I have 12+ years of tenure at SEL in the manufacturing sector and the management is the worst I have ever seen in my time at the company. Supervisors do not supervise anymore but instead delegate the vast majority of their responsibilities onto Assemblers in the name of "World Class Manufacturing." Assemblers are overworked and cannot focus on production with all the side tasks they are given to do. My team now does half the output they used to do 4 years ago.
Incompetency pervades all departments. Most of our support groups have hired incompetent people who cannot program or perform maintenance on a machine correctly. Management's answer to a short-staffed area is to simply throw brand new people who have never done the job before into it. This causes the veterans to become distracted by having to babysit new trainees (most of whom don't want to work) and production volume slows down even more. Leadership absolutely does not listen no matter how many times you tell them how to lead the area.
Our turnover is sky high and most departments are short handed and overworked. Morale is the lowest I've ever seen. We got rid of our strict hiring practices during the pandemic due to a need for people so HR does not properly vet poor candidates. The result is we are left with a surplus of riff-raff and rejects from other companies who do nothing but play on their phones all day while pretending to work.
Do NOT come to manufacturing if you want to keep your sanity at this company! It has turned into the most immature working environment I have ever experienced.
