Smiths Medical Reviews

Pros

-Work life integration is one of the best I've experienced
-Executive leadership team has a high say/do ratio and is working diligently to impart that on the rest of the organization
-My particular team/function was extremely empowered by our leader, but also held closely accountable for our decisions and their outcomes
-The CEO and other leadership are clear, concise and share the plain truth
-People genuinely care about each other and the impact they have on people's lives each day
-Culture and values are a central part of the organization and people feel connected to it

Advice to Management

Keep up the great work you're doing to transform the organization, but focus on empowering the next level down to run with their businesses/functions to demonstrate to them that you have trust in what they're doing.

Pros

The experience of working for a multinational company is good. Most jobs let you work from home.

Advice to Management

Invest in your people, there is a wealth of talent going to waste in most of these facilities

Pros

We save lives. I love what we do and do everything I can to spread the word about the amazing company I work for. The people I work with are very knowledgeable and do anything they can to help the customer. I started from the bottom and worked my way up.

Advice to Management

If you are closing 1 dept. at a site, have that dept. train new people before leaving. We have lost so much knowledge and information by not doing that. It makes the learning curve much longer for the new employees.

Pros

Ground level employees are great people

Advice to Management

Don't push your employees so far. Doing more with less is one thing, but when people are consistently working overtime and STILL behind, they need more people.
Employees like what they do,but simply having a job/paycheck isn't rewarding when they dread Monday morning.
This company has the potential to do great things, if they would quit abusing the people they have.
Supervisors and managers, need to quit being "yes people". Look out for those that are working as hard as they can for you, instead of just the next step up.
Upper management needs to develope a training/mentor program for anyone they want to move into a supervisor/manager role BEFORE promotion. Just because you know your job doesn't mean your ready to be in a role over others.
If your employees are TRULY happy, your turnover rate would be minimal. Those who have been with Smiths for any length of time (since the Medex days) aren't staying because it's a great place to work, it's because the market isn't that great and they'd rather have something instead of nothing.
This company could be great, if you get out of your own way.

Pros

Most colleagues are nice to work with.
Minneapolis facility (really located in Plymouth) is nice and has a good atmosphere.

Advice to Management

Hire more people to spread out work loads.

Pros

None. The VP of facilities (yes it takes a VP to run the Minneapolis building) will taunt you with how much the company invested in you when they got the new building with the desks, lighting and the bathrooms being an investment in you and your career.

Advice to Management

Invest in your resources compensation packages and training. Force everyone to follow the process. Hold everyone accountable to the same metric.

Advice to applicants: they might look shiny from the outside it take 3 month or less to regret deciding to work for them .So unless you are interested in stress, lack of work life balance, and lack of objective, run for your life.

Pros

Great people to work with

Advice to Management

Learn the word "investment".......look it up in the dictionary if you have to. Your products are old.........very old. It is impossible, repeat impossible, to be competitive with your pre-millennium products. The market is innovating around you. Competitors are merging to leverage their strengths, and you morons are still trying to survive with 20 year old technology. Get your head out of there......or you're done!

Pros

Excellent CEO, very genuine person and a great leader! Energetic and fun atmosphere to work in.

Advice to Management

Keep the great energy and foster the excellent talent within the organization.

Pros

For the most part, good people
Break schedule splits up day well
If you become skilled, the job becomes easy

Advice to Management

Stop saying you're going to do something and just do it, IT SAVES MONEY.

Respect the employees that are here now and your turnaround won't average 5 weeks.

Stop buying cheap materials, saving 2,000$ a year in the cheapest air fittings has cost you 20,000$ total just in the extra time it takes to remove the cheap garbage, per machine.

HR department is, by far, the worst. No doubt her resume was fake, and you fell for that load of nonsense.

Offer incentives, nobody wants to work 3 times as hard for nothing. Would've stuck around if there wasn't so much false hope of progression within the company.

Pros

It's a nice building and that's it

Advice to Management

Learn how to compete in the medical device market, it's not that hard.