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TIGHITCO

Work here if you're desperate, don't work here if you want good and fair pay. Everyone goes through a "90 days" probationary period, and (upon hiring) you're promised another $1 an hour after those 90 days. I've been here almost 7 months now and haven't received any raise at all, this is common and in every department. You can take your issue all the way to the top, but no one cares unless you threaten to leave (they're severely understaffed but also refuse to hire people). 

Recommended a friend for an interview, they were told "position is no longer available" and they just dumped the work on already overworked current employees. I've seen this happen more than once. 

Layup is a revolving door, with very overworked people. Mandatory Saturday overtime, and they'll beg you to work til 6pm every other day. 

Great benefits and very wholesome atmosphere, great vacation policy and company "activities". Very diverse workforce. 

Hr sucks, always on vacation, leaving halfway through the work day, never responsive and absolutely refuse to communicate via email.. 



What is the best part of working at the company?
Before P4G came in, TigHitco was a great company to work for.  Plenty of work, great management and a path to success.  Now they are barely holding open the doors.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
P4G gutted the place and now there is no work, amateur hour for young immature management.  Engineering has no experience at the top.  Engineers on the floor are great, manager is a joke.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Now, it is toxic.  The floor level employees are great!  Management is totally disconnected, as long as you write something on their boards they are happy.  Regardless of the content, there is no real action being taken because management has no clue what is actually happening on the floor.  They probably need more directors.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful, toxic, and a constant struggle to get management to even listen to the issues on the floor.

This is an ever changing, growing and learning company. It has changed immeasurably since 2016 as continues to develop further into the world class aerospace company it has always had the potential to be. 

Charleston has always been a small group capable of punching above their weight. This has its challenges as everyone is expected to be flexible and quick to learn. You may find yourself challenged to grow into roles that you were not expecting. 

I have never worked in a company more focused as a team on achieving a common goal. I find that very rewarding.

The company is a small/medium sized private company that does approximately $27 million per year of sales at that facility.  At the beginning of my tenure at the company it was a third of that size.  The company has many good employees and due to the size of the company I was able to do the work in different areas of the company.  This has allowed me to experience aspects of shipping, customer service, quality, production, and engineering to get a round about experience.

With the correct leadership that is looking at the right metrics and can focus all of the departments to emit the right culture it would be a more successful outing.

Almost zero opportunities for advancement or growth. What little formal training employees get is poor, especially for those on the production floor. Most employees are underpaid, unappreciated, and overworked, meaning they have no loyalty or motivation beyond collecting a paycheck. Tribal knowledge often rules over established procedure. There are a few good people here who actually try to do good work and make up for some of the shortcomings, but their experience and talent only goes so far.

This place once had the potential to be a great place to work, even make a career.  The footprint of the factory floor is very clean and organized,  and they used to get interesting work, however, there is a problem getting product out the door and is seems like everyone is a number and has a target on their back because the turnover rate is ridiculously high and the person who hired you probably will not be around to perform your annual review.  I have seen the entire management team from CEO on down to first level managers get fired.

I do not recommend this company to anyone it has failed to meet all expectations.

It's an Us vs Them mentality. No interaction with Management. Lots of Cameras to see if people are working. The production personnel know what's going on but are afraid to tell the Union people (I didn't join) Nothing but push out product. They don't care about Quality because no other Company makes what they do. Quality Manager is a total Bone Head, Ex Marine who thinks that walking around trying to get people in line will work. Well guess what, If YOU knew what it takes to do the job right then step up and offer some advice instead of promoting the idiots you hired to better positions to get them off the floor.

Constant drama between teammates. Many employees are related and working together so if you're not related, you won't be there long! My employment lasted nearly a year with no raise whatsoever, not even after receiving an excellent rating on my 90 day review that was completed 6 months after my initial start date. Management is a laughable joke at best! Quality of products is mediocre at best causing them lose many contracts and therefore forcing layoffs. Needless to say, they have a high turnover rate as well.

Responsible for overall inventory for production.  Cleaned up and refined the inventory control of material. Received work travelers from Production control, organize to when they needed to be pulled, pulled material, updated inventory management system to reflect material pulled and issued to floor.
  The hardest part of the job was, when additional help was needed supervisor for department was usually not available.  The most enjoyable part was being able to do my job with little interference from management.

It started off alright then after my 90  probational period things got weird. They told me not.be late witch is why they extended it. I fixed that, then after the date came up for the review it never happened.i ask got no real answer. i work two days into the nextweek and they decided to fire me. Saying there were to many bad part marks.but on my review the section of quality was all 4s. They let me work a whole day knowing they where gonna fire me no one said anything the whole day as well. This place is just all around weird some good people there  but just shady business

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Inspector 1 salary reported	$30.00 per hour
Cleaning technician 1 salary reported	$23.00 per hour
Technician 1 salary reported	$23.00 per hour
Assembler 3 salaries reported	$24.00 per hour
Senior manufacturing engineer 2 salaries reported	$90,000 per year

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