Metalex Reviews

3.4

25% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)
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Brian Kobylinski

38% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
1.0
16 May 2018

Out of touch management. High turnover

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Pros

Mid level employees are great people. Good company benefits. Centrally located. Nice view of a lake. Close to downtown a Libertyville

Cons

Horrible communication. If at all. No training of new opportunity employees. No processes in place. You are basically set up to fail from the day you are hired. High employee turnover. 49 to 52% in the past year. Upper management has been turned over at least once in the last nine months. No raises. Some long time employees (over 30 years)are lazy and make excuses not to work. Yet you can’t get rid of them? OTD is at 40%. Losing customers daily. Management is out of touch with employees and reality. Financially struggling is apparent. Material challenges due to unpaid invoices. Mexico facility is not being run by management at all. Lost its largest customer. Remove the cancers amongst yourselves. Get ride of your upper management and start over. Your current management Team as of 5-17-2018 is not going to save your business. Stop firing the people who work hard and remove the 30 year tenured lazy customer service people. Maybe you should start listening to the managers closer to the workers and trust them to make employee decisions. PARKING is a Nightmare! Worst company I have ever worked for.

2.0
10 Mar 2022

It's not run well

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Pros

You get a paycheck and Cigna healthcare.

Cons

No focus on business process improvement or manufacturing process improvement. Some members of the sales team treat engineering like a resource to be exploited rather than a partner. Three different business units are in one building, but don't have common equipment or common methods, documentation, etc. Capital equipment is 40 years old in many cases and the company seems to have no interest in upgrading. Tooling is worn out and management doesn't seem aware or concerned. No effort was made to train office employees. No effort made to standardize methods or document standards. Deliveries are regularly late, so the company can't get good contracts, mostly just very low volume jobs.

2.0
2 Jun 2021

Toxic work culture

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Pros

Good benefits, safety training was taken seriously

Cons

Company culture, Metalex took too long to adapt and improve its engineering processes. Everything was outdated and done manually. The knowledge of systems and mfg. capability sat with a couple of individuals which were keen to holding onto it.

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