assembler

machine operator

forklift operator

assembly operator

factory worker

Yanfeng

What is the best part of working at the company?
Learning Newest challenges of the100% of the Bmw's assembly production door line's every single day and the interior part's manufacturing making towards The Bmw's company Business affiliations facilities in Greer SC upstate areas getting an lots more than ever before knowledge of the processing protocols settings to the BMW'S manufacturing making car automobile parts for their Different brands and making modeling series of each every single car automobile that's the BMW'S manufacturing car's interior design parts for each car that's made at the yanfeng automotive parts suppliers for BMWs and other manufacturer parts for the Yengfang in fountain Inn SC upstate areas. Plus operating subassembly for the company Business affiliations facilities also etc. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The high turn over rates because the more you training up an individual people to learning the moment in time techniques to getting the proformance of learning the trade and skills then all of suddenly the moment in time people quitting The company Business affiliations facilities etc. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
80/20 inside of company Business is definitely hectic and challenging an confusing working class individual inside of the business changing aspects. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Fast pace than ever before and uneasy confusing working class individual inside of the business on certain instances in the company Business affiliations facilities.

The company was a place I had all intentions to continue my career at. I felt that the company was fair to the employees. Overall my experience was great, I personally thought that there was a good balance of employee recognition, employee incentive and management support. 
 
Unfortunately  after management changes in my department specifically, I lost the passion to want to continue my employment at the location I recently left. Though I feel relief that I NO longer have to deal with the daily stress, feeling of harassment and the feeling that my department college's and myself  were being set up for fail, I have regret that I did not escalate the issues to cooperate for support. I state cooperate because the issues that could normally be handled at plant level, there was a strong feeling that my manager already gave other managers at that location the impression that none of us in that department were valuable to the company. 

YF was a good company to work for, but I would encourage anyone to escalate an issue immediately. If you are dealing with an issue that is making your work day(s) an uncomfortable experience, chances are the company is "NOT aware" and should be so the issues can be addressed.

Yanfeng is not very good to it's employees they tell you to plan on working the weekends until the very last minute they'll cancell on you. So you can't plan any vacation out of state with your family. Also it seems like it's always a battle of operators against supervisors if you ask your supervisor for a day off they tell you that you have to find your own replacement. Or if you ask a question they'll give you an undesisive answer. Also if you hurt yourself the nurse will give you ibuprofen and send you back to the line to work but if you seriously hurt your back or have a muscle pain they will blame it on an outside of work activity.   Managers are never accessible and their open door policy in almost nonexistent. I wouldn't never recommend friends or family members to work at yanfeng because their bonus structure is mediocre and there is almost nothing done for employee appreciation they hardly ever feed you or give you anything to appreciate your effort. Their main work structure is to delegate everything down the ladder from managers to supervisors to line supports to operators. And they always have their favorite people at yanfeng a position is already given to someone before it gets posted on the board if you know someone that has pull then you are all set.

I started at Yanfeng when it first opened in belvidere. I was in the door department working 12 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week. I worked my 90 days, was being considered for a team lead and quality control position. Not to pat my own back, but I was a good worker. And liked my job. Even though it was hectic, I put up with it with the mindset of it will get better. I had to leave one 12 hour day early instead of working the overtime, asked the team lead because supervisor was on the phone. Was approved.  All was good until they fired me a couple days later because I told the team lead instead of supervisor. Exact words were “we have good news and bad news.. good news you were to get interviewed for two higher positions today, bad news is we have to let you go” ha ha ok. Says HR who plays favorites, such as moving her nieces boyfriend to different departments as he wants and ignoring the amount of points he has. Opposed to me who had a half point for being there about 8 months, they let me go for a petty reason. You’re just another worker here, unless you know someone. They work you to the ground, machines always going down. Can’t keep up with Chrysler so you suffer and work long hours. Don’t let me forget they ignored my phone calls and emails about cashing out my vacation pay, so I had to contact corporate to which I then received it right away. Shady place unfortunately, was looking forward to the opportunity

What is the best part of working at the company?
That place is a joke. I had to give it one star because it didn't have a place for negative stars. Management is in constant turmoil because they can't keep shift supervisor. Day shift is expected to do extra work because night shift is understaffed.
And they treat the good workers worse than the bad worker if you start there, go in doing bare minimum and never show them you can do more than that. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They say to hit your numbers so you don't have to work 12 hour days but they will also say that you signed a contract to work 12 hour days 6-7days a week. You can always get over time but you can't get back the wasted hours from your family 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It was decent working there when we had a plant manager that seemingly cared. He was there to help with any issues that would arise. But once they fired him the overall mood changed. We didn't feel heard or understood. Now with so much new managers it's like they are playing catch up 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Going in hoping for a good day. Realizing within 10 minutes that it will be a waiting game on parts. Being stuck 12 hours for something that could have been completed in less than 8

If I had to rate this company from 1-5, it gets a 1.  My direct boss was impatient, difficult to communicate with, Always right, never can deviate from his way of performing a task. Hours worked for the company and my job were anywhere from 12-15 hr. days. Month end close was even more.  They do NOT explain any expectations during your 30-90 day working period. You find out at those moments and then its always negative, No positive feedback. The organization as a whole is very unorganized, it took the company almost 3 months to have my applications access complete, always a fire to put out, instead of being pro-active, it was reactive. I felt like the management was Sneaky also.  Not upfront with the support level employees.  Lastly, I found out 1 month into the job that there have been 4 Controllers in 3 yrs., 4 Assist Controllers in 3 yrs., 2 analysts that have not yet been hired back. And they just let go around 10 hourly people in the factory.  They are also planning to cut even more throughout the company (McCalla, Cottondale, and West Point). Unstable, poor management, and no communications. Very cut throat.  Even though its a fairly large company, there are some major issues. It is also Korean run company so month end close is 3 days. Very stressful and long days.

The plant is union, so daily there is 20 to 30% absenteeism, so they force the hardworking employees to stay over.  They keep bringing in temps but they never stay, it is a revolving door.  The training process to do the job is poor for the temps, and really bad supervision and not enough supervisors. Salary onboarding is poor as well.  Plant security is a joke.  Regional Managers keep coming in to cut costs and walk out plant managers if they do not cut salary and hourly jobs. Everyone is looking for another a job.  You can go in with aspirations to make a difference but your hands are tied and you finally give up. IT problems abound with lots of quality issues that spill over from poor training and poor supervision.

Salary employees at other plants, are just walking out with no job. It is not a good place to work, seriously.  If you feel like dealing with poor morale, bad leadership, poor HR and practices, no job focus,  lack of tools to do your job and abused, then this is for you!  The company is Chinese owned, enough said.  Best analogy: here is a toenail file, go and cut down that tree and it better get done ASAP!

The place is an infinite money glitch, they work seven days a week including forced overtime on holidays. The machines are constantly down which leads to more forced overtime which leads to no time for maintenance on said machines. There's no interview process so you can get in quite easily but this leads to several bad hires which leads to even lower production levels meaning more forced overtime. Management seems to have no idea why every department is so behind, they make schedules for production without realizing they don't have the materials they need. You'll work all weekend long only to come in Monday and have no material to do work. Seniority dictates every aspect of the job including whether or not you receive points for missing days. There's zero incentive to stay in this career unless you have literally nothing to do with your life and have zero responsibilities outside of work and the best they offer for this overwork is some hot dogs once every couple months or a raffle for 1 person to win a couple hundred bucks because they didn't miss a day. Hr will also mess up your pay several times and drag their feet fixing it.

I work for Yangfeng for about 5 months they want you to work 7 days a week and payroll always seem to mess up on your paycheck. The human resource department lacks trainning and they  don't care about the employees concerns or needs. I had to wait almost 3 weeks on a check that I worked 60 hours. They kept telling me that it will be on the following weeks check but they was blowing smoke. And once you voice your concerns they are known for suspending you without pay pending further investigation. Several employees got done that way only to find out that human resource never gave them a call to let them know when to come back. This is their way of telling others that you abandon your job. I filed a  lawsuit on them because of the unfair treatment that me and some other employees have recieved. Think twice before working for this company they do not care about their employees because in their eyes employees are expendable. I have nothing good to say about this company my experience there was bad.

Great experience and knowledge has been obtained from working at YFAI. I first started as an entry level AP clerk. I quickly learned their ERP system and began growing trust with upper management. Just after the first few weeks of being there, I was assisting in Month End Closing Process which was completed in three days. In December, I was a key player of year end close along with internal audits, account reconciliations by site, and one of the most reliable accountants on the team. They decided that I would be moving to the shared service center in Plymouth to be a staff accountant and Data Analyst and Manager. I was working with 5 different controllers across the country to manage all types of data, approving project, financial reporting and reconciliation specialist, module controls, statements of Cash Flows for 5 of the sites and key player of integrating a standard ERP worldwide

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