Great place to get into the industry but keep that resume updated if you aren't a career masochist - Manufacturing Technician II Rocket Pharma Employee Review

Manufacturing is treated poorly, an expense to be minimized because shareholders don't enjoy or appreciate it on the quarterly report. Every solution that comes from manufacturing is meet with fiscal skepticism, and the attitude of "Well how can we get by with only spending half that amount?" Upper management is solely focused on minimizing costs in everything outside of obtaining good clinical trial data. Oh you had to stay 4 hours late yesterday to maintain the production timeline? Well you have to leave 4 hours early today because there's no overtime allowed. Literally 0 overtime, no exceptions. (remember this when they lowball you on the offered salary and suggest you can make it up with OT). There's only 1 shift but your hours will be whatever management decides that week. 3 hours early on Monday, 3 hours late on Tuesday, start at 2nd shift time Wednesday, take Friday off, so you can work 2 hours Saturday and Sunday without going over 40 hours. Your "life" outside work is an irrelevant distraction. We need to have a meeting to discuss the planning of the meeting to prepare for upper management's monthly meeting. Managment is busy this week because they took Monday off so everyone can come into the office an hour early on Friday instead of holding it virtually. Juvenile micromanagement of the 2nd class citizens that are the manufacturing department. No food or drinks at your desk. Yes that includes water. If you're thirsty walk to the corporate wing of the building, they have fridges, coffee machines, both cafeterias, couches, snacks, you name it. Can't finish your drink? Well you have to leave it in the lobby. Every other department has schedule flexibility, even facilities, but not manufacturing. Management lost their mind when they found an empty bag of Doritos in the trashcan in the hallway leading to manufacturing ops office (it was from a construction worker who was unaware of how grievous a sin that was). 2 months straight spent doing nothing but writing and revising documents and you had to be in the office 40 hours a week, during the height of the pandemic, before the vaccine. Walk around the building and there's maybe 4 people on site aside from manufacturing. "Sorry we need you all on site in case something comes up." Exceptions for managers and above only. This attitude rots the CMC side of the company to its foundation. You've got massive hiring gaps for 2+ years because the talent needed to yield results is too expensive, the fruits of experience too costly. Instead it's better to bring in people with no background in biologics, let alone gene therapy, and no education because the price is right. Hire one person and two more head out the revolving door. They wont hire enough in warehouse/calibration/validation/engineering/technical writing/procurement/facilities/etc. Guess what the solution is? That's right, manufacturing will step in and do those jobs as well as their own. Not once in awhile, every day. You'll have the workload of 2 titles above yours with the pay of 2 titles below. There is no merit based reward system aside from a free pizza lunch here or there and a "thank you so much" email. People brought on with a title below you making the same money, people brought on with your title getting paid 10% more than you. Management doesn't care. In short stay away unless this your first job in biologics manufacturing in which case this is an ok place to serve your time. Just know the pay is below average and the workload is not.