MTS Systems reviews

Middle management completely powerless and only information passers. Too top heavy with management. Dropping margins, increasing lateness for customer deliveries. If you want a 2.5-3% raise at best, this is your place to work. Performance/effort is not tied to raises. 6 Cardboard signs on all conference rooms for "Accountability, Customer Commitment, Invest in our Future and other BS" are all propaganda. New operations management just beats the drum harder and tries to squeeze out productivity from a procedure ridden company structure. The real issues of the company are not being addressed: under staffing of engineers and designers, late deliveries, employee training, hindering procedures, and low morale. Used to be a great place to work, now is turning into a barren wasteland of staff on edge, projects not meeting target delivery dates, customer complaints, and lack of trust in middle and upper management.

Quarterly revenue drive is destroying company. Jeff Graves squandered an improved employee morale after Laura Hamilton was pushed out. Had employees ready to turn the tide at MTS. Improved MRP processes had company driving towards more efficient execution of projects. The improved MRP processes are all for naught. Revenue drive add false priority into the mix versus customer delivery and cost. Through Class A MRP out the window every quarter, and go to spreadsheets and backwards execution of projects (engineer easy components first, then difficult ones later to drive revenue). Yet every quarter Jeff Graves is surprised by our overrun of costs and inability to deliver to the customer schedule. Management has no clue. If they had a employee survey they might. Employees are beat up over managements failings. Record revenue quarter after quarter with same understaffed engineers translates into layoffs. Work/Life balance is terrible if you try and meet your customer delivery requirements; way understaffed. For the past two years there have been shutdowns on the k of July 4th and Christmas/New Years. Extremely little time off of your own choosing. For contractors the result is two unpaid forced vacations a year. Every benefit area is being systematically cut. Change to 401K policy this year netted a 3% pay cut for everyone. Always waiting for the next shoe to drop on benefits.