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Unprofessional and deceitful HR. The HR personnel, has no people person skills. Prone to retaliation, fabricating the truth, back stabbing and throwing other teammates under the bus for their own self gain. The company has new owners and new software system. Team members are not properly trained and unfamiliar with new system. Also, some teammates are struggling adapting to new polices and procedures. So don't set your expectations high, if you are a professional, and looking for growth and stability. This is not the place to invest in a career. Your workload is expected to be completed, but no training or support locally. Everything you learn, basically is self taught. Lots of favoritism shown to certain employees. The hostility/discrimination in the workplace, often is never addressed and just swept under the rug. The plant manager, is very unprofessional, and unfamiliar, with the day to day operations. The foundation of this company, in my opinion, rely on those team members on the floor and customer service. Often management shows no interest, in feed back from workers, on how the operations could improve and grow. They themselves are struggling adapting to change, and following company polices/ procedures. Basically, "they do what they want and a lot of favoritism is shown". There is a lot of nepotism and corruption in the workplace, this creates a stressful/hostile work environment. Production team members, are required to work a lot of mandatory OT, with only two short breaks. They are required, not to leave the companies property for breaks. Not a lot of consideration, for the floor workers, and their lives outside the work place. Big turnover for production team members at workplace, due to management being unsupportive and not showing any compassion toward their employees.

typical day at work is mostly sitting at the cubicle working on autoCAD. So far I have learned AutoCAD and Autolisp and how it works together with Navision to create construction documents making the process more efficient and accurate than manually drawing every page and searching for all the parts needed for each project. Management and workplace culture kind of going together. Feels like a small town culture. You fit in and its great or you are different and people keep an eye on you. Hardest part of the job is the small town vibe where everyone is curious about what you are doing at your desk and some watched harder than others. The most enjoyable part of the job is the activities and challenges in promoting healthy activities with prizes. I enjoy the team activities outside of work place for running or biking and family events too.

Trachte just want people that going to work for them and if you put the effort in they will work with you, take what you learn from training because you are trained for 2 weeks their and off to whatever shift you got in your job offer, stay focus, ask a lot of questions while you are in training, really nice co workers to work with.I learned a lot doing my 2 weeks training and you can pick up some skills as you go to benefit what you learn, it does take time to get to learn everything not going to happen overnight. The hardest part of the job Ive done is just trying to remember majority of the paper work. The culture is great their and have not had any issues there..Just like any other jobs that have high turnovers, people comes in goes and if you are a hard working individuals that like to have a longevity job with some good benefits etc then Trachte is for you.

You can be working from 40 to 80 hour weeks during the busiest time of year and annual raise can be between 0.5% to 7%  but most of the time there is 3% increase. there is favoritism with the company as they encourage you to recruit family and friends. It is a small town environment with money as the driver. There was  a disregard of Covid- 19 and safety protocols. They scare you from talking about salary information and push people to think it is illegal to talk about it. Very small chance you will get a big increase in your salary even if you stayed for 20 years unless you are in sales earning commission. There has been protesting from the factory employees for union disagreements on wages etc.  very little upward movement available. No one will train up fear of competition unless they are leaving/retiring.  You are likely to get promotion or new role if you have charisma and connection and not by skills. 

From the first moments of being a new hire, I was treated as a burden by my peer and supervisor. My peer was set to be promoted as soon as I was able to learn the role so I was requested to learn the role as fast as possible. Said peer was responsible for training me, and was clearly not suited for any form of management nor a leadership role due to creating a constant stressful and hostile work environment. The majority of my training was self taught due to the lack of assistance. When my concerns were brought to the Human Resource department and my direct supervisor, I was informed that they could do nothing and it turned into my problem. They did not care about my success, nor did they promote a professional work atmosphere, resulting in me residing to resign from this role. I strongly recommend looking somewhere else as you will be set up to fail.

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at Trachte Building Systems, Inc. is so so, but they sometimes try

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at Trachte Building Systems, Inc. are 
Good for the job

Management
In general, managers at Trachte Building Systems, Inc. are just managers, not leaders. They did “manage” themselves out of serious financial trouble, but now that leadership is needed they are out of their depth

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at Trachte Building Systems, Inc. is difficult as the current director of operations is completely command and control, and micro manages the entire manufacturing operation

Overall
My experience working at Trachte Building Systems, Inc. overall not worth the time, find someplace to build your career and grow your skills, it wont happen here.

Hit the phones early and fast using CRM to monitor sales contacts. Web network to find new contacts. Constant networking and comunication all over the US. Great direct manager. Tought me everything I know. As the company grew from 120 to 250 we started changing our values. The company forgot what got it where it was. 2008 the recession hit and the company was crippled. Two replacement CEOs with a large pending lawsuite against the company and the staff was reduced by 50%. Values started to return but the company had no funds to practice what it preached. Making people happy and setting them up for financial freedom was the most enjoyable part of the job.

I worked at Trachte in the shop for a little over a year.  I felt like I was told one thing by HR when I was hired and the work experience turned out to be a completely different thing.  I made it through probation, and they told me that I was going to be given the opportunity to work other machines to make extra money, but I never got the opportunity.  I was told that I was going to have vacation, but I never saw that.  The feeling I got was that they spent a lot of time trying to hire me, but then HR spent the rest of the time trying to find ways to get rid of me.  I quit and went to another factory.  I wouldn't do it over again if I had the chance.

My experience with Trachte has been great.  From the moment I started, I felt welcome.  I wasn't experienced with the MRP system that is used at Trachte, but they took the time to train me and allowed me time to learn.  Everyone that I work with is great.  There is definitely a sense of belonging that you get when working for them.  All of us are working together to please our customers, which directly affects the company's and our profits.  This is the first time that I've worked for an employee owned company, so the culture is definitely better than a corporation.  This will definitely be where I work till I retire.

Top Tier positions remaining vacant for months. Critical processes not being followed through due to lack of Management. Workload expected to be completed with no compensation for time. No support from other shift managers, Run to Lean for Production Floor with positions that are critical to be filled. Poor communication. Plant manager needs training to fulfill the position with a knowledge base of what the position requires to be successful.  

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Assembler 1 salary reported	$17.00 per hour
Shipping and receiving clerk 1 salary reported	$19.50 per hour
Machine operator 39 salaries reported	$18.51 per hour
Sheet metal mechanic 3 salaries reported	$22.58 per hour
Maintenance technician 1 salary reported	$27.50 per hour

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