A typical day's work includes, but is not limited to, reviewing and final approving all appropriation requests, as well as each fixed asset disposition requests; reconciling all North America construction in progress accounts; tracking all capital project spending and verifying they are in budget and in compliance with company policy and US GAAP regulations for useful life terms when the project capitalized. Some other tasks throughout the month include global reporting and reconciling on all capital projects from SAP BPC (a business planning consolidation software application) that I administer globally, creating project and capital work orders in all legacy applications. From this job I have gained the experience of upgrading and developing a new forecasting software application from scratch, working closely with our international counterparts not only with project management from the SAP BPC implementation, but from the day to day global project tracking, and upholding our K2 workflow application; ensuring all appropriations are compliant with our company's delegation of authority and hierarchy. I have been with this company for the last seven years and been fortunate enough to develop several close relationships with my colleagues and most recently grow with a team that has not always seen eye to eye, but has prevailed to be an exceptional group of people. I have learned through team work and perseverance there is not a lot one cannot accomplish. The hardest part of my jo
Proscharitable, good benefits, gives back to it's employees
Cons215 mi. away from my family and & daughter's dad
I began working with Cooper in August of 1999. Through the years, I had many opportunities for advancement. I owe all of my experience to the management of Cooper. Each of my managers took me in, led by example, and taught me everything I needed to know to be successful. The hardest part of the job was dealing with the people that just didn't want to work. Some of the efficiencies for certain areas were lower than others and some people would take advantage of the fact that we (management) would take that into consideration and not discipline as we should. The most enjoyable part of the job was knowing that each morning when I left, I had achieved a goal. Knowing I did something that actually mattered, made a difference was always a huge accomplishment for me. From dealing with employees that made things difficult for others, to making a sound decision on how to handle machinery errors and downtime, to working with the people to allow them to spend time with their families. It was always enjoyable to know I helped with all of these things. Due to the amount of people that worked at Cooper at the time, making a flexible schedule for people was very feasible. The biggest love of Cooper was my direct managers. Being on third shift, I was "alone" the entire shift. My managers trusted that I would not make a bad decision. That I would always know what to do and how to handle the situations that presented themselves. And each morning all of management would have a detailed report o
the first hour I have to rush and get all the jobs that are affiliated with the water spider filled, then take all the empty bins that I collect and rush and get them filled, then I have to check all the benders and fill them if need, then check if any job needs part if so then I have to go back to the warehouse grab the parts and give the operators what they needed. its pretty much like that all day and a lot of times I will get a lot of calls over the radio saying an operator is out or in need of parts. I have learned that it is very important to communicate regularly and work your hardest even if the shop is at 100 degrees, you can't slow down at all or else you will be behind and you will not be able to catch up with your routine. management can be really difficult on occasion because if your rushed and have to grab parts and you have forgot to scan those components then there goes the count in inventory it is very difficult to track where those parts went. Co-workers, the people I work with some have attitudes and some keep to them selves and some like to joke and mess around, you'll find these typed of people at every workplace but if I'm late to the wrong person I HERE it. The hardest part of my job would have to be the amount of responsibilities the water spider has most people don't relies how much work and running around we do. the most enjoyable part of my job is moving around the whole shop, I don't have to stand in one spot all day and on days I get frustrated I
A Typical day at work was never typical. My day could start at Midnight, 3am or 8am and could end at 4pm , 8pm or 11pm. During the course of the day I was supporting end users in Europe (France, Germany and Poland), Assisting with application errors, and Approval (BizRights) Requests; Also was supporing New Financial Implementation in process here in the states which included working with developers and the RCC and CCC Teams during the pre-integration, integration and UAT testing. Have been through 2 Go-Live cycles from integration testing,UAT, Data Migration Testing, Pre Go Live, and Hypercare. From day to day I had to be extremely flexible to accomodate the needs of other teams. The hardest part of the job was knowing that there was so much work to be done, that not everything could be done in one day. The most enjoyable part of the job was working within the security team. We supported each other at all times, and communication amongst our team was very important to each of us. We all had some idea what the other was working on so at anytime we could jump in and assist if needed. My other enjoyable part of the job was assisting the end user in resolving their issues in a very timely manner.
Prosbenefits, very flexible with working remotely due to the # of hours i worked
Consno time off. worked 24/7 and holidays. vacation, holidays, etc sap had to be supported
Your day starts off with a meeting . Mostly about how you are not performing to their standards. Threats of disciplinary actions for stupid things like eating at your job, taking a couple extra minutes to use the bathroom on your break... After the brow beating, you make your way through the SAFE environment. You fill out all the paperwork, get your labs ready, call for maintenance, get your machine calibrated and about an hour later you're ready to go!
Management are so busy throwing each other under the bus, they don't have time to print your bar codes or ID tape while they are shoveling a piece of cake in their mouth and scanning their e-mails for more dirt.
Training is a joke. They throw you on a job and say read your book.
Kudos to people who love working those long hours and weekends. They obviously have no life or they budgeted themselves around it.
Don't bother making plans for your days off because there are none and you will be greatly disappointed and frustrated.
The most valuable lesson from working here? If a company is using a temp agency to hire its' staff, they are in big trouble. Bad news for you, just don't do it.
No employee appreciation, only criticism. Cooper giveth and Cooper taketh away beware. You could be a supervisor today and line staff tomorrow!
Hope this helps the next poor slob that comes along..
No more country Thursday!!!!!!!!
If you love to work and have no home life, this place is great.
Management at Cooper is from the Dinosaur age! For example, any possible improvements or changes have to travel through multiple levels of management, gaining approval at each level, before any possibility of changes is made. One change I proposed took over two years to implement, and then it was barely recognizable and not practical.
Also, their concept of overtime is nearly always 'mandatory', which they do NOT tell you when you're hired in or when you're training! I've seen people work 12 hour shifts for months on end (NOT voluntarily), with no actual communication as to why.
Communication from the management team is non-existent, and they have no apparent desire to change despite lots of feedback.
Safety culture is just a term, and has very little basis in practice. For example, I personally observed the Safety Manager in deep conversation for 20 minutes with a Supervisor about what she feeds her dog and where she gets the food, the day after an employee was seriously injured. This was during the so-called "Safety Walk".
Every job is physically challenging, but improvements in ergonomics are practically non-existent. Wears you out, pays the rent, but gives almost nothing else back.
When I first started at cooper, I was part of an area that had just launched in the area. When I started I would work 8 hour shifts. 7AM-3:30PM, but after working there for a while my 8 hour days turned into 10 to 12 almost everyday, until I was working 12 hour shifts for almost 3 months straight. I learned a lot since working there. I learned how to make parts for vehicles, and I also learned how to tell if a part is good, or bad. I learned how to do paperwork for my area, and I started helping the team leader, and I was going to apply for the back up team leader position. After about a year of working there, I decided I needed to see a change. So I moved to the Cutters, where I learned how to make the steel come out straight, and to cut them by length. Management is okay at best. I find some managers there know what they are doing, and others somehow got to be a manager just because they were popular in the plant. I would say the hardest part of the job is just waking up in the morning to go to work since I work almost 7 days a week almost every week. Obviously the most enjoyable part of working there is the paycheck because of all the hours you have to work
First off, I worked at the Kent, OH branch. This location was bought out by Cooper Standard in August of 2018. At first, not much changed. Then our manager suddenly left (red flag) and was replaced with a nice guy from another location. Work loads increased slightly but without ever attempting to add personnel or adjust wages accordingly (red flag). Our direct plant manager seemed to try his best to have our backs, but the company has problems higher up. From the first day of the buyout till I left 6 months later, their stock prices dropped by half (red flag). Raises always seemed to be like the second Cold War with the run around we would always get. They continued to pile more responsibility and work on us. The final straw for me was it taking them 2 months, to pay me my vacation time! Each time I’d ask they’d say “next check”. They even had the audacity to say I was lying till I showed them my pay stubs. I’ve been gone almost a month and am actually still waiting on some of the money they have yet to pay me.
ProsCrew at this location is great
ConsIt’s always a run around about everything, no straight answers
I started at Cooper standard oscoda plant in extrusion, it was great pay was good hours were manageable, but then gm strike they sent me home for 5 weeks. When I came back me and several others were displaced and thrown down in assembly (we were told it was temporary) but only thing makes it temporary is people started quitting. Our work force is in shambles due to high rate of people being fired for moronic purposes I mean anything can get you fired like clocking in and out when the clock boxes fail you get punished, falling asleep on lunch break , not making attainment even when equipment rarely works right.. oh and "attainment" they got rid of a rate system which people struggled to make for a new attainment system which is a rate system. Except now you have to make more parts per hour. And management is a joke. No communication they don't listen to employees the plant manager is "always sick" and a bunch of egocentric "kids" fresh from college call the shots.
No future here unless you are in upper management.
The work is not that bad but the goals you have to hit are insane sometimes. Constant overtime with no notice sometimes and you are pointed if not able to work. I was under COVID-19 quarantine and got pointed for it. They expect you to be available 24/7 and there are no excuses. Top out pay is about $1.25 more than starting pay. Making team lead is about the only promotion you will ever have a chance of getting and they demote them all the time. 25 percent of the plant used to be team leads. Only promotion worth getting is Supervisor and they never quit. Company got caught in the planning of a huge lay off without telling anyone. We found out only because Kingsport Times News found out and put it on front page. Horrible upper management. Team leads show some of the worst favoritism I have ever seen and no one cares. Just an all around horrible place to work. Been there almost 2 years and bout to come to an end.
ProsDescent pay.
ConsEverything!!! Awful ex military upper management.
Pracowałem 3 miesiące starałem się jak mogłem, robiłem ponad to co mi było unormowane normą godzinową, a zostałem z dnia na dzień na zbity pysk wyrzucony tłumaczeniem, że redukcja etatów i mało zamówień. Nie polecam tej firmy, bo coraz więcej Ukrainy, którą się szanuje, a Polak jest tam zwykłym psem. Jestem bardzo rozczarowany. Jak chwaliłem sobie tą firmę i pracę, tak teraz ze szczerego serca odradzam każdemu. Nigdy nie zapomnę tego dnia jak wracałem z pracy upokorzony zwolniony, a Ukraińcy w autobusie zadowoleni. Dramat nie chce tego pamiętać. Niby 250 nowych miejsc pracy niby rozwój, a tak naprawdę totalny brak szacunku do pracownika, a przede wszystkim do człowieka, który naprawdę chce pracować. Nowa Klawa, nowa linia wytłaczania, gdzie potrzebują ludzi do pracy, a bezmyślnie zwalniają w przeciągu kilku dni ponad 40 osób i ma być ich więcej. Inter kadry takie jak AAS czy SGP są likwidowane bez słowa. Tracisz pracę z dnia na dzień i do tego w chamski sposób jesteś zabierany z produkcji pod pretekstem że idziesz na szkolenie, z którego już nie wracasz, bez względu na to jak bardzo byś się starał i był chwalony to jest loteria, nie patrzą na Twoją wydajność czy osiągi. Ludzi pracujących po kilka lat traktują tak samo, co potwierdza oraz świadczy o tym, że firma NIE SZANUJE PRACOWNIKA JAKO PRACOWNIKA, ORAZ CZŁOWIEKA. Nie czepiam się rzeczy Typu, że trzeba być przed dzwonkiem na stanowisku, a gdy zadzwoni dopiero można odejść od miejsca pracy, czy że przerwa jest tylko 15 minu
Esta empresa é dividida por células,que trabalham em grupos ou individualmente, eu trabalhei nas duas opções sendo que meu ultimo estado dentro da empresa era individualmente. Tive a oportunidade de trabalhar em células diferentes, isso fez com que eu conhece-se bem o meu local de trabalho e o que aprendi repassei para novos colaboradores. Umas das minhas motivações era o trabalho organizado,ambiente limpo, demarcado, dentro da célula somente ferramentas úteis, procurava sempre manter o foco e não me distrair, tendo como modelo meus supervisores que mantinha foco no interno e prima pela melhor execução possível das tarefas de cada célula. Todos na minha opinião essenciais pois assumiam a responsabilidade pela entrega daquela missão. Todos cuidavam da moral de seu time, para alcançar o objetivo final, mergulhavam de cabeça no cumprimento do seu dever. Excelente ambiente de trabalho onde noventa por cento respeitam as diferenças e opiniões e estão sempre dispostos em ajudar uns aos outros como aprendemos nas dinâmicas. O que não agradava era ter que denunciar uns poucos que existia somente para atrapalhar e só reclamavam, o que felizmente era raro. A motivação maior e a melhor parte era o reconhecimento e os elogios que pra eu não faltava e meus poucos erros eram tratados com sigilo,calma não tenho palavras pra explicar mas essas pequenas atitudes me inspirava a manter o foco para não errar.
ProsTransporte, refeição, convenio médico, participação de lucro
ConsNão fornecia plano dentário, não tinha área de descanço
Mi actividad diaria era en mejorar los procesos para reducir los defecto y quejas de cliente , cuando entre se llego a tener 10 PRR y SPCR ) quejas de cliente) y después quedaron 1 por mes , por que lo que se recupero la certificación de GM Q1.
Estaba a cargo del proceso de extrusión de que la material prima de los sellos por lo en caso de de saliera mal un lote podríamos para la producción de la planta , se validaba cada el material , como también verificar los mantenimiento de los equipo de extrusión.
OEE 72% y se mejoro a un 93%en el proceso de extrusion.
Se cambio la gerencia total pero daba poco soporte en cuestiones de reparar e invertir equipo por lo fue frustrante ya que no exigía un métrico pero sin que ellos dieran el soporte de reparar o mejora de los equipos no se podía y arriesgaba la calidad del cliente.
Lo difícil era de que la gente pudiera creer en ti ya que varias veces no cumplían la gerencia las promesas , como promociones o aumentos de salario a mis auditores y si un personal exigía lo corrían.
Lo mas me gusto mi equipo de Calidad que eran mas 20 auditores y que siempre estábamos comunicando los problemas para poder solucionarlos y que me festejaron mi cumpleaños todo equipo y eso no se olvida los detalles. Y que mi equipo mostró que en nuestro turno no había tantos defecto o quejas cliente en comparación con otro turno pesar de la falta de soporte.
ProsEquipos nuevos
ConsFalta de conocimiento de los equipos y soporte gerencial
4.0
Auxiliar de Laboratório | Varginha, MG | Oct 11, 2013
Cooper Satandard Automotive
Uma empresa que cresceu muito com um ambiente saudável e cumplicidade com seus funcionários, tendo-os como patrimônio. Os dias na empresa são muito corridos devido a demanda de trabalho e cumprimentos das metas estabelecidas, mas já ouvi de alguns cliente que isso é normal em empresa automobilísticas, principalmente quando são fornecedores. O maior dos desafios é atender as necessidades de cada cliente e manter o foco na qualidade por ele desejado, ao longo desses 17 anos passei por varias gestões... cada uma com particularidades, mas todos com o mesmo objeto, ou seja, a satisfação do cliente.
Meus colegas posso dizer que foram amigos e que juntos enfrentamos a tensão e a pressão frente as auditorias,muitos momentos bons passando pela memória agora...
Acredito que a parte mais difícil era o momento de finalização das auditorias, afinal todas as equipes de todas as áreas querem uma boa avaliação e trabalhamos para que isso aconteça.
A parte mais satisfatória era os resultados alcançados ao final de cada trabalho, não há palavras para descrever a sensação de objetivo concluído.
Só tenho a agradecer a CSA pelos anos em que nos demos em parceria e sucesso durante esse tempo.
Edizia M.F. dos Santos
ProsRefeição na empresa, Transporte, Convênios médicos, Auxilio com bolsas de estudos
ConsDificuldade para descontar o banco de horas...
5.0
Supervisor de Manutenção | Varginha, MG | Jan 3, 2014
a empresa e dinâmica, pois sempreestá chegando novos equipamentos com o tem de mais novo de tecnlogia, tanto na aria mecânica elétrica eletrônica
Um dia tipico, era chegar na parte na manha, fazia a reunião com o turno que estava saindo.
Para se inteirar, das ocorrências referente a jornada.
Em seguida era feito uma outra reunião com os supervisores da produção.
Nesta reunião era passado para a manutenção quais eram os equipamentos prioritário do dia.
Essas informações era nivelada com os colaboradores da manutenção.
A empresa é excelente, pois foi lá que iniciei na aria mecânica.
Boa parte dos conhecimentos adquirido, foi muito importante na minha vida profissional.
A equipa era muito boa de se trabalhar, as informações era bem niveladas em reuniões em todas passagem de turnos.
A parte que era mais difícil era convencer a produção a necessidade da entrega, dos equipamentos para manutenção.
Quando os equipamentos era entregue para manutenção, quando executado a preventiva, era entregue para a produção e o aumento da produção era visível.
Pelos os indicadores da produção...
Uma outra satisfação, quando tinha um problema no equipamento que estava atingindo diretamente no produto final, e a manutenção era acionado, para verificar qual era a causa, e a manutenção rapidamente solucionava o problema.
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Questions And Answers about Cooper Standard Automotive
Does cooper standard hair folicale drug test?
Asked May 14, 2016
Only if you're in there hazing they
test lab but if you pass and are hazing all the time they will hair test
Answered Aug 5, 2018
No, there was no such check was with me
Answered Dec 9, 2017
If you were in charge, what would you do to make Cooper Standard a better place to work?
Asked Jun 16, 2018
Make people accountable for their area. This includes when they do well and when they don't.
Answered Nov 11, 2020
Nothing really I like it the way it is.
Answered Sep 3, 2020
How long does it take to get hired from start to finish at Cooper Standard? What are the steps along the way?
Asked Jun 27, 2016
In Michigan you will likely go through Kelly services or another temp agency to start. (Atleast that's the case for Fairview). Fairly easy to get into Kelly standard urine drug screen mini appitude test. However there is no gaurantee time of working for hire. We have had temps for nearly 2 years sometimes.
Answered Jul 2, 2019
It dnt matter how hard you work or what you could do for the future of the company they say hired after 90 days or 500 hours working 5-7 12s every week I had my application turned in after 2 months but worked almost 5 months waiting before I told them what was wrong and flow to fix it and good luck I'm not being used
Answered Aug 5, 2018
What benefits does Cooper Standard offer?
Asked Aug 4, 2016
Health
Vision
Dental
Answered Sep 28, 2017
Blue cross blue shield is their insurance. Great benefits, great packages. Fairly priced.
Answered Jul 15, 2017
What is cooper standards drug testing policy urine or hair folicale testing?
