development manager

cnc machinist

territory sales

receiving associate

quality assurance inspector

Trulife

Coworkers are nice and easy to get along with so long as they don't find new work before you get hired. Things are not as good as they used to be. There's free coffee, creamer, and tea. No paper plates, so bring your own. The QA inspectors are awesome. The assembly planner rocks, and the team in the Triple A assembly is extremely fun and easy to get along with. Their room is temperature controlled. If you have to work here, apply for a job where you can work with one of them and you might not want to rip your hair out everyday.

Clock out at your designated time, no matter what they ask of you, because if you work overtime you aren't going to get paid for it. Timecards are adjusted so your hours are always 40 without exception, so don't bother being a hero. 

Some of the leads are prone to getting angry and swearing like an old man who can't get his remote to change the channel when things don't go their way, and yet management chooses to keep them because they'll sacrifice their personal lives and work double shifts to get a product out. It's not heroic, it's probably because with social skills like those that don't have anything to sacrifice.

Be careful running machines they throw you on without much training, too. I've seen so many people getting put onto machines where management  just waves their hand dismissively about it and tells you to do your best. You might be okay the first time you crash a machine, but be aware that if they don't like you they'll just use it as an excuse to can you.

This company looks great on paper, a niche medical manufacturing firm that portrays itself as a great supporter of all people.  In reality, this company does not care about their employees or their customers.  Very poor management, especially at the top, numerous layoffs and terminations over the past year without any regard to employees and their families but the president continues to line his pockets.  Low performing and negative employees are promoted and given big fat bonuses.

The sales and marketing group has been reorganized so many times no one knows if they are coming and going.  Illegal terminations of employees, little or very low severance packages, and who knows what else is going on but the rumors are out there.  The sales VP is just as bad as the president.  He has no clue what the sales team is doing but it doesn't matter because he just keeps filling his pocketbook up!  

Too bad because there are a lot of good employees that have depended on this company for a long time but it is so run down now there is no chance of it coming back to what it once was.If you see a job opening for this company I would run the other way.

A typical day (in the machine shop where I worked) was getting information about the particular machine(s) I would be running from the operator beforehand and then getting set up to run the machine(s) for 8 or 10 hours. 

I learned a lot about the metal side of machining, as before I'd done only wood/plastic. I learned about metal feeds and speeds, tapping, part holding procedures, manual milling, and how to use a waterJet. 

The co-workers were all good, many were frustrated by the management's complete lack of care for anyone wanting to better themselves. 

The hardest part of the job was dealing with the inevitable fallout from employees every day when management would do something strange or weird and everyone would be in a bad mood. 

The most enjoyable part of the job was when everyone left and we could just concentrate on running our machines. Day shift had a lot of drama, mostly from one particular employee.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The four day work weeks are really nice.
Having a three day weekend makes it worth the 10 hour days.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The month end deadlines are awful.
They often bill out customers before the work is even done.
Putting stress on the employees.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is terrible.
Management is a revolving door so you never know what your going to get next.
It's often chaotic. You don't have the right tools to finish jobs.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day is long, often repetitive work.

I started with this company before it was bought out by Trulife. I started with Pro CNC and worked as a machinist from 2003-2006, then moved into quality assurance, which is where I finished in 2015. In 2014 Pro CNC was purchased by Trulife and it no longer felt like a family. We were looked at as a number. The previous owners truly cared about their employees and made sure to involve us with company decisions. Current days with Trulife changed. We were then treated as a number and told what to do and sometimes how to do it when it went against their own mission statement. As the culture worsened I decided to make my move elsewhere.

You will fill the role  you were hired to fill, any thought of advancement professionally should be checked at the door. The only way to get a raise is to quit and be re-hired. Seriously, there are people who work there who had not seen a raise in 6 years. HR is one person who is an absolute troll of a human. Upper management will lie to you every day you work there. This was all before the Union moved in. Hopefully pay and benefits will improve. However management is still a joke. 

If you want to be under paid, with no chance of ever being paid fairly, then this is your place. If you want management that has no clue what they are doing but still get in your face like they somehow do know, then this is your place. The only people that they want to hire are those with no experience (they work for cheap), and they don't train them, and then they complain when nothing is getting done right. This place is a plague that really should be avoided!

There's a lot of pressure to complete jobs, but often the tools and/or material for a job won't be ordered before the completion deadline. Managment lacks the foresight to find new contracts before the end of current work -- makes hours and WAGES unstable.
What's kept me working here is the culture amongst all the machinists -- we all get along really well.

Company doesn’t care about workers. They just want money. Current supervisor in assembly and general manager would rather get ride of you than work with you. No point in working here if you like to get paid fair wages because they change you time cards so you don’t get over time. Work 41 hours? Not according to trulife. You only worked 40 hours. You’re 2 minutes late from lunch? Now you’re 15 minutes late and have to make up the time. Stay way from this place. Bunch of crooks.

Trulife is located in a small business park in beautiful Poulsbo with walking trails and views of the Olympic mountains.

The work culture is relaxed where we focus on the delivery quality medical devices to our customers.  Management gives us direction and allows the team to make it happen.  Knowing our products improve lives is the most enjoyable aspect of working at Trulife.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Development manager 10 salaries reported	$77,500 per year
Cnc machinist 2 salaries reported	$24.73 per hour
Territory sales 7 salaries reported	$70,357 per year
Receiving associate 4 salaries reported	$20.28 per hour
Quality assurance inspector 2 salaries reported	$23.36 per hour

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