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Tms-International-LLC

What is the best part of working at the company?
A lot of the employees are good people and try to help you through the process of adjusting to the work environment

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
There's never a set schedule you may be hired for nights but they'll sit you on days the equipment is well passed needing to be replaced a lot of their equipment there does not work and is faulty and is a safety risk I want to see the company cares about you as far as the supervisors There's No Malice with their intent but as far as like the all-around company they definitely need to replace a lot of that equipment there there are a lot of safety issues you never know when you're going to work until the last minute and the schedules always getting changed

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is very stressful the culture is a positive direction there are a lot of good employees there not all of them are good though I want to say that the supervisors try to help you and meet you halfway with your needs but a lot of the time they are more worried about the companies priorities then the actual employees concerns

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
When I work night shift I would go in everything around smooth for the most part there was no issues on the job I had a very good trainer the supervisor for nice shift is a good guy so are the night shift guys they ship guys for the majority of good guys I have nothing bad to say about them I did not enjoy the day shift though you never knew what was going on one minute you'd be working next month they stop you they never have a steady set schedule of where you're going to be working or when you're going to be working it's pretty much just filling the blanks

The current management culture fosters an environment of fear and low morale. Employees are frequently threatened with job loss regardless of their performance or effort. Hard work and dedication are not recognized or rewarded, and leadership often seeks fault rather than solutions.

Equipment reliability is a major issue — breakdowns are more frequent than uptime, creating constant operational challenges. The inability to retain qualified mechanics is directly tied to poor treatment from management.

The current Maintenance Supervisor demonstrates a lack of leadership by regularly avoiding responsibilities, often seen on his phone or leaving early — even during critical equipment failures. This leaves mechanics to handle major repairs alone and work extended hours without support.

Advancement within the company appears to be based solely on personal relationships rather than merit. Nearly all administrative staff not directly connected to the Site Manager through family or friendship have been removed or replaced, leading to a lack of trust and transparency across departments.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Insurance covers a lot of things that most do not cover

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The general manager is a micromanager and he believes the only way to do a job is his way

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
General manager makes all changes go through him so if he doesn’t like it, it’s not being done. Other managers don’t care if job is safe or not they want the money revenue coming in to make them look better. They work you nonstop and with equipment that’s always broke down and needs to be demolished. When they do get a piece of equipment they just paint it and call it new

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Do not go off the hours they say. You come in and leave when they tell you that you can leave. General manager says it’s not a 6-3 job yet never shows up at 6 and expects you to stay until he leaves.

Dysfunctional is an understatement to describe the day to day workings. Never any praise for anything, experience means nothing there, nepotism all time high, in maintenance you work alone and will be given tasks that are unsafe it’s up to you to recognize that because those delegating don’t know what’s safe and what’s not. Very low end of pay scale, and you’ll be baited by the job description. Definitely bait and switch. Getting parts good luck, just rebuild it for the 1k x so it can last till down turn (if you actually have one). Will be told what you want to hear and that’s where it ends. If you have an idea keep it to yourself they don’t want to hear how you can better the job and save them money because that’s not how they have always done it. 

Clock in and check the line up for the day.Inform the heavy equipment operators as to what heat you was running and for how long before a switch over.make sure there was no call off.run software to let all three cranes no what materials the was loading all through the day and while doing this also fill overtime,call offs,answer emails,correspond with customer,customer,office and yard through email,radio,or phone.Do environmental, reports maintenance reports, and keep in touch with alloy operator about inventory.Take and submit vacation request from workers.Communicate with maintenance about equipment breakdowns or maintenance repairs.Order safety equipment and office supplies for scales office and send to front office.

I worked at the Sayerville NJ location for TMS. I will say that the job itself is very cool and interesting, you see a process that very few people get to see up close. Unfortunately that’s where the good stuff ends, the safety culture is very obviously created/implemnted by someone who has never spent a day in a piece of machinery. Management is EXTREMELY controlling, passive aggressive, and down right toxic. You are expected to cover for management when they make a mistake be it with schedule, maintenance, operations, but will be put in the spotlight when you mess up. The management also has never actually performed the tasks that they instruct, observe, and rate your performance on which is insane. Do yourself a favor STEER CLEAR of TMS Sayerville.

At the beginning they make it seem like it’s the best place in the world until you actually start working basically if you are not in the union they will fire you for any little reason even if they don’t like you they have cameras everywhere they give u no privacy you are always on edge co worked will try and make you quit or get you fired the management is horrible they only care about themselves and they claim that safety is their number 1 priority but it’s not they don’t care if your working in -10 or 100 degree weather u work they frown soon if you have to go to the bathroom or take a quick drink of water to keep your self hydrated but yet your just cutting  scrap metal and they freak out if u have nothing to do but won’t send a crane to change out the piece that were cut

Management is terrible from Corporate down to site level very poor treatment of employees they don’t listen anyone with experience more concerned with budget then equipment reliability mechanics have to patch repairs all the time old equipment that is unsafe to operate most of the time treated as a number not as a person your just a body to management If your looking for just a paycheck and no life and being treated very poorly then TMS International in Petersburg VA is the place for you Definitely is not a place to work if your as serious heavy equipment mechanic Take my word for it DO NOT WORK THERE

I worked there when a different contractor had the job then it switched to TMS and things went downhill very fast. The management was awful you got no support from them. I wasn’t able to get parts to fix equipment properly we had to rig everything to make it “operable”. With in the first 6 months that had fired 6 people for petty things just simply to get rid of them because management didn’t like them, and multiple people quit because of it as well. There is more favoritism there then I had seen anywhere else and countless times they have shorted me on a pay check, and it’s not small 1 or 2 hours it’s 5-15 hours short and that’s had happened so many times to me and other employees. All in all not a good place to work at all. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Training is not long. So that is always a plus.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The hours going from days to nights and dealing with 1st and 30th payday. Pay is not good.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Driving in broke suburban all day for 12 hours trying not to fall asleep the culture is not really good unless your union.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Driving operators to broke equipment and directing them where to operate there broke equipment and making sure scrap is separated and processed correctly

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Equipment operator 37 salaries reported	$24.50 per hour
Heavy equipment mechanic 24 salaries reported	$30.99 per hour
Laborer 6 salaries reported	$22.06 per hour
Site administrator 10 salaries reported	$22.30 per hour
Mechanic 25 salaries reported	$34.30 per hour

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