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Rolls-Royce

RR Energy is a Delphi infested British Bureaucracy. One Delphi employee who joined RR Corporate Purchasing in early 2000 has brought along most of his Delphi (the bankrupt automotive supplier) coworkers and they are now trying to "transform" RR with their track record and experience at Delphi - the truth is that they get employee loyalty by hiring friends and that leads to political leverage in a highly dysfunctional political organization struggling to deliver results. This nepotism exists in all organizations, but is especially rampant in Energy - Mount Vernon and “buddies” are hired at all levels with no one held accountable. In Mount Vernon, psychology majors, Aramark food supervisors, priests and UPS store employees are all hired as supplier quality "engineers" and technical managers because HR is clueless and so is upper management - both of which are churned out every two years or so to add to the chaos. Learned helplessness is very prevalent and the system is 'you scratch my back and I scratch yours'. Numbers and metrics are changed to hide true performance and meet year end goals. Sandbagging is also very prominent. RR's hiring philosophy is that 'a warm body is better than nobody', leading to incompetence at all levels. The company focuses on ‘good behavior’ to change culture, not realizing that skills and competency are fundamentally missing. RR struggles to retain world-class talent. Salary and benefits are very sub-par but in line with the low qualifications of personnel in quality and purchasing. The work environment and offices are in bad shape. Management has a 'naked king' approach to leading, favoring only the people who butter up and fake a positive appearance, get facials and wear ties for routine meetings only to keep their mouth shut since they have no relevant knowledge, experience or analytical thinking capabilities. World Class = GE, Siemens and Alstom. Stay away from Mount Vernon!

Most mornings of a typical work day start with prioritization of issues that require immediate management engagement post review of emails (which starts the night before in a global environment) and morning staff meetings. Once imminent concerns are resolved or in the process of resolution I proceed with following up of the status on existing projects and directing corrective actions to assure available resources are in place to achieve committed goals that includes identifying and addressing conflicts.
I have learned that listening closely to those to whom you have entrusted high levels of accountability is paramount in order to assure the achievement of a cohesive, successful and effective organization.
I have learned that providing management with timely, clear, crisp and complete status on issues that pertain to resolutions, planning and potential concerns is the best way to engender trusted and productive relationships.
I fully appreciate that a positive and effective workplace culture needs to be nurtured and developed with trust, personal accountability and appreciation. A high and effective level of communication is critical to build a team that strives towards an understood common goal that fosters trust and reduces ambiguity.
The hardest part of my current position is addressing time zone variations and language barriers do to the global environment and the required immediate issue resolutions required.
The most enjoyable aspect of my position is the knowing that my contributions make a positive and marked difference.

Overall, this is a good company with flawed management and extremely poor communication. Employees are left in the dark far too often by management. 

A typical day wasn't typical. The position entailed a wide array of tasks and projects, which kept it interesting and challenging. I learned: SAP to a greater level, enhanced my event planning and marketing skills, as well as presentation and project management skills.

On the flip side, somehow, someway the roles and responsibilities of one can fall into the lap of another without any prior knowledge. Next thing, you are doing the job of someone who doesn't want to continue having a certain responsibility. 

Advancement opportunities are open to a select few; the vast majority are given to their employees who are sent from Germany to the US. 

Overall, co-workers were nice people. There are always a few sour individuals who use work as a place to spread their misery; those few stand out like sore thumbs. 

The hardest part of the job (from my perspective and that of many colleagues I spoke with) is the lack of opportunity to advance; while be privy of the financials and seeing employees brought in from Germany and placed in lucrative positions. 

The most enjoyable part of the job was the ability to interact with and get know any of the 300+ employees.

* A typical day at work is looking for work to do. The maintenance program that I am working on doesn't keep me busy for a whole work day. After I'm finished with the activities related to the maintenance program, I normally assist a co-worker that has more of a workload that he could handle. 

* What I learned about my current job is salary is not the most important aspect of a job. I had better jobs making less money where I was more involved with the day to day activities. 

* I don't agree about my current managers management style. I feel as if my current manager should have connected with me better when I first started with Rolls-Royce Naval Marine. I don't feel as if I was properly orientated or provided with the necessary training to be effective in my position. 

* I get along and work with my co-workers well. Although the position comes with a culture shock compared to the previous companies where I worked, I found a way to connect with most of my co-workers. 

* The hardest part of my day is not having enough work to do to keep me busy and engaged. 

* The most enjoyable part of my job is my most of my co-workers. I enjoy connecting with different people and learning about them as well as them learning about me.

I was originally hired to work in their LibertyWorks Division, a separate management structure to work on military projects.  I enjoyed the work and the people I worked with.  My work was all classified or Secret as was my work at Raytheon.

During a reorganization, a new department was created called System Design Integration.  I was placed in this department under new management doing things I did not fullly understand most of the time.  This is my experience over the last two plus years.  I am penalized for not knowing the things of SDI Engineers because I was never trained nor did I ever want to be an SDI Engineer.  It's mostly handling endless forms, no design work, etc.  It is completely outside of my skillset.  Talks with management, Ethics and HR have proved fruitless.  So I'm stuck in a job I hate with no other regress than to look for work elsewhere.  RR is reorganizing again and there are rumors of a sell-off of part of the company.

Over the last 15 years, I grown a strong attachment to the Indianapolis area and wish not to relocate, if possible.

Rolls-Royce is an excellent place to work with many different opportunities from a student beginning to global Rolls-Royce assignments.  There have been opportunities in different areas of the business as my career evolved from local factory industrial engineering to global process improvements. International travel, working with the global businesses to define requirements and solutions, working with external IT companies to deploy the new infrastructure and applications have all been exciting and enlightening opportunities.

Rolls-Royce has a diverse workforce and stresses the importance of ethics.  As a global company, one might be on conference calls in the morning with UK colleagues and then taking actions to complete before the next day.  Conversely, UK employees might work actions in their mornings in preparation for afternoon calls.  Collaboration is a must. The opportunity to work globally and travel has been  educational, learning to work together and become acquainted with other cultures and companies.

Ive been here for the better part of a year and honestly i can say i really enjoy working here. Rolls Royce benefits are top notch, ( 401k, Parental leave, HSA). Ive found some people that I genuinely love working with, along with a few that I try to avoid. We stay pretty busy but not overwhelmingly so. Just enough to have a sense of accomplishment and for the day to go by fairly quickly. We have plenty of OT opportunities but it hasnt been mando since ive been here. My biggest complaints about the shop is if you dont really fit in then theres quite a bit of gossip and talking behind each others backs, not so much to make it a super toxic place to work but its better not to be on the receiving end of it. Its also a very small shop and some people have been here for years so the advancement opportunities are VERY slim. The only reason this isnt a huge complaint is that we get paid well to do our job. Bottom line is if you like to feel accomplished and make good money and dont mind some workplace gossip and not in a hurry to move into another position then this is the place for you. 

Whew --- where to start. Outstanding workforce with many people who'd been there over 20 years. And tons of work to do --- a genuinely thriving business, but . . .

Many managers, including the Plant Manager, operated in a very negative, non-transparent style. Promotions, recognition, and any sort of acknowledgement of a job well-done were usually seen to be the result of favoritism vs merit. One manager, who would not train or otherwise prepare any new personnel, and had regularly demoted or terminated many of his subordinates, was allowed to run his department without any apparent over-sight by HR. Another manager, who had successfully introduced a 'lean' program into his department, resulting in a >90% improvement in his department's output, was first castigated, then terminated, by his supervisor for 'poor performance' when it came time for his review.

Lots of good people there --- especially the first-line supervisors out on the shop floor . . . super-knowledgeable, fair, and easy to work with. There may have been some good managers there, but the atmosphere was not one that encouraged anyone to make any suggestions to change the status-quo --- including me.

I couldn't wait to leave.

* 12 hour schedule is the best part of this job! you only work half the month and home the other half. A lot of potential to have a second job or pursue a dream career
* Pay is the best part of this job! The pay is very good for the area and if you come in and want to move to a higher paying position that is possible because anyone can request a boarding for the next position at any time.
* The work is amazing! I worked on the turbines side. I can't speak for the Rotatives side. Our schedules and pay were different. Turbines experience will give you experience and get a job anywhere

It kind of feels like the inmates are running the asylum. Workers can really do whatever they want and say and not be punished. Management stays secluded up in the office. Had a harassment issue and management basically did nothing so I had to go back to nights just to get off the shift to get away from the harassers and then fight with management and report them to corporate for their mishandling of the floor. They eventually sent a new plant when hearing all of the employee complaints. If you work here, be careful around the people. The job itself... The greatest job I've ever had.

While working at Rolls-Royce, I gained insight into how an elite engineering company operates. I learned how to work within a team and how communication, even when my ideas differ with a co-worker's, is vital to a project succeeding. During my time as an engineer, my technical skills were challenged frequently and due to my rotational role, I had to learn on the fly. The hardest part of my job was working on 3 month projects and then moving roles due to the nature of the rotational program. Although I did complete my personal objectives, I wasn't able to see the projects I was involved with from start to finish. The most enjoyable part of my job was working on projects with little to no prior experience and being given responsibility to complete the tasks at my own discretion. I thoroughly enjoyed the projects I worked on and know that the experience I gained by learning on the fly is something that will aid my in my future career.

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