quality assurance inspector

electrical technician

operator

maintenance technician

maintenance mechanic

Tenaris

This company, at least in the tooling shop, is so biased with preferential treatment given to some employees but not others.  Supervisors act like they have your back then throw you under the bus first chance they get.  They threaten write ups for absolutely everything.  Will write up one person for something but allow others to get away with it.  Fired one employee for sleeping, but woke up another and took away his chair.  Fired an employee for missing work for a family emergency, but allow others to no call no show.  Write up one employee for failing to finish assigned tasks, but allow another to get away with doing absolutely nothing for an entire shift.  Fire one employee for using the wrong gloves, when every employee uses the same gloves for everything.  Write up one employee for making their own tools, but say and do nothing when another employee does the same.  Claim zero tolerance violations, but allow certain people to get away with whatever they want.  Claim they are willing to work with you, but aren't.  Management tries to dictate what needs to be done and what they want done but have no idea how to do the job you are doing, nor are they willing to accept and acknowledge that problems occur that prevent things from being completed in a timely matter.  Constantly change the "rules" but those same "rules" don't apply to everyone equally.  You are just another warm body and are constantly reminded that they have a stack of resumes and applications waiting to replace you.  Morale is low, and most people complain daily of working there.

Big company with plants and factories all over the world.  Compensation is ok.  Relocation "bonus" offered.  Monthly production bonuses given ranging from 4% to 19% while I was there.  Benefits package is pretty good and affordable.  401(k) match to 6%.  Opportunities for lateral moves, if your manager will sign off on it.  2 on site cafeterias with discounts.  On site gym.  Health/fitness reimbursement.

Great starting job to get your feet wet and gain some experience in the manufacturing industry. This company has the best AND worst aspects of what you might encounter. The experience is what you make of it and take with you. A typical day would consist of rigorous planning and chasing people down to get the information you need to do whatever job you have assigned that day. Some days you'll get lucky and get the data or information or drawing you need, but most days it's field measuring everything you have to design or modify. Only then will the drawings and specs show up of what you just spent your whole day finding out yourself. It can be frustrating but you're still learning how to do everything yourself and keep your patience. Management tends to have their favorites and have the mentality that everyone is beneath them in some way, granted this isn't everyone in management but it's most. Maybe just my experience but I'm not the only one who experienced this. The hardest part of the job would have to be the lack of communication and documentation about certain projects or maintenance. The enjoyable would be the different people you meet and the satisfaction when the project is completed AND successful despite the obstacles.

There is no work/life balance. Their schedule is terrible. They are a company based out of Mexico and when they opened the Bay City location they were supposed to hire local residents to get a tax break fro the city. What they did was bring most of their employees from Tamsa, Mexico and paid for their room and board for a year and agreed to help them get VISAS so they could pay them in PESOS still since they were not American citizens. 
All of their robotic equipment used in their factory was from either Italy or Argentina so all of the workers were non English speaking Italians or Argentinians and could not stand any of the Americans. Oh and there were maybe a handful of Americans there. All of the African American people were made to work outside in the field cleaning pipe or locating pipe. There were no Black people in a position of power ie: Supervisor, Manager, Lead.  
The shift work was a joke. One week days, One week nights. There was no way a person could adjust to the schedule. The pay is a joke. They paid 2.8 Billion Dollars to build that factory and paid all of the workers terrible wages. If you work 1st shift and second shift does not show you may end up working a 24 hour day with just a 1 hour lunch!

I worked there for almost 6 months as a premium pipe thread inspector. the orientation was 5 days long in a community college. What i was told to expect was nothing like reality... I was told to expect a thorough 3 months of training before i was allowed to work alone. My 3rd week, I was working alone. Even after an EASY but MAJOR mistake i made my 2nd day by myself. No correction was made no training or anything.. they just let me continue. around my 3rd month i got a couple of write ups over a few tiny mistakes, no biggie they told me not to worry about it and not to let it happen again. No more writes up were issued. about my 4th month they started doing MASS layoffs, building shut downs and unpaid time off. My coworkers say they do it every year around the same time... people of 5+ years were laid off... I, on the other, was not. but as my 6 month was approaching they came to me and said that they're forced to take further actions with my writes ups from 2 months ago. they suspended me and another coworker for our very first writes up that happened while we were SUPPOSED to be in training still. After that I quit the job.

Great job
-learned about being an industrial electrician and mechanic
-learned more about reading and understanding plc's
-great co-workers who would go out of their way to help you in any way possible
-typical day of work was to show up at 0530 in the morning when we were working days, we would clock in a t 0608 and proceed there to our safety meeting. after our safety meeting we would start catching calls. I would answer both mechanical and electrical calls because we were short an electrician. we would help any of the bmg's if they had any jobs that needed to be completed that day. if there was a pm day we would assist the bmg's so that they could spend more time with the contractors as they need to. if we had the opportunity we would take lunch around noon, but if we were busy with calls we would skip lunch and breaks. once the contractors were finished if there was any work that needed to be finished we would finish it. we would normally clock out and leave at 1830, however if there was still work and the other crew relieving us needed help we would stay over and assist them in any way possible.

Procurement of NA Regional IT Hardware and Services.
Management of Tenaris IT Inventory for NA region.
Administrative focal point – ATT NA Account.
Manage and register purchase requests.
Support of NA Regional IT hardware purchases.
Proactive approach in assisting IT support staff and projects.
Assessed planned orders, create requisitions, and manage approval process. 
Order tracking, confirmation and associated tasks. 
Purchase orders preparation and communication to suppliers/departments of originating requests.
Product research and costing acquired, as needed.
Managing and monitoring inventory based on supplier lead time.
Satisfy customer and supplier inquiries regarding order status, changes, cancellations etc.
Supplier management to meet hardware and services deliverables and other inquiries.
Processing supplier invoices and managing compliance regards terms and conditions.
Partner with Internal Accounts Payable utilizing internal coding system for payment process.
Oversee Purchase Requisitions through bid process for internal projects.
Manage IT Procurement SAP goods receipts.

•	Assigned specific machinery such as Mazak, Milling and Cutting laths to inspect, report and perform                                maintenance or troubleshooting when needed or down.
•	Operated faculties SAP program to document work performed, or needed. Parts to be ordered such as ball screws, feed rollers, pneumatic cylinoids, or manufacture parts needed.
•	Conduct a plan and schedule when and what contractors where to be applied for set jobs to be done by my inspections on down time schedule given by production.
•	Supervised work performed by contractors assighned and operators on machinery to obtain companies machines and integrity to meet production needs. 
•	Trouble shot on any downtime equipment or installed parts needs to keep machines running. Such as Fanuc motors, ball screws, position sensors, air cylinoids or cylinders. To be cont. 
•	Documented all inspections work to be performed or planned with engineers or upper management to overhaul or fix and downtime problem’s by machinery in companies S.A.P program.

•	Promoted to Inventory Control Specialist in June 2008
•	Maintain and secure inventory levels within warehouse
•	Perform cycle counts and prepare reports
•	Receive, transfer and ship parts and maintain paperwork
•	Issue inventory items to work orders
•	Emphasize proper identification and readiness of stored parts
•	Initiate NCRs as necessary

•	Promoted to Materials Specialist in August 2006, proving to be a reliable and dependable worker
•	Responsible for providing manufacturing and administrative support for the worldwide network of TenarisHydril licensees, mills, service centers and international plants
•	Responsible for the shipment of support items (tooling, gages, operating supplies, etc.)
•	Initiated requisitions as necessary and performed record keeping
•	Maintained an accurate inventory of support items on hand
•	Performed in a high production environment
•	Required to be proficient in the use of typical machine shop measuring instruments (micrometers, calipers, MRP gages, thread gages, etc.)

Nice if you like the industrial and oil and gas world. Salaries are good. Company culture is the old-fashioned corporate style. A good place also as a first experience in corporate world after university or if you previously have worked in a small company and want to know how is working in a big one.
IT sector is not big enough inside the company (remember this is not an IT company but an Industrial). The majority of the IT people is focused in Argentina and many of the employees in this field are generally outsourced. IT Sectors salaries in Argentina are good compared to other companies in the country.
Company intranet systems are in many cases outdated, but now investing heavily in their modernatization and with results that can already been seen. IT courses and certifications are also provided for IT employees as well as Oil business information for understanding the key of the company business.

I was hired by Tenaris because of my knowledge of mechanics, but was stepped on by a disrespectful supervisor that was promoted from lead mechanic at the Conroe Plant to Supervisor at the McCarty plant. He talked down to me and my co-workers and I, the only one who would speak up eventually went to HR to report the over working and the disrespect. After a few months I was terminated for no reason other than dislike. I should have known better that to report to the HR manager. He was on managements side. They also fired 2 of my friends the same day for no reason. We had just gone through a plant wide lay-off the day before. 80 jobs were taken. This manager even tried to transfer me to a lower paying position without my knowledge. I knew more about the equipment than the maintenance manager and my supervisor, and when I asked why are you terminating me his response was that we are looking for a certain type of guy and you are not it. I had been there for 3 and 1/2 years. They had been at that plant for 6 months.

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