Terex Reviews

Pros

They have a good product

Cons

Its a boys club atmosphere

Pros

decent pay and benefits, vacation time

Cons

Micromanaged to death, no advancement

Pros

Empower team members to implement improvements

Cons

Behind the times, technology averse

Advice to Management

Focus more on lean with administrative and management, not just production

Pros

I was part of a great intelligent team which Terex got lucky enough to hire and put together.

Cons

Once upon a time, Terex had a manufacturing facility in Waverly, Iowa that made very great cranes! However, this was a union plant and that made Terex very mad. So, Terex came up with a plan to shut down the plant and relocate the operations to OKC because this was a non-union plant that paid low wages. Brilliant! Surely, no other detail had to be thought of, because this was definitely going to be a win-win... situation. So, operations moved, and then Terex made very bad cranes. This blew people's minds! How could this have happened?! No way! So sarcasm aside now, Terex literally only kept cranes alive for 2 years after the move from Waverly which was an epic disaster due to the bozos that put this plan together. So they sold off cranes and laid everyone off with it. They also used this time to layoff anyone else they didn't like. The reviews about the inner circle are true, and anyone intelligent shouldn't want to be involved in this incompetent mess. Not to mention, the severance package was an absolute slap in the face. Stay far away from this company because I guarantee they have no idea what they really want to accomplish in the next 5 years (or one year at that), and all they're really trying to do is make a quick buck and not make a great reputable company. If it wasn't for Genie, this company would've been bankrupt or bought out by now. Oh, and did I mention when I was hired on, Terex's plan was to make the OKC facility the "flagship" location that built for all 3 divisions (MP, Cranes, AWP) with eventually 1000+ employees? That was literally told to me in 2017. Boy, that plan changed awfully fast!

Advice to Management

None because they don't listen anyway.

Pros

People that work ther floor are awesome

Cons

TMs are treated as if they are worthless

Advice to Management

It would benefit the company not to be 2 faced when dealing with TMS.

Pros

Working in a department with very few people is great, leadership in this department was strong and supportive giving the 2 individuals the knowledge to grow and challenged us daily.

Cons

If you are not part of the inner circle you are nothing to this site. Upper management is lacking in areas that can not be fixed without change of personnel. With leadership on site steering the ship in multiple ways for personal gain, the middle level and below are the ones that suffer. Promotions are handed to individuals that are part of the inner circle at a drop of a dime, with those individuals taking all... credit for hard working individuals behind. When a culture promotes safety first but, cares about the product going out the door more than the individuals putting machines together this is what you get. The pay is below standard on industry anywhere from 10-20k based on individuals coming out of college so they will be able to lowball. Use this as a stepping stone for future endeavors it can be a great learning experience and resume builder but, be prepared for major hurdles and little to no teaching from senior operation leaders.

Advice to Management

Care and see what individuals are bringing to the table without driving your own agenda.

Pros

I had one of the best bosses (Soham Basu) I think I'll ever have in my life. Team was incredible to work with. Amazing level of professional discretion and autonomy to perform work my way. (None of these things are still at Terex since the big layoffs)

Cons

Upper management is clueless and is only focused on metrics. Their inability to lead caused Terex to lose its mobile cranes and resulted in the layoffs of dozens of people. Pay is low: they will lowball you. They won't want to give good reviews. They won't want to give raises... Unless you're in the precious inner circle of people. You don't want to be though, because it's an echo chamber of failure and... ineptitude. Office politics: the layoffs had no rhyme or reason. They kept new people, let go experienced workers. Kept the jerks, let go the nice employees. Kept some high paid employees, let go low paid. Changed their minds up to the day some were supposed to be laid off. Some supervisors get extra changes and continually fail, others get fired/demoted for a single failure. There's no consistency and this location frequently ignores company policy. In fact, they laid off the employee responsible for making sure Terex OKC followed corporate policy, because she kept intervening in terrible decision making. They cared more about efficiency than accurate metrics. Middle managers tweaked and forged data to make efficiencies look better, when the company was bleeding money due to takt time and other production issues. They made no effort to account for higher costs associated with steel tariffs. They prey on recent college grads to get more for less. They tried to unhire a co-worker when he tried to negotiate his salary upon receiving an offer letter that was several thousand less than the recruiter advertised. There is no job stability here. There are few opportunities for growth in pay or position. No overtime pay unless you're working on the floor. Engineers get overworked for no extra pay (and remember they lowball the salary already).

Pros

Freedom to learn and apply

Cons

Some leadership people are biased