Eichenauer Heizelemente Reviews

Management has a tendency to over manage and not let people get the job done without unnecessary oversight.

Kiosk meetings that lack importance and create too much-lost production time, employee turnover, aged equipment that creates production downtime, and lack of performance feedback from upper management. Toxic upper management that lacks leadership and management skills to succeed in a Team Environment setting. The current President of this organization struggles with leadership and management skills that foster a dedicated team environment and culture of growth. Cultural improvements are lacking where collaboration, teamwork, respect, and trust start from the top down. I spoke to another employee he fired recently as well, and I was informed he was telling them that I had issues with them! This was a false statement and not how you build a proper team environment by stirring internal conflict with nonfactual statements. He is old school when it comes to his style of leadership. Negative emotions by him during shift Kiosk meetings and how he speaks to employees randomly on the floor with a sense of arrogance do not foster a healthy culture of success or respect. It was proven that you will be fired without warning, without being provided with proper documentation or written warnings. I experienced emotional decisions made versus having crucial conversations to find out why employees might be failing in his eyes to cause him to terminate. No employee should ever be terminated and left not knowing what they did wrong. If that is the case, the manager failed his employee. As this career opportunity was not what I envisioned when I met with the President a year ago and did not end how I envisioned. My goal was to be part of an organization for the duration of my professional career. My job description was ‘get parts out the door’. Unfortunately, I experienced too many red flags that made it clear to me that I did not want to be part of this organization long-term. Currently, the President struggles with communication skills and providing effective feedback. 1 on 1 was ineffective as his feedback to me was nonexistent. Improvements are also required in Team Management where upper management needs to focus on team collaboration, providing clear responsibilities, and expectations, and developing leadership within the team. I did learn a tremendous amount about dealing with production-related staffing issues that I never experienced in my career before working at Eichenauer, dated equipment that is in constant need of attention that hampers production output, and dealing with conflict and substance abuse issues in the workplace. This is an organization attempting to still find themselves who they are and how to get it done successfully without constant change. The focus should be culture-based focused on employee growth, retention, understanding employee needs, and creating core values the organization lives by from the top down. You will hear negative feedback from long-tenured employees when the company consistently adds shifts and removes shifts. When I started during the summer of 2023, there were 4 assembly shifts. I was directed to remove 1 shift after starting due to underperformance, and then remove the balance of that shift in December 2023. I was informed I must remove another assembly shift by the end of May 2024 due to budgetary reasons. Upon being let go, there was a fair chance to bring back an additional assembly shift due to lack of productivity due to lack of labor hours due to call out, open positions, and down equipment time that created lost production. We had over 150k of finished goods in stock in April 2024and after the shutdown in July 2024 we were down to 64k remaining Through 27 weeks in 2024, I recorded over 7500 lost labor hours, this is an ongoing issue with this organization. Production goals were proven to be hit if the assembly teams lived in a perfect world and production teams were held together. My forecasted projections given at the start of June were extremely close and not taken seriously by the President. Getting back to the safe inventory level will be a challenge without constant overtime or bringing back an additional shift. Over 20k parts were lost in inventory in 1 week due to equipment failure that shut down assembly production!