Good work/life balance, bad leadership and management - Senior Project Manager MxD Employee Review

Lots of opportunity to grow and learn from everyone who is in the organization

Very bureaucratic and disorganized among leadership

25 Paid Holidays plus PTO Opportunities to network with people at big manufacturers and Gov Access to experimental outcomes from Industry and Academia. Flex work arrangement.

Second year in a row with significant, across-the-board layoffs. A majority of senior management departed or were removed after a new CEO was named a few years ago. That change shifted the culture from open and collaborative to siloed and protective. Internal processes are antiquated for an “innovation institute.” It’s unclear how financial audits pass when critical records are maintained in Excel spreadsheets. The other system is an over-customized web-based spreadsheet; built-in tools aren’t being used effectively. Compared with other Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (see manufacturingusa.com), the institute produces little directly. It primarily manages projects where external teams do the actual work, adding minimal value. Outcomes more experimental than applicable. There is less hands-on innovation and more emphasis on fundraising and PR — more effort proving the institute’s significance than doing the work that creates it. This is not the best use of taxpayer dollars.