production associate

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TARKETT

I joined Tarkett in the fall of 2013. The company I left in May of 2018 was nothing like what I started with. Management changes, a stressful  working environment, and departmental restructuring has caused a lot of good people to quit or transfer to another department. The stress level has increased exponentially, to the point where a typical work week in my department was a minimum of 50 hours plus (usually closer to 60), including having to work from home in the evenings and on the weekends just to try to stay current. Management turnover was nearly as bad as employee turnover. In 4.5 years, I had 5 different managers. The team I worked with was wonderful, and I’ve not seen a more dedicated group. However, as the stress level and workload increased, along with more and more manual processes, those good employees began to slowly leave, resulting in an ever-increasing flow of new hires who had to be trained, but the resources to train them were long gone by the time their first day arrived. Daily meetings could take up anywhere from a quarter to over half of the work day. Eventually, the complete lack of work/life balance and stress levels prompted me to leave the company and it honestly was a decision that was easy to make. I hope Tarkett examines the exodus of employees that has taken place over the last year and does something to retain their veteran employees. If not, it will simply continue to spiral out of control.

I've read the reviews and surprised they're so negative. 

Typical Day..... involves teamwork, people willing to help and answer questions. Some challenges exist where people are used to doing processes one way for a long time but its an opportunity to present new ideas and help make processes work better. 

Learnings...The company has had a lot of changes in the past 3 or 4 years (new leadership, turnover due to re-orgs and acquisitions).  So, there are some negative comments here likely due to the normal human discomfort that comes with Change and hard work.

Culture...still trying to understand it. In the office in OH, there is flexibility to occasionally work from home (its not a policy), dress is business casual. People are willing to help and answer questions. There's a lot to like.  

Mgmt....could use more servant leadership/inspiration in various places (plants in particular)

Outlook: The company aligned their salesforce and the present CEO is a better people-person and understands the industry better than the last one. Those are good things.  We are going through growing pains.

I didn't know how bad it was until after I left a joined a properly, professionally run company.  The interdepartmental battles are a daily occurrence and prohibit any alignment.  Leadership does not clearly communicate any direction which enhance the daily feuds since no one knows which way is north.  

A lot of managers and directors routinely throw their employees on hand grenades to cover their own poor decisions.  The employees are overworked due reduction in overhead because of repeated poor performing quarters.  This leads to very very little promotions and absolutely no training.  

All of these conditions have created a revolving door at the company and Tarkett is just a stop off until you find something better for the majority of the employees.  It is not hard to find something better either because it is just flat out BAD.

In all honesty find another place to work unless you are desperate and if so just make it short stopping place in your career.

They do not promote within and always hire externally.
70% of the management team changes every 2 years due to being fired or quitting so its a constant learning curve. 
You are always in the dark about what is actually happening. There are always rumors and management doesn't feel the need to clear the air. Instead they let the rumors fester and get upset that rumors exist. 
Everyone here is expendable no matter the position or your seniority.
There is no clear direction and when they do rarely communicate the future of the facility/company it changes five times before any plan is even began to be executed.
IF you need a paycheck then do what you have to do but don't work here if you are looking for a permanent company to be with. This company doesn't value that mindset. Its best to get experience, get your pay up, and move on. If you don't decide when you want to leave then they will decide it for you.

Tarkett is a company in transition.  The corporate office is located in France and there is a tug of war between France and the North American corporate office.  North American team is good but lacks management and direction.  Management has very, very little respect for individuals time away from family.  

Beware if joining the IT department, the application manager has driven a significant amount of great people from the organization.

The benefits are better than average and as a result the pay is a little under market value.  The commercial side of the business has great margins and really carriers the rest of the business units in North America.  

Tarkett really needs to hire some leaders (not managers) and clearly communicate the strategy.  

Advice: Great people, but maybe look for a position at another company

It’s as if senior leadership wants departments to not work together. Departments have their own goals and those rarely if ever coincide with one another for overall organizational success.

The hardest part of the job is teamwork. Rather than collaborating, people literally throw their hands up and state “Not my problem, I’ve got my own”.

The best part is the salary. Tarkett is not cheap when it comes to engineering salaries. Probably because they realize their reputation is not going to attract people on its own.

Workplace culture is… challenging. Enthusiastic new hires come in and quickly learn it’s almost impossible to get anything done if it involves someone outside your immediate department. The once bright-eyed newbie is quickly transformed into a surly individual questioning how they made such a poor decision. 

I was a temp and hired as a forklift operator. I was told I would work four 12 hour days per week with four days off. I was working five ten hour days in a row. My training was minimal. You quickly find out that it takes six months to get hired with the company and when that happens you face mandatory overtime so there is hardly any work life balance. I found out my coworkers had a meeting with management about me and they said I was slow but I only had been there a month. Cut throats culture. If you are over 25 this place is not for you. You are constantly lifting product and my back was slowly giving out and I am 45. They have a standard one must meet called 80 stops per day. Yet everyday I work I had trouble getting a forklift or reach truck and getting a working scan guns. There are people there that will come in an hour early to get good equipment for the day.

This company buys up other companies and ruins their reputation.  Example they bought Centiva located in Florence, Alabama and then put Tandus out of Dalton, Georgia as the management overseer.  Tandus had no knowledge whatsoever of Centiva's product and has just about put Centiva in the Red.  Centiva went from 20 sales reps to over 100 sale reps which was a combination of carpet and LVT sales people, but yet they didn't give Centiva any more machinery to produce the overflow of orders which put Centiva in the hot seat both in manufacturing, being late on orders, losing customers because of the lead times that had to be given and coming up with a very cheap product that has had constant problems in being produced.

Very bad management!!  I would not suggest this company to anyone unless you are in upper management and help make all these bad decisions that have ruined this small company.

I started working at Tarkett in the Summer of 2017. I would roll flooring onto new cardboard rolls and inspect it for defects. Then store it in a cubby using a tow motor, then mark any deficiencies in Microsoft Excel. The job itself was not hard. The hardest part about my job was dealing with a manager who was condescending and didn't care for his employees, and only saw us as tools to make himself look good for the company. Eventually when my job slowed down we'd be tasked out to help the rest of the warehouse and sometimes were expected to hold a pace at our job while helping the warehouse, which I found unreasonable. It quickly became a very toxic work environment. 

A typical work week when I started was 50 hours.

Once business slowed down it went to 40 hours and caused concern we'd be laid off at any point.

Summary: received positive 30 day review, didn’t receive 60 day review even after asking for it. At 89/90 days at a safety function outside of the plant, they informed me they were extending my probation period. I had received no negative feedback before that day. My direct supervisor had been writing less than positive reviews my last two weeks and not bringing any of it up to me. They fired me shortly after the extension which had Christmas break and other off time in it, even after meeting all demands made by them. Would not recommend in the least. Ask them why about a dozen maintenance people have left in the last 3 months...

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