Pros
Hands-on experience working at the Three Rivers plant in the materials team. Since this position wears so many hats (working so closely with external logistics, internal shipping, material planning/inventory management, and some production scheduling) you get a chance to learn a lot and interact with a lot of different departments. If you have a passion for manufacturing, working with many different teams (production supervisors, quality, engineering, shipping, purchasing, line workers, material handlers, the OEM customer, etc), and are generally a workaholic who enjoys thinking about work even off-the-clock it could be a good opportunity.
Cons
The company culture encouraged a hostile work environment, from upper-level management down. It was normal to hear the managers hollering at suppliers, other members of their team, and talk disrespectfully. We were expected to be on call at all times and would get calls from shipping or have to follow up with a supplier or trucking company at any hour of the night at times, and during weekends. We would regularly be asked to come in on the weekends, sometimes on both Saturday and Sunday, if a line was running, or to count parts for the week. The schedulers are set up to fail with the systems in place, which aren't applied well. They mostly hire recent grads without families who would be able to give so much of their lives to a job and people who left work at a decent time everyday (for responsibilities as a parent, for example) were looked down on as not committed enough to work longer hours. It's a tough position to be a tier 1 supplier since they're constantly asked to do more with less and make cuts where they can, but it was not a sustainable lifestyle and daily tense environment to work in. The plant was notorious for bad turnover in just about every department.
