As a very large diversified corporation, ABB affords numerous opportunities for career development, both cross functionally as well as vertically in o
The duties of my most recent role as Strategic Business Development Manager varied in nature and focus throughout the course of each month. While researching and developing ways to ever increase sales of our electrical utility products for the renewable energy generation market was a prime responsibility, I also devoted considerable production to analyzing and presenting numerous marketing and engineering performance indicators to all functional departments within the Division. I also routinely made presentations, supplied reports, trained and evaluated personnel, and attended trade conferences.
Inasmuch as my in-house, as well as external, customers varied extensively in terms of personnel, requirements, and preferences, I'd learned to become very flexible in my work manner and perspectives to optimally accommodate individuals’ needs.
While it was the responsibility of my managers to call directions and thereby 'lead the way' toward particular goals, I quickly discovered that their effectiveness significantly improved as I became more adept at proactively interpreting their unspoken requests and consequently deliver more strategic results.
Many of my co-workers were new to their assignments, a situation often repeating throughout each year. Having served a number of varied roles in the past, I was generally able to supplement their training and develop tools and procedures to help them more quickly assimilate their responsibilities.
Much my work output depende
ProsDeveloping a tool, report, or presentation, that succeeded in helping a customer, generate business, or helping an associate better perform their job. Fair benefits and compensation administration.
ConsWhile it's certainly beneficial to accurately anticipate major corporate actions, particularly those in which local individuals may be significantly affected, managerial decisions have sometimes occurred, leaving insufficient time for prudent individual reaction.
The firsts thing you’ll notice when you start working here is the conditions of the inside.
Floors are a wreck, if you operate an order picker or reach truck you might as well go run a jackhammer. Sections of floor are busted down to the sand.
Rollers on modules were never repaired, racks are busted daily, every single rack leg is damaged, conveyor belts or ripped, dock doors left wide open.
Maintenance does absolutely nothing for 90% of the day. If you want to work maintenance this IS for you, you can sleep, play on your phone, eat snacks and get away with doing only the most trivial work for a day, maintenance has been moved to a back corner far away from everyone else now so it’s even better for them to catch sleep.
Management is a joke. Their only concern is orders going out, no matter how difficult it becomes to push them out. Their backwards ideas consistently delay other areas which later causes another delay in orders going out. They cannot keep employees at the shipping dock, if you go in as a order filler you are likely to end up on the shipping dock because everyone walked out. Shipping is back breaking because you HAVE to go fast and bend from line to floor, there is no way to ergonomically move product at that speed. They have NO pallet stands to relieve any strain. They exhaust you with no weekends off ever.
Supervisors and leads sit and stare at a monitor and their phones all day and their highest degree of work is getting on the radio to let you know it’s
Loved the benefits, management caused a high turn over rate
Thomas & Betts is a plastic injection molding factory, I worked in an area refereed to as L cell, where we primarily made plastic electrical boxes. I would come into work, the team lead would tell me my assigned press and you get straight to work. With how they strive for a consistent quality of plastic, they only shut the press down when they absolutely need to, and you must thoroughly check the quality of every part. That didn't necessarily make the job difficult, just made it have a higher learning curve than most, being that we would rotate to a different press everyday, and they all have unique operations. Some presses were parts going straight out of the press, adding a upc, and boxing. Most involved the parts going into a screw setter, where different components are added to the parts. The screw setter added a lot of more complications to how quality can be sub par. I started the job with it having a high turn over rate, and it was that way throughout my experience there. Meaning, new people were constantly coming in and learning these presses, while being switched to a new one everyday they came in, to them eventually quitting out of frustration of constantly being criticized by management for not keeping up with regular employees. With me gaining knowledge of the various presses, and the high turn over rate, I became a permanent trainer. I enjoyed every aspect of training, specifically motivating new employees to not give up and always believe in themselves. Noticing
ABB is a great company to work for if you are an engineer, they are a huge company so there are plenty of opportunities to find something that you like. As an intern, I learned a lot during my time there that I don't think I could have learned from a textbook in school. I loved the people and everyone I worked with, but I do see some problems that they need to fix.
First off, ABB is a huge company made up of many division; however, there is very little collaboration across division, or at least that's how it was in the division I worked for. I believe this is mainly because each division acts as its own company and sees the others as separate businesses under the same name, ABB.
Branching off my first point, ABB is made up of bunch of companies they have bought over the years, such as Baldor Motor, B&R, Thomas & Betts, and recently GE Industrial, and these companies are what make up the different divisions of ABB. A big problem within ABB, especially in the United States, is the culture that has formed within these business units. For many of the older people who worked at the company before it was bought by ABB, they have this 'Big Brother' mindset when it comes to ABB and act as if they are the 'Dark Side'. I believe that this hinders collaboration and movement between the business unit.
Also, pay for Interns is competitive/average when compared to normal businesses; however, there are many companies is the area that pay 20-30% more. This is also a hindranc
A typical day consisted of arriving, clocking in, and having a shift meeting. The meeting basically consisted of a quick 5 minute talk of what needed to get done that day. Once that was done, you head to your section, grab the blueprints for what you need to build, and determine parts needed. Get all the parts then start assembly. Tools used were the basics: drills, sockets, screwdrivers and overhead winches. The work was multi-step assembly line style. Each section would spend 15-30 minutes build an assembly then sending it down the line.
I didn't learn much there besides how to read blueprints (at least for what I needed to do)
Management stayed out of way for the most part as they weren't needed except occasionally. If you needed a manager then you could find them easily,
Coworkers were fun to hang around with and everybody pulled their own weight.
The hardest part of the job was fixing issues with mis-wiring (either due to assembly mistake or blueprint mistake). This involved working in some interestng angles to unbolt and re-bolt wiring.
The most enjoyable part of the job was the laid back attitude. Everybody did there job but there was no underlying rush of "THIS HAS TO BE DONE NOW". Everyone worked at a reasonable rate and if some reason someone fell behind (due to needing parts or if they were learning) then someone else who was slightly ahead would come over and help out. Most people were trained in multiple sections.
ProsNot stressful, steady work, management there when needed
Been with the company 2 years now and it's been for nothing, I've never gotten a job bid even with good attendance, I've been assigned a temporary position at a much higher pay rate for over 6 months now and today I was demoted by someone with more seniority but with a horrible record bad attendance and write-ups. So now after two long years I'm back at my original base pay with no hopes of any sort of advancement any time soon. The company felt it was a good idea to hire people in off the streets full time through the door Making more money than me with operator positions meanwhile I'm still doing the same base entry level job I've been doing for two years now. The union isn't much help considering their small size and limited influence. Management seeks you out and goes above and beyond to make life miserable for you if they don't like you. The safety aspect of the work environment is ridiculous to put it lightly and the quality of our product is so poor I don't understand how it makes any money. No communication, no help, no guidance, and no room for advancement if you made Management upset in any way shape or form. Unfortunately I'm stuck to my job due to financial reasons and a single income so I'll be hanging around until they ultimately decide to terminate me..... do yourself a favor and get a job at Denzo Adient, or E&E manufacturing or just about anywhere else in Athens except for that pit.....
I was a contractor there for 3 and a half years. Much of the time I was there my immediate manager was trying to get me on board full time. Given the economy at the time, this never happened. Absolutely the only reason I left was that some manager far above my boss's pay grade noticed that I had been there for 3 and a half years as a contractor and suddenly decided to enforce the 2 year limit.
For a big multi-national, this is as good as it gets. My primary duty was to develop a single rather large software package but there were always collateral duties to keep things fresh. Most importantly there was intense creative challenge. (Beyond that I should explain that I started out as an electrical engineering major so this, in a way, was returning to my roots.)
A typical day was almost always coming into the office and logging into IM. Beyond that it could be anything from non-stop telephone and IM conferencing to heads-down code grinding, or a mix thereof. Occasionally there would be travel to various factories. I had telecommuting capability which I used rather sparingly.
Needless to say, great co-workers, great management. (At least my immediate managers.)
I would go back in an instant.
Prosabove all else, creative challenge. (also great coffee and occasionally free panera.)
Consbeing forced out for no reason other than having exceeded the two year contracting limit.
Very organized and productive work place, with excellent management.
Received my list of PO's to expedite and imputed the delivery dates into the computer program. Also checked, received and warehoused all assembly parts on a daily basis.
Also kept track of back-order items and issued new PO's when new released parts were needed for the project.
Kept track when trucks would come in with assembly parts in bulk, for the project. Also issued trucks to pick-up and ship a fully assembled project.
Learned how to coordinate incoming and outgoing trucks, which were different sizes for many different loads.
Management assigned a daily task of line items to be completed that day and was very helpful whenever needed.
Co-workers were located in other departments; i.e. shipping and receiving and some warehouse staff. All very nice to work with and helpful when needed.
Working independently in the warehouse and having only one set of eyes, working on the inventory of all those assembly parts.
Watching and inventorying all those assembly parts in the beginning. Then watching the production process of the assembly of those parts into a finished project, ready for shipment.
ProsBusy and productive work place, which had a Great Gormet kitchen for breakfast and lunch.
ConsInventorying hundreds and hundreds of assembly parts with only (1) set of eyes.
ABB is a large corporate entity. As such their overall mentality fits the mold to a T. Daily work depends on the position held. In field service (the position i held) management was absent over 90% of the time, this is due to their model of on site customer support and the large coverage area of 'regional management'.
Generally speaking, field service individuals will spend their time at a customer site, and are on call depending on individuals assigned to the site. Customer sites can be anywhere from right off the highway in a small town or large city to in the middle of nowhere 20 miles from the nearest service... it all depends on the site and industry being served. Corporate offices are typically in dense population areas, and are typically a secure entry with sign-ins and security access.
The hardest part of the job was learning all the different technical specifications for the numerous generations of equipment that still exist, but are no longer officially supported, or covered in detail or at all in training courses. This is due to customer reluctance to upgrade from outdated/obsolete to next/current generation systems. Learning the technical manuals and how to use them was also a slight challenge as they are not written for lay-men.
Management and employees do not respect any form of education. Management think they are psych. professors and love to stereotype people and ignore hard working people in favor of lazy, pretentious people who only do enough to get by and step on anyone else who actually likes to work, who make them look bad. This particular location was losing millions of dollars and customers at every turn and it's not hard to see why, but management marches on like nothing is wrong, then bark about it at every plant-wide meeting. At that pace, this place won't last very long unless major changes to just about every aspect of managament takes place, and quickly, or just watch them tank. Every employee is super quick to tell you how bad management is! The most Interesting thing I learned while at this job is how the company has been in trouble multiple times for bribing government officials around the world, and various nefarious business dealings that they seem to be proud of. Stay away from this company if you can. If you can fit in and survive, then by all means give it a try, but do so in a place that forbids that you may be terminated for something extremely trivial, or you may be fired for something that you do not have any control over, and definitely not related to your job performance!
Installing and configuring VIO Servers, building LPAR clients and sharing IO devices to LPARs.
Installation & configuring of PowerHA 6.1
Migrated Power HA from 5.x to 6.1 using different methods to reduce the downtime to the application
Performing fail-over , fall back between the HA cluster nodes
Troubleshooting the POWER HA and increasing the filesystem in HACMP/POWER HA cluster
Hardware replacement of cluster nodes without any downtime
Planning the major patch releases by coordinating with the application team for the proper implementation of security patches within the environments
Involved in hardware migration of servers from p5 to p6 & p7
Developed and implemented the shell scripting for taking mksysb and push to the centralized NIM server.
Migration of OS through NIM master
Involved in migration of Physical to virtual servers (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V)
VIO Server operations, creating virtual adapters and configuring Ethernet or LUNs to LPARs and performing other troubleshooting techniques. Creating ether channel with link aggregation etc.
Installing and Configuring MPIO in dual VIO environment for providing continuous availability of storage to the LPAR's.
Configuring SEA failover in dual VIO environment for providing continuous availability communication to the LPAR's.
Applying security patches to VIO servers without impacting to VIO client
Planning of downtime for the hardware upgrades for the man
very good working place with stimulating enviornment
It was amazing experience being a part of ABB student intern program ! I completely enjoyed the learning at India Corporate Research Center. Here I experienced, how scientists are putting their extra ordinary efforts to establish next generation technology which is not only most effective but also most advanced in terms of reduction in environmental impact.
I must admit that at ABB, the work culture is too good & people are very much helpful to solve any problem which an intern might face. Even during the project, conversation with other corporate research center (Switzerland,Germany) and valuable guidance of scientist working there has motivated me a lot for Research & Development. Within ABB GISL also, i interacted with different department people and got very good and helpful response. I attended 2 ABB talk at INCRC in which researchers used to give overall idea of their research and there will be a discussion on some topic. I would say it was one of the best experience at ABB. I liked library resources as well, i used to go with what are current trends in technology and how ABB is contributing in various areas. Along with ABB reviews, library is full worthy for subject books and technology magazines.
As an research intern, one can get all the resources needed to experiment, explore, enhance the cutting edge technology. The research team really creates best learning environment to contribute for state of the art technology, as well as motivates students in the res
Empresa com expressiva posição na área em que atua, com áreas atrasadas em termos de processo e estilos de liderança.
Empresa de grande porte, com expressiva posição no mercado em que atua, segmento eletroeletrônico.
Muitos erros na implementação por exemplo do Sistema SAP, devido à falha em planejamento da empresa impactaram significativamente nossa área,a partir de Julho de 2012 devido a migrações erroneas de projetos do sistema ERP anterior, impactando numeros e dados estatisticos em projetos, demandando, um esforço adicional, principalmente com projetos mais antigos.Demandou esforço também para ajustar o sistema para emissao de NFs e demais lançamentos de dados dos contratos/projetos. Treinamento ineficiente, somado a processos mal desenhados nessa implantação.
A planta em Sorocaba/SP contava então com várias unidades de negócio e onde eu atuava não contava com uma estrutura solida em termos de processos, estava em reestruturação e adaptação. Durante o periodo em que estive la, a experiencia no primeiro ano de trabalho, inicialmente alocados em Osasco/SP considero muito boa em termos de ambiente, porém, devido à rotatividade de algumas pessoas que foram substituídas, algumas dificuldades foram encontradas com relação à históricos anteriores de projetos/processos.Mudança no time de vendas, gerenciamento de projetos, passei a ter dificuldade ao receber os processos corretamente, com erros em dados financeiros de contratos, por exemplo, ou falta de documentos, impactaram em retrabalhos e demanda de tempo maior no registro e correções, aliado a dificuldade operacional do SAP. Passei por di
ProsBeneficios, treinamentos.
ConsMultinacional com algumas áreas retrogradas em processos e gestão.
My work as technical support in ABB is balanced between office work and site work. I have learnt theory and practical of electrical power system in ABB. I appreciate the accessibility to the substation and panel builder factory to experience the real system of electrical power. The knowledge is enhanced with the theory of it which is vast in ABB intranet plus online training, webinar and online support which is available and updated from time to time. Being technical support, I also get the opportunity to have direct contact with protection relay specialist in ABB headquarters in Finland. This broadens my horizons and view on the work scope as a whole. ABB dedicates a specific role to a person so I focus only on protection relay at ABB. This gives me ample space to dig and deepen my knowledge in this area. ABB also comprise the whole scope of electrical power e.g automation, switchgear, LV product where I can always get in contact with peers who works in that team in ABB so I can know the inter-relation of my field to theirs. The hardest part of the job is to get approval of relay with utility like TNB and SEB which require a lots of things to do including documentations in such a long period of time. This will incur a lot of cost before we can actually start selling our product to the utility to earn profit. The most enjoyable part of the job is going outstation where I get opportunity to go to other places and my job task is varying depending on demand or job task so I don'
ProsFlexible time, can take half day leave, allocation of travelling day for outsation, site allowance, hardship allowance
Conssite allowance not updated, low annual increment, less benefit, less secure job (chance to get VSS)
ABB is a good company to work for - not a great one!
ABB is a large engineering and technical services company with world headquarters based in Zurich, Switzerland. ABB operates in most countries on Earth and employees about 150,000 employees. Even though ABB has significant operations in North America, there is a heavy European flavour to their corporate culture, so please be aware of this. When I worked in Canada, there was a marked downside to the Canadian leadership and it was because of this, I resigned. Most of that leadership ladder has since been fired or has resigned (mostly fired), so things have improved so I am told.
ABB had a matrix management structure which is typical of European companies, which means, in simple terms, that you can have two or more bosses, who can have conflicting agendas putting you in the middle to try to figure out who you want to please the most (you can never win with this deal, believe me). In my case, I had 14 Division Managers to report to across the top of the grid and a national executive on the vertical. Writing a strategic plan and trying to get buy-in from all stakeholders will try your patience to the max because most of these Divisional people will be a complete stranger to you when you start and will be an almost-complete stranger to you when you leave because you probably will never meet them in person (other than through electronic media). It can be a very lonely professional existence.
Because of poor decisions in the 1980's and 90's, ABB almost became insolvent. As such
Buena empresa que cuidava a sus trabajadores, en donde aprendí mucho más a trabajar en cadena de producción y en los almacenes de la fabrica.
ABB MOTORS era una multinacional de ámbito mundial, que en comparación con otras empresas, cuidaba aun más a sus trabajadores.
En ABB MOTORS, es donde completé bastante mi formación como operario de producción y sobretodo como operador logístico. Donde aprendí a manejar todos los tipos de carretillas, el puente grúa, el sistema de gestión erp sap, y la planificación de trabajo de los almacenes de ABB motors. ABB a mí me ha aportado mucho. El día a día en el trabajo era empezar a las 6h, ya a primera hora te venían los peones de las diferentes secciones de fabricación para pedir material, así durante toda la jornada. A las 8h de la mañana, ya empezaban a llegar los transportistas trayendo material para descargar. Se descargaba el material y se dejaba apilado en espera para verificar la calidad y posteriormente ubicarlo y plasmar la ubicación informáticamente.
Con la dirección y gerencia no había mucho contacto, cosa normal en una gran multinacional. De vez en cuando nos hacían charlas de como marchaba económicamente ABB motors.
Hice muchos amigos en esta empresa pero sobretodo estaba centrado en el trabajo.
La parte más difícil del trabajo era cuando había exceso de faena, ya que al estar en el turno de la mañana, se descargaba muchos camiones y había que alternarlo con las faenas de realización de pickings, material extra que pedían los peones de las secciones de producción, plasmar datos en SAP, ectra, aunque me adapte bastante bien a este ritmo de trabajo.
Lo que más
ProsHabía buena coordinación entre las diferentes secciones.
ConsLas instalaciones eran antiguas y estava pendiente de modernizarlas. El menú comedor era barato.
Detail Design Engineering and FEED studies for Industry
Competency in following areas which includes:
Key and detailed Single line diagrams (SLD)
Design calculations: Equipment sizing, cables, Grounding, Illumination, Lightning
Technical Specifications, data sheets,Layouts
Cable Engineering: Sizing, lists, schedules, routing.
Interconnection diagrams
Study of existing equipment and systems and propose retrofits with switchgear extensions, drives and Power Management system integration etc.
Power system studies for retrofit projects including verification of protection settings.
Pre Bid engineering/ FEED (Front End Engineering Design) Studies
Project Life cycle support with detailed engineering studies.
Basic Engineering including Equipment sizing, Design basis, Data sheets and Technical specifications
Load flow, short circuit, Protection coordination, Dynamic motor starting, harmonic analysis and arc flash studies,System & Switchgear sizing, System engineering including Schematics, Layouts, Schedules
Detailed Engineering including Review of Vendor drawings and customer approvals for MV/LV Switchgear, Drives and Transformer and auxiliary equipment.
Preparation of Bill of Quantities /Material takes off (BOQ/MTO)
Engineering and documentation
Review of Technical & Commercial bid and Engineering Estimation for DCS, Electrification, Instrumentation, VFD Systems
Our team is working closely with various LBUs across the Globe in Marines, Mining and Industry solutions that inc
Questions And Answers about ABB
If you were in charge, what would you do to make ABB a better place to work?
Asked Jun 6, 2018
Management that knows what communication really means
Answered Dec 4, 2020
The company is working on getting new equipment and upgrading the facility
Answered Nov 20, 2020
How would you describe the pace of work at ABB?
Asked Oct 13, 2016
Fast but fun
Answered Nov 28, 2018
Fast and steady and safe
Answered Nov 7, 2018
What is the best part of working at ABB?
Asked Dec 15, 2019
The benefits.
Answered Dec 4, 2020
Co-workers, good pay
Answered Nov 20, 2020
What is the interview process like at ABB?
Asked Jun 22, 2016
I had a phone screening and the guy was very nice. Did my in person interview next and it was very awkward and the guy was kind of rude. Kept talking about the guy interviewing next and even stopped to talk to him in the lobby as we walked by. All of a sudden I didn’t have enough experience when he found out he knew the guy. Awful experience
Answered Mar 30, 2021
Centered around safety and how driven every individual is
Answered Mar 28, 2018
How often do raises occur at ABB?
Asked Dec 28, 2016
Raises are a joke at ABB. Some years no raise at all, other years 1% at most 2%.
Answered Feb 4, 2019
Basically, you just get a percent to two cost of living adjustment unless it's a slow year. All salaries are frozen during slow years. There are also widespread layoffs prior to slow years.
