Pros
Vacation and Holiday time off are above average
Cons
Nexteer was originally a GM Plant, then owned by Delphi, back to GM and finally purchased by a Chinese plant. Up until 2013 (when they were purchased by a Chinese company) they were pretty much ignored by their owners (GM/Delphi), as long as their customers were receiving their shipments, Nexteer was able to stay below the radar. They were a mere line item on the balance sheet and being owned by GM and Delphi meant they had a pretty stable flow of cash and financing when needed. That all changed in 2013. Suddenly they were faced with the reality that in the 30+ years of staying under the radar the manufacturing sector had grown up around them. Around the world we have seen manufacturing company's respond to the changing times by upgrading their facilities, keeping current with new technology (in terms of support services like Engineering, Sales, Finance, etc.), incorporating a culture of continuous improvement and driving a vision centered around communication and knowledge sharing. Meanwhile, Nexteer (GM/Delphi) was going along the way it had been for decades. Their systems were rarely upgraded, there was no attempt at any point to standardize processes from plant to plant (neither in a production sense or support services), what processes did exist were not written down, instead held in the knowledge of the person doing the job so that when that person left all the knowledge went with them. the Quality systems were nearly non-existent, ideas and best practices were not shared (not sharing = job security). That kind of business would normally see their doors close pretty quick, not necessarily when you have a mothership paying the bills and not really caring what's going on in this little plant (relatively) out in tim-buck-2.