A lot of changes - Production Team Member NORMAC Employee Review

NORMAC is not your typical manufacturing company where employees get paid to make parts. This is a truly lean company that takes pride in developing people to be problem solvers who can improve processes to be slightly better every day. While that sounds easy and exciting, it is hard and sometimes frustrating. But if you keep an open mind to possibilities, willing to embrace scientific thinking, and ready to celebrate failures (learnings) then this is the place for you. When you walk in the shop you are not going to see a dirty, dangerous, depressing workplace but a team where everyone from the owner to the most recent hire can teach you a thing or two about lean thinking.

There isn't really a con except that the pace of production is slower than a typical manufacturing environment. This focus on quality rather than quantity may not be appealing to everyone.

Customers are very old, continuing to make purchases, despite that they choose to ignore them and make constant mistakes.

The management is a perfect example of the Peter Principal. They have one executive, with three titles, who does not have the skills and experience necessary to complete even one of them competently. They still think its acceptable office policy for management to flip out and shout at employees, in front of the other employees, whenever the mood strikes them. They also have a passion for publicly firing people “on the spot” even though management has specifically promised the employee that it would never happen to them. The “on the spot” firings happen on a regular basis and there is shouting, by the management, involved even when the employee is reacting calmly. Totally unprofessional and unacceptable.