Pros
Excellent money and interesting work, great coworkers in production and maintenance. Benefits are ok. Safety is a priority. Apply yourself and you can advance pretty quickly depending on which department you are in. Personally I found the work fulfilling over the years and came to actually enjoy doing it. Been here for well over 20 years and we've made great strides as far as production work is concerned.
Cons
Like most other reviews, management is absolutely horrible. I know it's cliche to say that but that's the way it is. Executive management is clueless of the steel business and has been getting worse over the years. All executives that moved up through the business ranks are gone. The us and them atmosphere is thick and getting thicker. Loyalty to the workers is long gone. It shows up best since they moved the main offices from Reading to the suburbs and now to Philadelphia. Back in the day it was common to see the CEO walk through the mill. I haven't seen or met one since 2002 and we've had 3 or 4 new CEO's since then. Middle management is an absolute joke at best. To be in those positions and know as little as they do, is a crime. Like most other reviews, it's who you know. But like I said, the work is great but only if you can put up with the garbage from above and it's abundant. Obviously I'm on here looking to move on to something else. Sadly, I was never intending it to be that way. It's still hard and a shame to bash a company you came to enjoy working for over all of these years.