Milliken Reviews

Pros

Great training of mgt team.. Good feedback on job performance

Cons

If intense work place. Often work long hours.

Pros

Good opportunity to advance within the company.

Cons

Compensation not always competitive with other companies.
Hours expected can be extensive (salaried pay=no overtime)

Advice to Senior Management

When a "promotion" is made, you have to actually pay for their added responsibility. Find a way to reduce your turnover, new plant level management every few years is just hard to

Pros

Working with people that have your interest.

Cons

Lack of vision and communication

Advice to Senior Management

Needs to understand diversity in the workplace.

Pros

Financially strong, privatly held, Great employees, great facilities

Cons

Lack of alignment from the top, Lack of understanding how to manufacture at the top senior management level. Do not not plan on working until you are ready to retire. Not reinvesting in textiles.

Advice to Senior Management

Start considering employees as assets before you loose all loyality. Invest outside of the chemical division you must diversify to survive.

Pros

the best reaosns include engineering applications, name, salary is good, and decent room to move up in chain

Cons

its very demanding, they require lots of hours, u have to deal with too many types of people, a little too process oriented, loud environment

Pros

Highly ethical, attempts to do the right things. Tremendous financial position.

Cons

Lack of career advancement. No business growth .

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on the career development of the employees who are left. It has been years since I have met with my HR rep to discuss career development.

Pros

Pay,vacation, education, teams and location

Cons

Sometimes things were pushed down from corporate

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Professional environment. Great team spirit. Excellent education opportunities in OPEX, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing. Recognition. Plenty of advancement opportunities.

Cons

Milliken unfortunately is in the extremely competative world of textile manufacturing which results in tremendous pressures for cost savings; however, you will learn to do a lot with a little.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep focusing on markets where we can provide value to our customers.

Pros

Training programs are a good place to give experience in the workplace. Good history and lots of respect from other companies in the Southeast. The people make the workplace great.

Cons

Tough to break through to the top. Some upper level leaders are not that great. Need to focus on the things that made the company great.

Advice to Senior Management

Look to what has made the company great from the past and try to implement some of the same core concepts. Too much focus on cost cutting is leaving the middle ranks bare and will hurt in the long run.

Pros

good name, ethics and reputation

Cons

does not reward performance like they used to

Advice to Senior Management

competition is passing us by. milliken has become a complacent company under the new leadership. most competitors don't consider milliken a threat