Low wages and Expendable - Journeyman Electrician Caterpillar Employee Review

2.0
Mar 1, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Other people that work there. And Benefits are ok

Cons

Wages well below and for amount paid you are expected to perform without proper training, lack of maintenance support and management. Maintenance is expected to perform electro/ Mechanical work on equipment with no prints, machines have been modified without documentation. Maintenance are not given any technical training on new equipment or sent out for technical training at manufacturing companies who are supplying equipment newly installed into the company. They don't supply you tools and youn are expected to install build, a new and Modify new equipment. Maintenance personnel are not CPR certified and required to do electrical work and confined space with no CPR certification. Maintenance is worked understaffed. They are trying to hire Journeyman at $27 dollars an hour who expected to electrical reactive work, electrical repairs and installations, mechanical reactive installs to un clogging a toilet. And for the maintenace personnel that works there and there is standard practices to keep seasoned and experienced maintenance personnel and operators it's a very sad sad place to work. It has no vision of operational personnel or maintenance personnel, to grow and gain knowledge and to succeed.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Good health insurance and benefits, good yearly bonuses. The pay is good.

Cons

They are enforcing returning to office by any means necessary. They have lost many high-quality producers who have refused to relocate or refuse to come in. Here's the kicker - they are requiring in-person attendance at the Chicago office and there aren't even enough desks for everyone. It would be a literal fire hazard if we all came into the Chicago office at the same time, M-F, during business hours. No one knows how or if they are going to actually enforce this. Cost of gas is insane, Joe doesn't care about the workers. Or the work for that matter. It's obvious this is a soft layoff, they have made a bunch of people quit. Their internal design agency is falling apart, lots of people have quit, not only because of return to office but because of the toxic politics, favoritism, and lack of direction and accountability. Mediocre workers are allowed to keep their jobs ONLY because of their ability to put their bodies in a chair and work in-person. The other relocation option HR gave besides Chicago was Peoria. No one wants to live in Peoria for any reason whatsoever, be for real.

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