Cons
No career growth. No raises. No bonuses. No training. You either know what you are doing or you don't. High turnover. Management hires maintenance personnel who don't know what they are doing and end up quitting or getting fired. This leads to equipment degradation and increased down times.
Extremely low parts availability. They use a third part inventory company and you're lucky if they have the parts they say they do and what they do have often times are parts we don't even need anymore.
Lots of equipment cannibalization. If one line goes down parts will be pulled off another line to get it running just to turn around and pull the parts off to put on another line or back on the original.
Can't keep enough people employed causing mechanics to be overworked and lose enthusiasm.
High emphasis on completing work orders to make numbers look good, but due to all the above PMs tend to get pencil whipped and not actually done.
Management doesn't have their priorities straight. They worry more about how everything looks rather than how everything is actually working. Management gets paid big bucks to sit around staring at cameras all day and night trying to catch people breaking rules so they can write them up and complaining about maintenance not being able to get things up and running when management doesn't give us the tools to succeed.
The mechanic supervisors can't train because they don't even know what they are doing. They are only supervisors because they are buddy buddy with each other and are the only ones who haven't been fired or quit. We have to get help from the electricians, because they are the only ones who have the ability to actually troubleshoot and figure out what is going on and for night shift there is only one electrician and if they call out then multiple lines will go down the entire night. They are pretty overworked too.
The company has changed names three times in the past two years, and it seems to get worse here with each day that goes by.
Management only cares about their ESOP and making their personal stock go up.