maintenance technician

welder

material handler

machine operator

cnc machinist

Weir Group

Culture:
ESCO was a fantastic place to work 3 years ago.  During the last 2 years; however, they have been going through a series of management changes (at an executive level) and have been admittedly working hard to change the culture.  Some could argue that this is necessary to be more aggressive in a tough market, but it has nevertheless made it a much higher pressure environment to work in.  It used to be an environment of support and employee enrichment, but has turned into a bit of a cut throat environment in which many have resorted making themselves look good at the cost of others.

People:
The people below management levels are fantastic to work with and have a great deal of knowledge.  Moral has been low recently and there has been a significant exodus of some of the best people in the organization (last 6-9 months).  

Management:
Management 3 years ago was fantastic.  The executive team seemed to genuinely care for the employees and created a supportive, encouraging environment.  Due to retirements, divisional changes and forced removal of some, a completely different executive group is currently at the helm.  The new management is really trying to make the company behave like a public company, however, the previous focus of supporting the people has been replaced with a focus on financial growth alone.  

During a layoff a number of months ago in which I had to let someone go, a fellow team leader asked me if I "put a bullet in them"  I take situations like a layoff or RIF very seriously and was appalled at the comment.  I mention this as I believe it is a good example of the type of leadership they are pursuing.  For the record, that manager is still there and I have left for many of the reasons listed in this review.

Expectations:
With the revolving door of management and strategic goals and initiatives, also comes changing expectations, goals, deliverables.  This makes it very difficult to know what success looks like for anyone working there.  There are also very few tools for measuring success.  There is a lot of assessment of people going on at very high levels with very little if any touch time with person being assessed.  It makes it really difficult to know if you are doing a good job or not ... will I be the next to be let go?  

Pay:
Pay has not kept up with other companies; benefits are just OK.  They used to have much better retirement benefits, but have discontinued everything except for 401K

Let's just try and be nice when I say esco in newton has the worst upper management there can be. The job is dirty but not to hard. It's hard to find help or to get someone to show you how to do something but other than that the guys you work with are pretty good group of guys. The HR department, safety, team leads and supervisors, most all of them need to be fired. They will lie to make the job sound good when you hire on and when it come to your evaluation time they will tell you how much of a poor job you are doing to try and pump you up and get even more work out of you. If they tell you they will supply you tools that's a lie, when they say they will replace a tool of your that you break while working on there stuff that's a lie, and if they tell you that most people that work there make an easily 75,000 a year that's a lie. From my understanding this place hasn't always been like this, there is people that have been there, 20, 30 even 40 years that I met and they will tell you it's just gotten like this the past few years. Benefits with the company are not to bad but could be better, insurance is, well OK atlease you got it. There is no sick leave and very little paid vacation, 401k is better than nothing. Also I will add for the people that has been there 20+ years all that I seen are hard working men and women and this company shows them no respect for being a hard worker for so long.

Great employees, and culture. Quality has been degrading over the years though as they try to cut costs. This can put an enormous strain on the business and workforce, not to mention unhappy customers as deadlines are missed over and over again. Some management decisions are questionable, but overall the production team is coming together after a major setback in 2012 following the acquisition of another plants product line. The company could stand to be more self reliant. There's room for expansion, but they lack the willingness to do so. It's certainly the type of business that looks as your degree as a price point, rather than what you bring to the table. Either way, they're in a much better place then they were some years back and hopefully that trend continues. If they focus more on quality and on-time delivery, they could be a real contender in their respective market.

Working Esco Corporation was one of the worse company I have ever worked for. It is a screamingly hot all the time doing the summer, and a screamingly cold doing the winter time. There are times when it is raining outside. Employees have to go outside in the rain and retrieve product off of the ground. Employees are treated with disrespect from management and team leaders all of the time. Supervisors are treated will little respect, and expectations are very high with little training or coaching. I would not recommend anyone that I know to be employed at this company. Management tells you that there are no weekend work until you joined the company and then you work ever weekend without a day off. Don't fall for this! The equipment is poor and breaks down all of the time and there is an employee shortage and you are still to maintain production no matter what. Avoid working there! Your life will soon be over with. I promise you that!!!

This company has no consideration for a person to have an outside life, work the 6-day salary job or lose your job.  You do not gat paid for your skills, nor see any chance for advancement.  In addition, the LEAN process has become a higher priority than getting your job done and important work is not done in order to work on a lean project and THEN the recommendations are not implemented.  Lots of talk, no commitment to action.  Constant management changes disrupt your work flow as new boss sets new priorities, and they  expect immediate focus on their high priorities regardless of what work you were doing.  Good people are being laid off or terminated, this is a bad place to work

Worst manganged plant I've ever worked in. They do not care about employees and repetively lie to you with no regard and don't even acknowledge that they misinformed you. They never show any gratitude for going the extra mile. I held a very labor intensive job and was one of the hardest and most productive workers. Instead of praise I got a constant  
denial for personal leave even though I was averaging 60+ hours a week by always helping them by staying late and working off days. If you like dangerous hard work, 6 day a week schedule with very few breaks and constant 12hr shifts because of incompetent  management who make chages that slow production instead of increasing it. Topped off with being talked to like a high school kid getting lectured all the time. Then this is the job for you.

They don't care about their employees what so ever. They only recognize your work efforts if you don't get done what is expected of you every single shift.  You can surpass their expectations for months and then you have a couple bad shifts and they have you in the office in no time. If a person makes a mistake and then you make a mistake due to that persons mistake you get in trouble and not them. Specially if the other person is higher up in the company. They lie to you about job offers and very hard to advance in the company unless you know the right people. You cant get any good time off when it comes to vacation due to it going by how much time you have with the company and they only allow 2 people per shift to take a vacation day per day.  I though that I would retire from this place but didn't last 9 months there due to management and the company itselfs. 

Management lacks outside experience as they have solely worked only for Floway for many years 
Stagnant growth & outdated processes
Employees will find themselves doing more work than their job description
Employee turnover rate high
Moral very low
Long hours are expected from management
If you are not part of the "Team", you will not progress in your career
Butt kissers will do fine here because they can get away with being lazy and management needs them to support their inadequecies...beware of these fake co-workers.
Management needs to look in the mirror because they are the problem of this company

They need to stop looking for more victims.

Management clearly doesn't care about the health, safety, and free time of the employees here. You were constant daily overtime almost everyday. We will never know what time you will be allowed to go home. There is no consistent schedule you will walk in the doors not knowing if you will be working a 10 or 13 hour shift. Equipment here is constantly breaking down which means that you will have to stay even later. People here are one failed equipment away from loosing their lives so you are constantly on edge. Management and HR is a revolving door which is never a good sign. The pay is okay so I would only work for this place, if you are really strapped for cash, otherwise the money is not worth it.

A typical day at work was fun and also challenging, because you never really knew what to expect. I learned of things actually i learned how to work under pressure with some of my co-workers. My managers they are great guys, there fun to work for but also expect you at your best. There people you can go up to and talk to with ease and have no problems. The hardest part of my job was taking on challenges that i wasn't familiar with but managed to get as much information i could to compete the task. The most enjoyable thing about the job was just having fun with it and learning as much as you could for the benefit of yourself but most importantly the company and your co-workers.

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