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<blockquote data-quote="TacomaJD" data-source="post: 721776" data-attributes="member: 1780"><p>The job title is Procurement Engineer. I just wanted to know a little more about the company before applying, and just because I apply, doesn't mean I will even so much as get an interview. Interesting to hear of a layoff, not cool. </p><p></p><p>We had our slowest year ever at my current job this past fiscal year, which ended Sept 30th. A few years ago our plant alone lost $3M. They said long as we don't lose more than that, corporate Siemens is going to keep us afloat. Corporate Siemens as a whole business unit is kicking ass. They gave us free shares of Siemens stock last year at the same time we all were worried about our jobs in the power generation sector. Odd situation - "here's free money, but our future doesn't look good". Anyways, last year, we lost $7M!!! A financial black hole can only be overlooked so long by corporate. It's not just us, everyone is hurting in the generator market - GE, Mitsubishi, etc. </p><p></p><p>Siemens is trying to pull out of a lot of their operations in Germany and move their work here to the US, but they have laws like we used to have prior to NAFTA to where they can't just pack up **** and move business over seas. So, last I heard, they were planning on greatly reducing operations in Germany and bringing a lot of their big work over to us, while still keeping the doors open over there in the form of skeleton crews / fewer locations. Of course, they are closing a steam turbine plant in Iowa I think it is this year, so who knows what's going to happen. There was rumor that we were gonna shut down the whole month of December ( a couple months ago), now they are saying a lot of work is coming next year so they plan on hiring more temporary workers to cover the added workload. Craziest **** I've ever seen here. It's never been like this. </p><p></p><p>Ultimately, I will have an Associate's degree in Business Management in December, worked at my current job for 13 years come Nov 30th, worked with SAP ERP/MRP software daily for over 10 of those years and know a lot about supply chain type operations. I figure that should be sufficient to land a better job....hopefully. Komatsu uses SAP so 10 years experience with that will look good on a resume/application there. As for my job, I am stuck on 2nd shift. Nobody leaves here because it is such a good job for the area, unless they retire or one or two getting fired every year or so for being total dumbasses. When people retire or get fired, they do away with their jobs, saving money by natural attrition. Office jobs here are about the same. I don't have the connections to get in the office here. Senior office staff get their sons, nephews, neices, old drinking buddies, golf buddies, best friends' kids jobs in there instead of promoting from within. Besides office jobs, there is only 1 pay scale higher than what I make, which is a little over $3 more per hour. Not that big of a bump to have as an ultimate goal. So I do have a great job, but have hit a ceiling and am stuck on 2nd shift. I just have to remember that this is NOT the best job out there and refuse to seek other opportunities. I have time to job search, so I'm not in a desparate need for a new job since we have word of more work coming in now, but I don't want to leave this job unless it is for an equally good or better company with better pay and benefits. Having the time to job search also provides me with a little leverage on salary negotiation as well, since I am not out of work. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Awesome, will do. Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TacomaJD, post: 721776, member: 1780"] The job title is Procurement Engineer. I just wanted to know a little more about the company before applying, and just because I apply, doesn't mean I will even so much as get an interview. Interesting to hear of a layoff, not cool. We had our slowest year ever at my current job this past fiscal year, which ended Sept 30th. A few years ago our plant alone lost $3M. They said long as we don't lose more than that, corporate Siemens is going to keep us afloat. Corporate Siemens as a whole business unit is kicking ass. They gave us free shares of Siemens stock last year at the same time we all were worried about our jobs in the power generation sector. Odd situation - "here's free money, but our future doesn't look good". Anyways, last year, we lost $7M!!! A financial black hole can only be overlooked so long by corporate. It's not just us, everyone is hurting in the generator market - GE, Mitsubishi, etc. Siemens is trying to pull out of a lot of their operations in Germany and move their work here to the US, but they have laws like we used to have prior to NAFTA to where they can't just pack up **** and move business over seas. So, last I heard, they were planning on greatly reducing operations in Germany and bringing a lot of their big work over to us, while still keeping the doors open over there in the form of skeleton crews / fewer locations. Of course, they are closing a steam turbine plant in Iowa I think it is this year, so who knows what's going to happen. There was rumor that we were gonna shut down the whole month of December ( a couple months ago), now they are saying a lot of work is coming next year so they plan on hiring more temporary workers to cover the added workload. Craziest **** I've ever seen here. It's never been like this. Ultimately, I will have an Associate's degree in Business Management in December, worked at my current job for 13 years come Nov 30th, worked with SAP ERP/MRP software daily for over 10 of those years and know a lot about supply chain type operations. I figure that should be sufficient to land a better job....hopefully. Komatsu uses SAP so 10 years experience with that will look good on a resume/application there. As for my job, I am stuck on 2nd shift. Nobody leaves here because it is such a good job for the area, unless they retire or one or two getting fired every year or so for being total dumbasses. When people retire or get fired, they do away with their jobs, saving money by natural attrition. Office jobs here are about the same. I don't have the connections to get in the office here. Senior office staff get their sons, nephews, neices, old drinking buddies, golf buddies, best friends' kids jobs in there instead of promoting from within. Besides office jobs, there is only 1 pay scale higher than what I make, which is a little over $3 more per hour. Not that big of a bump to have as an ultimate goal. So I do have a great job, but have hit a ceiling and am stuck on 2nd shift. I just have to remember that this is NOT the best job out there and refuse to seek other opportunities. I have time to job search, so I'm not in a desparate need for a new job since we have word of more work coming in now, but I don't want to leave this job unless it is for an equally good or better company with better pay and benefits. Having the time to job search also provides me with a little leverage on salary negotiation as well, since I am not out of work. Awesome, will do. Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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