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Promise the sky, then close your plant

Mfg Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Siemens for 20 years
July 13, 2018
West Burlington, Iowa
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

The salary is good; health benefits are just OK.

Cons

They bought our Dresser-Rand plant, promised to grow the business, and are now closing it—all in less than three years. We are the only profitable location they have in North America doing industrial steam turbine manufacture. We are the oldest continually operating manufacturing facility west of the Mississippi, with a 150-year legacy of profit for our owners, and they couldn't make it work for three years.

Advice to Management

Learn about industrial steam turbines.

Your gas turbines are not selling, and you are not competitive on your commercial steam products.

Get rid of the clueless people running Power and Gas. You are set to lose the entire industrial steam market with a hair-brained idea of closing manufacturing in North America and sending it overseas. American Petroleum Institute companies won't buy from there.

The attitude that the end justifies the means, as long as Siemens wants it, is wrong in this day and age.

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