production associate

team leader

group leader

maintenance technician

tool and die maker

Toyota Boshoku America

TLDR: I warned you.
You WILL work long hours and many days but it does pay decent. Do not expect to be praised or rewarded for going above and beyond as it is deemed unfair to those who do less than the minimum. Management is about as political as it gets, there is a specific chain of command that you must go through to get even the smallest change or improvement (I.E. better working tools, switching to a new process, etc). As a repair welder you can expect to be some of the last team members to leave the building as your day does not end when your line makes their build (unless you are one that has been favored by management), mind you that repair welders do not make any more than a regular team member does. If you have shown any glimpse of competence you can expect to be exploited, for example I can think of many instances where I was sent to another line to relieve an underperforming team member and then scheduled to work with that line on the weekend even though my original line had already went home after making their daily build, this is a VERY common practice in the weld shop. You can also expect to be scheduled for weekend work at the absolute last possible second, again I can think of MANY instances where my line was scheduled to work that weekend just as our Friday shift was coming to an end. And as a team leader you can expect to be worked harder than anyone else in the factory for just a dollar more than you would make had you just remained a team member. You will ALWAYS be on line due to being short staffed either due to call INS or management pulling people to other lines (you are still expected to fulfill all of your offline duties even though you are on line and in process). Do not expect discipline to be handed out to team members that blatantly refuse to do their process, or deliberately work slow to sabotage the line into working overtime. Instead you can expect your Group Leader to inquire as to why you cannot motivate said team member. Not to mention the plant wide infidelity that goes without being addressed, once again MANY instances where the Princeton police department had to patrol the parking lot due to threats made by spouses of employees cheating while at work. Lastly, do not expect work to be cancelled due to a bad snow storm for it is cheaper for the company to pay the fine than it is to stop supplying parts. But if you do not believe me then please go ahead and apply, go through your 2 weeks of mandatory training (buttering up), and when you get to the floor and that first team member tells you "forget what you learned, this is what really goes down on the floor" remember this review.

TLDR; 
Great place to work if you can leave your ego at the door.
THE GOOD: Great pay and benefits, some of the people are awesome.

THE BAD: long hours when downtime happens, some of the people arent so nice.

THE UGLY: its a factory, the work is physically hard, mentally exhausting, and not for people who have a hard time focusing.

if you work at TBIN and are thinking about leaving, I implore you to STAY as the grass isn't always greener elsewhere. I started in the weld shop and transferred to a different department after close to a year. this place offers good pay with good benefits. everyone gets butthurt about management, but there is a very specific process to everything that happens at this plant. everything is documented. so asking for new tools, switching processes, or whatever else, has to be documented and approved and people get their feelings hurt when they are told no. 

The favoritism was at at minimum when I was there but this company is not out to get you or punish you for excelling at your job. there are multiple fast paced production lines and everyone is part of a team. when the whole team is done, then you go home. being sent to another line to help them hit their build is common and people act like it isn't their job to help their coworkers.

this place is a great place to work if you can just kick your ego and do the work. I wish I had never left because I promise you, there are WAY WORSE places to be. ones with harder work with worse benefits and lower pay. 

sometimes management is a little slow to getting around to helping people out, but you have to remember we are all human and there will always be more stress than you can see. 

A typical day at work starts with clocking in about 15 minutes early. putting your stuff up. meeting with your team right at the start of shift. Doing stretches (yes, the stretches seem mundane but they will help you in the long run).

you are assigned a station and then you go do that work for 2 hours, take a break, then 2 more hours, then a 45 minute lunch (unless its changed since I was there).
come back for 2 more hours, take another break, then 2 more hours and IF your line hit build you go help the other lines hit theirs if they had fallen behind. once build has been hit for everyone you go home. 10 hour shifts are common but they pay you overtime for that.

the literal hardest part of the job (besides being physically exhausting) is keeping your ego in check.

the best part of the job was feeling like you actually did a full days worth of work at the end of the day. 

Worst company I have ever worked for. Supervisors lie right to your face. constantly giving you wrong information. if they give you any at all. You never know what time you’ll get off work. You will be worked like a dog and treated like one too. Forget about having a life outside of this place because it’s not even unusual for them to last minute force you to work both Saturday and Sunday.  Hours can be (and frequently will be) 6am-6pm. You will be yelled at, cussed at, and threatened with extra work almost daily. They will give you pto but then they will also tell you that they are “blacking out” certain months and that no one is allowed to use their pto days. You will be told on for everything you say and do. Someone is always listening and the employees will turn you in just for complaining about basic things. Team leaders and group leaders can do or say whatever they want but if you turn them into HR nothing will be done and they will make your days miserable for it. All HR claims end up “unsubstantiated” because they don’t actually investigate anything. Seriously just don’t do it. This place is awful which is why they need people so bad. people walk out of this job daily over it. It’s super understaffed so the staff is wayyyyy overworked…. Oh and if you get injured they will continue to make you work with your injury for weeks if not months before they will even send you to be seen by a medical professional. Then they’ll “modify” your jobs or put you in the worst processes for 12 hours with no rotation. They do not care about their employees you are just a number to them. Also your paycheck will not be what you think. You will literally work so much overtime that after taxes you’ll end up making about the same as you would if not less than for working 40 hours.

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at Toyota Boshoku is  
  After work you don’t have time to do anything mostly during the week days because they will make u stay and do the team leader or group leader work that they suppose to be doing.

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at Toyota Boshoku are 
 15.00 hourly Insurance 
  401 k Insurance 
Dental insurance 
Health vision insurance

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at Toyota Boshoku, I think 
None

Management
In general, managers at Toyota Boshoku 
 Full of drama, if u don’t fit in with them, or do their dirty work you will not  be there long. Unorganized, Give their workers a hard time especially the one who been there for yrs. It is a good work place to work and have something but the management make people leave due to their lack of knowledge on how to run the plant. We do not see our bonuses because they are taken from us. That’s why they try to work us and give us over time some we can make a little money off of them.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at Toyota Boshoku is 

Collaboration with the workers is very good but u have people leaving everyday due to the mistreatment.

Overall
My experience working at Toyota Boshoku 

I loved working there there with my co workers we helped each other no matter what. Even though some days it was really hard n we had to make up so much it was hard. But with the help of good team work we made it.

Good insurance and benefits.. That's where the good stops.
Pay for the position is around the same for all the factories in the town, but compared to the bigger city factories, the pay for maintenance technicians are a solid $10 or so less.

Such a high turnover rate with the maintenance positions for many reasons: Extremely poor management (he said- she said stuff), EXTREME amount of overtime, you never know if you're going to have the weekend off or not, so you literally can't plan anything on the weekends with your family unless you take a vacation day. They do not tell you if you're going to work the weekend for sure or not until FRIDAY.  A typical month for a maintenance tech here is on average 2-3 days off a MONTH. You literally do not get to see your family, and they could care less. They do not have enough people to cover any shifts except day shift. And refuse to hire the amount of techs needed. Second and third shift always gets the shaft in the draft. They can't keep employees in these positions when they do hire because of these reasons, so everyone that does stay faithful to the company gets screwed over because there's no one there to lessen the load. If you want a day off during the month, you are forced to use a vacation day just to get a mental break. I'm all for overtime once or twice a month, but 3-4 weeks of the month is over kill, and it gets old real quick.

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I worked on gold shift when I got the full time position in welding. I didn't feel like we were trained very well ,but eventually our Assistant Manager would help us out and show us how to get the job done. I didn't feel good about when we were unexpected to get off work we never knew. I worked on 841T-UP legs and we made seat frames in the welding shop for the Toyota Sienna.I remember we had a build to get done every night, but if any machines,robots, jigs,and repair welders broke down we would get behind ,because we had safety stock extra parts for any downtime to be put in production and shipped to assembly. Toyota made us keep a certain number of seat frames in stock so we had to make the build bfor that night , and if we had used any safety stock that shift during production it had to be replaced , andif we ran out of parts to make our frames it was the same problem.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay is good that's the only  good thing I have to say about this job

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
You can have perfect attendance and a year of company experience and still have no chances of getting promoted having experience through the company will not help you get promoted if no one in the factory likes you they will work together to get you terminated no one there follows the rules by the book everyone there gets away with either being on the phone or break rules to the job description being done even the team leaders get away with not doing the jobs correctly like told they will train a temporary employee how to do more than a permanent hired in employee this is not a good company to work for Toyota much favoritism going on.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Have to wear long sleeve, steal toes, and jeans it's hot !

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Work goes unappreciated permanent employees are half trained or not trained at all no one here follows the rules by the book not even team leaders some of the team leaders aren't properly trained to do each job or just don't want to do them right.

I have a love/hate relationship with TBA after 4.5 years working here.  

Pros:
- Working level people are cool and do tons of happy hours/after work athletic events.
- The benefits, especially insurance and paid time off, are very good compared to other US based companies.
- There's always things to do.  If you are a young engineer, you will be exposed to a lot of interesting projects.

Cons:
- Management will tell you what you want to hear, and not what is actually happening
- There's a joke at TBA that the best way to get promoted is to leave the company and get hired back on at a higher level.  There's a lot more truth to that than management wants to admit.
- You, as a non-Japanese American, will be a secondary thought at all times, regardless of how talented or effective you are.  The TBJ assignees will always get more of everything than you will.
- TBA does not invest in its employees' training other than internal classes that other companies don't recognize
- Management structure is very flat and managers hoard any and all interesting projects (e.g. high tech projects, travel abroad) for themselves and send specialists to the grunt work

•	Creating and implementing complex part numbers to store in database.
•	Track and Maintain Inventory Levels for all rolled goods and parts components.
•	Issue and track supplier orders for all Interior and Seating trim orders. Negotiate supplier delivery timing, Issue/Track Supplier Purchase Requisitions (PR), Purchase Orders (PO), and provide supplier timing to management.
•	Input new model bill of materials process through Prototype ERP system.
•	Schedule Logistics for customer order and complete all Shipping Documents for Customer Orders.
•	Ensure the implementation of engineering document changes within the ERP system for all pre-production builds and report program activity and status to the program team.
•	Analyze drawings, SMS structure (e.g., engineering parts list), and color instructions.
•	Create and present Prototype detail plans for each commodity and program.
•	Analyze and arrange internal Prototype Make vs. Buy for all new model programs.
•	Attend weekly meetings for discussion open issues with Prototype and Engineering.
•	Organize and manage internal department issues for weekly management review.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production associate 3 salaries reported	$22.41 per hour
Team leader 15 salaries reported	$25.79 per hour
Group leader 10 salaries reported	$79,313 per year
Maintenance technician 4 salaries reported	$27.08 per hour
Tool and die maker 5 salaries reported	$28.80 per hour

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