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It’s okay

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It’s a decent place to work just constantly making redundancies . Most managers are sound . Top managers seem to be a problem . They come in promising everything and with 9-10 months they’ve done nothing .
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Big brother is watching you

Constant personal remote monitoring of your movements during in and out of working hours, over the top health and safety to the point your unable to carry out the jobHopless management with no direction or idea of what there doing

Pros

None

Cons

24 /7 Personal remote monitoring of your movements hopless management
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Cost cutting and redundancies

Great bunch of people, but poor management with constant cost cutting and redundancies. High people turnover doesn't help it either. Many old timers now left and so did the the experience and talent.
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poor management

used to be a great place to work but gets worse every year.very poorly run with no sense of direction from the upper management.always making redundancies due to the poor level of management but always tergeting the shop floor and not dealing with the real problem which is the management as a whole.very de moralising place to work where below office staff/management level you are not treat right, appreciated or valued.would not recommend working for this company

Pros

get paid

Cons

management, low morale, not appreciated, not valued
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Not the same place

Going downhill rapidly. Good people leaving. Poor performance. Losing money. No direction. Demoralised workforce.
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Lovely people to work with, but understaffed and under valued

Overall a good job, the friday finish is a big bonus. The people are really friendly and some management very flexible. Unfortunately a lot of areas are understaffed, and the staff that are there are often under valued.
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People who work on shop floor are good

The firm is shutting down on 22nd of December the management do not care about the people on the shop floor they are paying the people the lowest as possible and they held back on telling the workforce the reel reason as they are shutting the chard site to save jobs for a workforce that was working part-time and getting paid full pay would not touch the company with a barge poll

Pros

Nune

Cons

Nune
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Rushing to meet targets which are unattainable

Impossible managementRushing workers to finish jobsWork having to be done more than once because of mistakes made through rushingBeing chastised in front of other workers

Pros

Being paid

Cons

Being pushed about from piller to post, never knowing what job you would be doing, expected to do jobs you have never done before.
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Bad experience I’m afrsid

Only last a week before how much of a shambles this company was to work, poor investment, poor moral etc etc for … since then many others have left I’ve been told !!

Pros

None

Cons

Too many
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Workplace

Work not bad but relly heavy. All PPE was provide without problems on request. Perfect time of shifts - not all day I spent on site. Job hard, time to time dirty and easy. Bad - easy to see a diference in treatment of British an foreigners by managers. Usually...

Pros

Shift' time

Cons

Favoritism
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Found the job as a challenge for me.

It was my first time to work on trains and I always consider the jobs at Wabtec as an apprenticeship. I did learn a lot and get famiar with different jobs from different contracts.

Pros

More overtime

Cons

Not Applicable
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Not a bad place

Was as good place work. Happy & friendly all round, then change of ownership and management and it was redundancies, lack of work, personal touch gone. Managers and supervisors only do things to make them selves look good. I did enjoy working in the stores, fast and enough to keep you busy . Clean place to work with free tea and coffee. Good holiday entitlement and bank holidays off. I did enjoy it there but wouldn’t recommend now. Things do need to change.

Pros

Free tea & coffee, good holiday entitlement

Cons

Poor management and lack of work coming in.
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The blokes are great, management useless

I worked here for 4 years at wabtec, and it was a slow decline really, managers and team leaders who don't know the job so can't really help you with anything, they just Bark orders at you and havnt got a clue.

Pros

The lads are great, hours are good

Cons

Pay is below average, get moved around alot
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Happy working environment

I loved my time at wabtec I would go back there tomorrow if I got the opportunity I was eh team leader looking after eh great bunch of hard working lads that done there upmost to get there job's done as safely and as quick as humanly possible to keep the job continuous
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Dont know what they are doing

This company has gone downhill in my opinion, Managment pulling in different directions with no justification to what they are trying to achieve, When I left the company it was after 30 people before me .

Pros

Free Car Parking

Cons

Lack of direction, No pride in work
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Uneven pay

Pay between employees doing the same job is ridiculous. You can be on £3 less just because, there’s literally no reason why apart from management don’t care about you.Work like mad and receive no praise, make a single mistake and get a disciplinary. Work has completely dropped off, redundancy's all around then couple months later taking on agency workers and then firing them. Bonus £10 Christmas gift card between what 10-50k employees world wide on a £400m yearly profit?

Pros

Some Co-workers, Half day Fridays, Extra 2 days holiday every 5 years max 6days, Pension scheme is good I guess

Cons

Pay is bad unless your part of management, They don’t care about you, Either working super fast or no work at all, If you have an accident they will find a way to make it your own fault
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Management ok. Salary ok.

Did my apprenticeship here, was good for the most part with that. Most manager/supervisors were helpful etc.Once out of my apprenticeship, this is where I found out that most managers haven't really got a clue and most got the job through another manager friend. Constant threat of redundancies, in the 5years I was there, there was 3 separate redundancy talks.On the whole though, I did genuinely enjoy my time here, and I made a lot of friends for life here

Pros

Good lads to work with, Relatively easy work

Cons

Pay isn't that good for a skilled trade
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Ok place to work

Wabtec is an ok place to work. Managment could be better. Good job security but lack of progression. Can get other work piled on you for no extra benefits
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Typical day was 7.30 till 4. management were friendly , Hardest part of job is motivation and trusting some of those people round you.

I enjoyed working there, but management and supervisors only do things to make selves look good. Big open to ideas unless it’s theirs.My supervisor stabbed me in back, broke into my computer and left offensive and degrading picture and message whilst I was of sick. Good job, clean but since take over work has dropped right off, redundancies all over . It pays the bills but wouldn’t recommend. Sounds like sour grapes since I left but all is true.

Pros

Pay not bad. 5 weeks plus bank holidays They are flexible

Cons

Watch your back. Lack of motivation Management and supervisors in it for their own agenda, very little back up I was called a good friend but still stabbed in back at first chance.
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Good workforce.

Nice place to work mainly because of the workforce.The management team were fine until the last 2 years.New MD brought in to facilitate the closure of the kilmarnock plant.

Pros

Workforce

Cons

Last MD
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Badly run, the employees made the place and organised the jobs

Due to a lack of background in the rail industry the management were lacking. The place was run by spreadsheets instead of railway know how. The managements lack of rail knowledge demoralised a skillful and experienced workforce. Promotion within the company depended who you were pals with, again demoralising the good tradesmen.

Pros

12-45pm stop on a Friday

Cons

Unknowledgeable top brass
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Overall rating

Based on 549 reviews

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3.1 out of 5 stars for Work/Life Balance
3.2 out of 5 stars for Salary/Benefits
2.7 out of 5 stars for Job security/advancement
2.6 out of 5 stars for Management
2.8 out of 5 stars for Culture

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