production operator

maintenance technician

operator

electronics technician

quality technician

Rea Magnet Wire

Pros- is the ability to make a decent living!
Cons- is the work schedule and being forced in early or over every day, company doesn’t care about its employees or their well-being! You can’t make plans to to spend time with your family or friends, because you never know when your schedule will change. The overall morale is terrible! The turnaround is at an all time high, can’t keep employees or management including Human Resources anymore, I feel it has everything to do with new management!  I worked there for 9yrs and watched this company go from being a great place to work to horrible! Went from having 2-3 coordinators per shift, to having one per shift throughout the entire plant. Union is worthless,  they don’t fight for you, they pretty much go with whatever the company wants and says! They made employees work the 2020 holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year) Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this place for anyone unless you have no other choices.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I don't recommend working there. Managment and HR both are on the BUDDY SYSTEM.
Make everything sound good upon highering and acceptance letter, then just as you complete 90 days, all changes and things end up south.
Turn over rate at this commission seriously excessive. 
All I can say is good luck !

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management and HR. Not good people. On buddy system. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Seriously hot and extremely micro managed. Turn over rate is extremely high due to Managment and HR.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Management micro watches. They get up on cat walks with binoculars and try to catch someone doing anything but the job. 
Management and HR treat people very poorly.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good paychecks, lots of overtime, a lot more freedom to move around than most factories

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Poor training, constant changes in rules and procedures, most of the machines they have you running are on their last leg and constantly breaking/making your day more difficult 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Terrible. Theres only a handful of employees left with 5+ years of experience because upper management has driven everyone out the door.  This is not a workplace that you can replace years of experience with a new guy in the door. It takes YEARS to be a competent and valuable operator at this company.

Pay is on the low end, I was promised 25 cent raises every six months and haven’t been pay a dime over my starting rate in a year. This place is so mismanaged that we cannot bring in enough mechanics, plumbers, or electricians to properly function. As a maintenance mechanic you will spend more time cleaning and painting than doing maintenance. Vacation is a joke, as a full time employee you start with 24 hrs vacation and an 8 hr floating holiday. Which is about the worse package I’ve seen locally. As a mechanic you will be written up for having any sort of attitude toward the mismanagement, for taking to long on a job, and for the company being out of parts. This is hands down the worst place to work in Lafayette.

If you come to work for Rea, you will be greeted with solid pay and okay benefits. That's it. Currently, all employees (supervisors exempt of course) are forced in for OT, with no concern if you had a doctor's appointment, meeting with a lawyer, and everything in between. Cancel your appointment or take your attendance points. You will most likely be thrown to the wolves after your 2 weeks of training and if you can't get a grasp on the job beyond QC and making brazes, you'll be moved to a different area.

This place drains the life from you as you have no clear picture to job status and constant finger pointing from managment to cover there job best part of the job was working with my best friend other than that it was a constant uphill battle to make it through the day between the supervisor and team lead nothing is ever the same one week something is ok the next week the exact same is not the standard with a zero standard mindset I personally don’t understand how they have their jobs 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Pay, time off when not forced overtime

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Forced overtime, new people all the time

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Get the job done while floaters and lead men sit in the office and don't do much

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Long 12 hr days.  Find out you have to come in on your days off at the last minute.

Worked here for a temp. agency. Pay was still good though believe it or not. There was so much trouble shooting it was unreal. Understaffed. Teamwork fair. Not everyone pitched in. The smell and cloudiness in the factory was sometimes overbearing. There wasn't really anything I enjoyed about this job. Hated the rotating shifts. 12 hour shifts 3 on 2off 2 off 3 on. Every 6 weeks days to nights, nights to days.

REA wire was a great place to work for. I really enjoyed my time there. I did have some issues breathing around some of the ovens, but they worked around it and found me a position I could do. I got promoted to an office position and got some really valuable experience. There are great opportunities there, but sometimes there are some things that don’t make sense. Great job overall. I believe they made some leadership changes. I hope it’s for the better.

Benefits are awful, do not care if you have things going on and may force overtime on you 1 minute before it is time to go home. Easy job but not worth the stress level. Management breathing down you neck for rate when they do not know the job themselves because they have only worked there a few years.

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