your work, causing you to rush. Very unsafe. The pay is very competitive, and the benefits are exceptional. The main issue with this job is a complete lack of work / life balance. You will spend the most useful hours of your day in a metal building. All new hires start on night shift (5p-5a) and advancement to day shift (5a-5p) is based on seniority. The process is relatively fair. Expect a major disconnect between day and night shift. Both shifts regularly blame each other for "left over slack". If you aspire to find new employment elsewhere after getting hired, be warned - the schedule locks you in pretty tight and will make the process almost impossible. Depending on when you start, you may not have any paid vacation days and attendance is very strict. After 5 unexcused call-ins you are fired. Night shift and day shift are very different. Night shift is more relaxed and if you carry a two way radio be ready to bring your A game when it comes to banter between associates. We constantly ripped on each other, and it was occasionally annoying, but in a weird way, built solid relationships. The PPE sucks. Hard hat, arm guards, metatarsal boots, safety glasses and gloves. It's hot during the summer and cold during the winter.

The hiring process is insanely immense and selective. Understandably so. Be ready for many trips to the plant and a week in Ohio for training if you're hired. The training is actually fun.

Overall... don't apply if you hate physical work, dispise inconsistent management, like being at home. Seriously.

>You will make decent money. $16.50 starting and if you perform well will receive raises every 3 months until you top out at $21.50

The work at this facility is soul breaking, everyone I work with seems so depressed and unhappy, management constantly wants more and more, they expect you to do the work, literally of two people, because they have refused to hire the people that have quit in the last 5 years, our workforce, from when I started to today has been reduced over 25%,, we are currently processing more material by millions of pounds then we did 20 years ago with 25% less people to do the work, now after the covet-19 crisis, we cannot find people and once again management is pushing us to do more and more. Break times are short and few.  Management will make you operate equipment extremely short-handed and expect the same output. Unless your family is starving, I would not recommend working there, it's probably one of the biggest mistakes of my life that I've stayed there as long as I have. The pay is good, the insurance is good but the way your thought of by management and treated by management it's not worth it. Management has a history of not being truthful, or open, or honest, they have also on more than one occasion have kept important information from employees "like your father's having a heart attack", because they run such a skeleton crew they couldn't afford the associate to leave and continue to operate the department.

The plant that I was located at had been in the steel processing business for 18 years.  Throughout the 18 years this plant has been sold off several times.  I was the sole IT support for this plant for 10 years (under the name Marubeni Steel Processing), then the plant was sold off to a different division who name eventually became MISA Metals.  I worked for 6 years as the EDI coordinator for several plants under this division, supporting over 40 different EDI trading partner's in which we were handling thousands of EDI transactions per month.  Then the plant was sold off to Worthington Steel, who's IT dept. was centralized in Ohio, as a result,  I helped them with EDI support, helpdesk resolution and some customer service duties, but not formally as a member of the IT group.  Worthington Steel then sold off the plant to Precision Strip (the current owner).  Again, Precision Strip's IT dept is centralized in Ohio, so I became a CSR / Bander for this company, which is what I have been doing for the past year or so.  I would very much like to get back to doing IT work in the field which I have most of my experience and formal education in.

Orientation is great however what they tell you is not what happens when you go back to your plant. Training is not effective. You only get promoted if you are a butt kisser.  There is no accountability at all. Favorites is a major issue. Favorites get away with everything. While if you aren’t lined, they will find a way to let you go. Leadership will tell you what you want to hear but do nothing about it. Overturn is a major issue. It’s hard to report issues to human resource when they constantly leave the company because of the culture. Headquarters is a joke. Constantly making changes without involvement from associates. Always worried about keeping new hires while doing nothing for current associates. There is no development or reason to move up. You make the same as someone who has worked there for years. The company is a joke. The president and COO need to go. 

Was hied in and everything seem great. Was not told how badly the maintenance department was ran. Everything was very unorganized. Had very bad employees with huge HR files. I was put on salary but expected to work 60+ hours a week and be on call, not to mention that i had to go to Rockport IN location to manage that location. Their hiring process is unlike anywhere I've ever been. Being a highly skilled Tradesman I was made stand around and watch until I had been put through their training. Never have I had to do this type of onboarding. Normally if you are hired in maintenance, you are cut loose to work on stuff. Why hire highly skilled people and then treat them like children. Company is very unorganized and if you want a work life balance this is not it.

Upon hiring in at a 5 day work week 12 hr days are clear ... not bad right! Well soon as you step foot in the door it will change to 6-7 days 12hr days high employee turnover ,pick and choose who they want to advance in higher paying jobs. No home life .. they will act like they care but  they really only care about numbers.  Always behind, if they get caught up on customer supply they take on more work wich means you're going to never have your weekends off. You constantly have to come in and pick up where first shift employees left you that will get old ,and by all means don't be sick and have a legit doctor's note because it will still count against you. So if you want a home work life balance this is not the place nor is this a place for a family driven individual.  

+ Decent pay & benefits
+ Company-provided uniforms

+/- 12 hours shifts (Days/Nights works 5+ days. Weekend shift works 3 days.)

- Perpetually short staffed in production, while there's twice as many office/management personnel as is necessary. (There's 3-4 supervisors on my shift of about 35 production employees.)

- Practically zero upward opportunity. If you can suck up enough, you *might* be able to get a CSR or supervisor position after 10-15 years. Don't expect to move up from there, though.
The majority of the rest of the office/management team is now nepotism hires with little to no relevant knowledge/experience. And none of them have the slightest bit of accountability.

- Communication is nonexistent. Not just between production and management, but also amongst management itself.

Short and Simple break down: Typical work day is 12 hours . One thing I can say I’ve learned while working here was how to use a tape measure correctly. The Management is some of the worst you will experience in a warehouse industry meaning don’t expect promises to be kept and a lot of micro-management that’s not necessary. Workplace culture is very hostile, everyone will stand around watch you make a mistake before they’ll offer a helping hand. The hardest part of the job is staying safe in a place that’s designed for you to get hurt with little room to perform daily task. The most enjoyable part of the job is clocking out going home!

Supervisors treat you like dirt and are constantly on you. Very little to no training then you would get in trouble if you messed up even though you wasnt trained. They do pay well. You have a mandatory 60 hour week every week 12 hour shifts and then every 3 weeks you work 72 hours. They even tell you in your interview that you will hate working here and you will see your co workers more than your own family. Alot of the workers are racist and the boss's dont say anything and very offensive work place

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