Tenneco Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Tenneco full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good salary, friendly atmosphere, many talented people

Cons – Poor senior management quality, completely no vision for future development

Advice to Senior Management – Empower you staff and let them work as they want.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco full-time for less than a year

Pros – Decent Pay. 11/hour starting out with staffing company. 12.65 after 3 months.

Set hours.

Job security is good. Not much else.

Cons – Very boring, monotonous work. Do the same thing over and over and over all day.

Can be hard manual labor for those not used to that.

Management is runs around like chickens with their head cut off. More concerned about sucking up to the manager above them than doing a good job.

You are just a cog in the machine.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the points system for sick days. It makes you seem like you don't value your employees as human beings. I realize your excuse is "this is how the industry does it". How many great companies do things because that is how the industry does it?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good pay and easy to get overtime.

Cons – Ridiculous hours and unsafe work conditions.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your subordinates with more respect and listen to their concerns.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tenneco

Pros – you make pretty good money but also learn about a different way of life

Cons – poor working conditions as it is a dangerous place to work at points

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco

Pros – Bright future in emission control business

Cons – Less opportunities compared with bigger companies

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco

Pros – No better jobs available in this economy, decent wages for maintenace and team leaders..Union offers a tiny bit of protection from favortism.

Cons – Too Many management pets, and pet projects wasting money on inappropriate things like 5-S and Kaizon junk, but won't spend enough to properly get a quality product to the customer. HR has a personal vendetta against virtually all former Delphi people that were bought as part of the package when buying the plant.. Worst part of that issue is that it;s the former Delphi Salaried that hold the grudge, not the Tenneco management team from above. With One exception the upper Management (not from this plant) Seem to be honest including the CEO..

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of excess padded management levels at the plant, use the money to hire enough Maintenance people to fix the equipment properly.. YOUR own MISSION statement states CUSTOMER is first and SHAREHOLDERS..not wasting company funds on personal vendettas on people just because we belong to a Union. EFFICIENCY would be 90% instead of 65% if you had properly trained Skilled tades doing the jobs instead of operators and supervisors who aren't qualified to flip burgers at McDonalds, much less fix complicated equipment.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco

Pros – Atmosphere.They do not encourage bad mouthing of other employees which helps with employee encouragement to advance in social and healthy environment.

Cons – 3rd shift.But 3rd shift anywhere.The only thing worse would be 2nd shift.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco

Pros – Flexible hours and that is about it

Cons – Promotions are limited - always a dangling carrot.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop the practice of offering raises and counter-offers when someone resigns. Cherish your employees while you still have them, not when they walk out the door.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tenneco

Pros – Good pay for the location. Great medical and dental benefits. Once hired on great attendance policy. HR does back their open door policy.

Cons – Favoritism among family members seems to be awful high. Discipline is not handed out fairly. Communication between management and workers is extremely lacking (especially on the off shifts). Too many in management trying to make all the rules with no concept how the processes actually work.

Current Employee – been working at Tenneco

Pros – Tenneco is a growing company who has great growth and even in a bad company keeps growing. The benifts are good with retirement and a 401k match which most companies have done away with they continue to match. Good chances to advance and if you come to work every day they treat you well.

Cons – Some times long hours with no notice to make plans is a downfall for working with tenneco. Sometimes it is not to be avoided as the customers tend to be difficult to deal with.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work with the communication with the employees. It goes a long way. You treat them with respect and they will work had and do the right things to keep the company successful.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend