“This has resulted in projects from customers where we were previously on new-business hold. “Over the past two years, we have made significant and aggressive improvements to productivity, downtime reduction, ergonomics and existing assembly processes,” says Marc Mueller, plant director. Among other achievements, GKN Newton has improved safety and product quality, while reducing scrap by up to 80 percent. Recent implementation of new technologies, aggressive process overhaul of existing systems, and a change in plant floor culture have contributed to the turnaround story and led to many accomplishments. The world-class plant was chosen for the 18th annual award because of its successful use of automation, continuous improvement, flexible production processes and quality controls. GKN Newton is also the recipient of the 2021 Assembly Plant of the Year award sponsored by ASSEMBLY Magazine. Along the way, it has earned several quality excellence awards from customers such as Ford and GM. Over the course of just a few years, GKN Newton has gone from underdog to best-in-show status. In fact, it generates 10 percent of the company’s total revenue. Newton is one of GKN Automotive’s largest and most important plants. In addition to supplying auto plants in Canada, Mexico and the United States, the facility exports drivetrains to final assembly lines in China, Germany, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Spain and Taiwan. The paid is good if you are new hire, you ll start at $19hrs + 1$ premium shift (2nd, 3rd shift), you ll get 1 raise per year (5%) this year, but if you have some years working at this company, you will feel frustrated, since your paid wont differ much from the new hires, lets say you expend 10 years at this company, you ll be making around $22 ($3) more than new hires for 10 years of services, company does not track employee production, (they track group production), se they dont know who is hard worker and who is lazy, but everybody got a 5% raise remember? now if you are an ADVANCED OPERATOR, things get worse, you ll be making $20 hour, just $1 more than new hires, and yes ! you ll have to train new employees!, because they dont hire experience operators, why? no one experienced machine operator will work for $19/hour, so the company has a high staff rotation people just come and leave, so sometimes you ll be wasting time training people, who leave the company just days after they started, Benefits overall are good, PTO, VACATION, (80hrs after 90 days, - more.Popular vehicles equipped with AWD systems made in Newton include the BMW X5, Cadillac XT6, Chevrolet Traverse, Ford Explorer, GMC Acadia, Jeep Compass and Maserati Ghibli. First thing first the place (Plant1) is overall pretty good place to work, climate controlled facility, fast peace environment, nice coworkers (most of them), the job is easy, basically you ll be operating machines through the day, some of them hand loaded, some of them automated loaded machines, they have different departments, generators, soft turning, hard turning, furnaces, pinion grinding, washers, etc. GKN, use to be a pretty good place to work in, 3 years ago, ownership changed, and now this company really suxxx!.
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