electrical designer

coil winder

stacker

mechanical designer

senior electrical engineer

Prolec-GE Waukesha, Inc.

Hardest part of the typical day here is actually coming to work and making it to the punch clock & punching in. The urge to call in from the parking lot is oh so very strong. 

Then the second hardest part is coping with your choice to actually punch in just so you can get talked at (not to be confused with talked to) about issues that management refuses to acknowledge or address because if supervision addresses an individual worker, their feelings may get hurt and we can’t have that. 

Now, if you care about your workmanship and supervision knows you have passion wanting to work and do your best, you are now expected to work harder and held to a higher standard. No longer are you allowed to work at the same level of lowest common denominator. Nope you are expected to work even harder and get put on the worst jobs in certain departments. 

Anyway, after getting talked at you get your job assignment and maybe start working or maybe wait for parts or maybe a crane. If you are really lucky you’ll get to see the “leadership” parade taking their daily stroll through the plant seeing how far things didn’t get from the previous day or shift. But after that you are typically won’t see a supervisor until it gets close to break time. If you are super lucky, you may not see you supervisor the entire shift due to whatever meeting they feel they have to attend. 

Oh yeah! We can’t forget about the “occasional” weekend overtime. Here “Occasional” means 10+ years of wanting 15-18 workers per shift on Saturdays. Your supervisor may not be here but you will. 

Honestly the best part or most enjoyable part of the job for most people here is leaving after the shift ends especially if you have the next day off or you are one of the lucky ones that finds a better job away from the toxic management.

Some supervisors/managers (maybe less than 10 people within leadership) are great and truly do appreciate those who actually work and care about their job.  Some in leadership just do not care about anything while others in leadership are incredibly manipulative, incompetent, and down right vindictive narcissists. 

Benefits are middle of the road for healthcare. Vacation or days off are all over the place. Don’t even think about or dream of PTO or sick days (not to confused with your vacation days) or anything like that if you are salaried or a union member, or certain other things. 

So all in all as long as the paycheck doesn’t bounce it works until something better comes alone. 


I was recently laid off with the company for "lack of satisfactory work performance", but no one really trained me & no one was hardly in the Kenner Louisiana office. I was not given enough time to learn everything I was required to learn (I came from law offices and a solar company). They did not allow me enough time to get to learn their system at all (learning curve is 6 months at least for the company's information and never was given a notice about firing/laying me off).  With all of this said I wish I could give this company a hard negative in performance, management and training. They do not deserve one star more like huge negatives. Please do not apply for any positions within this company. They will hugely disappoint you. But thank you to the three women who helped in Human Resources otherwise the company lacks communication, huge organization skills, and lack of management skills. Good luck because sooner or later they will flop.

Been employed for 7 years and in the same department. I thought things would get better after I made it to 1st shift but I was wrong. It's extremely unsafe and stressful, and nobody seems to care. Many of us on the production floor have presented our issues with pay scale, work environment,  work loads, lack of accountability, and so on. The VP of operations just smiles and tells us good things will happen soon....it's been years and no change. The waukesha facility was purchased from SPX 2 years ago because it was a sinking ship and Prolec saw an opportunity to purchase, and did. But no changes were made, still the same individuals running the company into the ground. I will be leaving the company after I receive an offer from another company.  I highly recommend NOT working for Prolec/GE for they are extremely toxic and unprofessional. You are not a human in their eye's,  just a number.

What is the best part of working at the company?
This is a stable company. They build the Mercedes Benz of transformers. Sometimes it's hard to understand the method to the madness,  but it always seems to come together in the end. There are some really good people there, and then there are some really questionable ones too.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It seems that many of the units come right down to the deadline to be finished in time for shipment. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment can at times be charged, but most supervisors are pretty fair from one employee the next.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Hurry, hurry, hurry, then slow down.

I truly believe it depends on what department you’re in, but a lot of management will disregard you. Culture is toxic. Everything is about hitting production goals. Working conditions are not the best. I’ve gotten injured on the job and certain areas are not air controlled, even when they should be, which leads to heat exhaustion in summer. The people who work here are definitely interesting. Your concerns are never addressed. Your time will be abused, as this place will work you to the ground with mandatory overtime, but hey, at least that pay rate is nice. 

If you start working in engineering you can expect to barely have any work, so the pay isn't terrible if you enjoy doing nothing most days. Managers are aware of this and still expect you to input 40 hours of work each week, even if there is no production work to charge time toward. There is extreme favoritism among managers and certain employees. Starting pay isn't great compared to competitors pay and there is no room for career growth. Basically promotions do not exist, so you will be doing the same thing for the entirety of your career. If you want a job where you can work remotely, look elsewhere.

Great money but it's only good if you want to work 7 days a week have no life and enjoy monotonous work everyday of your life

You can make around 50k to 55k a year but you can break 100k if you just use work as home and your home as just a bed

But also the jobs only worth it for the overtime so if you don't work the weekend expect 800 to 900 bucks but work the weekend and it jumps to 1500 bucks 

And you want to find a level 5 job which makes 31.54 after 2 year before that I thinks it's 28 to 29 plus 1.50 differential for 2nd or 3rd shift

The floor workers and office people (shirts) are constantly butting heads, while the office people might not have a problem with the floor people, the people on the floor do not trust and dislike all office people. And to make it worse the people in the office all gossip and talk bad about each other, like there back in highschool. Way to much drama and they all secretly stab each other in the back and talk bad about each other. If you do work there I would recommend to keep to yourself as much as possible, they will use anything they can to get ahead of you in the totem pole. 

The work is fun and challenging. The job pays great in  every department but there is one major issue.
Supervisors are not doing their job.
They are:
Not documenting
Not coaching
Not issuing verbal/written warnings
Not forcing retraining
Not requesting recertification tests
Not building a performance record
So when a worker finally gets to discipline:
HR has no paper trail
The union wins easily
Management blames the union
Cycle continues

Supervision should have been cleaned out with new ownership.  But the same people who took a once great place to work and turned it into another job wonder why they can't keep anyone.  Wayyyyy to much overtime.  Always forced. Not enough appreciation for the things people do around there.  Terrible office to shop interaction. Too many time studies and improvements that don't improve anything 

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