Vought Aircraft Reviews

Pros

benefits and pay are great

Cons

if we go on strike bc we are union

Advice to Senior Management

Work hard

Pros

Good place to start to gain some experience in the aerospace industry .
Gotta love the 25 cent progression raises every 3 months and COLA raises
Good, friendly, helpful people to work with

Cons

low starting pay. 10 bucks an hour.

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

We have a Very good team!

Cons

The company and all its sites Old school.

Pros

- Low politics
- People work together
- Friendly environment

Cons

- Shutting down the engineering department
- Outsourcing engineering to India
- Lack of analysis tools causes engineering costs to be so high that the company cannot win bids

Advice to Senior Management

- Rather than outsourcing to India get some REAL methods tools to get your engineering hours down.
- If you can get your engineers working more efficiently you will be able to offer more competitive bids.

Pros

Job stability, benefits are good. Laid back and not a lot of overtime. My coworkers are fun to work with.

Cons

There is a lot of non standardized processes that slow work and functionality down. We have new computer systems that haven't been fully integrated.

Pros

Good salary for local area

Cons

Communication, respect, poor performance feedback (nobody gets a "5")

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your subject matter experts. they're telling you the things that will help you.

Pros

Good place to work for.
Well run company

Cons

less chance for growth
HR is not helpful.

Advice to Senior Management

focus on the business growth and less on cost cutting.

Pros

The people are overall friendly and the company is starting to make changes to modernize. People are helpful when you ask for it, otherwise it is kind of a quiet workplace

Cons

Training was non-existent. I was an intern and you would think they would be interested in training me to hopefully get hired on fulltime at some point, but my training consisted of 2 hours of being shown a powerpoint and telling myself to familiarize myself with hundreds of pages of procurement procedures.

Advice to Senior Management

More formal training processes. Get some newer systems. the company has a hard time changing, especially with their IT systems.

Pros

Complete individual medical and dental benefits available available for very low cost
Good retirement package w/ default company contribution plus company match

Cons

Entrenched Senior Management refuses to diversify product portfolio

Advice to Senior Management

Get involved with more than one massive customer

Pros

Fairly laid back working environment.
Plenty of overtime opportunities even as an intern (at least when I was there).
Fair overtime pay.
Fairly important work given to interns.

Cons

Perceived expectation from managers to work a lot of overtime (up to 70 hours per week).
You'll need the overtime because the regular pay isn't that competitive.
Interesting (dysfunctional) dynamic between direct employees and contractors.

Advice to Senior Management

Immediate leadership overall wasn't too bad based on my limited experience (summer internship). There obviously were problems with upper management getting their contractual obligations filled, though. I would suggest better compensation for direct employees and less reliance on generally less productive contract labor.