Barry-Wehmiller Reviews

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

Pros – Great people, lots of opportunity

Cons – None that I can think of.

Advice to Senior Management – None that I can think of.

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

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

Pros – Paid Salary, Work 40 hours per week

Cons – Under-paid, Not much room for moving up

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

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

Pros – Convenient location in downtown Clayton.

Cons – They use young engineers and then dump them when they're exhausted, in a favor of a fresh batch. Middle management was weak and misinformed. I noticed a lot of waste and inefficiencies. A certain manager was always afraid to make decisions and always asked for backup from other managers. I never met the CEO but heard about his Rolls Royce. Got sick of hearing managers say we had to work even harder to put more millions into the CEO's pockets.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat the rank and file better and hire more competent middle management. Share the wealth, dump the Rolls.

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 Barry-Wehmiller full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – If you want to go after more responsibility, they will let you.
Engineering experience has been good.
Non-Engineering training offered

Cons – Promotion in engineering ranks almost non-existent.
Salary increases happen infrequently (about every 2 years).
Totally sales driven, thus no budget for R&D.

Advice to Senior Management – Walk your talk.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Barry-Wehmiller

Pros – It's a big company and less likely to fail than some others but the price comes with it

Cons – very frustrating - glossy management without much eal substance - a whole "people" department who has no idea what it's workers really think - at least in our division!

Advice to Senior Management – get a clue - get out and talk to your people in the field instead of issuing all the family and goals BS

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Barry-Wehmiller

Pros – The base pay is competitive, get to travel and always working on different things. Company works to recolonize our needs.

Cons – Lots of unpaid overtime, bonus system does not make up for. People get worn out and management dose not notice, you are forced to demand and fight for your time off when busy.

Advice to Senior Management – Doing good in lots of ways, but you need to watch for your peoples needs and if you are going to work people so much maybe the pay should be more.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Barry-Wehmiller

Pros – Good place to work for those who appreciate a steady job and an upper management that keeps a close eye on the numbers, creatively avoiding large layoffs in slow times. Company grows via cautious and wise purchases of other companies.

Cons – Company is after-market focused and sales led, rather than led by technical leaders and innovation. Organization prefers a "lean" approach.

Advice to Senior Management – Increase technical investments and more heavily weigh technical folks input when making decisions. Improve benefits, education? Continue wise financial oversight.

Current Employee – been working at Barry-Wehmiller

Pros – most people seemed happy with job

Cons – benefits and bonus/raise program need to be looked at again

Advice to Senior Management – rethink bonus and benefits

Former Employee – worked at Barry-Wehmiller

Pros – Very clean, especially for a manufacturing facility. Better at making sure the proper tools and supplies are available than many places I have worked. Opprotunity to learn a lot more than what you already know.

Cons – The somewhat mandatory overtime makes for long working weeks. You are typically expected to work 10 hrs M-F and another 6 or more on Sat, often also Sunday. The somewhat low hourly wage makes it necessary to work these hours to have a decent take-home pay. Once you get some experience there, it is not too difficult to leave and find a place that will pay you enough at 40 hrs that you can have your life back.

Advice to Senior Management – Notice who is simply working enough to keep their job versus the guy who is taking ownership of a job from start to finish, and don't pay them the same. There is no union there, so pay more on performance instead of seniority. Also, it takes far less time to allow someone to finish waht they started, instead of constantly pulling folks concentration and pace away from one task to start something else. Too often, there are so many things one is forced to start, that nothing gets finished in time.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Barry-Wehmiller

Pros – Able to design my own job. able to work on my own. i do not suffer from micro-management. The nature of my job allows me a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth and satisfaction

Cons – Erratic behavior of senior management. Lack of processes...driven by overly large, overly pampered egos in some of our divisions. There is also a lack of professionalism in key support areas, which lends itself to the protection of mediocrity.

Advice to Senior Management – We have grown to the point where we have to put in processes and consolidate certain aspects of our operations. Centralization is not in and of itself is not bad. The company has grown to the point where there needs to an appropriate balance between centralized and decentralized.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend