Avantages
I used to be able to say a relatively stable work environment, however with severe downsizing, head count freezes for several years and several sites being shut, that's no longer the case. since the site i work at is not in the US or Europe, and there's relatively few large employers here, this is one of the few big fish in a rather desolate sea. Safety is a big priortiy, and everyone's safety concious
Inconvénients
-Corperate strategies rarely make it to the 'shop floor' and if they do, they don't have buy in from middle management, creating haphazard at best initaves that are doomed to fail. -Lack of transparancy in pay reviews and obvious favortism to others, getting double diget increases for gound level work, because they've been given the opportunity to 'expand' within thier roles, while others not only are just forgotten, but are 'squeezed' call it efficency drives but trying to get more from staff without investing more resoucres, ie time/support from other teams upstream/downstream- it is IMPOSSIBLE to achive 'at standard' when the bar is already set higher for you than others, let alone 'excellence' -High staff turn over rate, especially those that aren't 'trapped' by morgages or are highly mobile staff. -Poor staff moral accross the site. The majority of people are downtrodden, and are ground down like the nib of a pencil that you are still trying to use-depite it being too small. Forget about the employee engagement survey the results of the higher corperates iniatives don't reach the ground floor -Little cross team on the job training - There are limited opportunties to learn new skills. Exteral training is very rare and little investment is put into the human capital of the site.