Autoliv Reviews

Pros

This company provide a lot of good chance and growth in career. Also the company give and invest the knowledge to the employee.

Cons

the communication inside of company need to be improved and some management are not skillful enough. So they can't be the mentor for their employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Local management must learn to real performance of their employee and they should have more technical knowledge to be able to manage their employee.

Pros

Decent benefits, friendly co-workers, OK pay

Cons

Internal red tape often gets in the way of getting things done. Management is rarely helpful until the issue is red-hot. There is a system for everything but nobody knows where, what, why or how to use it properly. Consequently, systems are often times skirted in order to get things done. Raises are rare and barely keep up with inflation.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to how systems are working between facilities and departments. Keep processes that add value and eliminate those that do not. Design systems for the typical work flow, not for the exception.

Pros

It was almost effortless to make a difference.
So easy to make improvements.
Best, well trained, good natured hourly workforce I've ever encountered.
Great systems! This made being a quality engineer easy in comparison to other places.
Support from plant manager and other to "fix" problems and make them go away. Corrective actions were the plants highest priority and got fixed in days, not weeks or months.

Cons

Culture among some management of the "cool" club.
Quality manager thought he was great, but really was the "weakest link" in the management team.
This plant closed in 2009 due to difficult times in automotive due to recession.

Advice to Senior Management

Steering wheel business is now in the war zone of Reynosa, Mexico over Autoliv- Columbia City and Autoliv- Queretaro, Mexico which have both closed or are closing. This move to Reynosa looks good on paper, but seems so non-representative of Autoliv's core values of concern for their employees. I have heard stories of fear for life of engineers and unqualified staff at border plant.

Pros

Very efficient manufacturing system, mimics toyota's system.
Management rarely interferes with your day to day activities.
Continually improving products for customers and improved manufacturability.

Cons

The plant I work at has not hired an engineer in 10 years, so it is not likely to get a job offer out of school.

Advice to Senior Management

Now would be a good time to open some engineering positions for recent graduates. In 5 to 10 years 70% of your engineering staff will be retiring. It will be an easier transition if their knowledge is passed on now rather than the last minute.

Pros

When you have no where else to work and are ineed of cash flow, they will give you cash flow if you are willing to put in the hours.

Cons

Most of the work at Autoliv was shift work, and repetive manual labor, you have to go to your nothing zone in your brain to survive.

Advice to Senior Management

Just because times are tuff, letting people go should not be the solution, don't hire them if you are going to let them go, hire them as temp workers.