Tenneco Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco full-time for less than a year

Pros – Decent Pay. 11/hour starting out with staffing company. 12.65 after 3 months.

Set hours.

Job security is good. Not much else.

Cons – Very boring, monotonous work. Do the same thing over and over and over all day.

Can be hard manual labor for those not used to that.

Management is runs around like chickens with their head cut off. More concerned about sucking up to the manager above them than doing a good job.

You are just a cog in the machine.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the points system for sick days. It makes you seem like you don't value your employees as human beings. I realize your excuse is "this is how the industry does it". How many great companies do things because that is how the industry does it?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco

Pros – No better jobs available in this economy, decent wages for maintenace and team leaders..Union offers a tiny bit of protection from favortism.

Cons – Too Many management pets, and pet projects wasting money on inappropriate things like 5-S and Kaizon junk, but won't spend enough to properly get a quality product to the customer. HR has a personal vendetta against virtually all former Delphi people that were bought as part of the package when buying the plant.. Worst part of that issue is that it;s the former Delphi Salaried that hold the grudge, not the Tenneco management team from above. With One exception the upper Management (not from this plant) Seem to be honest including the CEO..

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of excess padded management levels at the plant, use the money to hire enough Maintenance people to fix the equipment properly.. YOUR own MISSION statement states CUSTOMER is first and SHAREHOLDERS..not wasting company funds on personal vendettas on people just because we belong to a Union. EFFICIENCY would be 90% instead of 65% if you had properly trained Skilled tades doing the jobs instead of operators and supervisors who aren't qualified to flip burgers at McDonalds, much less fix complicated equipment.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco

Pros – Flexible hours and that is about it

Cons – Promotions are limited - always a dangling carrot.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop the practice of offering raises and counter-offers when someone resigns. Cherish your employees while you still have them, not when they walk out the door.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tenneco

Pros – Good pay for the location. Great medical and dental benefits. Once hired on great attendance policy. HR does back their open door policy.

Cons – Favoritism among family members seems to be awful high. Discipline is not handed out fairly. Communication between management and workers is extremely lacking (especially on the off shifts). Too many in management trying to make all the rules with no concept how the processes actually work.

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco

Pros – The pay is good , benefits are good for this area..A lot of good people work there,but is gets old being treated badly by upper management

Cons – upper management.....rules are inconsistant , they change without notice.

Advice to Senior Management – consider the peoples views and concerns , they are the ones that actually make you the money

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tenneco

Pros – Autonomy to make decisions about running business

Cons – Big company politics hinder implementation of good ideas

Advice to Senior Management – Use more meritocracy

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tenneco

Pros – Above average compensation, benefits and perks. Tenneco is viewed as leader in automotive industry. Global footprint is one of this companies strengths.

Cons – Senior management team is "full of themselves". If you aren't part of the "click", forget about any career advancement. Being a "Yes Men" is the key to getting ahead in this company. Hasn't always been this way............started back whends Frissora was CEO and Sherrill continues with this managment style.

Advice to Senior Management – The BOD needs to do a serious house cleaning within the Senior Management team starting with Mr. Sherrill and his staff.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco

Pros – Salary is in line with other companies.

Cons – Upper management in IT treats employees as numbers. No job advancement opportunities. No training, always no money in the budget. Whenever someone leaves, that persons responsibilites are given to everyone else on a permanent basis. European management trys to run their groups as a military unit and it is against the rules to question their decisions.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the top 3 layers of IT management and start from scratch.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend