Pros
- People at the Pittsburgh plants are 99% easy to get along and work with - Roughly 75% of employees at the Pittsburgh plants have 10+ years with the company, many over 15 years; this creates a giant wealth of information about the products and business - There is a new group of talented, younger employees joining the company that bring energy and new ways of thinking/perspective (side note, some of them are already looking for new jobs) - Extremely relaxed, casual, fun, and laid back work environment the majority of the time. For salaried employees vacation and PTO is not strictly tracked. More controlled for hourly employees - Rexnord provides decent benefits.... Member of the individual HDHP with HSA, less than $20/month premiums - 401k match of 4% on 6% contribution, also provide a quarterly 401k contribution based on company performance
Cons
- High turnover within management - Management team that led a business losing over $4MM a year for 4+ years in route to closing is now leading the Pittsburgh plants - Management style creates silos between departments, managers talk down about other depts/managers to their own employees - because of silo departments no one knows what other groups are doing, creating or following a standard process becomes extremely difficult - Morale is extremely low at both Pittsburgh plants, hourly employees through management don't believe their jobs will be around in 1-3 years - company is roughly 10-15 years behind current technology; many processes are still manual i.e. a typewriter is used for correcting errors on printed sales orders - SAP is used to maybe 10% of its capacity, partially in fault of company having a basic version - gap between heavily tenured and newer employees makes a difficult environment to adapt processes to different ways of thinking - new management doesn't have a solid grip on operations, doesn't appear to be working to unite the departments or the team. no clear goal has been relayed - schedule is heavily weighted towards the ends of fiscal months, more often than not production will work the second to last and last Saturday of every month to make shipments - Outside sales group has been consistently shrinking over the past year with no signs of expanding; sales volume is also at an extreme low making it hard for production to make shipments and budget numbers - performance reviews were very unsatisfactory, being between two bosses on and off for a year proved extremely challenging ** I was asked to clean the bathrooms because they smelled. I refused.