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Advanced Technology Services

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Advanced Technology Services reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(503 total reviews)
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Jeff Owens

74% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Advanced Technology Services has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 503 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Advanced Technology Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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503 reviews
2.0
Sep 1, 2013

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Pros

The company has an exclusive contract with Caterpillar L.P.S.D, as it was started by a previous long time Caterpillar maintenance employee, who felt he could offer better, more focused service to the host company.

Cons

Management of its employes and process is flawed. No structure in place to properly train, re train, and/or verify its employee know how to do the job correctly. The company is sold as having customer focus and process improvement as top priority, but in practice, they are just in the business to stay employed, with gimmicky campaigns, catchy rhetoric, and manipulated metrics to show value, without actually doing the fundamental things to provide value. Without a proper training platform in place, opportunities for career development are non existent. Care for its employees well being is deplorable at best, since there is little planning ahead for host plant shutdown and cutbacks through out the year, so abrupt temporary layoffs and shift changes with little to know notice ahead of time, leaves its employees stuck to where they can't even seek possible temporary work in other plants that need aid, while its host plant is in shutdown. The company promises more than they can actually deliver realistically to its customer, and with the poor leadership within and outside of the plant, this leaves the employees to bare the brunt of the customers wrath when expectations are not met, and that isn't fair to its employees. Never should maintenance technicians have to answer directly to its host customers management and supervisory staff, as all concerns should funnel through the site or and/or regional supervisor.

2.0
Aug 27, 2013
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Pros

I liked the people I worked with, but we had no backing from senior leadership on such a small team. Relaxed work environment.

Cons

The customer is allowed to trample on ATS employee's. The tuition reimbursement program is suspended, even though they do not mention that during the hiring process, the match program is just now back and has been modified to lower amounts. The company is disorganized and raises are low on top of a low starting salary.

1.0
Aug 1, 2013

Just puppets to the customer

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent pay especially for people right out of school Decent opportunity if you are "one of the boys" Very competitive health insurance and other benefits

Cons

No real security Constant turn over due to people being scared of layoffs or management outburst. Management turn over was just as bad. I averaged about 1.25 supervisors per year. Customer knows exactly what every employee makes at the Tech Center. Shift to shift battles. Buddy system gets promotions (worse here than most places). Corporate forces what it feels is right on the other sites but knows nothing about what is really going on there. Safety is supposed to be #1 but management doesn't really care about it. It's always the employee's fault and they don't want to spend the money to get the right safety gear. Rumors spread like wildfire is putting it nicely. Reviews are copy and paste with goals that are meaningless or unobtainable HR doesn't seem to know a whole lot about HR

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