material handler

shift manager

production operator

technician

production supervisor

Vibracoustic

They do not believe people have familes at home you are to work overtime and sometimes not get a day off for months.. Other places shut down for road conditions they chose to give points out for those who couldn't make it into work which costed some to be in accidents. They don't call you if your job for the weekend is canceled so you drive over there and make no plans to find out your not running. The breaks are short and they expect a high number of production and have people working 12 hour days 7 days a week without options even if they have families. They cannot keep people and most people will not even apply due to how they treat there employees there employee state they are machine they are not people. If they mess up on your check you must wait till the following week to get paid.. if there is an issue with insurance or anything of that nature including direct deposit just call corp yourself don't wait for HR to help you she will not.  They do not realize there operators are not machines and this is why they cannot keep people.. this has been an on going issue for years and they still do not see the problem or try to fix it while people are getting tired and eventually quite and miss steps and get fired. The problem with the company falls directly at the office and how they treat there operators and for a small town they cannot keep enough people due to it and yet to change anything .. No music or phones on the floor do not be late from break. get your numbers so they can over sell and you work seven days instead of seeing your family.. once people realize there kids are more important and they are missing to much with how the system works they eventually leave.  Definitely a favorites game on all shifts and in the office. 
They treat there operators like machines then fire or people quite and then they are short staff constantly and expect the people that are barley hanging on to cover them rather then them taking the time to realize they themselves are ruining the business for the lack of compassion for there employees and how to fix the problem.. 
On a plus note if the big wigs come in you get a free shirt and a meal usually !!!! So there is that .

First thing to know is that Vibracoustic North America is part of a global company (Vibracoustic) based in Germany. While there is U.S. Management, the ultimate control is in Germany.

I worked in IT as part of the North American team. With the exception of the North American HQ in Michigan, most other sites have a single technician to handle their local IT needs. My location was Manchester, NH.

The NA IT Manager at the time (who works out of Michigan), Tom McGregor, was a terrific guy and very hands-off. The IT Team was competent, friendly, and always willing to help.  

Pay was, I thought, quite good for the level of work I was being asked to do, perhaps in part because they wanted to attract someone with the experience to work without direct - or most days any - supervision. Benefits were also good. 

As the local IT generalist, I dealt with user issues on site, and helped out globally where it was appropriate via remote support. Locally I. handled backups, installations, troubleshooting, and diagnosing problems for escalation to higher level teams.

I ultimately left VNA not because of pay or personality issues, but because they work was too simple. Although there was constant talk of pushing the Level 2 tasks out of Germany and giving them to us, over 3 years that did not materialize, and I needed more challenge because I came into the position as an experience L2+ admin.

Assuming that the job has not changed, this would be a perfect job for someone with excellent personal organization skills and self-motivation (you are really like a contractor most days, I almost never reported to anyone) and enough experience to work independently 99% of the time...but yet without so much experience to be bored. Think, level 1.5.

Nothing is more frustrating than having management demand more work from employees with the narrative that you will be off more weekends. Then when each weekend comes. Guess what? You must work. A lot of the time it states partial work but when its 75% of a shift, that's going to be most people working. 

I don’t mind weekend work but when you never have time away so that you can have a home life it gets very tiring and hard to manage.

Being on a backshift is basically being left on an island to fend for yourself. The general manager does spend a small amount of time on the back shifts with people, but you can bet the rest of the management team is gone by 4. 

Little to no professional development for most employees. 

The pay is fair but at the cost of overburdening management trying to squeeze every ounce of energy they can from you before being fired or "blacklisted".

My advice, if you need a job work here but be looking for something better in the meantime so that your days of working nonstop are helping you to remove yourself from this unfulfilling and thankless job.

This could be a great place to work if they had management that knew how to run it. The plant manager does not know anything about the workers except what some of her upper management tells her. If something is brought to her attention it needs to be address that is one of the reason there is a plant manager. To know what is going on. A good production manager should have the schedules completed so there is not all this over time. Yes sometimes it can be needed but not like it has been.  Maintenance manager that acutally knows how to manage. Your goal is to have a great team, one who cares , you want your business to thrive so therefore you need workers who actually cares and wants to do the job right. The ones that do this ,do not get the credit, the coat tail riders do, then the faithful ones are without a job.  They have some great workers there that do care but go unnoticed. The turn over is mostly upper managements fault. Get good mangement in there that knows how to run it and that place could be very sucessful. 

I worked there for several years.  Opportunities for advancement are slim.  The only way to be treated fairly by the GM is to kiss his backside.  Do that and you will get positions you are not qualified for or special positions created just for you.  Also, there are a lot of inconsistencies.  Management will pick and choose what misconduct or mistake receives a reprimand, which means, who made the mistake.  If management is fond of said person, nothing happens.  Lastly, yes it is a molding operation and it is hot, however, there should be a way to remove some of the heat from the building such as bigger exhaust fans on the molding side.  Better working conditions, and fair management make for happier employees.  Management's focus should be on taking care of their employees instead of worrying about how pretty the plant looks before the big dogs come down for a visit.  Put all of the money you spend on painting walls that are just going to be covered in residue into making things better for your workers.

As a machine operator, you are expected to sit in one place for the entire shift and perform your assigned duties, as well as meet the company’s expectations for the number of parts produced per shift. Which isn’t possible, by the way, because the deteriorated condition of the machines and/or lines causes them to break down and go out of commission regularly, causing you to have to wait on the maintenance guys to come and fix the issue, which is more often than not a long and drawn-out process. So, prepare yourself to be regularly looked down upon and spoken to about moving faster and doing better, even though most of the time the targets are not met due to circumstances that are out of your control. But, other than that, the money is good and if you like to work long hours 6-7 days a week then you’ll do just fine. Oh, and be very careful, because the machines themselves can be very dangerous, especially in their current conditions.

Run!!! Just don’t do it. All of the benefits, perks, salaries, etc seem alluring, and you might tell yourself it’s worth working in a toxic, I mean TOXIC, company. They were a seemingly progressive company. But the culture is that of ancient times. In 20 years of administrative/ accounting, I have NEVER seen or experienced behavior or treatment by coworkers like I witnessed and experienced here. Beyond that, the fact that it was tolerated and overlooked by management was mind boggling and heartbreaking. I thought this was going to be the company I retired from. I honestly wish I could take the year back that I was there because it caused so many personal and emotional problems. My co-workers were truly what nightmares are made of and management doesn’t seem to be bothered by it, nor do they want to be bothered by it. I was the 3rd person in my chair in 2 years. I’m assuming they’ll eventually have to care. Until then, RUN!! 

Vibracoustic is a competitive company that does try its best to reward its employees. They just don't always follow their culture when it comes to innovation and technology. Using old outdated equipment and software. The US based management is stuck in the 2009 market crisis and is afraid of presenting job launch budgets to the European Corporate office for fear of being over budget.
They also operate very very lean requiring their management team to wear more hats and manage more responsibilities for the 2% annual raise with increases of 7% in annual insurance cost and sometimes freezing the pay for the year.
For a person just wanting a job and just get by, I recommend Vibracoustic, but for someone that is career minded and wants to move up the ladder in pay and responsibility, there is little opportunity at Vibracoustic.

Teammates and Co workers are great. Office managers and HR not so great. They have every weekend off but demand 7 days and 12s from you. They call this place family but have no understanding of the actual families you have at home and the lack of time with them. I get working a little extra because of being short handed but I don't see the office people putting in the extra because of the lack of employees. Just the operators and supervisors. Ask any current or past employee of sandusky branch and guarantee most of them will agree that it's poorly managed, but falls on operators to pick up the slack and suffer the consequences of management not properly managing. Listen to your operators for once and you wouldnt be urgently hiring.....didn't mind the job at all and was a good operator until my FAMILY didn't matter to this place, while office personnel can enjoy time with theirs.....

The work was challenging but very rewarding. I learned a lot about so many different materials and the manufacturing processes for each.  I enjoyed the management aspect of my global team who were all over the globe.  I traveled to Asia, India, Europe, Mexico, and Domestically to manage my regional suppliers. Learning various cultures and how to appropriately address each one was a great learning experience. The hardest part of the job was directing traffic when there were quality or delivery issues.  The most enjoyable was the work family a team of support and their eagerness to always go the extra mile to help when it was needed. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Material handler 2 salaries reported	$21.50 per hour
Shift manager 2 salaries reported	$64,000 per year
Production operator 2 salaries reported	$18.00 per hour
Technician 3 salaries reported	$26.67 per hour
Production supervisor 2 salaries reported	$68,500 per year

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