Air Products Reviews

Pros

Lots of things to learn because of age of plant. The ability to work with things you may not know about is made very clear. The team works together to get the plant running.

Cons

Age of materials already in place makes getting replacement parts difficult. Materials management going through tough transition. Hard to get clear guidance from upper management at times.

Advice to Senior Management

Work to improve the efficiency of parts materials management. Finding the correct equipment can take up more time than the job

Pros

Overall, good group of people to work with. Good cafeteria and fitness center. Kind of flexible working schedule. Well Established Work Practices

Cons

Compensation not in line with industry. Not enough trainning to develop. Limited career advancement opportunities. Long-winded performance review process with unfair matrix type rating system.

Advice to Senior Management

Think a little more about of employees who at the end of the day affect company performance and shareholders profits.

Pros

Good company that is well recognized by wall-street, smart people work there, lots of ex-military there as well in leadership - very political

Cons

Not sure who they are after getting burned with Airgas fiasco - top down culture-open & honest (say what's on your mind) communication doesn't exist here, sales reps have weekly itinerary reports they have to do because national sales manager didn't like the ride with rep---very micro-managed right now. Also going thru a blood letting process of taking very intelligent well qualifed technical reps, eliminating their positions thru poor reviews & replacing them with entry level reps who know nothing of industry. Either this is major cost cutting efforts or they're getting ready to sell off a bunch of plants....changing to commodity business rather than value sell

Advice to Senior Management

Bring someone else in like Praxair did a number of years ago & really change the company - make it better & different.

Pros

stable job, ok benefits and less stress if you don't want to be challenged

Cons

no growth and no focus on employees development

Advice to Senior Management

need tonurture high potential employees

Pros

Was a very sociable place to work which offered many opportunities in a stable business structure

Cons

Internally focused and lacking in strategic intent. Being an unchallenged business that has not been impacted by disruptive technologies for a considerable time, things can become flat with regard to innovation and risk avoidance.

Advice to Senior Management

Challenge the status quo, stop watching and following the competition for ideas, step outside of the comfort zone and start focusing on hte client needs for your business development and innovation.

Pros

I gained a lot of new experience while I worked there.

Cons

Air Products is known in the Lehigh Valley to expand and contract. When i first started there I noticed that there were a lot of people with 15 - 20+ years of experience and some with a few years of experience. When they decided to cut their workforce by 20% in 2010, my suspicions were confirmed. They tend to protect themselves. You need to realize that this is an opportunity to gain experience but you must be ready to move on when the economy turns bad.

Pros

Internet access through the day, lots of overtime. No accountability at all from management. Very leisure work environment. Very laxed work atmosphere.

Cons

Not diverse work force. Very few African Americans employed. A culture that rewards non performing employees with promotions and very cliquish.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at your diversity numbers and hire more African Americans. Management needs peer reviews. Profit sharing program is horrible, worst in the industry.

Pros

Lots of overtime available to you.

Cons

A non diverse work culture Leeds to exclusions and singeing out employees that are not part of the main group. A very hard place to work if you are non Hispanic and non Caucasian.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a strong look at their hireing practices.

Pros

Great business offering diverse and interesting career opportunities across the world for those interested in pushing themselves. Good attitude and approach to developing employees up to Middle Management levels.

Cons

Cronyism at senior management levels demoralising middle managers and aspiring senior leaders. Still very much a US centric Company not comfortable doing business in new geographies.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to be more prepared to tap into available global talent and not just "those you know". Need to see more courageous leadership from the senior leadership team. Impression given is that there is more focus on self preservation than Company prosperity.

Pros

Work Life Balance, Flexibility, Location

Cons

Big company, too many politics

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work.