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      WITRON Group

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      WITRON Group reviews

      3.1

      56% would recommend to a friend

      (249 total reviews)

      55% positive business outlook

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      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Culture & values

      2.7

      Work/Life balance

      2.5

      Senior management

      WITRON Group has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 249 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WITRON Group 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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      249 reviews
      1.0
      Apr 17, 2017

      Shady group of managers

      Equipment operator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The pros are few. Pay is decent but the raises are worthless. The benefits are probably the best part. Good medical decent eye and dental.

      Cons

      Management only looks out for themselves. They say if you have a problem to tell them and they'll work on it. That never happens. The leads and IT's are rarely on the floor working or helping the operators. If you've never experienced favoritism, get ready for that ride. As a new employee coming in be prepared to be treated like dirt by the other employees. Getting training is like pulling teeth and everyone will throw you under the bus if it means their name looks better. Breaking rules is okay if you're loved by a team lead, IT, or any upper management.

      4.0
      Apr 21, 2016

      Started Late Feb 2016

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Plenty of Training (I read the other reviews and one said his Co worker would just step in and do the task when he had asked how to do the task. Why didn't you just watch what he stepped in and did? Then ask questions about the parts you didn't understand?) Granted different locations could be completely different than where I am but this my honest opinion. My first 2 weeks I was put with someone who went through Witron's apprenticeship program in Germany. I think he may have said ""I don't know" once or twice. Everything else he could explain or demonstrate easily. After my first week I was given their maintenance exam (which covers 10 or 12 subjects, each of which had a 2 to 3 hour class their training guy had taught each week for the previous 3 months. There's a good 2 to 3 hours of safety training each month, and a toolbox topic each day. I know I've asked repeated questions more than twice and each time it's been answered. Plenty of patience. Employees are held accountable. If you sign off and say you checked x y and z, and 2 weeks later z is found in a condition that took more than 2 weeks to occur, there is a consequence. I've worked at other companies and half of the maintenence department pencil whips the PM, or only does part of it. Then the next day it breaks on my shift and I get to fix what another tech said was good the day before, and nothing is done to prevent the person from doing the same thing in the future, so they do. Benefits are crazy cheap. The same coverage I was paying $300 to $400 a week to cover my family, cost half of that every two weeks. Deductibles are about %50 to %75 of average prices elsewhere. They do have profit sharing (Continued in the cons section) They manufacture the equipment you are operating or maintaining. So every piece of equipment is made to work with the next. Probably one of the top pros on this list. There's no floor models the company bought or equipment manufactured with a serial number of 0000001 from a company that went out of business 25 years ago. Witron's whole mentality and culture is completely different than anywhere I have ever worked. The company has plenty of other pros but I've already spent enough time on pros

      Cons

      The profit sharing (which from what I've been told is 6 weeks of pay every November) isn't earned until your 3rd year, and that's when you start earning it, you won't get a check until at least year 4. 30 min lunch break is automatically taken out each work day. 3 of the 5 companies I worked for previously, paid maintenance for lunch. But that's only here because I didn't want only 1 con, even though both so far arent nearly as strong as any of the pros I listed. There is a freezer and equipment in the freezer has to be operated and breaks down so although maintenance spends 2 to 3 hours in there sometimes, operators usually go in for an hour them rotate out. And they give you plenty of gloves face masks, jackets, coveralls, etc. Jacket and coveralls were Carhartt. Turnover from what I have heard has been high, but honestly they tell you during your interview, orientation, and daily if you don't lock something out, or are caught not wearing a harness they walk you out the door. A zero tolerance policy that is actually zero tolerance if they like you or not. CRAZY right? No double standards... Realistically this cons list is more like a lesser pros list. But these are the worst parts I could think of. It's work, sometimes it's hard work. Work by definition isn't exactly enjoyable. It's nice not to hate going to work everyday

      1.0
      Mar 8, 2016

      Upper management only worries about there own advancement

      Electro-mechanical technician
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Easy job, can definitely do it if your just trying to skirt by and have a pay check given to you they actually encourage that behavior.

      Cons

      -Super cute throat -Training doesn't exist and never will, turn over is to high in maintenence dept. -Corp HR doesn't listen to eo or email about team leads or upper management -Upper management is two faced and does the opposite of what is said -Move shifts on a whim, change shift schedule 10 hr days which are really 11 hrs to 8 i mean 9 hr days -Pay is low for the area $22 and raises are lower 2% -Facility is super could -15F and breaks are not accommodated per OSHA regulations when in this environment -Management lies or doctors write up documents

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