production operator

quality assurance inspector

forklift operator

production associate

maintenance technician

Webasto Roof Systems

There are very few lines that will often shut down an hour, up to 3 hours early and won't run Sundays. Most lines run the entire 12 hour shift 7 days a week and only shut down in preparation to clock out. BUT they do a lot of meetings and make them really fun, raffles, contests, 
pep talks, production review, rewards, prizes, donations, thingss like that. They're a real family. They just need to encourage management and line supervisors to understand people have kids and other responsibilities and let them have a day off every week, guaranteed. They had a tendency of getting upset and disappointed at people who wanted a day to rest. However, I loved my coworkers and superiors, I loved my job. You rotate your position on the line after every break (u get 3)or every 2 hours, so you don't get bored at the same station. Decent options in cafeteria store. They play music on the weekends. Did I mention I made good money? I was a temp and I made $12.75/hour. That's a lot when you work 72-84 hours a week. You'll take home over a thousand a week, depending on dependents and city tax. 

My first year or two at webasto I was forced to work 70 hours or more. It is mandatory. If your line does well and gets done they force you to go to other lines. They have a really strange new time system that does not work well and its always weeks behind. You work tons of mandatory overtime usually but try to take off to see a doctor or leave a minute early for doctor or whatever and they punish you. Typically for my line they would run the line with 50 percent of the staffing that was required. We would have to run multiple stations and run off line and get our own materials. I would have to run down and do final inspect as well as doing other positions.We ran so short that it reduced our quality. Then they would basically threaten us with punishment. I was on second shift. first shift always had twice the people we had and lots of support. When things went well we might get free pizza. But most times the management and others would eat it before we even went to lunch. They told me they could not do without me daily, and I was so important. But when I voiced my concerns and tried to work with them to fix the issues they fired me for absences that were already valid and approved. The money is good and some coworkers are great but you have to be part of the in crowd I guess. very poor work life balance.

This company has the potential to be great; there are a lot of good people working the floor. The pay is good, and there are almost always opportunities to find more hours. Yet, there are some good reasons the workers are now unionized.

The production lines are old and disorganized. Many of them have faulty equipment or poor design. Unfortunately, the workers take on the brunt of this problem. With almost no training and all the pressure to meet the production quota, this position can be stressful. There is a lot of yelling and turmoil on the floor, and all the problems just end up being kicked down the road. 

The communication is not very good as well. When production shutdowns come, the company does not let you know in advance. The company also will schedule weekends at the last second, and expect you to work them. I understand this is part of the cyclical auto industry, but information is often kept a secret.

Although the money is good, and the hours are good, it is hard to achieve work-life balance. It is hard to spend 60-80 hours a week in a plant where yelling and complaining are happening left and right.

I hope the company can improve the work culture, and actually use production shutdowns to fix the problems with the lines. For now, it is a stressful job, with little pay increase for advancement opportunities

This job overall isn't the worse. The jobs at the stations are pretty easy to learn and straight forward but they can also be physically demanding and a little rough on you. They are serious about the tacos times as well and they can push that a little too much sometimes. The work life balance rangers from great to horrible. There are times where u work the normal 40-50 hours a week and there are times where u may be working 60+ MANDATORY hours, it just depends on the time of the year. The pay is pretty decent NOW because of the pandemic pay but it's been getting lower every few months so I wouldn't be surprised if it is less than $15 an hour pretty soon. They usually only hire throughout temp agency and it takes them FOREVER to even CONSIDER hiring u in, at least 6-7 months minimum. Overall I would recommend if you aren't a stranger to physically exhausting work and if you are willing to wait to get hired in with benefits.

If you don't mind launching new assembly lines in half the time required, and starting off with a sales price that makes your cost target unattainable, then this is the place for you. Don't expect the kids in purchasing to be held accountable for any of their costly mistakes because the VP is part of the executive management clique. When the customer randomly changes requirements and you object, don't expect to have management support. The new management strategy in recent years is to get awarded the project even if it means the profit is mediocre and there is high risk of never getting payback on equipment. VP bonuses depend on it. You may often find yourself wearing many hats - SQE, buyer, etc.- because of a lack of competent resources. If you can get to a point where you're hanging out with the VP's outside of business hours and you have a back-stabbing nature, there may be advancement opportunities in your future.

But on another note I was an operator that learned multiple lines and filled in multi skilled operator roles especially bc the supervisors didn’t know how to do their jobs but I’d be penalized and I don’t even get payed to do everything but they expect me to do it all and the hr department is bad we recieved a union just to pay them in dues and they don’t fight for us or advocate like they are supposed to I gained attendance points bc of time clock error that weren’t fixed in the system by someone else and now I brung in a doc note directly to hr not only did they not tell me to fill out a time off request form with the note they tried to fire me for them procrastinating investigating my points and I had a slip and fall outside in the parking lot in January from the ice I came in bleeding telling my supervisors I need to go home they begged me to stay because the team lead called off this place is inconsiderate no matter what the situation is

Pros:
- Learn how to assemble Corvette, Mustang tops and Ram bed liners.
- If you're lucky, you will work with a cool team who will make work fun.
- A lot of overtime!

Cons:
- Short Breaks!
My team worked 10+ hrs a day and we only got 10 min./30 min./15 min. breaks.
Some teams only work 8 hr shifts and get the same breaks, 
HOW SWAY?? HOW?? 
They say you get a 10 minute break but in reality its only 6 minutes because it takes 2 mins. to walk to the cafeteria/parking lot and 2 mins to walk back.

- "The Point System"
it takes a year to get rid of a point. So dumb!

- They lie about hiring temps!
A lot of the temps have been there 90+ days and are still not hired in?

- Don't apply through a temp agency, they only pay $12 and if you apply directly you get $14 starting.

- If they see you're a hard worker then they'll give you tough/physically demanding assignments. Working on your feet 10+ hrs a day!

Poor management    No communication  Huge language barriers. No respect. Your just another Number in this place. If your not in with the clique you will not advance. If you come in as a temp you have no PTO no sick time no paid holidays. Attendance Rules change based on company needs. One day you could be within company policy the next day you may not. Scheduled to work on days your not even aware of. No training you have to teach yourself how to do your job and when you mess up they write you up. Nobody tells you anything. All of a sudden one day you could come to work and your badge won't work you can't clock in you can't check your time.  You have find out from another worker that you've been terminated. Not your boss or Human resources. 

Each day started with a department meeting and job assignments for the manufacturing of sunroofs.
     What I think i learned most is to not let the things at work to go on get under your skin or be carried to a home environment.
     Management was definitely a difficult situation as there were constant changes in our PU assembly department. Leadership would change several times in given year.
     Most of my coworkers were hard working reliable individuals and got along good as a team. 
     The most difficult part had to be the drastic change in the work schedule. Working 12 hour plus work days everyday of the week without a day off up to as many as 45 days.
    The enjoyable part has to me always been the fellow associates and enjoying the time with them lead to a better working situation despite the many challenges.

The work environment is awful when there's no teamwork,  there're battle of egos at management/top management levels, blaming the person culture, hard to be promoted if you don't have a good relationship with superiors, people without the skills and results are getting the promotions. 
Detroit plant has the worst work/life balance, you're not able to take vacations, you work 12 hrs 7 days at week, unfair pay rates, 'Fire-Fighting' culture.

In the other hand you have great Benefits and there is a lot of great workers in the production floor (friendly and kind), you will learn a lot if it's your first job.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production operator 11 salaries reported	$17.80 per hour
Quality assurance inspector 6 salaries reported	$19.04 per hour
Forklift operator 8 salaries reported	$18.75 per hour
Production associate 1 salary reported	$17.13 per hour
Maintenance technician 1 salary reported	$31.00 per hour

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