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I think a MAJOR concern to look out for is high turnover of management roles. Nammo Talley in Mesa, AZ (Yes I just put them on blast) hired me on, with great pay, great benefits, and seemed like a wonderful place. After about 1 1/2 years, the purge started. CEO changed, then Quality manager changed three times, then the Engineering manager took over for quality... intentionally removing "and continuous improvement" from his job title. Just over three years in, about a dozen 'lifer' employees got canned or had left, including me.
--First place I was ever fired from. They claimed I tried to improve the organization outside of my scope of work, which was a fire-able offense. lol. The improvement was a training matrix (excel file) that i sent an improved duplicate to the admin who managed it.. Suggesting she could even own the credit for it. Instead of the cells being manually color-coded, it would autoformat her colors once she populated an Y R or L(Yes (green), Re-train (orange), Late (red)) , and it produced the percentage of each individual's effectiveness with training (a couple metrics we all needed to report on, for our quarterly reviews, bonus and merit increases). It showed the engineering manager (my new boss) and his prior engineering subordinates with terrible metrics, he got pissed when it showcased his inability to keep his staff on the ball with compliance.
So in short, if heads start rolling up top, rev up your resume. If you see changes in titles, take heed, and stick to the surface plate.
Another experience: I hired on as first Quality Technician with B/E Aerospace (now part of Boeing) at a brand-new facility. I helped select and brought on six peers. I didn't get the "lead" role (a peer I trained did, because he had a community college business degree). I then got laid off after two years because I was the highest paid, and they lost a contract with a customer (overpaid because I was working a ton of OT). Even my boss was surprised they laid me off.
Lesson to be learned there: Don't train peers with all the tricks in your hat, you're more valuable by keeping some of them to yourself.
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