Pros
1) Average benifits package. 2) Good people on the production floor with good ideas 3) Maintenance team works hard but has limited budget.
Cons
1) Bean Counters run this place and have no concept of what it takes to run a manufacturing shop. 2) Management is terrible. If you want to work at a place where criticism and finger pointing runs rampant, this is the place for you. 3) Moral is terrible, the people on the floor have been beaten down so much that they just don't care anymore. 4) Tooling and molding machines are in bad shape. When the 1980's tooling makes more scrap then good product it blamed on the processors, not the fact that the mold is worn. What makes matter worse it putting this 1980's tooling in a 1980's machine that leaks a barrel of oil a day. Real cost saving there! 5) If you have a degree in basket weaving you can be the plant manger. No matter how long you work there and how much knowledge you obtain you will never make it into a mangament position. 6) Pay is below standard. Most people have worked there for 15 to 20 years and still make less then $15 an hour. Processors range from $13 to $19. New hires make minimum wage. 7) Continually laying people. Good idea for cost saving, but bad idea when it comes to people calling off sick or taking vacation. There is no coverage, so if somebody takes a day off, machines are shut down. Usually the best production people are layed off. Not because they don't know their jobs, but at one point during their careers they pissed off someone in upper managment. They hold grudges. Don't argue or voice your opinion or your gone. 8) Production scheduling is a joke. 9) Production quality varies from shift to shift. A part produced on 1st shift which was accepted by QA may be rejected by 2nd shift QA person. This happens on a daily bases from shift to shift. No standardization.