Pratt & Whitney Employer Reviews

Pratt and Whitney is a leading company in the aerospace field with an impressive line of technology that gives it its competitive edge.

Working at Pratt and Whitney is great as the work environment is extremely positive and the their is a great diversity of employees and the different cultural values are respected and appreciated.

Although I only worked for two consecutive summers at Pratt and Whitney as intern, I gained valuable real world experience and had a great time. Their product is exciting, a lot of room to grow and move around and the culture is amazing.

day starts between 7 and 8 and ends around 6. most weeks have 75% meetings with bureaucratic nonsense.

managements seems confused on a daily basis. one day go this direction, two weeks later you're asked why you're doing that.

many ethically challenged managers that conveniently forget past communication.

wouldn't go back.

UTC has great benefits especially the educational benefits and work life balance. People therefore people are very educated and you learn a lot in this environment.

Each day was interesting and different from the day before. Always challenged. On the job training was great.

Working in Operations requires a very high level of multitasking and the ability to react quickly at changes while wearing your problem solving hat all the time.

- Transitioning of parts/assemblies
- Global Sourcing standard work
- Aerospace quality requirements
- Work environment is great

This is a great company with a high integrity work force. Daily tasks include delivering repaired parts while working on long term improvement tasks.

A typical day at work would be to come in and check emails is the first thing to do. Respond to emails that are urgent. Then check schedule to see what's ahead. Then prioritize the tasks. If necessary, go have meeting with teams/co-workers to go over work progress. Go out of office to visit the shop floor to see if there is any problem with productions. – more... Go back to office and check to see if there's any new messages. Respond to messages ASAP. Then call people from other department or within the team to get things going (e.g fix things, release of new work order, investigate issues). Schedule private meeting if necessary. Go out to lunch. Come back. Repeat the cycle starting at shop floor until all jobs meet the target for the day or end of shift. If there's free time, start doing all miscellaneous stuff (e.g. reports, resolve discrepancies/non-conformance documents). Then sign out for the day.

I learned a great deal about being a manufacturing engineer.

Co-workers are very helpful.

The hardest part of the job would be to find a consensus among the team or from upper-management when problem arises.

The most enjoyable part of the job is being able to communicate with various amount of people in a day, and being able to travel back and forth between office and work floor. – less

Don't know its future since the Space Shuttle Program was cancelled. I loved it there. I was laid off effective August 1, 2011.

Took vitals, drew blood and did uranalysis to check for drug use.

Always busy, from statising activities to preparing for launch. Always surrounded by the brightest minds in space propulsion engineering.
Hardest part of the job was adjusting to schedule changes. Most enjoyable part of the job, aside from watching Space Shuttle Launches, was the pride associated with a successful rocket engine operation..

Extremely bureaucratic. Many business processes are overly complicated. The company's internal systems are antiquated. It would be really nice if they could spend money on their internal systems and update and automate some processes. Excel sheets are the norm. As a lower level employee, there are 4-5 levels of approval to make things happen.

Good – more... things I can say about the company: generous time off benefits (they shut down between Christmas and New Years) and salaries are competitive.

I prefer more progressive and competitive companies that value business innovation and progressive employment practices. – less

I worked as a senior tooling game maker and enjoyed the work there was a challenge every day called tolerances and work on the large tooling is required to make jet engine parts.

I would arrive early and could get breakfast for 2.10. I learned not to take my job for granted.If I did a good job I was rewarded if I messed up I knew I had to do better.My manager would let me know if I was out of line. I pride myself on respecting were each person has been in there lives and treating them with understanding . My job is the reason – more... I come to work.I liked leaving work feeling I have made progress each day. – less

Opportunities to learn and advance. Excellent educational reinbursement program.

same as above worked within organization within several departments

opportunity to work with a wide variety of departments. Employee friendy

If call upon I would work for Pratt & Whitney again. The finest bunch of people I had the privilege to work / with.

Typical day I would say is spent on computers and dealing with associates

What I learn is to cooperate on the highest level (team work)

Management covered working with staff, customers and suppliers

My co-workers were the best of the – more... best

Hardest part of the job is settle up all the computer requirements

After all lthe hard work is learning the P&W way; the most enjoyable part of the job is seeing things fall in place (Cost Savings) – less

A great place for people passionate about A/C engines. Lots of opportunities for growth and learning.