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The company is going through a restructuring and all of the ex Delphi sites (that are left open) are taking on the Borgwarner way (LA/GS model - local accountability, global strength). Except that's not true for all the business units. So there's a lack of consistency and clarity what it really means and if it makes any difference. 

Lots of knowledge and experience is being lost because central functions are being moved to the plants. The remaining global functions have no clarity on the work and where the boundary ends between local and global - management makes it up as it suits them. So the current atmosphere is quite negative, unless you work in software part of the site or the rotary manufacturing area.

The site has been refurbished, but it's not helped much. The men's toilets still have ice cold water. Not even COVID guidelines of washing hands with warm water changed that. In short the 'facilities management' is an old boys club, lacking any competency.

The work itself is no longer exciting as the ICE future is in its last decade. So the work is mostly on extending legacy products or rehashing the last iteration of current technology. It's ok if you're close to retirement, but if you want some excitement, I suggest you look elsewhere.

two years is a short time to turn a company from a world class company to a company no longer trustworthy on safety and quality. New top management have butcherd the supervision  structure to a dangerous level. The reduction of middle management means the daily tasks are no longer supervised to a high standard. Production scores are now priority safety is a close second and quality is now critically unstable. Remove supervision from a class of children and the disciplined routine which holds it together is lost. Our overstretched team leaders are no longer capable of controlling new staff who are not accustomed to our strict quality controls.  HR are distant and detached from reality. Management incapable and invisible.

It is perhaps expected that there is less flexibility working for a corporation as large as BorgWarner however even so the amount of managers and different teams and structures within seperate departments creates a very fractured and segregated / siloed environment which means getting any meaningful work done can sometimes be a very arduous drawn out process for no other reason than having to get through all the red tape and bureaucracy.

Having said that, one benefit of working for a large company with what was quite a resourceful HR department meant that salary was competitive and personal support for employees wellbeing while working there was above what you may expect which should be commended.

I hoped for great things with BorgWarner but the business is a huge disappointment to the industry. Poor processes in place using outdated practices. Process documents are inadequate, seemingly created when dinosaurs walked the earth.  Office culture leaves a lot to be desired...colleagues on the whole seemed unhappy with the workload and processes, poor team mentality and attitudes aside from a few. Higher level management surprisingly unprofessional with poor management styles and inadequate training. Just a very unrewarding experience altogether sadly.

Borg Warner is an excellent place to work. There are numerous opportunities to develop and succeed in the work place.
I believe that there is a fantastic future for engineering in Bradford with Borg Warner with interests from high profile automotive giants Land-rover Jaguar, Ford and such. State of the art new technologies advanced poki yoki assembly production structures. You will work alongside some very professional people. It can also be fun with plenty of comradely between departments with social activities and challenges.

I was at the Gillingham location for one week on nights , the money was good but you really need a hard mentality to be in this kind of work , it’s messy , exhausting & degrading , although I didn’t leave for these reasons … I left as the best connection staff at the location & the manager are extremely rude , they talk to you and look down at you like your a lower than them, I'm a previous small business owner and I’ve never would treat my staff in such a way. However the supervisor was a lovely guy , and my co workers were very nice :) I wish them the best of luck in the future 

Work place is ok health and safety is a bit neglected. No one cares  in general. Contract is hard to get so you doomed to work for bad agencies. Nights is something I don’t appreciate but that’s persona. Far away so quite a bit of money on transport. My manager is lovely. Some work on machine is very easy and some are with ridiculous expectations. No one helps. My machine is very very very busy and expectations are not realistic when other machine is pretty much press’s a button and wait for 20 min. 

People on shop floor are predominantly excellent to work with whilst the management are generally very poor and constantly shifting making it difficult for employees.
A lot of long term office and management individuals who don't know anything outside the plant who generally consider themselves better than everyone else purely due to length of service. Unfortunately they are in reality poor at what they do and in fact only excel in self preservation.
Also appalling communication all of which adds up to an unstable work experience 

The shopfloor staff are all very welcoming, although some longer serving employees think they are better than you, the team leaders is a situation of the blind leading the blind. The PTM’s and their bosses are useless and just rule with an iron fist. Very clean factory and also good canteen, just make sure you don’t try sneak an extra second for your break time otherwise you’ll be punished. Very militant regime, and also HR are useless and very sly. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND 

I work at borgwarner the staff workers were good but the management and supervisors not fair at all this is one of them places if your face fits your ok if not then there get rid of you or mess you about make you do long hours always watching you on your back i would never work in that enveiroment again you do something wrong there on top of you don't know how to speck to you can't solve problems in a professional manner waste of time not a happy place to work.

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