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      Maintenance Manager - Anonymous employee Arkema Employee Review

      3.0
      Aug 10, 2016
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Able to work with some very good maintenance personnel, engineers and professionals. Usually good opportunities for a variety of positions with in the plants.

      Cons

      Need better communications from upper and middle Management to plant staff! Plant Managers with hidden agendas, protecting favorites. Need better work/life balance. No real appreciation for those that go above and beyond. Salary and benefits tend to be behind industry averages. Annual review process is poor, plus core values do not necessarily match those of local plant management. Relatively high personnel turnover, do not seem to value and/or need to improve the environment/culture to develop personnel and foster loyalty.

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      Arkema Response
      9y
      Thanks for your comment. We are glad you enjoyed the quality of your colleagues, all professionals in their respective fields. About salary, it depends on the country you are based in. For example, in France the avreage wage is around €33,000 per year without distinction between sectors, industry and job lebel. At Arkema (France), the minimum salary for an entry-level engineer position is €39,000 per year. Plus, the personnel turnover is around 3%, which is quite low.

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      I really loved working for Arkema. They are a very fair company (sometimes a but too liberal with work/life balance, i.e. taken advantage of) and treat employees very well. The work, although repetitive, was interesting.

      Cons

      The manager that hired me was great. Then he moved up and I got a manager that "knew everything" and shot down almost any idea I had. His boss was pretty unfriendly and expected miracles in order to promote/give out raises. This is pretty typical of any company, you just wait for bad mangers to move on, or you move on if you can't take it. I moved on.

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      Cons

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