Pros
Zoll (Pittsburgh) is a fast growing company. There are a great number of positions available. Zoll is the only company presently approve by the FDA to manufacture the product they make. The Lifevest. Because the product is paid for by insurance/Medicare, it is not affected by economic lows. Zoll has only scratched the surface of the market potiental. The production floor is ran with a flex time shift with core hours of 9 am to 3 pm. Zoll (Pittsburgh) used to be Lifecor; A small company requiring financial backing from some outside sorce. Zoll, a Boston based cardiac systems company, financed then bought Lifecor. Although, Zoll, Corp is a large company, Zoll (Pittsburgh) still has that small company feel. The company is very flexible with time off needed as well as working around schedules for school. The production floor has a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. The bosses are not looking over your shoulder constantly and there are no production quotas to meet, allowing employees to spend more time to ensure a high quality product is produced. I hope this remains as the company expands. If you like hands on, component level troubleshooting, you will like this.
Cons
The pay is somewhat below recent simiar positions I have held with other companies. Benefit packages are also a bit lacking. Pay raises have been rather poor in recent years as well. All production floor employees start out with atleast 6 month as a temporary employee through one of the local temp agencies. Zoll could do better at keeping the temps informed of when they are going to be hired. Or what they need to do better to get hired. The company does very little outside activities such as off-site picnics or other employee activities. One exception is the annual Pittsburgh heart walk. And this is a bit self-serving for Zoll since their business is cardiac related. More activities would help raise moral. Althought the training for basic testing procedures is satisfactory, the training system for technicians on the operations of the system and how it works is a bit lacking. You have to learn/figure out many things on your own. Especially, the higher level information needed for troubleshooting. The engineering department does little to help in this area. They do not often have time to assist the technicians.