program manager

senior sales engineer

plant manager

production manager

manufacturing engineer

SLPT Global Pump Group

SLPT is a very dysfunctional company.   
Their quarterly company status meeting are depressing.  
Being told every meeting of how many millions of dollars the company has lost, how their manufacturing plant in Oklahoma is falling apart,  test fixtures broken down, manufacturing equipment failing, managers jumping off the sinking ship.
This does not install a feeling of confidence for their employees.   
They had lost Ford's Q1 status as a supplier years ago. They hardly have any programs left.  Maybe one or two FCA programs, which is'nt saying much.
At their engineering and sales center in Rochester Hills, Michigan,  the atmosphere is just the same.  
No communication.  The entire corporation's computer network was hacked in March,2019. As of October, the company is still handicapped from the hacking.
Engineers in Oklahoma have no access to the main data network drive.  
The Cad design group has the drive but no email on theworkstations. Only a room center laptop to email data files and correspondence to the out of state engineers, manufacturing.  
The company's IT department consists of a young intern and his boss. Getting anything done from the head of IT is a joke.  Just don't ask.  Do without.
   
Speaking of the Cad design area:  
It's a small central room with only four designers left.  
For contracted designers, management "dangles the carrot" in 
front of you to go direct in six months.  Never will happened!  Instead, they will rehire a convicted sex offender designer that left them a few years ago to make his "millions" (highly doubtful) in other 
ventures.....(and he never lets anyone forget.)  
Google "Pathological Liar" and you'll know this individual first hand. He even forgets to keep his lies in order. It's funny to see how he has the management fooled.
Another individual is a mid forties / fourteen year old that cannot stop 
talking about the most useless subjects. All he does all day long is talk, sings while wearing his headphones. Talk about a distraction for the rest of the room!
This guy should be spending his time wearing his headphones while riding a Tony Hawk $2000 skateboard instead of mixing with "real" adults in the working world.
If one doesn't have headphones to drown out the distractions from this guy, insanity will soon develop.  
So in the room, they have one person that's on the 
Michigan offender List, (company does not background check) another person that acts likes he's in junior high school and two others that seemed quite normal.
Management is twenty feet away, around the corner and they are clueless as to the "Romper Room" atmosphere of the CAD room.

Some of the enviroment aspects:
The building is located is one of the most heavy traffic areas in the county. 
This intersection at Crooks & Hamlin must have been the county traffic planner's hangover result from 
the previous night.
The building:
SLPT owns the building. There has been no hot water in the kitchen area for over two years.  
Toilets constantly breaking. Toilet paper runs out weekly. (Have to keep a stash of your own.)  

All in all, not a very good company or building to be employed at.
The way the company is functioning, they should be out of business in a years time. 
Their parent China, should pull the work back to the homeland.

Relieved I'm out of there!

SLPT's building located in Rochester Hills, Mi. is the Design & Sales Center for their Chinese owned corporation on China.  My experience working there in the CAD department was nothing  I'd consider pleasant.  Hired in on a contract basis, i was enticed by being told a direct (permanent) position in six months time.  Of course it never happened.

 Having to work one cubicle over from a forty something designer that acts like a fourteen year old, was really a distraction.  This guy would never shut up. Management was oblivious to what carried on in the CAD room.  This company also does not do pre-employment background checks when hiring a direct employee.   As a result, I was forced to work with a designer who is a convicted felon that's listed on the Michigan State Police Offender Registry.  He's a twice convicted felon.  Brings a whole new meaning to "Bring Your Daughter To Work" day.  At that place, no way.

The company keeps bleeding money from being incompetent.

I would think that they will be out of business in the near future.

 So I could never recommend a company like SLPT to anyone for a satisfying career.

Great place to get a check in the area given definitely worth it money wise but when it comes down to relationships with bosses and co-workers it's all very bad.  Upper level people are nothing but a regular guy just like yourself but thinks too highly of themselves just because of the position given with no real experience differential between them and the crew or workers.  Co-workers become very hateful at times and even just a hair racist by the way they approach and talk about certain people for no given reason yet the bosses do not crack down or deal with the situation so it's either you have to deal with it by being the bigger person and ignoring the talk or erupt causing a situation and possibly getting the wrong person fired.  Occasional people that are hard working people that deserve their job rather then someone who might not get fired because the bosses have a good relationship. Not held to same standards.

Start off with understaffed in all departments, this put a major strain on my position. I was doing the job of 6 people including my responsibilities and what the management / directors added. Being the first quality engineer that launched and got approved all products, there was no gratitude for the efforts, traveling weekly to Oklahoma and time away from family, and working 24/7 to get work done. SLPT could double my salary, and I would never go back. My advice to anyone thinks of joining this company is go somewhere else unless it's your last resort. No one is happy there and 90% of the works are actively looking for a new job. One more thing there are no raises or compensation!

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people and willingness to work together to solve complex problems

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The specifications that we had to maintain to make good parts.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment was positive. Leaders supported each other for the most part. Team members open to change.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Working on problem-solving regarding quality or production. Working with material to ensure enough materials to complete weekly build.

During the roughly two years I worked there, about 65 people in management left while the management team itself was only around 35 people. That level of turnover meant leadership was constantly changing.
Because of this, priorities shifted frequently, reporting structures changed often, and projects would lose momentum when leaders left and new ones arrived. It made it difficult to build any long-term direction or stability.
There were also ongoing concerns internally about the company’s financial strain and supplier relationships, which contributed to uncertainty among employees.

This place would be a great place if it had more competent professional managers and a HR that applied policy and procedures to everyone equally not just pick and choose. Too many male egos in management involved. No place if you want a regular eight hour five days a week job. Too much favoritism. Working seven days ten hour shifts starts wearing on a person's health. Everyone starts out temp with no benefits, no holiday pay even though you work just as hard as a full time for less pay. Expect to remain temp for at 18 mths at least.

It was the most soul draining, family destroying,  physically debilitating job I have ever had. When I started on the line we were required to work 7 days a week for over 6 months. If you missed for any reason, even with a DR note it was still an occurrence. 5 you were fired 3 wrote up those occurrences dictated if you were able to be hired on permanent, job transfers, your everyday work life. When you start out at SLPT you are a CSS worker which means you are just a temp worker that can be fired at whim. You only make 10.50 an hour for sometimes up to 3 years before SLPT has an open full time position. DO NOT WORK HERE!!!     

I was a temp at the company on first shift. I felt that they were unfair in that they could keep you as a temp for up to 18 months, the part I worked in worked 12 hours a day 7 days a week to meet a quota that was supposed to be met by both 1st and 2nd shift combined. My shift would have to meet most of that because 2 and shift hardly made 400 pumps on a good night and mist of the time got to leave early. The quota was 2,000 pumps a day.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Senior management notices one to bring up the rungs if the person is doing even closer to what the person was hired for.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
None if work harder but smartly.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They have benefits, OT, outings, celebrations if it counts. Friendly atmosphere. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Depends. It can be hectic or at snails pace.

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