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The maitland and kingston site's are great for experience, but not one you will likely want to make a career out of. There is a toxicity that is culturally ingrained in the workers and staff that make it a difficult place to enjoy. The pay is good and there is a great respect for employees time off and personal life, and yet they are in a state of constant hiring do to new hires leaving regularly. HR decisions are made from offsite and often do not feel like they reflect was is going on on site.

There is great exposure to a wide range of technologies, with very interesting processes. This is a great place for new workers to get a chance to be exposed to a wide range of things out there. Get your experience, learn what you can, and leave before the depression kicks in.

This is a great place to get starting experience but the current structure is not designed to maintain experience nor encourage growth. If you are not an individual that is a go getter, this is not the place for you. 

Coworkers are by far the best aspect of this company

One has the ability to learn any area of interest here, but must be prepared to learn it through ones own pursuit while juggling other responsibilities.  

The hardest part of working for this company is working through the decisions that management makes. While their ideas are usually good, they do not put in place a vehicle to make those ideas successful. 

Company uses MBM, and although the MBM is sound, at this site the structure and principles that make up MBM feel more like words on a page than a culture to strive for.

Extremely hot work environment. Wearing long sleeves and pants with hard hat. 12 hrs shifts with no breaks over a 12hr shift, if your machine is running poorly. Which was always.  Everyone hides injuries because afraid being fired. Nothing ever got fixed unless it could be fixed with duct tape and garbage bag. Washrooms with 12 toilets, now at 2 because they would never fix anything. Mangement full of lazy , but kissers, who could never operate the machines. Mangement would go out of there way to make life difficult for targeted employees. Wage cuts, no raises ever!!!!! Layoffs for factory workers then expected to do 3 jobs instead of one. While mangement was always top heavy. Anything to make a penny.

The company expects a good days work from each of its employees. There is performance pay for those that have worked hard and gone above and beyond. This pay system has created some animosity amongst some.

 The company is well managed and tries to treat people fair.

I understand that every company is here to make money. They are investing lots of it into the Kingston Site and this is a good thing. However there is to much emphasis on people cutting and wage cutting.  

   The good thing about the site is that i feel it will be here for some time due to the ever cutting costs. But at what point do you stop at the expense of the worker.

was a fantastic place to work when owned by Dupont. After that INVISTA turned it into a 3rd rate production facility. no raises for years and the constant take away of employee benefits. Shift premiums, premiums on holiday pay and overtime...you name it they tried to scale it back. And supervision just drank the Kool-Aid. They would never back there own employees and just forced the companies poor directives down the throats of the workers in hopes of keeping there jobs or maybe a advancement in the field.

As  a Contractor that was on site regularly, interacting with many of the operational sections,  if you were safe, hard working and had a good attitude life at Invista was good. If you complained, did not follow the rules then life would be toxic. Invista pays well, good benefits (not as good as before)and if you show initiative you advance. In my opinion Invista should try to reduce the outsourcing and take on more of the essential services and operations. Its a good place to work  

Management does not no what they’re doing. They are only interested in making people’s lives hard and make themselves look good. Not a good place to work anymore. Company is only interested in making money and not about having happy employees. They don’t mind cutting people and moving more work to others that are left. The only way for advancement is if you become friends with someone in management.

Worked here 10 years  only benefit was the above average pay and decent benefits however I say this with caution as you end up being  deducted extra amounts that are coded - and The union is a complete JOKE  
THE managers are ex spinners who were on the floor as minions once upon a time (most of them) but they pick who they want for any advancement opportunities  they totally treat their employees like dirt and work always comes before your family or anything else  Forget getting time off impossible

Had an excellent time working at INVISTA (Canada) Company. The work was always new and interesting, keeping things entertaining and different. The people there were really friendly and created a positive work atmosphere in the technical department. Layoffs that occurred while I was working there, however, caused the atmosphere in operations to be non-ideal.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Contential shifts so there’s lots of time off

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Managers have their favourite people. At least in the department I was in

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hot place and you have to wear full pants and sleeves 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Long days and job is monotonous

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Process engineer 3 salaries reported	$72,833 per year
Technician 3 salaries reported	$28.00 per hour
Production operator 1 salary reported	$25.58 per hour
Millwright 1 salary reported	$40.11 per hour
Maintenance person 1 salary reported	$28.51 per hour

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