manufacturing engineer

program manager

apprentice

quality engineer

engineer

Collins-Aerospace

A typical day at work for me starts at 7:30am, I would like to get here earlier however bus times restrict that. I get in to work and go straight to the boot room to prepare for the day ahead, I put on my overalls, glasses and work boots. I go down to the shop floor greet everyone good morning, and take a look at the R&O wall where jobs are ordered by priority. If there is work there I will get on with that. If not i will find my manager and request work. The most enjoyable part of the job is it's organised nature, and my co workers. They make my day most of the time. I would say the hardest part of the job would be the early start and commute, after a long day at work the one thing I dislike the most is getting on to a bus with a lot of loud school children. I have learned how to lap, gap and counter lap flat face valves. I can use a speed hone, surface grinder, hydraulic test rigs, milling machine and lathe and perform most assembly activities including wire locking. I have limited experience on a centred grinder also. I would love to learn everything and anything I possibly can as i am an apprentice just out of their time. I love engineering! Work life is not as fun anymore due to the fact that our site is being made to close within the next year and a half.

Rockwell Collins is a pioneer in the design, production and support of innovative solutions in aerospace and defence. Our expertise in flight-deck avionics, cabin electronics, mission communications, information management and simulation and training is strengthened by our global service and support network spanning 27 countries.

 Managed stock control and inventory, sourced required parts, raised purchase orders as required within budgetary limits.Monitored spending and budgets for parts and supplies.
Acted as point of contact between (RCUK) and other company international RC locations.
Co-ordinating with purchasing (RCUK) and production planners in the U.S.A
Raising reports to see where RIH stock parts are and if they have a AWB checking with the shipping agents via their websites to see where they are. Advising our imports department on AWB so we get through customs promptly.
Also advising Cell & Group leads on shop floor when to expect parts they have requested.
Exercising judgement within defined procedures to determine appropriate action.
Purchasing of chemicals providing COSHH data and marking up chemicals with COSHH and life expiry date.
Helped with the change over from AS400 / Mapics to SAP. This was a stock count run over 3 days

Everyday varies from one to another, an example would be. Starting by checking your emails for any information regarding any outstanding jobs, queries, or responses to customer requests.

Prioritise the work accordingly. Carry out all necessary work required to complete the tasks requested. Liase with Customer Service Advisors and Customer Service Engineers where required. Discuss with management with regards to solutions to resolve various issues.
There isn't necessarily a hard part of the job unless you were given the opportunity to start working upon a new test kit. Discuss a difficult failure to resolve within the team, air out opinions and listen and learn on how to find solutions to resolve complex failures.

There is satisfaction in how you personally undertake a task, how you execute to make the right decisions, in order to successfully see the result you want to achieve. This gives you motivation to try and achieve higher and gives you a sense of contentment knowing you are utilising your professional skills, and your expertise to complete the given task.

The slaves in the cottonfields were allowed to sing as they worked ...The Germans  played marching music as those arriving at the death camps were marched to the gas chambers ....but no background music permitted here. Grown men putting up their hand for permission to go to the bathroom ! 4 year olds in school just get up and go no need to ask. Too many little jumped up mini-Feuhers abusing their authority. I have seen good, decent, hard-working foreign nationals standing in tears because of their treatment at the hands of their supervisors. And nothing can be done about it ...people need employment and there are little or no alternative employment in the area. There are many decent people there in supervisory positions, but also many who are plain abusive bullies. Main ones are those with little or no educational qualifications to their name.

Overall a very safe and positive work environment.  Being an engineering company, there were not a lot of advancement opportunities for supporting departments such as Finance and IT.  Goodrich (now part of United Technologies) emphasised ethical treatment of others and work-life balance.  The company also placed a high degree of value on employees' willingness to relocate and/or travel across its various SBUs.  The most enjoyable part of the job (for me) involved traveling and working with the various SBUs on our eCommerce projects.  Goodrich supported and encouraged higher education and employee development; I wish I had taken advantage of that more in retrospect.  I developed many strong, lasting friendships in my time working at Goodrich, and was sad to leave upon moving to the UK.

Depending on the shift, a typical day will start with a tour of the section to ensure people know what job they should be working on and to see if there are any issues. A daily start up meeting with WED to see raise any maintenance issues, followed by a management meeting to discuss the days priorities. Raising any necessary work orders and meeting with the quality department to close out quality issues. Still involved in production, so will slot in where required. This can involve conventional or CNC turning, assembly or de-burring. Co-workers are the the best part of the job, an extremely skilled and talented group. Going through a site closure, so dealing with the stresses that accompany this are easily the hardest part. Motivating and consolling are the order of the day.

Worked here for a good many years and in that time it has got bigger and bigger but the place one the whole is totally mismanaged in the respect of in the way in which the workers on the shop floor have been treated by the management team , more so over the last 18 months  being basically threatened with their jobs day in day out . All floor workers were subject too government furlough scheme but no management were furloughed , basically because of the £2500 cap , but who were they managing if only half the workforce there to manage when you’re overloaded with managment in the first place . Over the years working here the managment swept things under the carpet ‘ never to be mentioned again’ this from a company that prides itself on “ ethics” . 

Change of senior management 18 months ago led to multiple managers and others leaving . Direction was completely different. Style and approach to situations by senior management was humiliating in front of others when trying to solve problems, you could taste the fear in meetings. Bottom line was the business was making good profit at Marston so corporate bosses over in States were turning a blind eye as to how we got there. It's a shame a lot of good people with vast experience were let go, majority were hard working and honest too. Many have not been replaced so pressure is so intense on those that are left. This is why I left myself.

not very friendly environment, especially for people of foreign origin, bulling,  low working moral and attitude, bullies are not many but the management is helpless and cannot do anything to stop them. Working conditions are awful, especially for engineering work - a lot of background noise, loud chatting and laughing, in the other big companies, where i've been working the doers are separated from the bullies and the useless peoples but not here in Wolverhampton - all animals are placed in the same cage and as a results bullies are progressing where the doers are just living this toxic place. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Really enjoyed the position and my role in the company 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I found presenting to the director of supply chain.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Since my original line manager left his position the work environment and culture has been really poor. I felt isolated at times and refused support and training over the past year. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Constantly in a meeting of some kind, I usually spent around 3-5 hours a day in some meeting.

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