operator

production operator

material handler

maintenance technician

quality engineer

YOKOHAMA INDUSTRIES AMERICAS

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at YOKOHAMA INDUSTRIES AMERICAS is horrible. They don't care about your home life at all. The only thing they want us for you to be at work and make parts. They don't care if your child is sick, or if you get sick, or if you get injured. They won't send you home if you get sick, and if you chose to leave they point you.

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at YOKOHAMA INDUSTRIES AMERICAS are horrible. Full time employees only make 25cents more than temps. The benefits are too expensive. The current employees have so far worked 60 days since labor day with out a day off. If they don't have pto or vacation and have a family emergency they can't miss because they get pointed.

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at YOKOHAMA INDUSTRIES AMERICAS, there is no job security. They knowingly let people come in drunk or high. They value the employees that do the least and miss the most days above the people who actually work hard and show up.

Management
In general, managers at YOKOHAMA INDUSTRIES AMERICAS are good. Some of them try to be fair and good to the employees. But for the most part they are rude and disrespectful. They are allowed to talk to you how ever they want. They retaliate if you try to stand up for yourself. And HR won't do anything about it. If you go to HR about a supervisor, they call you a liar and immediately inform the supervisor what was said and by whom.

The office staff and the floor workers are in a constant tug of war in terms of communication, it feels more like it’s two different factories fighting each other to get work done between shifts, one shift will do poorly then another will do great, both get punished, and if happens on both sides of the coin for any department, a lot of the higher up staff will keep you in the dark and act like you don’t know enough about anything to be told useful information like shipments, orders, raise negotiation, etc.. The pay is awful by today’s standards, jobs that used to be the highest paid in the plant pay about the same as regular employees despite the requirements to apply for them (there is an application system in place for higher pay scale jobs, things like gold work keys, experience, etc.. are all taken into account for being accepted but you won’t be told that by anyone but other floor employees) and the work areas are a constant gamble between getting paired up with slow workers that purposely work slow to get put on the weekend list, and people that work so fast you can’t hardly keep up, drama between workers on the assembly line is akin to a highschool classroom despite a majority of the employees here being upwards of 45 years old. In summary you are way better off working somewhere else

We employed a lot of temps and with the decline of the need for power steering assemblies head count had to be adjusted along with quite a few permanent positions.

         It seemed that we were constantly training new temps because of the turn over rate. It was fast paced and could be challenging at times keeping the right people trained in key positions. That was a big part of my job, reading abilities of people keeping us productive. I learned to be versatile and expect changes of man power through out the work schedule.

         My co-workers and myself  worked well as a team even though in different zones, sharing manpower and advice to keep top priority work centers going to meet customer needs and plant goals.

          Upper management warned us of the possible decline in the business and are doing all that they can to introduce new product to that plant.

           I enjoy working with people and helping them to achieve goals that need to be met to meet customers needs.

           The hardest thing was knowing which employees were going to be cut several weeks before they did.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They have all lnsurance needs including life insurance get paid absents and vacation time after a certain time is met if you like working everyday none stop then this job is great for that  could have changed since I worked there so good luck everyone 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
When im busy and they come asking questions is aggrivating at least to me it was  everyone is different me I just wanted to do my best with whatever job was open any given day do a d just go home then do it again next day but they like bugging yah while your working just be warned on that 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Friendly if they like you if they don't it can be pain in butt

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Run machines wherever they wanted to stick me at I was there experiment to see how making me a jumper everyday meaning no operations was the same thing I just got tired of it

they want you to dedicate your entire life to working for this company. they make it mandatory that you work 6-7 days a week. all the shifts are 10 hours so you’ll be working 70 hours a week with no days off in between. they won’t give out raises to attract more people to apply, instead they over work and underpay what little workers they have left. if they can’t adapt to the changes in the job market right now they’re not going to make it through the year, and the easley branch will fail. upper management needs to self reflect as to why they only have 30 people working on a shift when they should have at least 80 people working on a shift. HR also acts like the people that work on the floor are less than them and i’ve heard them call us in their words “dumb as rocks” and “so ugly they’d hate to have x-ray vision in here”. they need a complete overhaul on who they have in the office and give out raises and they’d be fine and yet… 

The facility itself is not a bad place to work, but the environment that management establishes creates confusion and crushes moral. They are  very inconsistent with policy about OT, Job responsibilities, etc.
As for advancement, they really don't advance from within. Plant MGR tends to bring in his own people from prior companies even though there is no experience with process or machines.
There are a couple of awesome supervisors, but being placed under them is rare. However, if you are that lucky, they do care for their employees (as much as they can).
The biggest issue is the inconsistency of upper management. They like to go through and change company policy about OT and benefits and not do a very good job of explaining or justifying.

If you love the Third World Sweat Shop vibe, working 7 days a week, mandatory overtime, have I got the job for you!
If you like constant pressure and hounding from your supervisor, I know JUST the place!
If things like decent pay or training are not necessary for you to succeed and thrive, look no further!  Yokohama will train you an entire shift and then set you loose!  As a bonus, you may even get to slave away at your machine while a corporate boss stands and stares at you, frowning and arms crossed, just to emphasize how bad of a job you are doing!
If you prefer working in 100 degree temps, on your feet the entire shift, what are you waiting for?

Pay is not on right pay scale. The longer you work there the less you make. People coming in are starting rate pay is same as yours when you’ve been there for years. They quit doing annnal bonus to put more money in the company pockets. HR only works for the company not even a little for the people. Should be 50/50. Turn over rate is crazy and no one wants to come in at 5:00 am everyday specifically the single parents. All this would be tolerable if they actually paid the long term employees right. Some people only got 2%-4%annual  raise when that doesn’t even touch inflation cost. The company will start to thrive more when they start to care about the people and invest in them , the people are the ones who do the work that gets them their paycheck. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part for me was working 3rd shift

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of communication and the plant manager for 2nd and 3rd shift tells and ask ppl personal business in front of ppl at stand up

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The ppl who been there for years will make you feel uncomfortable and the crew on 1st shift talks down about ppl than say they are Christians

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
We would have a 5min meeting than to our lines. Normally worked the same line. I like the consistency in the work itself

Hard work & dedication means absolutely nothing !!!
It's ALL about the "clicks & the chics".
If your buddies w/ the supervisors or a cute girl.., then you get tons of perks (extra time on breaks, cell phones, head phones, smoke breaks, etc). The front office management is clueless to what is "actually" going on out on the production floor.

Management likes to brag about how great the place is for advancement, wages, fairness, insurance, etc. But the truth is, there's too many chiefs and not enough indians. It's basically a big frat house.., meaning "no work and all play". 
*I'm speaking from 15+ years service there !!...so I witness it every single day.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Operator 5 salaries reported	$18.60 per hour
Production operator 4 salaries reported	$15.81 per hour
Material handler 2 salaries reported	$17.38 per hour
Maintenance technician 1 salary reported	$23.00 per hour
Quality engineer 1 salary reported	$65,000 per year

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