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This place is a dirty, unsafe, high level of work demand and poor management. The wages weren't enough to pay my cost of living. The Vacation days were hard to use even with high level if seniority. Childish stuff happen there and no good management to control the childish acts. The company does not plan for you to grow at all. They  don't even give a decent wage raise. After 2 years of no pay raise i finally got one and it was only 0.84 cents. If that wasn't a slap in the face especially with the amount of hours I worked for them. I worked Holidays and weekends i made $12,000 in Over time and there was no thank you or appreciation. I even went to score to better myself but this company had no desire to allow me to grow with them. When a lead spot opened up instead of promoting from withing they hired a 20 year old to be my lead that was had only been at one shop before and has less experience then me. I would only recommend someone to work there if they were looking for only experience and a job. I would not recommend anyone to work there if they want to learn and grow into a career.

I have been working at Selmet for almost 8 years. I have done a few different positions from being an operator on the floor to being an engineer working many different projects. Selmet is a place where you get what you put into the place. I would be lying if I said everything is perfect because it isn't. There are timelines and goals that are set that need to be kept and sometimes priorities can be hard to manage. That being said if you are a hard worker, passionate and always willing to learn and grow, Selmet is the place for you. The engineering team in particular has changed drastically in the last few years. The manager has implemented career and growth goals for individuals. He has been able to appropriately assign projects to the right individuals for them to learn and succeed.  The Engineering team is great to work with and I get along with most everyone. The team acts collaboratively and it is encouraged to run ideas by other members of the team.  

Extremely disorganized and reactive, I spent most of my time running from one fire to the next. Management only cares about throughput and does not believe in fixing problems at the root cause, but rather just pushes parts to the dock as fast as possible. Much of the talent left long ago and the general level of competency has dropped significantly. Be prepared to deal with mind boggling stupidity on a daily basis. The parent company, CPP, is an investment firm and only cares about profit. They are running the place into the ground in order to boost quarterly profits. Safety culture is pretty much non-existent, most employees just don't care. Quality control is apathetic at best, professional gaslighting at worst. This is a great place to work if you just want to cash in a paycheck and can keep your head down, but not if you actually care about your job or the product that you produce.

Until 2017 this was a great place to work, once we were sold, everything changed. Cronyism and nepotism are rampant thru out all departments. Slightly better wages were given, then our excellent benefit package was dumped and replace by a lessor one.
Training is a travesty, and the safety program has degraded to a false front only present to satisfy management on Parato graphs and meeting minutes. I feel unsafe most days, and I am not encouraged to address it, despite my role responsibilities. The most enjoyable part of the day is going home.

Once upon a time Selmet was a great company to work for.  The CEO knew everyone by name, there were company functions (picnics and Christmas parties etc) profit sharing kept everyone motivated.  Then in 2018 Consolidated Precision Products, based in Ohio, took over and everything quickly went downhill.  They did away with all the things that made Selmet great.  The new VP walled himself in, no more open door policy, everyone was just a number.  Their idea of business success was drastically different.  Information about how the company was doing was no longer available.  Pay was still good for the area until the pandemic hit and they laid off half the company.  Many of them long time employees with knowledge they will regret having rid themselves of.  Overall, I cannot recommend Selmet as an employer.  CPP is just another big corporation who values profit over people and that is not good for the city of Albany.  

I have worked here in the past, not sure if anything changed since 2013 but I worked my butt off everyday as a parts mover/sand blaster and I would be threaten by a employee which had anger issues, well anyways he would put hands on me and other employees or threaten them if they told him not to touch them, he would disappear constantly 8-10 times a day with his cell phone while you did his job and your own.
  So that being said I had to work hard because of that employee which I threw my back out because I was overworked then fired by management because I was temp.
  I told management the truth on what he did but management ignored it and took his side even he had to do anger management classes.  So that being said management was terrible and work environment did not feel safe.

The "orientation" was a joke. They don't prepare you with sufficient skills and knowledge of what you're getting in to. No tour, no hot water in the bathrooms, in fact it's difficult to find potable water. They will make anyone a Supervisor for any reason. The sheer amount of employees that they go through there is astounding. 
The lack of communication is incredible, to the point where people are getting paid to do a full-time job and clearly doing part-time work. The aversion to technology makes one think it is 1995 in there. Yikes. Just not a good look. Avoid.

This is the worst place I have ever worked for. The management treats you like garbage. They over work you to the point of going crazy. They lie all the time to you. You are told you must work 55 hours per week yet you are only required to work 40. If you push back against it you will be bullied by management and you will be working 55 hours every week. There is zero communication and zero training. I do not know how this place is still in business. I watch my lead send out parts that are clearly not to spec. I don’t even try there anymore. Nobody cares about anything there so I just will keep sending bad parts out until someone wants to do their job and be a supervisor.

My favorite thing about working at Selmet is the people I work with. When you work full time, you spend more hours with your co-workers than you do with your family and when I am at work I am with my work family at Selmet.
The management is fair, honest and respectful. 
If you have a good work ethic, it will be recognized and you will advance. Selmet, sincerely has good opportunities in a growing industry. Titanium aircraft castings are in the highest demand they have ever been and Albany is in the center of the industry. You can make a career there no matter what position you start at. if you have a GED, MBA or engineering degree, the opportunities are there.

I worked here as an intern for a co-op program. The organization had just gone through re-structuring so I showed up on my first day, and was not actually assigned to a position. After some shuffling around, I was placed into Facilities Project Engineering. 

My day to day tasks involved smaller projects which needed continuous improvement. My engineering mentor was mostly busy with his own larger capital projects, and did not really have time to provide much guidance or training. 

Walking around the facility was fascinating, this is a thriving and busy environment. 

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