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Saginaw Control & Engineering reviews

2.8

33% would recommend to a friend

(62 total reviews)

Fred May

64% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Saginaw Control & Engineering has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 62 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Saginaw Control & Engineering 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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62 reviews
2.0
Apr 23, 2023

Just don’t.

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Pros

This company has a great benefit program with 100% employer paid health insurance, an employer matched 401k and vision and dental insurance. Pay is pretty good too.

Cons

I worked at SCE for over 13 years and ended my career voluntarily. When I first started it was a horrible place to work, no work life balance, 12 hour days and saturdays, and horrible management. It had gotten better later in my career with changes in management (my supervisor at the time that I resigned was actually a pretty good guy), ten hour days and no weekends. Opportunity for advancement is still lacking there and is one of the reasons for ending my employment with the company. Another reason I left is because upper management refused to hire anybody for my department since before the pandemic, we’ve lost numerous employees in the past 3 years and no replacements which had led to the few employees we had left to pick up the slack. This is physical work and requires employees to be lifting items alone that any other company would require “team-lift” techniques. This has been voiced to HR and from what I hear from current employees, has gone unanswered. This gives the impression that the company doesn’t care about employees wellbeing.

4.0
Apr 16, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and health insurance. I’ve been with the company for about 4 years and they have improved tremendously since I’ve started, atleast from my point of view. They are trying to do their best and making changes to make work easier and help good workers grow with the company. They’ve improved a lot of the management but it seems they just can’t hire the right people. A lot of guys come in with bad attitudes or take any sort of criticism as a personal offense. If you show up on time, do your job, and don’t have a bad attitude every day, you’ll do fine and get good raises. Also love the openness, if I want to talk about my position at the company or if I’d like to try something else, I know I can always talk to my supervisor and figure something out.

Cons

Although I’ve noticed a great improvement in the culture and general attitude at sce, one thing that is still lacking sometimes is communication. The hours can be less than ideal but they pay you a % 9 premium plus give 5 extra vacation days for night shift to allow you more time to do things that first shift would be able to do after their shift. Working in the shop you should expect to do lots of manual labor and be on your feet most the day, which in my experience isn’t too bad. I’m not a very strong guy and I do just fine and if you need help doing something don’t be afraid to ask. Also mandatory over time, either work 8 or 10 hour shifts depending on the demand, usually slows down around Christmas but not always, expect to work 50 hour weeks but budget your bills as 40 hour weeks so you aren’t struggling when production slows, they’ve never had lay offs so it’s nice job security.

1.0
Mar 2, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Health Insurance paid by company

Cons

Don't call HR if you have a problem or you WILL get reprimanded. Make sure you do nothing but the job you are tasked with at the start of your shift or talk to any of your fellow co-workers or you will get reprimanded( I was told to help fix a problem at the laser system by my supervisor and got a reprimand for leaving my work station). Don't EVER call in sick or they will hold it against you on your raise (I had to call in sick for my wife's miscarriage and got reprimanded even though I told HR what was going on...I was told "I can't call in sick to play with my kids"...Yes that is exact words. And when I questioned them when I got my write up they said yes they said that, but it's not their fault I had to call in sick even though I brought in a doctors note for it).

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