Steer clear of IT Operations - Anonymous employee Danfoss Employee Review

3.0
Feb 22, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Danfoss overall is a good company. Many areas are mature and highly effective.

Cons

IT Operations is a mess. And unless you live in Denmark, there's little chance to advance. Ineffective management that is trying to do too much too fast, without adding effective people. With all the mergers, the landscape is a mess and instead of focusing on shoring up the existing infrastructure and making it manageable, the expectation is that the 2 layers of support can resolve all operations issues, engineer new solutions, execute all the new projects, and perform required regular services and bringing the hodgepodge to a standard level.

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The most convoluted business structure I've ever experience. This company is divided into 3 major business units, which is then sub-divided into smaller units. I am a part of Danfoss Power Solutions - Fluid Conveyance. It seems that all of these different units operate in a complete silo. There is no overall, comprehensive global QMS or SAP training programs. They have no change management system; all of their documents for quality are in one location, regardless of the revision. No distinction between one business unit to the next. Documentation uses abundance of acronyms and vague language. A simple business process is not clearly defined nor is there official training. Finally, the specific plant I work at, has one of the worst quality cultures I have ever seen. The operators and operations management do whatever they want. Most of the operators don't even know what a SOP is, but management changes the SOP and expects operators to just magically know it. No training, no verification, no accountability. No division of responsibility. Quality is constantly put under the gun for things engineering should own. These people don't even know that you need to shut a tool down when it is malfunctioning.

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