laborer

manœuvre d'usine

maintenance industrial

chef de secteur

maintenance manager

Apex Aluminum Extrusions

Summary: If you looking for temporary work with no advancements and recognition, then you've found the right place. 

Moral: Everyone complains about how they are mistreated, not heard or thrown under the bus when convenient for upper management. 

Work: Expected to go above and beyond what your hired to do. 

Equipment: Half broken, there are more band-aids on the equipment then there is in the first aid room. 

Production: Ownership and management expects you give them the shirt off your back and your first born, for the numbers required in a day. 

Hours: Long 10 to 12 hours of work per day with no guarantee of work the next day. 

Owner: Will fire you on the spot with NO notice(I've witnessed it), as you are just a number with no name, no family and no life to live. 

Upper Management: Have no industry experience, distribution guys trying their hand at production, pffft, gimme a break. They have more meetings in day than product being shipped. 

Management: Clueless about the departments they are in charge of and expect supervisors to know and support them through meetings and running the department. 

Supervisors: Don't know how to speak or treat employees on their team because of the language barriers. 

Workers: Stay united and are like a family and always looking out for one another. 

Parking: If your not there 1 hour prior to your shift starting, your hard pressed to find a spot, which means you need to park 1 to 2 blocks away. 

Clocking in for work: If you are 1 minute late, you get docked 15 minutes, but must start the work immediately. 

Overtime: Will get you written up for going past your scheduled hours.

Extremely dangerous and stressful work environment. 
Job title was “Shipping Coordinator” which they described as 60% administrative and 40% forklift/labour. 
The excel sheet they use for “Shipping Coordination” is an ever-changing, confusing, inconsistent disaster. 
I spent 90% of the time on the forklift, they did not train me thoroughly on the computer system or how to use their customs document generator, and basically just sat me on the forklift and had me loading trucks. 
They ship aluminum bundles that are 20+ feet wide. There are people and obstacles all over the place and you have to maneuver around everything with a 20 foot wide bundle maxed out lifted sky high on the forks through this mess of facility. 
Other workers told me of two previous employees who were seriously injured from being hit by forklifts and suspended loads. I did not witness this happen, but several coworkers described the instances and based on how dangerous the operation is I am not surprised. 
The danger component aside, they completely misrepresented the job and I would not recommend taking the Shipping Coordinator position if you are going into it thinking you will be doing administrative work, planning, scheduling, etc. 
It is a forklift job with very minimal coordination duties.

Working at Apex is a mind-blowing experience. The working conditions, the employee treatment and safety culture are the lowest I have ever experienced. It’s mind-blowing how this this place is actually a business operating in Canada. It more seems like a company out of some 3rd world country. The whole facility it poorly managed, poorly maintained and the pay is poor. The majority of the employees are unhappy and are looking for another job. The employee turnover rate is very high. They have made a very feeble attempt to improving the employee morale. They really just don’t care. The management is trigger happy about firing people. Poor enforcement is of safety standards, no hard hats in a facility with multiple over head cranes. Poor ventilation and lack of safety gear for toxic substances. They work you very hard and pay you very little. Most employees do not speak fluent english making communication challenging.  Unless you are desperate for a job, I would not recommend Apex Aluminum Extrusions as job/career. 

Prepare to be micromanaged.

There is also a lack of focus in all aspects of the company.

A day consists of full out scrambling to accomplish miscellaneous daily activities that always change priorities.

Very high turn over rate.

I would recommend getting in touch with some local recruiting agencies before considering employment here for 3rd party unbiased opinions.

They will verify the two companies both have high turn over and are well known for this, indicating the many issues.



Cons:

long hours, obligated overtime, lack of help, lack of experience, only interested in quick fixes to issues, hot, dirty, unventilated, unsafe, chaotic, unstructured, unorganized, constant office shuffling, constant equipment shuffling, congested plant, dangerous moving through the plant with unregulated traffic and automatic equipment.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There are some very nice people that I had the pleasure of working with. Management excluded. There were no "best parts" of working for this company.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
As a forklift operator it was disappointing that there was a shortage of lift trucks and many times I had to find something else to do while waiting for a lift truck to be available. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It was very noisy working here. I didn't really enjoy my time with this company. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I was building orders for shipping. I found that there was frequent problems finding all the products that I needed to make my orders.

If you enjoy not knowing if you will be alive by the end of your shift this is the perfect job for you. Micromanagement is out of this world. Owner of company demands to know why maintenance needs nuts and bolts. Always someone breathing down your neck while you work. If you don't risk your life for them you will be punished. You will not get a raise and you will be severely underpaid. Expected to stay at work until whatever is broken down is fixed (even if that means 16 hour shift). Expected to download Microsoft teams on your personal phone and expected to be available to answer questions outside of work hours. You will be blamed for every short coming even if it has nothing to do with you. If I could put 0 stars I would

Apex is a terrible company to work for. They don't care about their employees at all and treat them completely unfairly. Safety is not a concern for them in any way. My machine had 3 clamps, one on the back and two in the front, they made me run the machine with two out of the three clamps completely out of operation. It's a huge metal saw with a 28" diameter blade, sometimes cutting several hundred pieces at a time. They never gave the raise I was promised. Made an apprentice work on the roof in a lightning storm alone.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Had the opportunity to meet a couple of good people and that's was all

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with the general manager or owner, or any of their clapping followers 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Overwhelmedly toxic. The worst working environment I ever work in. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Working on fear of saying or proposing any idea to the general manager and being punished

I have loved working at Apex since I started. My co-workers are great. The environment is great. The one thing I disagree with is no pay increases or raises after I have been there 1.2 years.
This is just not fare. Every company I have worked for in my 42.9 years has always give a raise after the probation period. After 6 month's and annually. And the top reason is experience.
I believe they would have much more great long staying employees if this would happen.
It is the best place I have worked since Indelex Aluminum!

Upper management is so out of sync with production floor. The harder you work, the more work and responsibilities will be put on you with no wage increase. You will not be respected. Employee turnover rate for smart and hard working is very high, because anyone with any dignity leaves for better, and what you’re left with is a team of feet draggers. HR is almost non existent. So much more negatives..  On the plus side there is Christmas dinner and gift cards and a company party. 

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Laborer 1 salary reported	$19.00 per hour
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Maintenance industrial 4 salaries reported	$36.40 per hour
Chef de secteur 2 salaries reported	$40.14 per hour
Maintenance manager 3 salaries reported	$52.88 per hour

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