machinist

inspector

production associate

technician

utility operator

STANDEX

They have been throuogh 5 sales managers in 3 years and 3 production managers in the same time frame. One day they hire and the next they fire. All that matters is pushing product out the door at EOM, does not matter if it has to come back for re-work. The least of their concerns is the employees. With the constant fear of getting axed, the few that are left are putting in 60-80 hours every week. Sr. and corporate management treat customers as idiots with a wallet that know nothing about the "special" type of work Standex does. If a customer complains, average monthly product rejection rate can be as high as >30 per cent, they are told that they have to pay to expedite the re-work or else they can take a number and wait until they have time to get to it. Sr. management is not even safe here. Plans are changing constantly and there is no corporate continuity. As an employee you pay about 50 per cent of medical insurance cost and the rest of the benefits are worthless, 3 sick days a year, 1 week vacation in year one (but they even tell you upfront that it is best if you don't take the whole week). However, they will push and push for one to buy company stock. As a corporation they look pretty good on the outside with an incredible dividend payment record, etc. But if one gets to see their facilities, the real story comes out. They have not made equipment or other investments in any of their facilities in years and years and everything is falling apart. It rains in the offices, A/C systems have been down for years on end and the little of their production equipment that still runs, is daily being patched up to make it through another day. I am not kidding their turning equipment dates to the 50s and 60s, lasers date to the mid 80. Safety violations galore too. Yes, DEQ and OSHA in Richmond are there on a weekly basis.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part about working there is if you are in the grinding and deberment dept you sit down at a bench and work. Benefits are good if you like 1st shift it’s early! 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Call offs and holds on orders by quality due to someone messing up! A lot of people who have been there for years will look at you and turn their nose up! High turn over rate due to people not coming to work and getting fired! Management always changing when I first started they was just brought by standex the old owners were enginitics

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
8hrs some ot not much! Not mandatory. Work culture is ok managers are ok

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Long but easy! Not really much to it if you pay attention to details

A typical day is subject to change without following a plan.

What have I learned, if you're good at multiple things this company will use you for everything and not compensate/promote. The language of you're too good at your job to replace has been tossed around a lot. Severe feeling of no capability of promotion.

Management is a joke; The higher management is focused solely on new business rather than optimizing their current. The middle management is under trained and act impotent. They wait until the last minute then wait some more before making a decision, insight is not taken into mind and no planning of any production.

Many different languages and extremely diverse workplace.

Dealing with management that doesn't drive for optimization.

Most enjoyable part of the job is luncheons.

Standex leadership actively reviews the challenges that face the various industries including communicating to the workforce the challenges and future direction. Having the communication from the various leadership team members provides insight to the direction of the organization. Within the Aerospace sector of Standex, activities through out the day focus on supporting internal and external customers. The organization is focused on creating working relationship with the customers which lay the ground work for a long term collaborating relationship. There are always rough days at work; however the cross functional teams and willingness of the team to support each other enables getting through a rough day extremely easy.  With the culture and team approach it is very enjoyable working within the Standex corporation.

From day one I realized I never should have left my old job. No one could decide who was in charge. Work is piled on with an expectation that you must learn without adequate training. 90% of the employees that I have had to deal with have an "it's not my problem" mentality, when I am just trying to get solutions to problems. If you show up only most of the time (as many do) you will keep your job as they are desperate for workers. From my understanding, the place is a revolving door of employees and I can see why. Unwillingness to repair antiquated and broken machinery

This company requires way too much from their workers. Although you are allotted vacation time, you are expected to use it for all of you doctors appointments. They frown on their employees for taking any time for family or health issues. It's also full of gossips who have nothing better to do all day but make up stories (about their coworkers) wich many of the supervisors believe. I found myself unable to focus on my work, due to all the antics of other employees, and the lack of decent pay made this job not worth all the time and headaches it caused. However The work was not to challenging mostly just tedious.

Standex prides itself on being a "lean" operating environment, which translates into not having the necessary tools or resources to do the job appropriately.  Management at all levels is unaware of this issue - mainly because they too are trying to do more with less.
The teams come together over the lack of resources and persevere.  The lack of resources requires all team members to work closely together, which results in incredible bonds forged for those who have similar work ethics.

This is a stressful yet boring job. The pay is good but they want you to work 45 hours a week to not have mandatory weekends. But, if you’re  quality, you have to work weekends when they do voluntary. Which is pretty much every weekend. The benefits could be better. If you’re a smoker, you pay an extra 100 dollars a month for insurance. If you have a family, you’ll barely see them. the pay almost isn’t worth it. They are like every other company and don’t  care about their people at all. They work people more and more to get their numbers but people are working less hard because they are working so much. The management is really quite jerky.

Work at the individual site level is great.  People at this level support each other and respect each other to get the work done.  Once you rise above the site level things start to become blurry and don't feel as included as an employee of the group.  The corporate level is detached from how things operate at the individual site level.  They do not deal directly with an hourly manufacturing workforce and they try to tailor policies to a salaried office workforce.  It can be frustrating at time.  Overall, I enjoy the work I do and the people I work with.  It would be nice if there was more structure from the corporate level.

The other employees were like family, over the years we all would come together as a team to insure that product was shipped on time. Every day was a new challenge, in the aerospace part demand can change from minute to minute, the management team was always there to help, along with the engineering department. The hardest part of the job was just that, jobs could change at a moments notice and you may have to tear down a job that just took 2 hours to setup to run 1 part on another job, but that was part of being in the business.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Machinist 2 salaries reported	$34.40 per hour
Inspector 1 salary reported	$11.07 per hour
Production associate 1 salary reported	$17.50 per hour
Technician 1 salary reported	$23.50 per hour
Utility operator 3 salaries reported	$25.00 per hour

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