Fast paced with the ability to make a good amount of extra money in OT.
One of the biggest motivators at FK was the pride id get from completing my work. Knowing that those vials I ensured were sanitized and safe to later be filled with what would typically be a life saving medicine for someone. I mean talk about knowing what your doing is actually making a difference. Not to mention that FK also constructs life saving medical equipment such as dialysis machines, and that their kidney dialysis centers are popping up more and more frequently made me feel like the team that I belonged to was one of the few companies that was really out there continuesly striving to make difference. They were really walking the walk when most companies are talking the talk. Fk is one of those jobs that you get out of it as much, or as little, as you out in to it. A substantial percentage of upper management started at one time in production. It's always comforting to see when a company prefers to promote from within. They had competitive pay, but at the same time you could make a substantial amount of over time at 2x your hourly rate after 40 hrs. I enjoyed their scheduling which ensured we never worked more then 3 consecutive days without ATLEAST one day off, because after 3 12s at that high pace and the heat and gear your pretty tired. Overtime, like any physical loaf placed on the body, you will adapt. We were afforded the best benefits ive ever had anywhere ive been employed. Generous 401k matching and the list goes on. It is a fast paced, exhaustin
Unfair shift priority and stressful work environment
Fresenius Kabi is not bad at all. With better management, fairly decisions and growing opportunities they will have more happy employees. Every day I have to make corrections was the last shift do not do. Sometimes I do not have spare parts to make corrections and this is stressful. Friendship also make a stressful work environment because friendship is first than the work efficiency. Dispensary close at 12 AM so night shift workers have not a nurse or medicine in case of any accident or situation. You are not suppose to leave the facilities to buy food outside in the paid break and night shift do not have cafeteria available, so if you do not brought lunch or forget it at house you will have to eat vending machine food or drinks only. In resume morning shift have better quality work environment than the evening shift and evening shift have better quality work environment than the night shift. Weekend shift also have the same problems as a night shift or maybe worst because they works 12 hours without dispensary and without cafeteria. The company provide vision, audition and medical examination for free once a year. They provide personal protection equipment too.
Prosfree parking, facilities security, they make free lunch and dinner for special occasions, free turkey and cheese with ham for thanksgiving and Christmas and perfect assistance compensation.
ConsNo cafeteria and dispensary available for all shift, not fair evaluation for salary upgrades, not fair shift compensation, not consideration for night shift workers when they make activities during the next day, have a stressful work environment
You are expected to learn the job in a high stress environment with an ever increasing workload. The Mentors who are your trainers are overworked to begin with and have to find time to work with a new writer. It would be great to have Mentors that can work solely with a new writer, but the job demands too much time and energy for this to be possible.
There isn't enough time in the day to complete the task, you will have to go in early and stay late to collect all the data you need. There is no clear standard or direction for completing an investigation. There is no accountability for the people who initiate an investigation, often you will be left struggling to find evidence or conduct interviews.
When you have a report written, a Mentor or Reviewer tells you that you need more, or that the report needed to follow a different direction alltogether. The QA team expects you to be an expert immediately, and constantly raises the bar so that your time management is useless. New writers are expected to do more than what was done previously for identical investigations.
Also, I would say management blatantly disregards people's needs as humans and it is clear from the office chatter. Listening to management discuss candidates was disgusting and depressing. Then there are the MAGA / covidiots in management on top of this.
ProsThe people are nice, just stressed.
ConsNo work-life balance; Terrible training regiment; Ridiculous expectations for beginners.
This is probably one of the most stressful jobs I had in my 13 years in corporate world. Dealing with extreme Micromanager to the point that I don’t want to answer when my IM calls. The environment in my team is mostly ok but everyone is scared to speak up when something bothers them. Some people will tell on you when you ask them simplest questions. My manager has a weird management style of calling you 5 times a day and quizzes you on process and procedures and constantly needs to make you feel incompetent and stupid. Everything has to be done in a certain way or you hear a comment along the lines of thats not how i would do it and lets do it this way. You waste doing tasks that will be changed anyways by the Manager. Does not allow you to work in your own paste and puts extreme pressure on tasks that are not due at that particular time. Basically lack of trust in employees. The environment is overall ok and people seem nice but you have to be very careful who you say what to. There is very little work life balance. Vacation calendar is ridiculous. 85% of the year is blocked of for planning and budget.
ProsMedical insurance, location to my house, campus grounds, work from home
ConsManagement is condescending and rude, lack of work like balance, micromanaging
When I first applied a year ago, I applied for a day position. I interviewed with a day supervisor. I was given the overnight shift. In the Sterile Core, you are told to move and work aseptically, but the production supervisor tells you to do the opposite of what Quality says. Since I have a degree in Surgical Technology, I will always put the patient's well-being over production, but it is stressful to always have your boss tell you to go against Quality and the Company's own SOPs. The constant standing is fine, the work is repetitive with an extremely small chance of advancement. They have a great tuition reimbursement program, but the 12 hr, 2 day on, 2 day off with alternating weekends makes it very tough to take advantage. You either have class in the morning, take a small nap, then work 12 hours, or miss every other class. The Company is also not closed on major holidays, so you will most likely have to work. You are told that you are being hired to just run a machine, then, once hired, you are required to learn to sanitize and setup the machine.
ProsGreat benefits, vacation time accrued with every scheduled day worked
ConsSchedule, employees caught between Quality and Production
Management and Germans Don't Care About Plant Life
People talk a lot about team, team, team but they don't care. All they care about is numbers and getting stuff out the door. They don't pay all that good, so you get in people who can sometimes not read or understand what they are supposed to be doing. Most of the supervisors in production have no people skills and don't know how to manage or do the work. We have no space in locker rooms to change and are forced to take our stuff home. People are overworked and no one cares. now the germans and CEP are pushing their way into the workplace, coming up with stuff that makes it hard to do your job because no one asked the plant how the new processes would work for us, you just got to make it work . benefits are good but not enough to keep you there.
Prostraining department tries to help (they are nice), first week of work was nice because of training for new people
Consno regular breaks, overtime after doing 12 hour shift, low pay, supervisors try to make you do the wrong thing, management doesn't care about anything but numbers, people are not important, people are not disciplined fairly, some people make mistakes and walk away while others get written up
If you are in the Chemistry field, don't even bother applying here. This is the bottom of the barrel. All of your assignments and the time spent doing them is accounted for and scrutinized by a computer software program. You are treated like a little kid, not an adult, with daily shift meetings where your supervisor asks you what you are working on. Goals are not realistic, laboratory safety is a joke, and the entire laboratory management staff is unfriendly and incompetent. There is a lot of turnover in the department attributed these reasons. They overwork you and don't give you any respect. You are just a number. Management is so arrogant, they don't even acknowledge you when you pass them in the halls. Terrible working environment. Nobody wants to help each other. Stay away from this department. Overall, the company as a whole is not much better. They don't value their employees. This is a generic pharmaceutical company so the bottom line is how many vials they get out the door. They don't care about quality.
Terrible workplace and even don't waste your time applying there
If you are in the Chemistry field, don't even bother applying here. This is the bottom of the barrel. All of your assignments and the time spent doing them is accounted for and scrutinized by a computer software program. You are treated like a little kid, not an adult, with daily shift meetings where your supervisor asks you what you are working on. Goals are not realistic, laboratory safety is a joke, and the entire laboratory management staff is unfriendly and incompetent. There is a lot of turnover in the department attributed these reasons. They overwork you and don't give you any respect. You are just a number. Management is so arrogant, they don't even acknowledge you when you pass them in the halls. Terrible working environment. Nobody wants to help each other. Stay away from this department. Overall, the company as a whole is not much better. They don't value their employees. This is a generic pharmaceutical company so the bottom line is how many vials they get out the door. They don't care about quality.
I would get up at 4:30am to get there by 5:45am as that was the shift start time for everyone. All workers would be assigned their packaging line for the 12- hour day by the shift production manager or the team leader who were strict about breaks. If highly motivated and capable, there were a few opportunities to learn new things as the company was expanding and implementing more state of the art packaging procedures and systems. The department culture was close-nit and familial; however, management was driven by quantity and not quality on many occasions understandably, also they didn't invest in training and equipment upgrades and it made certain jobs unnecessarily tedious. The shift duration (12 hrs 3 days on/ 2 days off) was clearly the hardest part of the job. However, being there was a second home if you could hack it and was an enjoyable part of the jo, along with the appreciation from management in the form of treats and goodies from time to time.
Company overall is good, but LV location is pretty garbage.
Yearly Bonuses. Very small semi-annual raises. There is room to advance in local warehouse, but not so much beyond that. Company overall is good; successful, goals and day-to-day operations are laid out pretty plainly, nice wage. The LV location is pretty terrible though. The warehouse manager is completely inept, the Outbound Manager is ok, but overshadows the Inbound Manager who just lets it happen; and the culture presented is more of worrying about gossip and looking pretty more so than the work getting accomplished in the most efficient way possible. Pretty nice core of Warehouse Workers and Administrative Staff though, beyond the Managers. Decent wage, so if you keep your head down you’ll get by ok. But it might not be worth the daily headaches. You would probably be better off working elsewhere even if for less money.
ProsScheduled breaks and lunches. Air conditioned. Wage.
Per la serie il peggio deve ancora venire? Beh è arrivato!
Ditta o meglio fabbrica strutturata come nel 1800.
La fabbrica divide i due turni lavorativi in mattina/pomeriggio e turni di notte il che significa lavorare 6 giorni su 7 con due notti nel mezzo!! Ripeto 6 giorni su 7!!Il tutto per uno stipendio da piantagione di cotone in Senegal. La retribuzione non è affatto da fabbrica chimico farmaceutica. Chi lavora 6 giorni su 7 non supera i 1600 euro al mese (una miseria per chi fa questo tipo di turnazione) e soprattutto vive dentro la fabbrica.
Chi fa i turni di mattina o pomeriggio non supera i 1300 euro. Una follia! Le persone a tempo indeterminato, che si stanno licenziando, non si contano più....
Quelle che restano, perchè hanno famiglia da mantenere o vivono a 800 m dalla fabbrica, imprecano il Padre Eterno!
La fabbrica campa grazie agli incentivi che prende dalle regioni cosiddette "disagiate" (soprattuto Puglia e Sicilia).
Ciliegina sulla torta: nella "mezz'ora" di pausa devi cambiarti solo 4 volte, arrivare alla mensa che dista 1km, chiaramente fare la fila come a Lourdes e pure sparecchiare. Non è poco che non ti fanno fare pure la lavastoviglie. Mentre ero a lavoro, come fanno i carcerati, pensavo sempre al mare.....
Allucinante! Trovare di peggio è dura...
ProsUscirne con le lacrime agli occhi stile Andy Dufresne in "Le ali della libertà"
ConsFarsi assumere, la mensa, lo stipendio, i turni allucinanti e il tempo libero ZERO
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Especialista de Produtos | São Paulo, SP | Aug 13, 2018
Empresa com ambiente agradável, com foco no conceito de produtos no mercado
Responsável pela abertura de novos canais de venda, demonstração de produtos e equipamentos médicos ( Medical Devices), às equipes de centros cirúrgicos, UTI´s e demais setores dentro do hospital e para médicos nutrólogos, anestesistas, endoscopistas e intensivistas. Negociação com os departamentos de compras nos Hospitais, Distribuidores e Farmácias de Manipulações.
Coordenar programas de treinamento e introdução de novo produto no mercado.
Mapeamento e levantamento de clientes potenciais (hospitais que ainda não utilizam os equipamentos). Negociação, vendas e pós-vendas.
Estratégia de preços e análise de concorrência. Cadastramento nos hospitais e convênios;
Controle de faturamento por hospital e apoio à área administrativa de vendas controlando estoque de comodatos e todo o fluxo de pedidos de vendas.
Participação em pregão / licitação em órgão público, conferência de documentação necessária para concorrência pública.
Geração de demnada para consumo de insumos.
Questions And Answers about Fresenius Kabi
Paid weekly or bi weekly
Asked Nov 6, 2017
Hourly workers are paid weekly, salaried workers are paid bi-weekly.
Answered Jul 27, 2021
Some pocket change is directly deposited into my checking account every Friday.
Answered Mar 21, 2019
If you were in charge, what would you do to make Fresenius Kabi a better place to work?
Asked Nov 2, 2019
Actually train employees to do what they're supposed to be doing instead of making them sweep all day, also stop announcing daily overtime the day of because you want to stay ahead.
Answered Dec 3, 2021
I would hold people accountable for their responsibilities. I would eliminate the favoritism/nepotism and bigots.
Answered Dec 2, 2020
What is the work environment and culture like at Fresenius Kabi?
Asked May 24, 2018
It's a matrix organization, so there are a lot of challenges with regards to communication and accountability. It's also German owned, so the leaders in Germany have a big impact on the culture. They can be very difficult to work with. It's also a large company, which means there are lots of good and bad apples. It is also very difficult to identify the right individual to reach out to for assistance.
Answered Dec 5, 2019
Lake Zurich - depends on department... I've seen very friendly departments, and then I have seen departments that were siloed ... I've seen good management and I've seen/heard of the bullying done by others. All depends....like any large corporation, you get some good apples and some nasty ones.
Answered Mar 21, 2019
How would you describe the pace of work at Fresenius Kabi?
Asked Sep 20, 2016
Depends on department / job... I work in a very fast paced department...but my job is sllllooowww.
Answered Mar 21, 2019
Fast paced, no time to develop proper methods just churning out results after thought for issues and problems.
Answered Oct 2, 2018
How did you get your first interview at Fresenius Kabi?
Asked Jan 16, 2018
The interviews had a calming atmosphere. The hiring manager and team shared a lot of information the company and the role. They gave positive feedback/remarks which I found motivating. I encourage job seekers to prepare and be able to apply job requirements
