Actuant Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Actuant full-time for more than a year

Pros – Process centric, really try to support continuous improvement
Improvement events are part of the culture
Good pay and benefits
Acquisitions allow for interesting integration process

Cons – Constant restructuring in my segment
Lack of fun, very clinical atmosphere
Overall sense of larger purpose is lacking
Quick to LCC source and close facilities in the US

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to simplify and be more agile
Deselecting is critical but not part of the culture

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Great working environment, good work opportunities in a diversified company

Cons – Stressful job. Need to hire more people. Everyone is or becomes a workaholic.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire more people! And do something to improve work life balance!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Actuant full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There are still some talented employees.

Cons – Long meetings and rewards for "face time."

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees better or you will not be able to find quality employees when the labor market improves.

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

Current Employee – been working at Actuant full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good Pay, Enjoyable Work and opportunities to move around

Cons – Company Culture doesn't know what it wants to be. I sat in a meeting yesterday where the director said to not talk with co-workers unless it's work related. Very bad for moral and made people want to work less, not more.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of old school style directors. You spend corporate time and money building teams that effectively work together yet your directors are clammoring that relationship building is just wasting company time and money. What do you want to be?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Actuant full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Worked with some great peers. Did some great lean manufacturing projects.

Good fitness center, even though they charged a fee for it.

Free coffee.

Good bonus program for salary.

Cons – Terrible annual review system. Every engineer was ranked in the last 3 of 9 categories, even though we all earned over 200% of our bonus potential. This made for TERRIBLE moral. Over half the engineers eventually ended up working for Harley-Davidson and are still there.

ALL product drawings were way out of date and no resources were provided to update the drawings unless it was a new product.

All engineers for several business units were told by CEO at corporate wide meeting , "That I can get a engineer in India to design a product for $8000 per year and still build it in the US."

Company had constant layoffs and has now closed US manufacturing operations that I was involved in.

CEO showed off his car and travel trailer and horses.

Advice to Senior Management – Company is not just about the stock price and how much $$ the top 4 or 5 guys can make.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Actuant full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Company is growing with new products

Cons – taking a little longer than needs too

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Actuant

Pros – Benefits are good
On site work out facility (with trainer) open 24 hours minimal cost
Location right off the freeway

Cons – It is always the same people on the lead teams and these same people are the ones who always get the recognition and the promotions. Often make changes without getting feedback from everyone the change will affect and then instead of doing it right they just apply a bandaid.

Advice to Senior Management – You have a lot of talent within the company. Take a look at the people other than the same old players they have a lot to offer if you would just give them the chance

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Actuant

Pros – Actuant allows you to get involved with a lot of projects and you can learn a lot during your time here.

Cons – Actuant works their employees too hard for the least amount of pay. You are involved with so much and are expected to do so much with little resources. They do not pay well and is not a good company for women to grow women.

Current Employee – been working at Actuant

Pros – Professional Growth, cross training, internal training. There are a lot of internal training programs that are very insightful and well contsructed.

Cons – Strategic Leadership. There seems to be a misalignment between the company mission and personal goals of both management and staff.

Advice to Senior Management – Strategic Alignment and long term planning. There is a strategy for the company but how to obtain that goal is up for debate. Long term planning must be compeleted in order to reach your goals.

Former Employee – worked at Actuant

Pros – Actuant offers good benefits, coworkers are very supportive and the products produced are good quality and have a high level of brand recognition in the industrial marketplace.

Cons – The senior management is so focused on the the bottom line that they forget about the people that are working to make things happen. Very little effort is put into training and promoting people. They are very quick to buy companies absorb and close down businesses and move them offshore. If you are a company that is purchased by Actuant watch out! Start looking for another job as soon as possible.

Advice to Senior Management – Senior management should take more notice of the people and the effort that is given to bring profit to the company. They need to take better care of their employees that have shown dedication and commitment to their jobs especially within companies that are small acquisition.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend