Sinter Metals Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"I have worked for GKN Sinter Metals for 26 years. They have lost focus on any long term systems and procedures. People who work there are good on the whole."

"Manufacturer of Sintered Metal Components for Automotive applications"

"GKN is filler with great people. Many changes since being taken over by private equity in 2017."

"Good workplace. Great employees."

"If I would have listened to the voice in my head..."

What do you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"Customer interaction is the best part of the job, however it was limited by management"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't listen to their promises, find another company worth your time"

What don't you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"The management personnel and style of the plant level management as well as the corporate managers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Practice what you preach, stop pretending that you are a world class company. Show that you value your employees."

What do you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"Growth opportunities within various segments and large multi-national company with development opportunities"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The company, regardless of size of particular facility, has opportunity to learn because all locations must comply with overall corporate reporting and business organizations requirements"

What don't you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"The Conover facility is smallest facility and limited opportunities within the actual facility until future growth occurs"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on growth by making the sales and marketing side of the business more engrained in culture of facility"

"I was HSE over 6 locations and the only reason I left is due to plant closures."

What do you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"I loved my job."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"To me it was a great place to work."

What don't you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"That the plants shut down."

"Previous a good opportunity but recently unsettled."

"Salem Plant is one of the worst for incompetent managers"

What do you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"The processes and jobs that were done while working there as far as learning technical subjects."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be ready to BS your way to the top. Your education or competency means nothing. Company promotes known BS artists and those who lie are especially valued."

What don't you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"Bad management, management by the seat of their pants, no strategic vision, lack of competent personnel in management and engineering."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Clean out the entire ship and start looking to hire some of the best and brightest instead of hiring dull and incompetent people who are there just to leech off a paycheck. By the way, I worked there nearly 10 years and was able to finish my college and move off to bigger and better things."

"Plant closed due to a Union so they are not very flexable but a good company."

What do you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"They had a good core group of employees that were very diverse in skill helping the learning of those who were both advanced and not as skilled or newer to the job."

What don't you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"They were not very diverse in there product it was all tied to one part of the automotive buisness and when they lost the contract we were all out on the street."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need to be more diverse and more in touch with the market and future buisness."

What do you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"The knowledge I obtain through there process's."

What don't you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"Company downsizing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Review there processes better."

"This was their motto If you can't hack it pack it"

What do you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"You get to know what the real world is about.Production first at all cost... your second."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I worked for almost 30 years with this company. The last 5 of them were bad, they took our work gave it to the sister company's and eventually closed us down all in order to save a buck. I haven't been able to find work else where because I believe they fix it so you can't. you can give all your time and life with them but there is a employee file that is kept on you if your not liked then that's it. The management is down right brutal toward it workers. Nothing matters to them but making the product. The most severe weather came be outside but you have to not only report in on time and I mean on time, not a minute late, and don't even think of leaving early if a bad storm comes in during your shift because the attendance policy is in- human."

What don't you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"I helped me to understand what the real world was about. business, profit, greed, back stabbing, kill the competitor at all cost. You work for the stock and share holders and that means this is all that matters.Your personal like doesn't matter."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop beating up on each other in order to get brownie points. Stop treating the workers as slaves for you to gain your edge with the big boys by pushing them beyond the limit of being a human over productivity. Show some compassion and heart when your worker comes to you when he is sick, other than telling that person to go back to work and make your Doctors visit after hours in order not to get a warning for taking time off."

"Not the company portrayed when interviewing with them."

What don't you like about working at Sinter Metals?

"No thought given to work-life balance. GKN is first, the rest of your life and career goals are third at best."