Watlow Electric Manufacturing Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Watlow Electric Manufacturing as an intern for less than a year

Pros – -Great atmosphere, very laid back...much like a family
   -People are very friendly and have a lot of expertise, great for a developing engineer
-Very diverse amount of work for a company that mainly makes heaters
-Wide variety of markets targeted...creates stability

Cons – -Lack of communication and knowledge of floor operations between manufacturing and management
-Antiquated equipment and software scattered about the company
-Difficult to work with other divisions
-Information learned from past and current projects is not accessible for future endeavors

Advice to Senior Management – Pick and organization structure and stick with it. Reorganizations take a lot of time and money and greatly reduce the companies ability to operate.

Managers need to be working on the floor and experiencing (understanding) first-hand the challenges that production/manufacturing go through. There is no substitute for first-hand experience.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Watlow Electric Manufacturing as an intern for less than a year

Pros – At least I get my pay check on time

Cons – The company is a mess - senior management do meetings for a living

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 Watlow Electric Manufacturing

Pros – Clean and comfortable work environment. Above average wages for the area and decent benefits. My co-workers are quality and customer focused and we still have a little fun too!

Cons – There is no such thing as a merit raise, pay increases are based on an average across the board. If you get more someone else gets less. Then pay is balanced across your pay band so if you get more one year, you will get less the next year.

Advice to Senior Management – Practice what you preach.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Watlow Electric Manufacturing

Pros – Progressive implementation of lean methods; growth driven opportunity for advancement (before market recession)

Cons – negative impact of semiconductor downturn and others brought swift reductions; family-owned company starting to treat employees like a traded company!

Advice to Senior Management – Trust site personnel more to manage their operations

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Watlow Electric Manufacturing full-time

Pros – Good job mobility
Fairly stable employment (for office staff)
Healthy relationships with customers

Cons – Poor business systems - dated and very limiting
Excellence and mediocrity both rewarded with 3% salary increases
Very slow performance - can not work at the speed of their customers
Very unwilling to add resources to support aggressive growth strategies

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on growth and investment in the business and earnings will follow, not visa versa.

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 Watlow Electric Manufacturing

Pros – Good pay, people is very friendly and family feel. Flexible and supportive manager

Cons – Working environment need to improve.
SALES team are content and in their comfort zone.
Too traditional ways of doing business..
Computer system for operation.. suck! rely too much on manual work.
Slow support and communication from inter company...

Advice to Senior Management – Focus more on future strategy! like more customer! more market share! Area to focus!
Don't keep improving for nothing without knowing the ultimate direction! (Zoom out!)
Give mission to your employee! motivate them! give them the reason to fight for Watlow! just like other best company did!
Throw your "arrow" away and start using "Gun & Cannon" .....Open your eyes because improving "arrow" won't lead you to any where!

Current Employee – been working at Watlow Electric Manufacturing

Pros – Watlow has a very competive benefit package including health, dental, 401k, and vision. They offer free health screenings and offer dicounts to local gyms. They look out for their employees!

Cons – Watlow is making a tranformation. In doing so we are reducing inventory and tring to build only as needed, but our order jump so much it is have to keep up. Either we are running out of parts or we have to run the same build again that we just ran yesterday.

Advice to Senior Management – Watlow is its own company. Don't try to make it run like another company. With inconsistent orders we cannot plan efficiently.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Watlow Electric Manufacturing

Pros – Watlow is privately owned company and very family orientated. They have the best vacation schedule I have seen. Watlow is truly one big family and very dedicated to their employees.

Cons – For me the downside at Watlow currently is being to strapped to my everyday work, no time to cross train and make myself more versitile to doing other things to help the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to recognize the efforts of many that can offer so much more to Watlow if given the chance. So many times I see this everyday, and new people are brought in without giving a chance to someone already there.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Watlow Electric Manufacturing

Pros – ONLY the experiance they give you.

Cons – Almost everything. Poor management, from the Plant Manager to your Lead Operator.

Advice to Senior Management – There wasn't any. We would work our hearts out and wouldn't even get a "congratulations" for your work that you did. Even when you didn't have any D.R's (discrepancy report).

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Watlow Electric Manufacturing

Pros – Pay was usually on-time. Usually had heat during the winter. Senior management has a great vision and message for investors,..too bad it doesn't translate down to the plant level.

Cons – I told one person I worked for Watlow and they actually started laughing out loud. The person told me that they had seen one of the electronics plants, and was in disbelief that Watlow felt they were competitive in high tech.

Advice to Senior Management – Senior management needs to relieve middle management of their responsibilities

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend