senior cost accountant

senior hris analyst

retail sales associate

customer service representative

account manager

Therma-Tru Doors

Therma Tru doors is a corporate company with a Family Owned feel. The work environment, people, culture, and everything about the day to day job is open, informative, cooperative, and supportive. 
The day to day focus on addressing employee concerns and wellness easily reaches the 5 star rating. With a large and active HR department, the focus on personnel relations and addressing concerns in a timely and definitive manner is easily seen after just a few weeks on the job. ThermaTru isn't a company that adds your name to a list, there is a personal focus to everything they do, and no one there can say they weren't given ample personal attention. 
Support from the company for manufacturing accomplishments has been taken to the highest level. Free lunches for meeting safety, production, and performance metrics are commonplace. Yearly vacation days for holidays, yearly holiday gatherings for coworkers, yearly festivals for employees and their families.  At least once a month, there is a lunch provided for successful operations at the plant. Local support with other businesses to provide sales and discounts on products commonly used by associates.
Support for the growth of employees is 5 star as well. The company provides on the job training in many aspects of the job. As an engineer, I received training in statistical methodologies (Lean, 6 Sigma, KATA, etc) as well as leadership and interpersonal relations training (Dale-Carnegie). This isn't limited just to the salary or engineering staff, they include management and operations in these trainings as well. To facilitate a comfortable working environment where everyone cooperates.
My coworkers ranged from fresh out of college engineers to senior engineers with 30+ years of experience. But not just engineers, I worked closely with manager level employees, and operations employees, from the entry level line workers to the supervisors for each process. The amount of exposure and immersion with different levels of the management chain is top notch, and everyone works together to improve as a whole.
The best thing about working here is that each day had a new challenge, and there is always something new to learn. New processes, new product, new methods and tools and machinery to optimize and improve. 
The hardest part about the job is pretty common to any manufacturing environment. When quality and performance drops, and 'fires' are started, most long term work is put on hold and many resources are pulled toward addressing the issues in the short term. This can be as stressful as any fast paced manufacturing environment. The balance between quality/engineering and production can be a difficult thing to manage. 
Overall: ThermaTru is a wonderful place to work, with options for engineers and associates of any variety.

Therma Tru professes to be a family operation and attempts to be. 2 wks PTO after 1 full year would be nice and perhaps reduce the turnover margin however one must work for 2 full years before getting 2 weeks PTO.  However, Insurance on Day 1 is rare & generous. Footwear & work eye-ware allowances.  The most frustrating part is working as part of a department that has 3 shifts, and one of the shifts is treated completely different than the others and must work nearly twice as hard several days per week than the other two shifts.  Their is some hypocrisy in the fact we are encouraged to use our 'Line of Power', move smart, and basically observe logical & careful ergonomic movements throughout your work day.  Yet, when one is working/moving/lifting twice as much in a day, one tends to tire more by the end of the day and risks injury, slip, fall, trip or simple brain farts that can result in lost time accidents.   Seems like the forecast may have been a bit off and more folks were hired too soon for future production, or they just like to have people prepared well in advance of new roll-outs.      The moving avg unit cost should match shift-by-shift if production numbers are similar.
Our supervisor and Team Leads are amicable, open-minded and listen to any concern but in the end, they work for the company (like anywhere else).  They do give kudo's when deserved and do it publicly...it's just with all the emphasis on Safety (which is good) we would like to see more of it in practice (Operations) and not in just professing it (Huddles and meetings).  As for breaks, 10 minute (2) and one 20 min lunch.  The break rooms can be a walk and 20 minutes is hardly enough time to digest a sandwich.  We don't understand how a 30 min lunch would hurt production, when it is a continuous operation facility for the most part.  The numbers wouldn't change if lunch was 30 min., as long as operation continues...right?  Seems like that would be another change that could reduce turnover, like the PTO situation.
 Overall it's a decent place to work... but Communication and Training could be better, and while the Insurance day1 is great, the PTO situation is average at best.

Called in for 2ond shift production interview, was given 1st shift BPO stock position.
BPO is the hardest job in factory, nothing but heavy lifting, all day, as fast as you can go. When approached by HR on my slow performance, I mentioned that I wasn't called in for first shift, or BPO. I was told I can't be transferred for 6 months, so suck it up, or leave.
I injured myself several times, ending up in wellness. Wellness is a joke. They want you to do all these exercises with your injured limb, which was counter-productive to healing. 
I was told by several co-workers that it is standard practice to run new employees through BPO,  as it pays the least and is the hardest job in the factory, and they have a large turnover, and are always short on warm bodies.
Supervisor has no knowledge of the product, and less knowledge of how to manage people. Utility operator was more into playing with young girls hair, and grabbing them by the waist from behind. 
"Move Smart" is a total joke, as every time I injured myself, safety would come down and watch me, but could find nothing wrong with the way I moved.... 
There are a lot of ppl that get injured there, and 
 Safety either can't find anything wrong, or they say, "You're not using mental superglue ".. lol.
My last straw was 2 pronged. 1) Ops Mgr assigned me same job 6 hours 1 day and then again the next, all because a known screamer was boiling over about having to do that particular job. (We switch jobs every 2 hours in a rotation fashion). And 2) I had injured myself, backing up into a parked cart, that was abandoned by coworker. Super, and Safety came down 3 different times over 21days, asking same questions, yet offered no solution. Super even denied I told him, at first. I needed to see a doctor,  or at very least go to wellness, yet could no get clearance to do so. I had to go on my dime, and am suffering long term radial nerve damage because of time lapse.
I had had enough, I got tired fussing with HR, Safety and Super.
Indiana is a "Right to Work State", and HR makes sure to tell you that if you have any concerns, about anything.... 
Pass this factory by folks.

Fiberon/Therma-Tru is not bad at all to work for if you're coming in as a typical hourly employee. The demands are fairly high but once you've got the demands of your position under control, working there isn't much different than anywhere else. Pay has been competitive, even a little higher than average in many cases. Benefits are good. Management support can be spotty but there is effort made on the part of management to be supportive.

Direct managers & supervisors, overall, are pretty good but, like all places, answer to someone else... so sometimes demands can get increased and seem a bit squirrely. Most are willing to pitch in to help out.

If your aspirations are to advance, Therma-Tru does support such endeavors but one should exercise caution in choosing to do so. Many of the positions are salaried. In the last salaried policy roll out I was there for, the policy unfairly gave less benefits to certain salaried employees depending on what their schedule was. Any concerns the affected employees had were dismissed. Also, schedule dependent, there will be greater demands for your personal time of what would normally be your days off (and, like the policy, any concerns or suggestions to make such demands equitable across all schedules were fully dismissed).

Many of the other pitfalls of advancement into salaried management/supervisory positions are typical of some and/or most companies. Increased responsibility/workload with no increase in compensation. The previously mentioned increase in demands of your personal time. Increased demands of subordinate workloads which force decisions to neglect certain other aspects of subordinate job duties (which often times forces you, the manager/supervisor, to pick up the slack... which, by extension, takes you away from performing some of your typical duties during your scheduled hours... forcing you to put in even more hours.

Day started with review of the last shift production review and making a priority list of projects and brief summaries from associates to ensure all priorities and projects are addressed and verify accomplishments or hurdles to help get resources to get them completed.

I learned managing associates with different responsibilities and team groups to have a cross-functional approach to reviewing, creating, resolving on issues or projects on a regular basis. Along with creating intranet websites to use across the departments to bring all information to one place, and writing SQL functions and macros to make them more interactive.

This environment was large and could be frustrating at times, but also gave a way to learn to deal and work with all different types in order to accomplish the same goals. 

Hardest part of the job was balancing goals, daily functions and projects to get them all addressed and accomplished in the times that had a lot of issues that had to be fixed before the rest could be moved forward.

Most enjoyable part of this position was the satisfaction of creating, implementing and maintaining systems that helped make interactive work functions more efficient.

A Typical day can be fairly stressful here as this company is a part of fortune brands and they have an extensive amount of rules and regulations and policies for just about everything and it doesn't take much to accidentally step on someone's toes or break some rule. I learned a handful of things I didn't really know before but nothing significant. Lower management is pretty good not really much to complain about there it's mostly management above the plant manager that makes everything so much harder for everyone. The workplace culture can be fairly toxic and woke there are little groups running around you have to avoid so they don't couse drama. The hardest part of this job is all the rules and policies that are in place as navigating them can be very tricky and make your average task much harder than it needs to be. Many of the employees are actually very nice and supportive and they do support several paid holidays.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Overall the benefits are good.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Upper management already has all of the answers.  They are only looking for Yes Men to implement those plans, regards of what the data shows.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The safety culture was good.  The working environment was toxic.  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Start the day with the morning production meeting.  Then spend the next few hours explaining to your bosses boss how production targets were missed.  Then repeat yourself 20 times about how the equipment isn't reliable, it takes a lot of effort to properly maintain the equipment, the warehouse is overflowing with material and production is running out of space, and at times the associates are not motivated and no one holds them accountable.  Not to mention that they rejected Capital to improve the equipment and reduce downtime.

I worked for this company for 4 almost 5 years. I started out as a temp to hire and reached max pay at 4 years, which is decent compared to most factories. However, you won't have any time to spend the money outside of work because they mandate every single weekend. They claim to be a company that cares about your family but doesn't care if you actually get to spend any time with yours. Higher ups are never there on weekends they mandate, and only one supervisor for the whole factory. They don't give enough vacation time or sick leave compared to how much you actually work with overtime. The breaks are very short and the building is big so it takes half your break just to get to the breakroom or your car. There is a lot of down time and even if you have been down for half your shift or more they refuse to let people go home. Also, it's hard to get a plus position or to move up in the company unless you are a favorite.

My first job there was to repair doors that had scratches and dents in them after paint. It was a simple enough job, just sand and repaint. The difficult part was the amount of doors you had to do. I would say on average there was 10 doors that needed to be repaired at any given time, not a job suitable for only one person. Then 7 weeks into my employment they trained me on prepping doors for paint, which included sanding, checking for dents, and cleaning with acetone. Within two weeks I had become very good at finding door errors, and just short of average speed. The next week I hit had my 90 day review, they said the average was 5 doors prepped per hour, and my average was 4.5. They let me go because I was slightly below average speed, even though I only had 3 weeks experience, while others had several months.

Throughout the time I spent at Therma Tru Doors, the entire time I spent there was amazing. The people were more than welcome to help you understand their job, what are the common problems that occur, their input on changes they think could work, and the ability to work on equipment was very enthusing. As my time there became longer and longer, the projects became more difficult and challenging with testing my engineering, statistical, and safety knowledge. In the long run though, I was able to complete different projects and be able to help out different processes that were in need of optimization by decreasing downtime and increasing quality restraints on chemicals.

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