injection mold operator

assembler

TAC manufacturing

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great Benefits and low cost to the employee. Room for advancement. Paid vacations. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Unpredictable overtime. Sometimes not told till 5min before the end of regular shift. A HUGE amount of favoritism goes on and I was one of the favorites and I still saw it happen to others. I didn’t like that. Even though it wasn’t happening to me.
Sometimes not given enough training and or room to improve. Everyone gets faster and more accurate with quality at a different pace.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Can be very very catty and clicky.
The men are just as bad as the women sometimes worse.
You always have to watch your back because if you get one person in your area that doesn’t like you, sometimes it’s not hard for that person to cause a lot of problems for the employee.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Getting there doing morning stretches, getting any information from your team leader that needs to be known. Getting the first 2hrs of placement what line your working and which position if it’s more than a one person line.

At one time it was a pretty good place to work.  Recent plant leadership changes destroyed the culture.  Promoted a negative group, instead of professional / educated people.  15 Quality Managers over the last 10 years I worked there.  Good Quality Engineers normally left in less than 1 year.  Cost is always the #1 driver, quality to customer isn't priority  "reasonable quality", meanwhile posters put on the wall "great quality every time".  The Japanese don't care about safety or ergonomics, only the final price of the equipment.  Machinery shipped in from Japan is junk, they won't make the changes we request and then the Production Engineers are forced to make junk run, with no support from Maintenance.  Managers group sit around and point fingers instead of working at as a team.  Major quality issue, QA and PE group forced to lie to customer about the true reason.  Maintenance / Facility Management is terrible from top to bottom, no one in the group has the proper training or education.  The company runs a cafeteria service at a loss, just so Japanese have a place to eat lunch everyday. 

Overall experience was good.  Plenty of overtime if you are looking for it. Management is the biggest weakness at TAC and I feel that comes from the poor development of the management. Individuals get moved into higher positions based off of their social standing with other forms of management. The best pick is not always made for the job. Everyone at TAC is expendable. You make the wrong person look bad and you will be targeted until you no longer work there. The launch of new products almost never go smooth due to poor planning and a mediocre PE department that does not develop their engineers in training. There is a large amount of finger pointing when things go wrong. 

There are some positives however. Many Team Leaders at TAC are very helpful and willing to work with their Associates. There are some forms of higher management that is just as helpful, However they are treated poorly. Often times they are looking for new employment.

While there are great individual people working for TAC and all it's partner companies, it falls short of being a great place to make a career.  The culture is "Toyota" based meaning continuous improvement will outweigh EVERYTHING including employee care.  It's relatively easy to get promoted as most people do not want to move up in an industry where the first few levels of promotion equate to the worst years of your life.  I spent months without a day off and pulling 10-14 hour shifts.  While I hear it has gotten better recently I know that if production demands it, nobodies lives will matter when it comes to scheduling mandatory overtime.  While I do think this is a problem in America in general, TAC is very bad at this because they tried to combine the American pride with Japanese Work cultures and came up short...

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working together and making friends that are close like family

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Whenever the shifts don’t work together cause it makes getting more work less enjoyable 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Mostly friendly and the culture doesn’t worry me too much 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Around three to four minutes before my shift starts, I get there and park and scan my ID and start my shift after signing in. Start working and do what my boss tells me what to do then when seven thirty hits, it’s lunch time and I do my thing and relax. After that I go back to work once lunch ended. Eleven thirty is when my shift ends and I start to pack up and head home and at twelve I finally get back home.

This is a good place to work with excellent benefits. The major downfall is the attendance policy! Associates are given 2 quick calls (allowed absences) per year. After that you have vacation time, which can sometimes be hard to get approved, and a 12 point system. If you reach 12 points in a year, 2 points per call in, you are fired. I worked here for fifteen years and was a very hard worker. I volunteered for a lot of overtime and had average attendance until I had a non-work related back injury. After my time off from my back injury I was hospitalized for pneumonia. Due to my missed time I was fired.

A very poorly managed facility. I worked at TAC for ten years and it was great at first but went downhill rapidly. Management and team leaders care very little about quality anymore. The Human Resources team is very biased, I was a good employee so sometimes I was able to get out of points even though they claimed that never happened and was not allowed. A lot of favoritism on the floor (I benefited from this personally)  Lots of overtime at the last minute and I can’t stress enough the favoritism of the team leaders, anyone who has worked there for a solid few years knows it and hates it there. But the pay and benefits are really good and they can’t afford to quit. I have a lot to say about this company but will refrain from continuing. 
Learn a skill, you will gain nothing worthwhile working here.

What is the best part of working at the company?
TAC Mfg. is dedicated to employee growth, providing opportunities for professional development through mentorship, training programs, and career advancement paths. I am proud to be apart of this company.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
For me is the drive the work I drive 1 1/2 hrs to and from. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
TAC has steadily grown as a global automotive parts supplier, and thanks to the Associates, they're now a premier innovator in today's growing automotive industry.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I start at 7am and work to 3:45 pm. I start with updating Quality Check Sheets and then work on daily updates for PPE documents.I get 2 -10 minutes breaks and 45 minutes lunch.

This is a place where one might go to get a job to solve a short term need for employment and then you blink and you have worked there for 5 years. The money is there and you can raise a family with the income which is supplemented nicely by the great health insurance but it will most likely not be a career where you grow as a person. There are not many opportunities to advance and if you do get to advance you will be working with people that have years of experience that are stuck in their way of doing things. You will get grilled for not changing anything although when you try to change something you are flogged with resistance from the same people that are asking you to make things better. I would not recommend you work here unless your just trying to get a decent pay check and move on shortly.

The people managing the lines are a joke. They give the lead positions to people who chat it up with others- instead of the hard working individuals. That place is worse than middle school. People constantly gossiping behind everyone's back because they're too much of a coward to say anything to people's faces. They don't make new employees feel welcome at all, they give most a hard time for needing basic training, and most people there are very disrespectful in general. Horrible attitudes. Also, on most lines, from my understanding, you are supposed to be rotated every 2 hours. They kept me on the same machine 5 hours a shift, and one other thing for the rest of the shift. These kinds of things you can take to HR, but you shouldn't have to. Unacceptable. There are much better places to find work.

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