ArcelorMittal USA Reviews

Pros

Great hands on work experience.

Cons

Difficult working with older work force.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

This company, in terms of individual employee competencies, has some of the best in the steel biz.
There's opportunity for broad experience/advancement.
Industry has stabilized.
CEO understands the numbers and the biz. Makes the right calls financially.

Cons

Just too big. Lack of top to bottom communication.
Limited/No promotional opportunities in non-production jobs
Grew through acquisitions, and there are still cultures/cliques from the predecessor companies that interfere with effictiveness.
Several "Peter Principle" employees VP/GM level that limit effectiveness.
Technical biz run by an accountant. Often poor grasp of foregone opportunities
Attitude towards HR and Employee Engagement is "you have a job, don't you?". Just awful!

Advice to Senior Management

Look inside yourself. Do you really have the best people in your Sr. Management posts? Do you need to clean house? You know the answer.

Pros

You will experience more in one year than you would in a whole career in many industries.
The thing you see will leave a lasting impression, setting you up for many stories to share in training.
Many nice people to work with.
Safety performance better than the past.

Cons

Site management does not appear serious about safety.
Employees are treated as commodities and aren't trusted to make final decisions.
The message from one manager to another is inconsistent.
Department supervision does not always follow through with the message of senior management.
Corporate organization has too much control over what each site does. They send too many tasks to the sites, destracting them from their site initiatives.
Union has too much power and indirectly and directly makes many decisions for management.
Can't get any proactive projects completed due to "fire fighting" and rediculous red tape from union and micro managing.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to get their base programs and training in order so management can ensure employees follow the rules.
Global corporation needs to send suggestions and recommendations to the sites, but not so many mandates that keeps them from tackling the things that cause problems at the site level.
Trust the sites to manage their business.
Promote employees who get the job done, not ones who have been there forever.
Stop micro managing your engineers.

Pros

Autonomy, great team, good leadership, strategy development and deployment, good benefits, good environment, global company and leader in industry, professional environment.

Cons

Bonuses and merit raises subject to ups and downs of industry, making it difficult to achieve numbers. Can't count on either or.

Advice to Senior Management

Better bonus plans. Need a mentoring program for people wanting to climb the corporate ladder.

Pros

Good Salary in an inexpensive area. Many opportunities for engineers.
Company is going to be around for the forseeable future, and when times are good, employees recieve huge bonuses.
Tuition Reimbursement available within six months on the job. If you leave within a year, you have to pay it back. If you leave within 2 years, you pay back 50%. If you stay for two years, you do not have to pay them back.

Cons

Not recommended if you are not interested in the manufacturing industry.
A lot of bureaucracy, too many hands in the pot, too many different opinions.
Can't transfer until you've been there at least two years.
No desirable locations, except for the downtown Chicago office.
Don't plan on being trained if you are hired in a recession.
Opportunities for international travel never materialized.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide better training on the fundamentals of steelmaking and the corporations various operations and processes.

Pros

Huge company, diversified product portfolio

Cons

Bad HR, inefficiency caused by Union workes and management's inability to adopt.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to your salary workforce. They feeling left out.

Pros

Good job opportunties, with a wide variety of work and the ability to learn about many different aspects of the business. The company also strives to make the work place safe and have implemented many safety requirements which did not exist prior to Laksmi Mittals take over. Safety is a large concern at Arcelor Mittal.

Cons

Different programs being offerred and never followed through. Trying to centralize or make one program fit all plant locations can have good intentions, but negative results. Having programs that homoginze each plant to look and feel like every other plant brings about a sense of being part of the "team" but also seems to neglect the good aspects of how one plant could or should operate better than another.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the employees more often to get good ideas.

Pros

Large company where one can move around from plant to plant in search of new opportunities (note: only for operations personnel)

Stabilized the domestic steel industry so we don't have to go through a downsizing every two years (literally, for ten years, our facility went through a downsizing approximately every two years)

Good benefits

Cons

Just a number - organization is so large that individuals are lost in the process

Very little to no opportunity for career advancement for non-Operations, non-engineering support staff

Absolutely no way to affect the salaried bonus based on your job performance - the bonus is based on EBITDA for the entire ArcelorMittal USA - smaller plants can barely budge that number

Advice to Senior Management

Take time to listen to people in the field and don't assume that you know what's best just because you "saw it work" at some other plant a few years ago.

Pros

Good experience for an intern. If you like steel, it's by far the best company in the steel industry to work for. They send all their new engineers overseas for a few weeks at a time if you desire to. From talking to full timers, their benefits for salaried workers seem comparable to any other Fortune 500, right around average.

Cons

Steel mills are dirty and dangerous, upper management is still unorganized from massive mergers. There is a lot of miscommunication still through the channels of management. They are, however, doing what they can to improve on it.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more organized.