machine operator

field service engineer

technician

assembler

mechanical assembler

Valmet

What is the best part of working at the company?
You can advance if you want to. They recognise skills and knowledge. They will help pay for tuition. We don't stop people from bidding on other jobs in the factory.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
As a supervisor scheduling work and having the manpower to complete it. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It is relaxed to some extent. But when the pressure is on we expect people to step up and help get the work done. We give people the opportunity to us their best. We will work with them on training and development. Also understand that people have lives outside of work.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
5 am start with inventory counts. Morning meeting. Check timecards. Solve problems that arise and contact appropriate people to come up with solutions.

What is the best part of working at the company?
No one looking over your shoulder

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They keep telling you they'll "get you help, they're trying to get you help, they're working on getting you help." But help never comes so everyone is stuck doing overtimebecause of how understaffed we are! I have brought it up multiple times and all I get is a "working on it" for months on end with no end in sight.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Managers dont take you seriously when you tell them you need help.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Understaffed so get ready to lose your weekends.

Make sure everything is acceptable with the night shift as they leave. Insure everything is flowing well in production. Assist production where needed. Check emails and messages. Walk through our facility and establish a list of priorities. Discuss issues with workers as part of my in process inspections.  Depending on priorities start addressing incoming and out going inspections. Check back logs in the lab. 
Even after 33 years I still learned every day. 
I have heard some say you don't quit a job, you quit managers. 
The hardest part of my job was resigning.
Work place camaraderie was great.

Main job was receiving delivered items into the database and
then delivering them to stock or projects or employees.
Once a year I had to count all stock items for inventory. 
I was responsible for most local shipments that had to be sent
out.  Packing and arranging for pick-up.  I had never done any type
of shipping before I was employed by this company, so I was learning
new things all the time.
I enjoyed working with my co-workers.  They were always very helpful, and amusing.  I laughed everyday.  
Management was always very supportive, and fair.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I enjoyed and loved my job working for Valmet for the first 23 years then we got a new manager and things went down hill quickly. Those are my feelings . I have always believed if you can't say anything  don't say anything so I'll  leave it there.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The 49 cameras they installed alo g with the micro management

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Could be worse it's somewhat toxic at this time

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Setup my machine communicate with my co workers  and do my job

 one of the worst places I’ve ever worked for. They don’t tell you until after your hired that you may need to work weekends and be available to them at all times. They have crazy safety procedures even where you have to label your desk. If your new don’t expect any time for training as they want you to memorize everything within two weeks. Was only there a month and they only had me training for two weeks and expect you to know everything. Also lack of communication regarding COVID procedures. Either have to wear a mask all day even at your cubicle I or be vaccinated. If you wanna be a robot and have no job security then this is the place for you!!

Company offers great benefits but that does not make up for incredibly poor management and poor communication where opposing directives are given by different supervisors. Very unsafe environment, multiple large fires in very short period of time all due to unwillingness of management to stop production and deal with very unsafe working conditions. Management structure is set up to cause confusion and employee failure. Zero loyalty in company. Culture is toxic and backstabbing is common. Stay away! There are better manufacturers and foundries to work for. 

Moral at this location is low. Most of the employees have worked here through 4 company name changes and several different managers. Unfortunately, their previous experiences are still influencing their behavior today, even with a great management team in place. You really need to have a thick skin to work here, or they will simply eat you up and spit you out. 
As one of the smaller sites for the company, and the only site in this Business line, on the West Coast, they are treated more as an afterthought with no real planning for the future. 

It was a horrible environment and culture. The engineering manager talked down and belittled the guys from the shop daily as well as other designers/engineers. The culture was extremely toxic and none conducive to advancing. I'm all for talk with the boys but the amount of profanity towards other employees and the conversations around female employees was unheard of. There was no direction from management to the designers which in turn lead to horrible details to the shop. 

A typical day is internal and external meetings.
Overall the atmosphere is good but often times decisions are made overseas (Finland) that may or may not have a negative effect on the US workers.
The hardest part of the job is trying to get help in July when most of the Finns are on vacation and otherwise having only 1 or 2 hours of working time.  Most mornings are filled with meetings.
There was job satisfaction knowing that there are a lot of experienced professionals in the company.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Machine operator 4 salaries reported	$21.68 per hour
Field service engineer 1 salary reported	$94,500 per year
Technician 2 salaries reported	$31.50 per hour
Assembler 3 salaries reported	$26.17 per hour
Mechanical assembler 4 salaries reported	$29.23 per hour

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