manufacturing technician

mechanical engineer

senior manufacturing technician

manufacturing engineer

material handler

Veeco

Company was horrible. Managers were terrible and they willingly and knowledgeably violated OSHA standards and requirements. The whole manufacturing floor in GRP area where I worked was full of Supervisors and team leads who made racial comments and put those that reported those instances to HR thru unbelievable grief with punishment. I was almost electrocuted there and management let it go and when it was done for a second time went out of there way to cover it up. People mostly my first manager stole loads of copper out of a location and got away with it. It just seems Veeco is using the investors. They continually violate manufacturing work instructions and then lie to the customers about it.  This is the most unprofessionally run and organized company I have ever worked for.

Veeco has relocated from the Fort Collins, CO location where I have experience so this may or may not apply to other locations.  The work done at Veeco is interesting and the systems built are cutting edge and well engineered.  I would think about taking a position with Veeco as similar to working for a defense contractor.  You get to work on interesting projects but are subject to the business cycles that are largely out of your control.  As a motivated employee, I found very long hours to be fairly normal and necessary to get the results that customers required.   Met some really great people working here.

The company has several departments and productivity depends on our sales and refurbishing our own products. To say the least most departments have daily routine and work, but others are literally sitting listening/watching videos while other sections are struggling at times. Cross training just started, but you can forget leaving a department to work at another location. Managers cannot fulfill promises as they have directors and they also have to report to someone else. Basically, it's a chain of command and it's best to stay in your place and not consider moving out. 3-5 year company for sure.

The employees were great, but highly stressed due to work load and unrealistic demands from upper management.  Shipment commitments from management did not take into account actual work required or time of day. 

High level of experience of New York Materials team was only reason we were able to achieve our success.

Team now all terminated when operations moved to NJ.

My managers were bad. Always  talks down to us, treat us like dirt. HR never listens to our complaints. Management is allowed to hire their own friends and place them into management roles. Without having any true experience within the department. That they're managing. They refused to pay out all my money, towards the end. Felt like I was underpaid, compared to others within my own area. Same field and experience.  They micro-managed our team continuously. 

The typical day is to develop strategies to mitigate risk for business. I learned new technology, established supplier quality management system from scratch. Hard part of this job was to execute new system in  new environment. Enjoy the challenges and drive solutions for efficiency and meet market need in fast pace. Veeco has different business model and quality management system than my past experience in medical device and Automotive industry. I am responsible for driving improvement and developing new Suppliers in Global Market.

Veeco is a relatively small public company with products which are very sophisticated catering to the semi-conductor and data storage industry. 

I had the opportunity to bring the internal audit department in-house and build up processes and team to deliver the annual audit plan.

I performed risk assessments and presentations for the audit committee. Access to senior management and key stakeholders was easy and we got the opportunity to present at all senior levels including CFO, CEO and audit committee.

•	Conducted final testing and diagnostics on Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems used for solar panel and laser diode films and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) used for Insulators.  
•	Testing and verifying all pneumatic, electronic, and optical components.
•	Performed handler diagnosis and other detailed system calibrations.

Veeco has provided me the tools and direction to grow my career due to it's culture and organizational structure. It's a demanding environment that requires you to be fast paced and accurate but enables employees like myself, who are still new to their career, to learn by being a part of vital tasks that are in direct line with managements decision making processes for future growth of the company.

A typical work day involved imaging hard drives or new computers for a Windows 7 upgrade. Installed Microsoft OS and software, plus 3rd party and proprietary software. I learned how databases integrate with control software. Management and coworkers were enjoyable people as well as good mentors. The hardest part of the job was the initial understanding of the database integration and updating. The most enjoyable part of the day was learning of a successful installation of the finished product.

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