machine operator

warehouse associate

quality control inspector

quality engineer

manufacturing engineer

TRELLEBORG

At Trelleborg Offshore I have done numerous jobs. A typical work day the first time I was hired was, task management of the engineering department, the major project of standardizing the mold tool in order reduce the cost overall, working on a company audit, building a new mold tool in its entirety, and testing each piece to see what was necessary using FEA, and submitting all new findings and designs. My coworkers were really great. Although having to overcome the challenge of working with someone who did not want their work altered or questioned, eventually it all worked out for the best. The most challenging thing the first time working at Trelleborg was trying to alter the mold tool because there was only one guy that designed all of them and he had never had his work questioned or analyzed and finding the necessary information in a company that was undergoing and audit that I had never worked for before and no one knew where to find what was needed. I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the fact that I started with learning the mold tool helped a lot the second time coming back.
The second time I was hired back to Trelleborg Offshore, I was hired into a different situation. I was to take on the full role of an engineer because they were understaffed this time and had people who were coming in that would need to be trained. I did tasks such as, work orders, bids, quotes, designs, factory acceptance tests, wrote engineering documents, tested new designs that may have been needed, innovation, and signed off on things that would be released. The most challenging thing about this was having to really grasp everything and quickly hit the ground running. My coworkers were all very supportive and helpful, and the guy that was not so happy the first time with my job to analyze all his work became my good friend. I really enjoyed the atmosphere and am glad I was put in the situation because I feel i got valuable work experience and a taste of many different aspects very quickly. I showed me how fast I can learn and adapt to a challenge and I felt it would really help me in the future.

•	Supervise the accounting group consisting of 13 staff members – two controllers, two business analyst, one credit manager with a staff of three, three accounts payable coordinators, and two information technology professionals.
•	Direct and coordinate all accounting and finance activities, including monthly, quarterly and year end closes, preparation of monthly financial reporting packages, cash flow forecasting, annual budget preparation, variance analysis, etc. 
•	Manage all accounting entries into the M3 ERP and SAP/BPC global consolidation systems, review all balance sheet account reconciliations, including review of all major accruals and estimates.
•	Provide detailed and comprehensive analysis of monthly financial reports, including gross margin analysis, actual to budget variance analysis and key reporting metrics.
•	Identify and implement best practices regarding accounting and finance policies and procedures.
•	Provide professional development and administer all staff human resource requirements including reviews, objectives, and individual development plans. 
•	Developed and maintained international transfer pricing.
•	Serve as a member of the 401K committee for all US companies.
•	Prepare and maintain all annual general meeting minutes and requirements as an officer of the company.
•	Assisted and managed integration and merger activities for two corporate acquisitions. 
•	Prepare documentation for outside audit firms for quarterly and yearly reviews.
•	Manage and comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings.
•	Manage and track performance of invested assets in keeping with policies and investment guidelines.
•	Serve as a member of the Executive Management Group.
•	Serve as the compliance officer for all companies in the Americas, monitoring internal controls and compliance to the corporate code of conduct.

-The average day on the job, is the same as the one before. 
-I learned that your peers are to give you kudos but if you make one of the clique upset you will never, ever get a kudos. 
-Management tends to give you conflicting information on a regular basis. They also have favorites. IF you are favored you get easy jobs, IF you are not a favorite you get the hard jobs and bad product to work on. They will also make fun of you in meetings just because they can, by name.
-The workplace culture tries so very hard to be friendly, but do not be deceived. They will deliberately train you wrong for you to get into trouble. They brown nose the upper management and behind their backs they complain about being tired all the time and not wanting to be at work. (Note that these are the favored and they get by with doing all kinds of things wrong. Take long breaks, break the rules whenever they want. Get to call their lead, on the leads personal phone and get the day off as PTO without a point taken. Whenever they want. be gone/sick for weeks at a time and get no points and keep their job.)
-The hardest part of the job is getting trained in to do your job and navigate the conflicting information given to you every other day. Not to mention the really old software they use and the tons of paperwork.
-best thing about this job besides leaving it each day. Is that occasionally you get a free t-shirt, or free snacks/meal for deliberately not reporting your injuries. (they train you, that if you like donuts, they will give you donuts if you don't have injuries, hence they want you to not report them.) You also earn about 1 PTO day of 8 hours per month (so about 12 per year.) There are plenty of holiday so it feels as if you almost get one day a month off.

A typical day consists of answering phone calls and emails, entering Purchase Orders, starting Quotes for the Sales Team, and working with other Departments to assist the customer.

I was reassured working there that I am a very professional person with customers, and take pride in making sure they have the best experience possible.

As a Customer Service Representative you are considered entry level, and there's rarely a chance for any kind of promotion. They usually hire for "higher" positions from outside the company. 

The Management team(s) could improve the way they treat their employees, being honest with them, listening to them, and supporting them when necessary. 

Workplace culture was usually civil, but there are absolutely "silos" or wedges between Departments. Having open communication with other Departments was something I tried to maintain; which was sometimes difficult.

The hardest part of the job is trying to keep up with the phone calls, emails, orders, quotes, filing, and getting information from other Departments.

The most enjoyable part of the job is the wonderful women that I was blessed to work with in the Customer Service/Order Entry Department. Even though we were advised not to have conversations, we all got along and worked together as much as we could. We all wanted the mistake percentage to be as low as possible (I believe our mistake percentage was .03%) and to ensure our customers were getting accurate information in a timely fashion. I learned a lot from those women (job and non-job related), and I appreciate everything they did for me. They truly made the stress and work seem manageable!

What is the best part of working at the company?
Zero benefit to working for Trelleborg! 
Gave 1 star only because you can't give 0.
Lousy insurance that's very high deductible and very expensive (over 380$) a month out of your pocket, lousy trainers, 25 cent raises,and the backstabbing and tattle tailing is insane.  If you're 30seconds late getting on the production floor, several of the so called( ladies) there will run directly to management and cry. You are watched like a hawk on your every move, and if a single mistake is made,you will be tattled on. The race card is played there on a daily basis,but the worst part is it's a big click by the long timers.  If they don't know you from the area(Elk Rapids location)then they will do everything they can to get you fired.  Lousy pay. Huge turnover.  I personally saw more than 10 people leave on their own for a better job on less than a year.  No chance for advancement. Everyone has to know every station. Therefore they don't have to give raises based on learning new skills.  Poorly managed,lousy pay. Lousy insurance,toxic work environment.  After taxes and paying the bottom of line insurance, you're not making 500$ a week.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Low pay, race baiting,poor management 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic, race baiting, tattletales

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Nothing but stress and having to watch your back because you're being watched all day so they can use anything against you to get you fired.

On a daily review the company is not terrible. The  daily challenges are typical of all manufacturing companies. The difficulty of finding qualified people has hit hard. They bring in associates that have no real world experience in the industry. This shifts the burden to the legacy employees to pick up the slack that the new staff have no clue about.   There is a big lack of training due to the lack of understanding of the operation. Most of the legacy staff are fed up with the direction of the management team and leave with their years of experience. Since a lot is tribal there is no back fill. I learned a lot only because of my thirst for knowledge and being willing to go above and beyond to learn what was needed.. 

This European owned $4 Billion company has a good world wide foot print and presence.  They own 50% of the European market and approx. 10% of N. American market.  Their people are great for the most part.  I'm impressed with the large number of employees yet there are but a few bad apples if that!  I regret leaving this employer and should have had a better long-term vision before taking the enticing promotion with another industrial engineered polymer seal manufacturer.  I forged great relationships and liked everyone there.  They do tend ot have the upper management based in Trelleborg Sweden and Germany a bit overbearing on their management style over U.S. operations however, I would gladly deal with that again to be back there.  Maybe I'll have my chance.

I was kinda excited at first about the opportunity to work there long term and everything I was going to learn about CNC machining. I eventually learned H.R. and some management treats you like garbage. There is 1-2 really good supervisors but thats it. They complicate your job and training way more than what it should be. H.R. thinks just because they make "aerospace" parts that Trelleborg is above any other job and expect unreasonable things from new hires. Overall it is an okay place to work. Pay is average at best considering the experience, knowledge and skills that is required to already have and learn as you go. If you want to settle for an okay job even for the long term than Trelleborg is fine. I myself wants more and immediately found more in just one day. I am now making $5 more per hour just to start.

In my months of working for Trelleborg as a machinist programmer, I cannot recommend anybody in manufacturing or machining a job here unless it is your very last option. Management is inept and unresponsive, manufacturing practices are are confusing and bordering on incomprehensible. The company does not see the value in training it's operators in their machines, only in letting them serve as untrained button-pushers. I cannot speak as to their compensation, but as for the work I did I was well payed. From what I've gathered that is not the general case, as most people loudly complain about how little they are payed here. 

If you value yourself as a machinist or a machine programmer, move on. The money is good, sure, but you will be dropped into an incomprehensible mess of outdated practices and policies and expected to swim. Every machine runs patchwork FANUC control nearly 10 years obsolete, their rev control and program management is laughable, and you will spend the majority of your day copy-pasting information from one form to another instead of actual meaningful work.

This was a great company when is was Sil-Pro and the early days of Trelleborg. It was exciting to work there and it felt like you could advance and go places within the company. But the excitement started to fizzle out once some of the upper management moved on from the company. It seemed like HR/new management couldn't hire the right people to fill the management positions that were left vacant and more management left due to this. The solution was to promote the newly hired lower management with no real manufacturing experience up to the operations level. This caused the turmoil that triggered more to leave. Unfortunately the General Manager retired and the same person was promoted again! When the Safety Manager left, the newly promoted General Manager made the decision to not to rehire the position and state "It is everyone's responsibility to be safe".  Shortly after there were TWO plant fires and one person was seriously hurt. I left due to this stress and the General Manager being unreasonable or listening to the concerns of the Engineering staff, goals and metrics were set to unobtainable levels and everyone was set up to fail.

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