maintenance technician

system engineer

production operator

quality technician

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It’s true you get good pay and benefits. Communication can be good but is often inconsistent. Doing a good job gets you more screwed then others who slack off. **holes who do nothing will b***h and complain about the costs and profit goals not being made. Those same people work 5 days a week or less and take an hour lunch everyday. They will never work a weekend. Most people however work their lives away 12 hours 7 days a week. Rarely get a Saturday or Sunday off. They’ll get holidays and then work the weekend. They’ll work weekends then go home early Monday because there’s no parts. The stupidity is out of this world. Whatever they do do will never be good enough for management who does the b***hing You get 20 min lunch 10 min break if you are lucky. If a truck is waiting you get no real break and can expect to stay over or come in early and the b***h of it is that management is usually the reason. If you like money having no life and being someone’s b***h it’s a great place to work for you. Kissing *** is what you must do to succeed here. You’ll go straight to the top. If that’s you then you will be happy... otherwise completely miserable but you’ll stay because money talks. No one around here will make what you do except the upper management. Your wage is but a breadcrumb to their salaries. You will also wear a color coated shirt letting everyone else know you’re just a p***s ant. Mine is gray it is the sh*****t worker there but also the one everyone else relies on to get paid. Their success depends on your slavery. It’s called the “shop floor” as in sweatshop. Now ask yourself... is that fun or what? Oh and if you’re awesome like me you get to fill in everyone else’s absences. So they f**k off while you’re working because vacation days are pretty good here. You can slack 20 years and get 5 weeks to do as you please. The problem is only so many people will know your job as management is such a tight *** business they wouldn’t want to have too many people trained for the job. More work less people = Valeo. Sign up today!

While the company may advertise it is a "Top Employer," they do not compensate their employees competitively.  The average salaries here are laughable, 50-100% less than competitors.  It is a great place to take advantage of their benefits and tuition reimbursement while you look for your dream job.   If you have a choice between companies in your job search, don't settle.

In my time at Valeo, I watched more people come and go than I did in my teens at a fast food job.  From Human Resources Managers to Engineers, Finance to Technicians, everyone had the same reason:  The other place pays better.  Many people are not helpful there.  Not because they are poor workers, just many are so new to the system that they dont know how to answer.  The purchasing system here does not allow necessary items to be purchased, and the IT department is a roadblock to even testing software in an R&D environment.  Projects are pushed through without thought, are habitually late, and because of being a global company, there is often no support.  Because of this, there are many situations where this job can potentially be too demanding for some. 

For an entry level engineer, this job is a great stepping stone.  You have to have serious connections and figuratively walk on water to advance here, however.  There are mich better places to work, so just keep looking.   It's a waste of time to new employees with high expectations.

When I first started at Valeo it was a good job. It was fast paced, but not unreachable. We would have cook outs at least once a month. We would have Kings Island day once a year. We had the best plant manager you could ask for. He would have the team leaders over to his house once a year for a cook out. We had lots of ways to get extra monies. We had attendance bounces, we had bounces for implementing a certain amount of ideas, and best holiday costumes, or best sporting clothing like Reds or the Bengals. And we were aloud to listen to music on 3rd shift. We had free paid lunches until people started complaining because they wanted to be able to go out for lunch. Our lunch menu was the best food. There was plenty of things to choose from. It wasn't until we no longer had free lunches that people started realizing that they had a good thing. After the plant manager was let go everything changed. We didn't have the cookouts, they cut back on the bonuses, and stopped us from listening to music on 3rd shift. We got supervisors that were hired and they thought since they were supervisors that they could treat people anyway they wanted to.

Valeo was my first ever Factory Job , by the grace of God I was put their to get much needed experience , out of all companies ive worked for they were very lenient in their points policy as a high school student I tended to slack off at times. The supervisors were kind and always responsive. As I was able to put a little money in my pocket , i began to mature , that's when I realized my true potential as a leader I was always eager to help my fellow co workers , and I envy  the perseverance that we maintained and would compete with ourselves striving to set a new record. One Thing I do brag about Valeo was how clean the workplace was and how we always had to maintain a clean workplace. Valeo was an awesome experience, with their outstanding benefits I can Only Thank God that I was able to make that kind of money and to learn and attain those skills that I still use today. As a rookie in the workforce ive learned a lot and I thank valeo for giving me That opportunity, ive met lots good people that have shared their wisdom with me. Bless them and may they keep prospering.

I was part of a startup plant. At first there was a lot of chaos. The blind leading the blind. 
Once we got the right folks in the right positions it was awesome!

The future of this particular location is up in the air, so I would not reccomed leaving a secure job to work here right now as it may be a short lived spent of employment. (Also, it may not be, no absolute determination has been made)

The pay scale is far better than other jobs in the area. 

They are a Just In Time company, so production hours are based on customer demand. You may work 12 hr days 6 days a week for a month straight. You may have 3 day weekends for a few weeks in a row. 

This is a rather small facility. Some employees enjoy stirring the pot so it can have a lot of drama if you feed into that scene. If you mind your business, do your job, keep your personal life personal and don't sleep with your coworkers you have nothing to worry about.

I absolutely love my job. My superiors are always encouraging me to learn new skills and think outside of the box to solve problems. 

Valeo (Seymour) use to be a good place to work until the French ways took over and bogged down efficiency with stupid methods and policies.  Valeo does not value people and they're royalty to a company.  After 41 years of employment, I was called by phone and told that I no longer fit into their business plan going forward.  Valeo does pay well for this area.  Benefits are not bad, but could be improved. Valeo needs to go back to three 8 hour work shifts and rebuild company morale.  Valeo lacks communications with all employees on all levels, i.e. did not hold plant wide meetings in over a year so there was no business updates, etc.  The people are nice to work with, and function well together for the most part, it just lacks good leadership in management.
 

Typical day at Valeo, for me, included employee attendance, holding QRQC meeting with employees, delegating daily tasks and sending employees to rotating job sights within the facility, answering emails and beginning daily parts count. Alerting chain of command as needed throughout the day of any issues. Maintaining proper work flow and process flow, montoring employees PPE and 5S. Keeping in contact with the customers and suppliers acccording to shop floor requirments, while managing inbound and outbound processes. Monitoring all inbound paperwork and SAP enrty, and outbound quality of product. Constant contact with transit drivers and their disbatch, and also Supplier drivers and their disbatch. Managing Dock retention times. Ending my day by communicating with the next shift, via email,text, or phone call and making sure employees leave the facility cleaner than they found it.

Started at Valeo making lowest wage, while the majority on my line started at max pay. It was obvious that most lied on their application to get max pay based on their work.  I was asked to do multiple jobs while the higher paid only did one.  I was also forced to do the harder jobs due to others not being able to keep up. Company policy is you are to rotate jobs so many times in a shift. When i asked to rotate to something else, I was told no because nobody else could do my job as fast. So i was forced to continue until I developed a shoulder injury and could no longer do that job. After taking a couple weeks off for Dr. visits for my shoulder, I was told that if I came back that I would be fired for attendance even though I was out for a work related injury and had a Dr slip.  So I didn't go back.  
     Now I can no longer do production work due to my shoulder having permanent damage. All they care about is how much money you can make them.

Worked at this facility for 20 years as a lead designer. I led 14 Product designs.  The company has progressively gone down hill each year since 2010. The management has no backbone when dealing with the customer and most all managers in Engineering are Incompetent.  The company is in dire straights most of the time due to lack of money and can not afford to upkeep the basic requirement such as enough bathrooms per OASA requirements for the amount of employees.   One additional comment about so called "Management",  they use there employees as scapegoats and will take NO responsibility.  One consistency through the years is that when layoffs occur (usually about every 4 years) is that no managers will ever be layed off and they base it on what project you are on not you contributions.

Valeo is not an ideal workplace. The hours are long and no one seems to ever know what's going on. A typical day in my position normally begins with a meeting, then I proceed to do start up checks on my machines. Then the calls normally start asking for supplies or calling for a machine down etc. Most of the time its as if no one wants to work or get anything accomplished during the shift. They just want to be down. The hardest part of this job would have to be the hours worked. You may go weeks or even a month with out a day off and that gets pretty old. The most enjoyable thing about my job is being able to work on and learn about many different processes. Valeo is not a terrible place to work, but if you are looking for a workplace with great benefits, a friendly work culture and good life/work balance. I would not recommend this job for you.

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