StandardAero reviews

Management has "Their Heads Up their butts". Not a single person in any kind of leadership role has a clue as to what their doing and the lack of communication between the "idiots" only makes it worse. It looks like dogs chasing their tails. to begin this is a training facility to every other "MRO" facility in the world. Reviews show that management, Pay Rates, training, work instructions, and raises/bonuses are negligent and obsolete. The loss of almost every employee who walks through the door is unrealistic to the point of expiring amounts of people to employ. Those left, and being hired now are mccdonalds employees who are completely inexperienced and ill equipped, UN-trainable (idiots for lack of a better word) who damage parts and make terrible mistakes that the entire company pay for with loss of previously stated bonuses. This is a repair shop where every part is different and as of recent management is leaning toward a more production based operation pushing for efficiency and quotas that are unrealistic at best all while sacrificing quality. Management mistakes, from this, are faulted to the employees which adds to the extremely toxic environment. on numerous occasions i have been forced to console co-workers due to very biased opinions from management who have absolutely no clue how to operate any part of this building all the while staring at their charts and asking employees to double their workload to improve their numbers. Ideas given from employees are used to create improvement projects around the facility which never get implemented and are forgotten until something is damaged or someone gets hurt, then management wants to effect change and claim all credit for improvements. pay raises are obsolete due to being based on numbers and quotas that shouldn't exist and can be altered/ cheated. Starting wages are ridiculous for the industry. before you start do your research and fight for money. If the company doesn't make a change soon the doors will close and the company will be too far gone. I've been here for almost 2 years and i'm shocked that there hasn't been a walkout (which i was told that at one point there was but happened before my time). If all of this isn't bad enough, management prevents improvement to the facility's work ethic and productivity. work instructions are ridiculously uninformative. employees (operators and support staff included) spend more time correcting the work instructions and searching for engineers who also have a lack of knowledge to attempt to correct the issues. Engineers have no background in aviation whatsoever most degrees of which are not job related whatsoever causing even more friction amongst employees. the company requires the use of their own programs for traceability and timekeeping, however more often than not sends employees on a blind mission to hunt for what is needed to complete the job (causing employees to waste time searching for parts rather than working them). recently due to management mistakes 50% of work is being done more than that twice causing re-work in the building causing a tremendous backlog of parts to build and capacity levels to be way exceeded all while management will not slow parts coming into the door for fear of upsetting "customers" that they are bound to lose due to inability to produce in a timely manner. In meetings management won't acknowledge their own statistics and when given them produce lame excuses as to why the backlog is so tremendous. Audits are a running joke. Management instructs you on how to be knowledgeable enough to skate by. Other facilities laugh at the incentives given at standardaero (most places offer bonus incentives, standardaero dangles a beef jerky tasting and sized steak or a coney in front of your face expecting you to be excited for it). The organization does things throughout the year (picnic, holiday party, raffling sports items, the flying pig, etc...) however find a way to use employee money rather than company money to pay for such items. Employees who work their lives away for the company get nothing in return meanwhile employees who do nothing, milk the clock, and fail to do their jobs get hired in at higher rates because they are related or friends of HR. staff. If this rate is kept up and disrespected employees are growing at an innumerable rate, i can see a dim future for standardaero. this company has potential to be the greatest place to work but the people who are in charge need to pull it together because at this rate the company is divided between those who care and are fed up and the ones who don't care only cause problems, are lazy and incompetent.

Let me begin by saying that working here has been at times frustrating and at other times difficult. I have been working here for a little over two years now and the atmosphere is terrible, there are several people who come to work here just to be lazy. Management is so relaxed that they simply tolerate it and refuse to correct the the situation, others come to work every day and pour their heart and soul into it. Management when Informed of people not doing their Job, brush it off and defend said employees until their last breath. Rumors in the building never Cease and if someone mentions your name more than once you are threatened to be Terminated. Management is terrified of HR employees and do not stand up for employees they manage. HR has their hands in too many pots including raises, bonuses, and pay rates, all the while hiring their own family in at rates higher than others showing favoritism. A lot of employees know how to manipulate the time they spend working the parts making percentages, which shouldn't exist, higher so that they can sit and do absolutely nothing. There is simply no organization or planning with any "Improvements" changes they make to "speed Production". Management preaches "take your time and do it right" but if your percentages drop for any reason they complain and act like you need to be re-trained (which their Improvements prove to make more difficult). Their computer systems are terribly out of date and every day there are issues with being able to do the work (and getting worse). Last but very not least, and maybe the most horrendous part of the job is the pay. This fact has been pointed out several times to them and they refuse to accept what is right in front of them. Not complaining about my own because I took a raise to come here and I make good money at least enough to stay for now even though it is well below the standard. This in retrospect places themselves way behind the standard for the amount they offer. In light of this they loose their BEST employees that have been here 5 or 6 years and all of the tribal knowledge that comes with it. Hence they have trainees training trainees, and end up leaving new employees with no help and expecting them to overexert themselves to keep up with the demand of their growing business and delve into new tasks and operations with unrealistic expectations and impractical standards with training that is scarce at best, which they are already understaffed for. They cannot keep their current employees and yet purchased 350,000 square feet of space to expand this location causing more friction between management and employees and obliterating any and all moral that is left among the people they desperately need to continue working to make the business flow. iF YOU ARE PLANNING TO BECOME AN EMPLOYEE DO NOT BRING YOUR FEELINGS TO WORK. LEARN WHAT YOU CAN FOR EXPERIENCE AND GET OUT. TAKE THE KNOWLEDGE WHERE YOU CAN USE IT FOR A COMPANY THAT CARES ABOUT ITS EMPLOYEES.