Terex Reviews in Redmond, WA

Pros

Great people to work with
Great experiences working with employees around the world
Very passionate about what we do
Many opportunities for on the job learning

Cons

Difficult to find a career path and work towards advancement
Recession hit the company hard...multiple layoffs hurt morale severely

Pros

Terex has strong engineering team from investing time and resources into developing skills for their team.

Cons

Like most companies, Terex has been slow to recovery from the previous economic setback.

Advice to Senior Management

continue training interns, I believe they are great potential investments.

Pros

The people are the best assest and there is never a dull day! The culture is inviting and it's family oriented with lots of history. Great opportunities for engineers interested in participating in an organization focused on Lean Manufacturing and Kaizen. The benefits are great and always improving.

Cons

Communication from leadership and having people in the appropriate leadership positions. The economy hit Terex hard and resulted in RIFs. It will be a difficult challenge to recover from, but many former employeesv are jumping at the opportunity to come back.

Advice to Senior Management

Develop your teams and spend the time to give solid value added reviews. Encourage people to grow and give them projects to work on to advance their skills.

Pros

The pay at Terex wass relatively high for interns, it's about doubled minimum wage. Co-workers were very friendly and willing to help you.

Cons

The intern program was very unorganized. My manager was busy with his own work the whole time I was there. I basically had to find things to do everyday.

Advice to Senior Management

The management at Terex should really prepare their employees for interns to come in. There's really no point to have an internship program when no one is aware of it.

Pros

Very strong manufacturing firm; surrounded by very smart, very passionate people; if you like lean manufacturing and a fast-paced culture, great place to be.

Cons

Somewhat siloed in the management ranks. Major business cycles with two big downturns and layoffs in the last 10 years

Advice to Senior Management

Work harder to break down walls between groups in your org, for example sales and manufacturing. Develop high potential leaders more.

Pros

Great pay and benefits. Terex better than their competition. Company strong financially. CEO Ron DeFeo very smart, well respected. Lots of autonomy at remote sites, maybe too much autonomy?

Cons

Seems that good performance is less important than tight relationships with "the right people"

Advice to Senior Management

Many cost reduction opportunities still exist. More attention needed on contract negotiation and procurement. This difficult economy allows for aggressive negotiating. Consolidate companywide purchases for volume discounts. Headcount reduction isnt the only way to reduce your costs. Look around, be more creative, STRONGLY suggest you re-visit your IT costs, services, and contracts.

Pros

Relaxed work culture
Redmond-seattle .good place to live.
Amazing analytical and leadership strategies that help you grow and develop in a rewarding and challenging work environment. interesting and challenging dialogue with seniors and a mentor environment by most managers. great opportunity for growth and learning within the company and very flexible with their schedule and vacation and benefits.

Cons

Benefits are not competitive with other industry leaders.
op management gets paid alot more than younger and lower level employees in the company. stringent and redundant analysis techniques that need to be improved. long meeting which have nothing to do with day to day operations. rather managers just reminding themselves what they have to themselves for the day.

Advice to Senior Management

they are smart! they know what should be done from bottom up

Pros

Employees are given plenty of autonomy in various types of projects. You are not locked into specific plant or type of project and can move around as necessary. Company is expanding throughout the nation and world so many opportunities are developing as the company expands. The company culture is great, and help from others is readily available.

Cons

Compensation relative to many companies is low. The complexity of many projects are lacking. Being part of a huge company if you're division is suffering they'll cut jobs to keep everyone else floating. International plants will begin to affect the way engineers work here in the states.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase the focus on the future and development of new technologies. Give better compensation to retain better employees.

Pros

Terex is a young, global corporation that provides opportunities for people who fit in the heavy manufacturing industry.

Cons

Terex is made up of several companies. These entities work independently, there is not a lot of collaboration within and between them. Career development is not very transparent.

Advice to Senior Management

It must be a tough challenge to modernize an old us manufacturing company. Senior management needs to bring new blood, while keeping the knowledge of the people who have been working in the company for a long time.

Pros

This review is for th AWP division, which is primarily Genie Industries in Redmond. It's a group of honest, well-intentioned people who really care about each other (for the most part, of course.) It's small enough that one individual can really make a difference, but big enough that you have a satisfying scope to see those actions carried out.

Cons

The Terex corporate group (Westport, CT) is unbelievably backbiting and obstructive. They used to be a rape-and-pillage acquisition company that has decided it wants to be a value-adding company. This surfaces in a myriad of corporate programs that demonstrate little awareness of what's going on outside Westport executive HQ. At the AWP division, the friendliness that is such a positive can manifest itself as an unwillingness on the part of senior management to deal head-on with crappy interpersonal behaviours or political shenaningans.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep listening to Team Members -- don't let yourself get isolated with just the uppermost levels of management, who all too often seem to tell you just what you want to hear.