No personal time and not much for developing engineering skills - Production Supervisor II Ecolab Employee Review

1.0
Mar 18, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Decent senior management, fair amount of training regarding Ecolab system, external safety training, etc

Cons

Absolutely no personal time (plant is setup for 5 day work week. Many weeks - and generally all of summer, is 7 day operation. With 4-5 supervisors, that equals about 60-80 hours per week at times - sometimes more. Majority of day is spent reviewing hundred plus page packaging records (did an operator place a "T" or "F" for a quality check. Not very motivating for an engineer. Complaints of bias in promotions has some truth, but when you are working all those hours, my concern was much more on getting home than who got promoted. Magazine reports of great place to work is based on HQ and not plant environment. Of course HQ has high ratings - 5 day/40 hour work week, onsite bank+ perks, etc. would be great.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

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