Nummi Reviews

Pros

Stay package. Good benefits. Day shift hours condusive for a good home life and easy commute. Excellent environment if you want to learn and practice TPS.

Cons

PRIDE system is an ineffectice tool to rate employees. Promotion opportunities are heavily senioruty based. Performance is rated based on if your management wants to promote you.

Advice to Senior Management

Overall I feel Toyota is trying their best to take care of NUMMIs employees. Money for severance packages is no unlimited. They have offered an amount that they feel they can fulfill by the time the plant shuts down.

Pros

Workers get input on jobs

Cons

Long hours. Tough attendence program

Advice to Senior Management

Why close it

Pros

The pay and benifits are great.

Cons

Training is delivered inconsistently and the Toyota Production System concepts are not fully practiced. Some team members seem to be stuck on stupid!

Advice to Senior Management

Pull the plug on this sinking ship!

Pros

the retention bonus for the salary side is pretty generous but the morale is getting worse and worse. but there are still good people trying to do the best they can

Cons

management and management and management...can i say it again? don't get me wrong - there are plenty of great people out there on the front lines but once you start going up the ladder...it gets really difficult to find someone with red blood flowing through their veins.

Advice to Senior Management

communication is the key. everything is so hush-hush and that makes our life hard. we're trying to do the best we can with the situation but we're not empowered to make any decisions since we don't know what's going on.

Pros

-Only auto manufacturing plant in California if you like cars
-Toyota brand
-Good benefits
-Has a big cafeteria
-Lots of people

Cons

-Auto economy may go up or down
-Hard to tell where the future will go.
-Costly to make cars in California

Advice to Senior Management

Leaders should inform members what is going on in upper management. Also, a better way to make members accountable for defects being caused.

Pros

Pride in the product. Good pay and benefits. Abiltiy to participate in the Toyota Production System. Competition to be the best automotive plant

Cons

The demands of production. Pressure to meet targets in all areas. Difficult to achieve work, life balance. Weekend production requirements.

Advice to Senior Management

Need more communication on status of effects bargaining. Need schedule of upcomming milestones for transition plan. Be sensitive to workers needs during transition.

Pros

pride in making a good quality product
previously was the UAW Job security-not now

Cons

having to start all over after 20 years of dedicated service all for nothing

Advice to Senior Management

awful that our livelihood was placed in the hands of incompitent managers and now we are all out the door and there is nothing we can do about it.

Pros

Good job security, fast-paced environment, can (usually) always stay busy, neat factory environment, Toyota experience, great immediate supervisor (lucky), a lot of young engineers

Cons

Extremely long lead time to substantial promotion, sub-par compensation, low challenge, office with no windows, lack of communication between departments, management VERY resistant to change, does not encourage higher education, expensive cafeteria with sub-par food, UAW

Advice to Senior Management

Find a way to keep engineers for more than just a few years; the "revolving door" (as quoted by our GM) needs to stop, and management needs to think outside the box on this one.

Pros

Only car plant in California, will probably be shutting down soon since all the lazy union employees are just sitting around exploting the system of senority and barely contributing to a friendly, enjoyable environment for everyone. But I did enjoy getting to learn how toyota works and the insider knowledge that will probably prove to be invaluable to my career. Also, no 2 days are ever the same, it's like be a cop, but you have to solve crimes that pertain to quality.

Cons

Long hours, stress, no management support. Lazy workers doing the minimum to scrape by. No time to take a vacation. Management is either too overcontrolling or just plain swamped and bogged down by unneccessary items that are not really their responsibility, but have no problem handing the issue down to lower ranks and letting them deal with it.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more willing to talk with other managers instead of sending lower level employees to be your puppets. Provide better training and lead by example, not throw someone under the bus and then try to offer help when it is way too late.

Pros

Only Auto industry outside the mid west. good fist job, and excellent co-workers. Lots of opportunity to learn about different manufacturing processes. Good place for a manufacturing engineer.

Cons

Long hours, poor compensation, very poor management. Working for a union organization is VERY frustrating, and tiresome. An engineer is programed to try and solve simple and complex issues, and NUMMI continually blocks the process by treating their engineers as 3rd class, below the line workers and management. Not a place for a MEchanical engineer as the word is completely non-technical and requires only basic engineering knowledge.

Advice to Senior Management

Educate your employees and empower them. Lower management is very self centered, and unaware of their teams abilities and hard work.