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Alcoa Operations Manager Employee Reviews

What do you like best about the leadership team?

Leadership Reviews

They are always open to frank discussion

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What does the leadership team need to get better at?

Leadership Reviews

Management is the worst I've ever seen

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Middle and upper management are in their own little world, HR is terrible, bad managers and engineers are rehired, good people trying to move up are blown off.

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Following through. Planning. Maintenance. Attitude towards employees.training

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Stop the micro-managing and use common sense. Develope a better preventative maintenance program. Develope proactive mentality instead of reactive mentalities. It would save millions on maintenance costs.

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Respecting employees, creating a sense of unity. Managers need to be held accountable for their teams and themselves.

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What is the best part about your compensation package?

Compensation Reviews

I like the 401 match

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Health insurance and prescription benefits.

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Good benefits, good pay minimal bonus

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My pay is always there on Thursday

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The health insurance coverage is wonderful and premiums are very low.

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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?

Compensation Reviews

Do not listen to suggestions from the floor and does not respect the union contract

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Leadership does not take ownership of where he or she is working, communication is very low, morrall is a all time low, benfits are shrinking

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If you can pay a ceo $100 million to leave the company the money I receive all though higher than some other companies is still clearly not being appropriately distributed...

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What are some of the best things about your team?

Team Reviews

We work in a very cooperative way

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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?

Team Reviews

People need to be more confident in their own decision making. They also need to better themselves. Learning doesn't stop when you are employed.

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They need to be trained. Our training is non existant

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Listen to each other's ideas.

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We have the best team I've ever worked with. 20 years. But the morral is very low.

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Some people most certainly need to pull more of their weight but management doesn’t care who does what as long as the job gets done

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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

Environment Reviews

The willingness to help one another

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Some managers, but not all, thank the machine shop machinists for executing emergency work in a safe and timely manner.

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Most everyone gets along great

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What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Environment Reviews

Was a good environment 5 years ago, but multiple managerial changes/turnovers yield near-constant turmoil.

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Arconic does not concern itself with work life balance. Women have no voice and all the women managers have been driven out. Disrespect and belittling is an everyday occurrence.

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To much to wright without being totally negative.

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Make sure we have a future!!

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Working with old machinery and wanting production numbers up, just doesnt mix at times.

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What makes you most happy at work?

Outlook Reviews

The overall achievements I make

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Safe is first and quality

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When everything is running right and nothing is broke down

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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?

Outlook Reviews

Pay is stagnant, although it used to be the area leader. Management turnover/movement is high.

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There is nothing but production. No safety,training ,planning,we are understaffed, no advancement oppurtunities,no quality in our products. It never was like this before. May need a shakeup of our management team

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The machine shop general manager has no idea what he is doing when managing a machine shop. Besides, he has an attitude that he is better than everyone else. He says some people "are beneath him."

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Alcoa/Arconic knows about the problems at our site but refuse to address them because at the end of every month we make our numbers.

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They need to bring someone from outside in with a open ear and open mind to listen to the people. Waco Texas. The morral is the worst in my 20 years of service. And that's across the whole plant

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