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Heidelberg Materials

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Heidelberg Materials reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(949 total reviews)

Dominik von Achten

83% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Heidelberg Materials has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 949 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Heidelberg Materials employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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949 reviews
5.0
Apr 21, 2016

Excellent company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, well led company where employee engagement is seen as key to a productive and happy workforce. Plenty of opportunities for training and development. Extremely Health and Safety driven, they care about their people.

Cons

Could do more to encourage women into the business and support them with more flexible working arrangements without compromising their promotion prospects

4.0
Apr 13, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay & benefits, first off; LHI hires the best and works hard to attract and retain them. I had a figure in mind to negotiate to when they hired me, and their offer beat it by roughly $10K, before I even started to negotiate. Same thing happened with someone I hired, beating her starting point by roughly the same amount. If they want you on board, they don't mess around with minutiae like your salary... Benefits, including medical, 401(k), and so forth, were top-notch, even though they were reportedly reduced from prior years due to the economy and rising costs; still pretty much the best I've had. Management is above average in most respects. As always, more communication is better, but they understand that generally. Annual employee reviews are strictly adhered to, and there was ample training in how to best do them and use them as a training tool, although follow-up with supervisors to confirm these were doing the reviews properly was a weak point. The review format is similar to Milgard Manufacturing's MPS, but less structured and rigorous. With that said, many companies don't even do reviews as promised, so LHI is well above the mean in that respect. The philosophy is that the contents and grades of a review shouldn't be a surprise Bottom line is that if they needed to expand my old department again and rehire, I would gladly go back to LHI.

Cons

Biggest issue there was constantly shifting lines and flows from senior management down to those of us on the front lines. There was also a schism between the Lehigh people and the Hanson people, beneath the surface. Lots of carving out of areas of control, fiefdom-building and the like, rather than jettisoning that nonsense and just working together as a company. There was a program named W.I.N. instituted to right-size and reorganize the company, in the light of going to a Central Service Center (CSC) environment. After repeated layoffs, staff and management referred to it as "Who Is Next?", e.g., who will be laid off next. Not very good for morale... When layoffs did come, there didn't appear to be rule or reason for why it was done. Long-time employees would disappear overnight, with no clue as to why, and their positions were either eliminated or re-hired, again with no explanation.

3.0
Apr 9, 2016

Always on the move

Recommend
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Pros

This is dependent on your plant. Some plants are far better than others. Company vehicle is a huge perk that is very rare these days

Cons

Management doesn't really care about you or the value you bring to the table. The on going problems are never really fixed.

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