manufacturing operator

warehouse clerk

operator

extrusion operator

senior maintenance technician

Uponor

The schedule rocks if you can stomach it—four days off is nothing to scoff at, and you get time and a half on your long weeks with the four on/four off schedule. However, it has become readily apparent after two years of working there that the company culture is simply to go in, get experience, and leave. There is no reward for putting your time in at Uponor other than any personal satisfaction you get. While raises do vary based on performance, you'll find that you still will be getting paid rather little compared to the rest of the market. No engineers stay at Uponor, leaving all the machines a ticking bomb as to when they're going to break down for weeks once more. Supervisiors, especially on nights, are simply trying to make their way to days, and do not show an ounce of care to their employees.

They make a lot of noise about safety, especially recently, but it's just a facade. They don't put in the effort to actually make the workplace safe, instead just giving us duller blades and telling us we can't put our hands in our pockets. Their environmental campaign seems to be following a similar vein, though I cannot personally confirm that from my position at the company.

The job is easy enough, however. I fractured my finger in a workplace incident and had it taken care of by the company with little effort on my end, so points for that. Just be aware that you don't have a future at this company (manufacturing wise) unless you're content with grunt work forever.

Uponor is a different kind of work environment. They legitimately care about their employees. Sometimes too much. Like they think they  know what is better for you. The main reason they have for not letting you work more than 60 hours a week is "It's not good to work so much." Sappy, I know. They start you off with 4 weeks of PTO. You accrue 6 hours per two week period, and can use them anytime you want. No questions asked. Sometimes they'll question it, but only when it's grossly over used during busy times. When you volunteer for OT, they thank you. Like, you're doing them a favor. They'll even give you Visa gift cards for it. Their OT policy is kinda garbage though. Strictly by the law. Over 40 in a week  is 1.5 pay. If there is a holiday that week, you don't get 1.5 pay till you actually punch in for over 40 that week. Meaning, if you have Christmas eve and Christmas day paid off, you can't get 1.5 pay till you work over 40. The holiday pay doesn't count. Sometimes there is a lot of OT to work, but they never force you to work it. Rarely they'll make workers work 50 hours a week, but that's so rare. If you want to work at a place that is relaxed and won't be forced to work OT, then this is the place. But you won't make more than 70k a year here. Probably 55k. Not a big money maker, but it's a company that has been around since the 1600s and is still growing. I see much upward mobility at this place.

If the management likes you and you just work and don't ever have an opinion or need anything special then you're fine. The expectation is that you just fit in and be a team player. If things get hard for you there's offers of little patches or advice systems but overall you're given small fixes for larger issues. In general the workflow seems to be "efficient" from top to bottom but there are cracks and clots everywhere, and the longer/deeper you work at Uponor, or GF, or whatever the company ends up as, the more you notice them causing issues that no one seems to care about. 

Expect to be shown off to executives of various companies and other industry professionals like you're a trained zoo animal, telling them about how profitable you are and how you move so much product out. You'll be bombarded with numbers and positives but see little out of it for yourself. While the company gains and shows how they're shaving these razor thin margins for millions, they throw you pizza parties and gatorade coolers for appreciation. 

- Once you get the hang of things, a typical day is fairly predictable and may become tedious at times, but it usually is not stressful either.
- I learned how to use cordless drills, wrenches, screwdrivers, pressurized staplers, and how to fix Radiant Ready 30E units.
- My managers are caring, kind, and ready to lend a hand when needed.They are always looking for ways to make production quicker and simpler.
- My co-workers are down-to-earth, friendly, and a pleasure to work with.
- I have to lift (with the help of a co-worker) 130 lb. units out of boxes onto carts to test and put them back into their boxes when I finish testing them.
- I get to focus more on the quality of my work than on quantity of units tested per day (but I still am encouraged to work efficiently, so I do not slack off).

Training in the pex area wasn't great. Trainer was very confrontational and the procedures if they existed were vague. A lot of stuff you either learn by trial and error or from someone who has been here and done the task before. This was hard coming from a highly regulated job where there was a detailed procedure for everything. When I moved into my current position the training was much better. I learned a lot form  my instructor and peers. Over all the people including management are easy to get along with. There are always going to be those people wherever you go. The 12 hour 4 days on and 4 days off was (still) hard to get used to but its good if you want to take a week off all you have to do is take one day on your next rotation then you have 5 days in a row.

High turnover rate. Safety culture is preached for liability reasons but is not followed. As soon as you're signed off, your supervisor will expect something else or will turn a blind eye to those who are doing things unsafely and expect the same from you. Some of the co-workers are awesome and some are not, just like any workplace but the pool of awesome co-workers is much less here. 

Management is pretty bad here. They pretend like things are running A-OK and then turns around to offer overtime aka forced overtime.

The pay here is a set structure so everyone starts off at a base pay of $20, then you get a couple cents raise periodically. If you need to learn how to drive a forklift, this employer can do that but for those who have experience, I'd look elsewhere. 

Started off great, promising. Although training was a joke, and trainer was a moron. Was told how important my role is to be accurate, so from day one I tried my best to ensure accuracy with every pick. I counted out loud, double checked my counts. Yet somehow received error after error, and told I was missing boxes. I had no defense, I couldn't prove I didn't even though I knew there was no way. I expressed my frustration and was reassured that it wasn't the end of the world and that I was an asset to the team. 

Fast forward a few days later and they bring me into the office to let me go. Completely blindsided me, but I guess I was a fool to put my faith in another corporation. Right before my sign on bonus too. So don't hold your breath for that or anything else they promise you. Two faced like everywhere else. 

Expect to be capable of carrying yourself with out much guidance.  Be sure to learn the products and what they can and cannot do.  Enjoy the frequent celebrations and fun activities like dunk tank your boss day or the annual pheasant hunt.  Your coworkers will always be there with a listening ear too to hear what you have to say.  But this is a very fast paced work place.  They expect you to know there tools and best of practices and how to use them with your design work.  Sadly this is where management fails the employees by not recognizing earlier and implementing means to help them.  The company is ambitious, and definitely a leader in the industry with PEX A solutions.  Unless management can work on more effective training, employee retention in the entry level will be fleeting.

A typical workday is sitting waiting for calls where most technicians just pass the work onto other shifts or don't fix things properly. Most of the time people spend their time sending emails to complain about other people or departments. Management only cares to hear out the initial complainer in an argument and doesn't bother to hear things for the way they are. The hardest part of the job is to move up within the company as they don't care about work ethic you have to play the game of politics. I think the most enjoyable part of the job is the other people who work there make days enjoyable.

This job is a joke they don't care about you. They'll fire you over anything. Not somewhere I'd let my friends work that's for sure. The benefits are really nice and the two dollars a shift differential really does help out. The management of that place is ridiculous they don't take care of problems that need to be solved they push them to the side until someone takes it into their own hands.  If you're looking for a job that doesn't pay very well, but ask you to work your a** off, a job where they always want more and more, one that doesn't care about your well being, well this is the job for you! This job will believe hear say and act on it before even asking you what's going on. I've worked at this job for years and the new people are only making $.20 less than I am. Let that sink in

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