machine technician

Remington Arms

Production is the major factor at Remington Arms. It is important that pieces continue along the production line moving steadily from each work station to the next without any work collecting and remaining unfinished. However, as long as this is being accomplished management remains flexible. This added with the protection of a union contract makes for a fairly stress free work environment all things considered. The co-workers are friendly and supportive. The hours are fair. The hardest part for me personally is working the night shift. I am much more of a day person and have had trouble adjusting to the daily sleeping schedule instead of sleeping during the night. However, there are good opportunities to shift working positions and promotion, though these opportunities are limited for new workers for the first two years of service.

Change over plates on the machine to setup for the types of shells being run. Make sure you graphite the rails, fill up the hopper, empty scrap pan, keep track of track, fill out audit sheet to display the amount of shell that were inspected, types of scrap material disposed of, and the variety of defects found. Inspect primed shells for external/internal defects. Notify quality of any problem areas and change out plates between dumps if necessary. Be sure to tag every  cart with a tracer ticket to help in keeping track of the process order and switch buggies every time a different brand of shell is being run to prevent having mixed carts. Place tickets (tracer, hold-up, release, mrp, etc) to ensure all steps are completed and the log can be updated. Clean up your area and notify relief person of any issues.

A typical day at work is identifying problems and working with Quality Engineer to resolve and maintain quality.
I have obtained a wealth of knowledge. Learning to use several instruments like calipers, micrometers, CMM Operator, SAP system, sharepoint. etc
* Management is very well professional and works will with everyone. Always encouraging everyone to get involve and assisting if you want to advance to different departments. 
* Coworkers are a pleasure to work with. We all get along and take care of one another. We definitely work well as a team. 
*The hardest part of the job is I say is not having the product you need to work with. Sometime its back order and our customers need a particular item and our vendors can't provide us with it. It causes a stir and stressful day.
*The most enjoyable part of my job is being able to come to work daily with a smile on my face and having a job to come to and really enjoy the people and the company I work for.

Remington has a lot of Awesome people. They work hard in  stressful   situations and still smile and try to help where they were needed. There was a lot of change in management, layoffs, budget cuts so we worked a lot as salary employees. There was a lot of finger pointing in management instead of  taking ownership, finding the issue, correcting the issue and preventing the issue from re-occuring, I controlled the inventory in the entire plant for all 3 shifts. Knowing what materials we had, I would inform the planning team, which machines, cells or processes needed to scheduled. I informed our buyers of what materials were short for the month. I would inform machining, cells and processing team of what material needed to be produced. The buyers, planners, machine operators and processing team all communicated with me and we worked as a Team.

Fast paced environment that produced the best sporting, military or law enforcement ammunition on the market. I learned a great deal about the ammunition business and what it actually takes to manufacture ammunition. Managers at the plant were great to work with and made sure employees were well cared for. The hardest part of the job was the day I resigned and moved. What I enjoyed the most was that it was very similar to my previous job in the military, working with explosives. Many of the safety procedures were adapted from the DoD.

While Remington is a good place to learn to be a machine operator or quality inspector, it is not a good place to advance your career.  You are often left in the dark as to the going ons of the company due to upper management ignoring floor personnel.  Expect to work 10+ hours daily during normal operations, even when contracts are ahead.  Remington also pushes QUANTITY over QUALITY, so expect to keep pumping out bad product even when you know you can fix it.  There is almost no room for advancement as Remington offer hires outside or temps to fulfill open positions.  I recommend attempting to do at least one year and then moving on to another company.

My experience at Remington was not a bad one but there are a lot of things that need to be changed to make it an even better more enjoyable place to work. The wages they pay are great for the work that they require you to do. If  you work for them that is exactly what you do. What I mean by that is that Remington is going to have to come first your personal and social life second if you have tome for one. You work long hours and at times make overtime mandatory. You may go weeks without an off day if you do miss work regardless if it was your scheduled off day and hey are making you work it because they are short handed even though you haven't had an off day in weeks. It will still count against your attendance.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working for the old company pre bankruptcy and pre Cerberus Capital Management.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Long hours and verbal abuse for little pay.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Environment is dirty.  They don’t care about their employees.  Verbal abuse, mandated overtime, and higher ups that don’t want to hear the problems.  Oh and safety isn’t a top priority.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Typical day was getting yelled at for things out of my control.  Management never would listen.  Point the finger was their first line of defense.

Only work there 6 and half days through temporary service. The area I was assigned to was way behind on orders. They had 4 people trying to catch up. The supervisor that was just thrown into the position a week before I came didn't know what he was doing. He expected you to come in and automatically catch up what they were behind way before you got there. He was very a little rude one moment and act like nothing happened the next. I learn quick but you have to give people time to learn the job and get up speed. Don't take it out on the new people what should've already been done before new people start. I like the hourly pay but sometimes the stress isn't worth it.

Individuals in management stated our jobs were secure during "all hands" meetings then reduce the workforce two days later.  
That being said, it was a wonderful place to work. My department was busy but we had good communication and, with the exception of a few, we worked well together. Individual department supervisors were for the most part very fair and it was easy to understand their expectations. There are hundreds of different products to learn and each is different in its own way. The learning curve is steep because of the volume but it is very interesting.

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