welder

heavy equipment mechanic

assembler

production specialist

manufacturing engineer

Terex Corporation

Pros - I thoroughly enjoyed working at Terex GBS over the past 4.5 years. I was provided with many advancement opportunities that allowed me to truly better my general accounting, payables, receivables, and management skills. I was rewarded for my dedication and enthusiasm with more challenges and responsibilities throughout my time at Terex. The one thing I miss the most was  being able to work with the people from my team on a daily basis. They always made it truly enjoyable to come to work on a daily basis. Overall, Terex GBS is a great place to work and provides numerous advancements within the company and is willing to put you in a position that you would enjoy working at.  

Cons - For the most part, the work culture is great, however, it is easily identified that management will latch onto high performers and give them more and more work rather than working more with lower performing team members and helping to develop them into the team members they were hired to be. More work, did not bother me as much, but several other employees brought up, quite a bit, how some team members barely seemed to be doing anything. Also, there is quite a bit of "finger pointing" rather than the team as a whole working together to fix a solution. On top of that, several management team members were great to work with, but others almost seemed to just be thrown into the position without any true management experience and never wanted to hold team members accountable.

Genie Industries has positioned itself as an employer of last resort.  Genie is not a world class manufacturer like they claim; from what I experienced they’re more like a two-bit slap-together manufacturer who’s been resting on its pre-Terex reputation for the last 20 years.  All the smart people eventually leave when they figure out if you’re not part of the good ol’ boy network then there is no future.

The HR manager is corrupt and untrustworthy……she leaks sensitive information to lower level supervisors which is then spread throughout the facility.  She has way too much power to focus on the trivial then overlooks a senior manager engaging in an inappropriate relationship[s] with subordinates.  

The management class at Genie is disconnected from the day to day reality and need to feel the consequences of their decisions.  The management team needs to practice the Terex Way Values a bit more then they preach them.

Genie/Terex is staffed with substandard executives and the Moses Lake site leadership constantly makes poor (fact less) decisions then the general team members suffer the results of those poor decisions with twice yearly layoffs.  They lack transparency, very poor delivery on commitments.

Other than the compensation and benefits, if you are not golfing with the Plant Director you can count yourself out of any promotional opportunity.  The HR Manager there is a complete waste of space.  HR is never available to assist employees and help develop them.  They are more interested in traveling in their flock of 6 and gossip about people.  Managers there micormanage everything you do and do not foster an innovative culture.  Corporate needs to come in and talk to employees to get the real life persective of how things are Managed and make some serious leadership changes.  Employees are miserable, but because the job market in Moses Lake is not that great, are forced to stay in order to provide for their families.  Corporate needs to do a better job looking into the way employees are treated and how they are throwing money away by paying Managers that are not Leading.  They are paying 6 HR employees to flock together and be completely unavailable.  Do not work here.  There are other plants coming into Moses Lake.  Consider those before working there.

Starting the job with Genie in early 2013 was like family. Job events was fun. They pulled you in as family due to the work hours of 10-12 hrs a day, 4-5 days a week. As time prgressed so do Management. More more it became a job with no morales as then it was family. Events started to fade away 1 by 1. Being part of "GENIE", is great no more. They started to treat us like were nothing now. Pretty much a number. Not a family no more even thought we work there 10-12 hrs a day, 4-5 days a week. It is sad to see it come to this as teammembers whos been there for years and years with happy thoughts come to work everyday hating it and just there for the money. I use to take ALOT of pride with the job... Seriously did. Alot of team members did too. Now....its just there for the money...and go home. With the low rates coming now and a HUGE lay coming. Think before joining. Prefer you try other places dude to the politics here. I see even though I don't want to but hey...Its everywhere in other jobs too. Just not this bad as Genie...

A typical day at work used to be busy managing multiple engineering project and design tasks with other engineers and now simply waiting for the next equipment sale and developing concept equipment design. Very quiet in a bad way. The company is exiting the product and looking for a buyer. I've learned to meet the needs of the customer and that working fervently may either be rewarding or not. Its a matter of ethic. Management lives for the quarter and has no real interest in long term development goals, i.e. no R&D budget. Co-workers mostly are concerned about their future while anticipating the next workforce reduction. The hardest part of the job now is believing the company would actually be staffed properly to build product to meet delivery. The most enjoyable part of the job is the potential to design and build product I've created using solid modeling engineering software. Its very rewarding for me to be creative in the engineering environment.

The company prides itself in sharing core values, two of them being “morale” and “servant leadership.” Of my two weeks that I’ve been employed here, the company has seemed to fail to deliver on both. Morale is low when management springs on you right after lunch on multiple occasions that the team will be staying an extra two hours, even on an overtime Friday shift, where I was told that we wouldn’t stay over our already long ten-hour shift. Pretty late in the day to spring that on people. “Servant leadership” by definition of the company says that the management at the top helps support the next step down on the ladder, and they support those under them and so on. So far, I’ve only ever seen management and supervisor-adjacent folks come down during long shifts to watch, swing a hammer at a couple things, and have meaningless conversation amongst each other around the labor force while they actually work. It’s discouraging and I don’t see myself putting up with it much longer.

Terex did not use the knowledge base that manufacturing engineers had. We could not plan our activities with our experience and background but had to follow the directions from upper management which created More issues for the manufacturing engineers to solve.  Two of the managers during my employment allowed me to initiate my plans and ideas along with the support of other team members which and in one activity reduced overtime by $600,000 per year. I never got credit for that either. Into many instances the team members/welders were permitted to do things to equipment that they should never had been permitted but the supervisor was given that authority; Which hindered the manufacturing engineers from implementing logical and useful programs.

I was brought in to turn around a core market that was unfortunately being neglected and had dwindled to almost zero percent new sales as a result.  I built credibility with key target account executives and started earning their trust and business.  Within 3 years we won 75% market share with the core product at target national accounts.  It took a team effort and a new focus on customer service and support.  It was rewarding to improve the company's reputation and earn repeat sales as a result of individual and team efforts.  The most challenging part of the job was working to keep the new branch company management focused on the customer needs.  Product and aftermarket service parts availability during factory consolidation efforts hurt the company but Terex is a great company and will continue to improve as they integrate companies into new divisions.

Global manufacturer of construction, aerial work platform, port solutions, material processing and cranes.  Dedicated, professional team focused on efficiencies, process improvement, customer care and return on invested capital.

Genie and Terex team members make the Company unique, all are focused on doing the best job possible in an environment where daily challenges to deliverability, quality, safety, competition, costs have to be analyzed, managed and addressed.

A typical day in credit and collections as well as equipment financing involved managing a high volume flow of business and demands of customers, sales leaders and dealers, but doing so within the constraints of existing policies and procedures so as to achieve desired results.  We underwrote small, medium and large ticket transactions.

Your a number here...a cog in the machine...that's it.

Benfits are outstanding...if you stay.

Be prepared to dedicate your life to the company...since you'll never know when you'll have free time. Don't count on a 40hr week...more like 45-60hrs. Scheduling and planning of work is a second thought to the company.

Know your job before starting...your co-workers can't be trusted and management only care to do what it takes to make production quotas not provide a complacent work enviroment.

Many supervisors have no clue what it takes to accomplish a job and certainly don't want to know.

Pay is pretty good for the area because benfits are so cheap...not because your actually getting paid well.

Top management removed without notice or reason and replaced....makes you wonder how much a floor level employee is valued.

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Welder 148 salaries reported	$24.11 per hour
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