production assembler

assembler

mechanical assembler

quality assurance inspector

assembly technician

Teledyne

     I found my time in this company to be a good learning experience.  Almost everyone here was helpful and resourceful. I had a lot of time to work with the MEs and engineers which made the job a lot more interesting. My problem solving skills were put to the test which made the job more rewarding. I also enjoyed working with the Quality personnel which helped us resolve issues faster.
   Training and polyvalency weren't an issue. Many employees sought to augment their skill set and managed to achieve it. Eg. Becoming proficient in other areas of production/test. You can move around a lot if you want, not just do the same old thing all the time. Training opportunities are ample here. I became proficient in 7 different operations in 2 years and I've seen some go faster than that.
    I found the pay fair for the level of difficulty, the work load, and skill level of job tasks. Coupled with the overtime you can bring home a decent check. They were very generous with the extra hours they'd offer. Really! But that is when the OT was available. Of course that is all coupled to the price of oil. This company also is willing to work with you if you have a particular family or medical situation. Their HR are really open to these kinds of issues. I also appreciated the management database. The IFS takes time to learn but ends up being the ultimate tool. 
      The drawbacks to working here is, yes, is that it's based around the price per barril of oil.  These days 2020 brought a lot of precarity in the O&G industry. And this company had to do 2 rounds of layoffs in 3 months. I dont think they will be hiring anytime soon. 
    Another is I feel that the company should invest in some training for its production supervisors (both 1st and 2nd shift) to help them improve their human relation and communication skills. I notice some employees were reprimanded in front other employees, noticed some hands in pockets, passive agressive demeanor, and some favoritism. It would be nice to see some form of formal education/training they should go through before being moved up to a position of such.(one employee was even reprimanded for taking 6 minutes to correct someones else's erroneous paperwork before telling jokes to another coworker) This doesn't happen often but there is room for improvement. Also had issues with the location and organization of the tools and fixtures. I would often have to spend an average o 30 to 40 minutes locating parts, components, assemblies just to start run tasks.
   As for benefits, decent benefits package. 401k, medical, dental, visual coverage and an option to purchase Co. stock too. As for layoffs as well, they hand out a decent severance package even if you haven't work ther that long. 

Working here has provided excellent opportunities for professional development through structured training and certification programs. The company truly prioritizes quality over speed. Employees are not rushed; accuracy and craftsmanship are always the focus. Cross-training is encouraged, which keeps the work engaging and allows everyone to expand their skills.

It’s a positive reflection of the company culture that many employees have been with the organization for 10+ years. They are welcoming, highly experienced, and genuinely invested in mentoring new team members. The work itself is complex and intellectually stimulating, and management regularly brings in external professionals to deliver in-depth training that supports high-quality production standards.

Management is approachable and responsive, taking the time to listen and address concerns. Despite being a large company, they maintain a strong sense of family values. During times of personal or family emergencies, I have always felt supported and trusted to take the time I needed. Scheduling flexibility, particularly for family or childcare needs, is another major benefit that reflects the company’s respect for work-life balance.

The main areas for improvement are the cost of health insurance and the workload placed on management. At times, project responsibilities grow faster than they can be managed, and older initiatives may receive less attention until an issue arises. More balanced workload distribution would enhance efficiency and reduce long-term strain.

Overall, this is a well-managed organization that values craftsmanship, continuous learning, and its people. It provides a stable and rewarding environment for those who take pride in producing high-quality work.

Most of this information is on my resume but I have worked for Teledyne Cable Solutions for a little over five years and have really enjoyed my employment there.  A typical day's at work I jump right in to printing vendor invoices received in emails, email  problem solving, responding to vendors emails, receiving and processing paperwork for SAM compliance 3-way match from two segments of our company, Wire and Cable and Assembly, and from three locations, two in Dallas, TX and one in Mexico, reviewing new vendor  setup paperwork and getting authorization.  On Wednesdays I begin by printing the Payment Register and pulling invoices to process vendor checks.  After pulling all the invoices I print the checks and match to the invoices, then print the Check Register.  Get authorized signatures and separate checks from the invoices, then mail out.  Twice a month I create the Journal Entries on a spreadsheet for our Controller to enter Payroll JE's. I create and submit Sales Taxes.  Create spreadsheet for Accruals for Controller to enter JE's.  Reconcile the PPE, Inventory, and Accounts Receivable Reconciliations.  I am the backup for certain Cash forecast,  Sales and Order number reports when our Controller is out.  I am the backup for HR doing ADP Payroll when needed.  I am the backup for Accounts Receivable when needed.  This is just a small portion of the things that I do on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.  For more information please see my resume.
I would say that the hardest part of my job is doing the taxes once a month.  It's probably hardest because I don't really enjoy it.
For the most part though, I truly enjoy my job, the fast pace of it,  but would have to say that the working relationship with my co-workers is what I enjoy the most.  We all get along so well, everyone tries to be so helpful, it's like going home everyday.

I started a a temporary employee through a temp agency. I was hired as a test technician. You don’t get any training on how to do the different jobs. You have to figure it out yourself. The full time people except for a couple won’t help you. I was asked to learn a process called PMI positive material inspection to help a different department. I had no problem with it and it was a very in-depth process that only 1 other employee was trained to do. Once I was good enough to do it myself and actually help with the backlog of jobs they transferred the person I was helping to another department. I later found out that they transferred me to another department and never told me and that was my job now. I was the only person who was able to pick it up out of the many people they tried to train. I was left with too much work and I couldn’t keep up and was expected to train another person at the same time. I would have probably stayed with the company if they would have communicated with me about the department change and that they were promoting the person that trained me to help. I was the last person to know that I was transferred and it wasn’t from management. I felt I should have been asked if I wanted to change jobs and departments. I was hired for testing not inspections and data entry. I told them I was not interested in doing that job every day and I was just asking to help when it was back up. I was treated unfairly and I would have stayed if they just communicated with me on the whole situation. It’s horrible management and it’s a every poor management team.

There are very few opportunities for career growth, raises, or change. Management will often overlook experience and expertise in the field. You will be asked to do many tasks that do not fall under your job title for no compensation or job title change. I routed calls all over the plant, but I was not hired to be a receptionist.  This company is male dominated that moves very slowly on all decisions, and has not been a good environment for younger professional women.  
Slow to develop promised improved job training program. Employees did job training and a lot was left out of the training, This company is slow to implement new industry advances. There was a lot of promises that went unfulfilled on job advancements such as better training program for new associates. Instead this company relies on it's employees to do the training for new hires. Management was very manipulative and would say one thing and do another.  
Ridiculous rules about using vacation time. Company forced some employees to use accumulated vac on the pretext that it was only fair if they worked the skeleton crew for holiday shut-down.  2 Sets of Rules at this company depending on your stature.

● Work-life balance
They’re pretty good about this part actually.

● Pay & benefits
PTO and Sick goes on accrual and will grow if you never take time off...it takes about month and a half to get 8hrs of it though.

● Job security and advancement
There isn’t any because due to crew leaders always going through things way too fast and then expecting perfection. Or they rush through bids and do not get the finer details.

● Management
At this site, it’s a joke...total joke. Basically cue the band and watch for the circus acts come into the big top tent. 
I only approve the CEO because he wasn’t at the site I was.

● Culture
If you want to go back to high school or always deal with a soap opera, here’s your chance!

● Overall
Don’t waste your time. You will automatically think the job you left, due to whatever you thought was bad enough to leave it, is 100x better then the circus your about to join. This site will say one thing one minute and do the absolute opposite in the next minute. There will be rules for some and none for others. Work will get turned down due people still in leadership positions, work will get passed onto others so the other doesn’t get the blame, and management will smile and act your all buddy buddy but in the mean time they’re figuring out ways to get rid of you. And if you think, ohh that’s not bad...that’s just the tip of of the iceberg.

The majority of my work tenure comes from Teledyne who was later bought out by Litton and then Northrop Grumman.  My work experience comes from being a component and reliability engineer with Teledyne Controls and Teledyne Systems.  Then later on with Teledyne Micro Electronics and Teledyne Safety Products where a transition was made from Reliability to Quality Assurance.  Over the course of my engineering career, I had some great experiences working on several military programs that fell under the guidelines of the AS9100 quality management system.  For example, at Teledyne Systems I was the Reliability Engineer on the Mission Computer for the Northrup Grumman TASSAM Missile program.  While at Litton Guidance and Control all reliability engineering for the Tomahawk Baseline Improvement Program (TBIP) and the guidance system for MSLS  was under my work responsibility.  While at Teledyne Micro Electronics my reliability/quality engineering responsibilities were directed towards the F22 and Kodak Government Satellite programs. At Teledyne Safety products, I was the QA Manager for the F22 ejection seat program.

At first no one really communicated what my exact role was, but after a few weeks of cross training and helping people wherever I could, we worked together to find my place helping between departments to streamline the workload and act as back-up when the department heads I cross trained with were out on vacation or sick.
I helped our finance team bring in one of the biggest gross profit months in the facility's 10 years of operation. Even the CFO noticed and commended my efforts on our team in front of my manager.
The hardest part was learning how to use their proprietary business software as it was not something I had ever used.
Most days I updated and continued my excel spreadsheet I created to keep track of past due accounts from our customers. I'd then go down my list and populate and attach past due statements to professional e-mails towards big name companies (some fortune 500 companies). Updating contact information with our customers to pursue payments, as well as addressing invoice issues with my team to resolve them and expedite payments due.
Every day was a great day at work.

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at Teledyne is excellent. Early start to the day allows after work freedom to be with family. Could take time off to care for sick kids.

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at Teledyne are adequate. Pay is much lower than other fields. It is made up for in medical benefits. They are top notch.

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at Teledyne, I think you are better off elsewhere. Off site managers believe you are easily replaceable. They demand stuff they don’t know anything about and question if you don’t complete tasks.

Management
In general, managers at Teledyne are terrible. They threaten and belittle workers. Onsite support is great, but the remote managers are a nightmare. Steer clear of this company. They do not care about the global health crisis in terms of employee safety.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at Teledyne is good. The support within the actual workforce is fantastic.

Overall
My experience working at Teledyne is up and down. The “worker bees” and the best people to work with and help you whenever you need it. The offsite management would rather spit on you than talk to you like a human being. You are just a number to them.

Responsible for both strategic planning and the capture of revenue and IBT for five business lines. This involved assessing the market potential, company services offering, and the development and execution of capture and marketing plans that were highly successful in bringing new business to the firm. This specifically included developing product line road maps, overhead models, customer and subcontractor negotiation strategies, and risk mitigation plans. Developed and formalized both the capture management and proposal management processes for the firm. Singularly responsible for developing cost/contract/risk strategies for all proposals within the division. Managed division-wide B&P and IR&D accounts ($2M annually). Successful in identifying and capturing significant new business contracts, including; FAST, STOC, AFOTEC ETS, AFOTEC GOS, ATEC, FCS Mule, CH47 ES, MDNT, Alt Booster, and Deepwater efforts. Developed and acquired the PES, Logworld, MOBIS, and SEAPORT GSA/GWAC Schedules for the firm. In a lesser role, supported the capture of: TCM, TML, CMIS, JT&E, FSST, LCS MPDL, and JRDC.

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