sourcing manager

laboratory technician

it apprentice

deputy manager

apprentice nursery practitioner

Hexcel-Corporation

Typical day is firefighting the hundreds of problems that occur on a weekly basis. Management is archaic in their strategy and thinking.
Diversity is not in their dictionary and have zero acknowledgement of inclusion and diversity. It's like going to the library during exam season. Everyone is working, nobody is socialising or talking and the company does absolutely NOTHING to promote inclusivity, or company morale. There are no social events or corporate team building activities. Training is internal and often incredibly poor/rushed. External/brought in training is more of a crash course. Management are promoted though years of service.

HR lack any support and are clearly overstretched. Upon redundancy, offered the bare minimum and directed me to the government website for "what to do when made redundant".

Talent is certainly NOT recognised nor appreciated or encouraged here. The attitude is just "this is the way we do things here", a term used literally. You are just a number. They do not invest in you whatsoever. The pay is terrible for the cost of living and the responsibilities pile on you as they stretch employees very thin.

You don't even get new equipment when you start, rather a second hand chair, grubby IT equipment. The staff canteen has a monopoly in that there's nowhere else you can purchase hot food, and if you're vegetarian the options are incredibly tiring.

The company clearly only care about their stock market value and earnings per share. It's fantastic for management and senior executives, but anything below that, they really don't care about you at all.

Hexcel is going through rapid expansion at the moment. This means that the current climate is one of high challenge but also great opportunity. Hexcel has an excellent growth record and has great potential for steady long term business driven through it's position in the aerospace supply chain.

In Research and Technology the work is interesting and varied with plenty of different things to do.  The Management structure is flat but very Lean. Cross-functional working is becoming an increasingly important part of the job.

 Hexcel's success stems from the culture of working together, innovation and a strong work ethic to get the best outcome for their customers. 

The hardest parts of working in Hexcel's R&T group is dealing with the diverse range of tasks required to lead new product development programmes and ensuring that new products meet as many of our customers (sometimes conflicting) needs as possible.

The most enjoyable part of the job is bringing a new material to market which enables a customer to achieve things they would otherwise have been unable to.

Before covid happened it was a decent place to work. After Covid things must have changed drastically over the course 1 and half year.
Dayshifts are unberable, your managers only come to speak to you if they need anything, but they never ask how are you. They speak to you like you're below them and if like you owe them your life. Not to even start that they like to play mind-games with you (and not the nice ones). 
Even though you proven over the years your loyalty to the company by not being late, doing as much overtime as you can and basicly trying to progress (as much as they want you too) its still not good enough. They would never think positive about you and they would always assume the worst of you. 
Such a toxic place to work. My mental health deteriorated a LOT in a year, and when I told them about my mental health, management made sarcastic coments and offensive jokes about it. 
HR are completly useless. Dont even try with them... they would rather protect the management (which is clearly the problem) than listen to you. 
Overall, if you like suffering while you work this is the perfect place for you. 

- Typical day is fast paced and rigid. Most days are the same. Do the same job to the same standard. It never gets boring in the office though. There is usually some sort of challenge to overcome.

- I learn about manufacturing processes within NCF (non-crimped fabrics) carbon and glass fiber.

- Local Management are helpful and very approachable. They cannot always deliver what is wanted by operations staff, but there just isn't the resource or magic wand. If it can be done and it's a good idea, it normally gets the green light. Implementation of good ideas can often be far too long though which leads to frustrations amongst all staff.

- The workplace culture is very poor. Too much negativity and this needs to be addressed with some degree of urgency. High staff turnover provides evidence of this.

Very bad people. Managment terrible. Never interested about new people. I was new person and managment rang to agency and said I asked a lot of quesions, another machine operatives also very rude, they will never help you, you need to fallow them like a shadow and ask quesions because they will not help you first. Few people good but 90% of them are disqusting. Lier etc included young management. Should go to jail, who gave them power to do this job is absolutely ridiculous.I lost my job because I found mistake than they took action against to me. They should be happy someone doing properly job but I was punished for doing  nothing wrong. Avoid this place. Terrible 

Duxford & Leicester have an abnormally high staff turnover.
Newbies either leave really, really fast or alternatively tough it out for a couple of years then wise up and go elsewhere. 
Hexcel is full of managers who have been promoted through long service rather than ability, and way too many bullies / people who have poor understanding/acceptance of diversity and inclusion (sadly mainly management including HR)
Could be a good place to work ... but it isn’t ... hence the abnormally high staff turnover  ... (or maybe the over promoted HR / management are as  poor at recruiting as everything else?)

Never go to this place unless you are a sadomasochistic.
I worked in core and have never in my life have seen anything like it.
Management don’t care about anyone apart from themselves and are only trying to make themselves look good to the Americans.
The STL on my shift was nothing but a nasty two faced little man who would drop anyone in it to make himself look good.
They don’t recognise any unions and expect you to take a pay cut and change shift patterns at the drop of a hat.
Just a bunch of sad acts.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Staff are very supporting and helpful

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
There was none and I never felt that was ever a situation that I felt stresses


What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Open space to work and very comfortable

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
When I started there was a lot of back log of work so you just get o with

Very poor management, they let all the experienced staff leave during covid and now rely on agency workers with no experience to do the job. Standards have fallen since. All shifts are under staffed and there is an high turnover of staff. All production staff are treated very differently from office workers. Office staff have a nice clean canteen with freshly cooked meals where as production staff have a vending machine with only chocolate in a windowless room. 

The business EHS strategies continue to be one of the best I have been involved in. Very people focused whilst ensuring compliance with regulation. 
Great team work across the whole business. VP's are excellent safety ambassadors and communicate clearly and are very supportive.  
Big focus on team work that continued to prove very successful in delivering great results.
A great business with very committed and talented people.

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