Egar Tool and Die Employee Reviews

My kinda work, it's heavy stamping I've done it all my life but it's not for the faint hearted. One must be in very good physical condition for this type of work

Pros

4-10 day shift, ya don't see that very often

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All good

Welder/Machine Operator (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 8 September 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Management is really good. NiceWhat is the most stressful part about working at the company?Nothing, I worked 2 months in egar tool all goodWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?Clean and safe environment in egartoolWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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Insights into Egar Tool and Die

Based on 24 survey responses

Areas for improvement

Ability to learn new things
Support from manager
General feeling of work happiness

Do your job and you will be rewarded

Die design (Former Employee) - Pinebush rd. - 26 August 2023

The best tool shop in the area. They are very knowledgeable. If you know your job and are a hard worker you will be rewarded in this company. Room for advancement.

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Good place to start manufacturing career

Production Associate (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 31 May 2023

Decent pay. Flexible for part timers. Good place to start manufacturing career. Opportunity is less and a little bit of politics is there. Work hard, communicate freely with everyone. You might get promoted or just go to a different company for higher pay and better role.

Pros

Decent pay and flexible scheduling for Part timers

Cons

Less opportunity to grow within the company

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Terrible place to work

Tooling Supervisor (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 20 November 2022

Forced out as Toolroom Supervisor because one of the owners couldn’t handle the pressure from the fact internal candidates were annoyed that they hired externally.

Pros

None

Cons

Horrible Mgmt

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Terrible place to work, find somewhere else to work

Tool & Die Maker Apprentice (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 24 September 2022

There is absolutely nothing good about this employer. Toxic workplace, terrible management, terrible place to work, terrible work, disorganized, cluttered

Pros

None

Cons

Everything, wages, culture, management, work, toxic environment

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Hardworking people who care about quality.

Labourer/Machine Operator (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 12 September 2022

Training was very bad. Leadhands were aloof. Lift truck drivers drove very fast. 3 breaks. Afternoon shift hours were great. Welding shop, bad smelling.

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Bishop plant, has poor management disorganized wouldn’t recommend anyone working at this location

Weld Cell Operator (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 29 June 2022

Thumbs down. Only thing it’s good for is if In dire need of a job while you look for the next real job . Disorganized poor communication and management at the bishop plant is horrible

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Great place to work

Operator/Labourer (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 27 June 2022

Great place to work with great staff,4 day work week, opportunities for overtime and room to grow in your career.

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Easy work, short work week.

Weld cell operator (Former Employee) - Bishop plant - 22 June 2022

4 days at 10 hours. Every weekend is a long weekend!!! All the OT you want.Repetitive, easy work. Supervisor only bugs you if you don't make rate. No problems making way more then rate so I got a raise after 3 months. The manager actually helped clear faults on my cell and fixed a tooling issue. Never seen that before. Friendly coworkers They are big on attendance. Seen a lot of people who only show up for 2 or 3 days a week. Those people don’t last long. You won’t get out of Mom’s basement if you can’t show up to work. I only left because I went back to school.

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Fast pace and friendly environment

Cell Operator (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 15 June 2022

Great hours< 4 days a week, 10hour shifts. People are friendly and helpful. Fast pace environment but easy work. Management is also easy going and very lenient on giving you time off when needed.

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Easy going but fast Pace

Weld cell operator (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 13 June 2022

Egar tool and I was a great place to work I found the people friendly management very helpful and I love the four days a week. It is very fast paced and I did learn a lot

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Good place to work

Welder (Current Employee) - Bishop st cambridge on - 31 May 2022

I've learned how to run a weld cell and had something to do kept busy cleaned up everyday at the end of my shift. A nice place to work I always got over the goal we had for number of parts. My 12 year's of carrie at egartool I have seen no issues yet

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Great place to work

Weld Destruct (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 25 April 2022

I was a weld destruct and I loved my job. Coworkers were easy to get along with and management treated their employees well. Four day weeks for days and afternoons 10 hr shifts. Weekend shift is Friday to Sunday 12 hrs shifts

Pros

Four day week. Christmas lunches

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Revolving door company

GMAW Weld Tech. (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 9 March 2022

The job isn't hard in itself once you get used to it. The company is constantly hiring because people never stay long. I was only there for 9 months, in that time I must have seen at least 30 people get hired on and either quit or were terminated. That in itself proved to me that it wasn't the company I wished to be employed at.

Pros

4 day work week.

Cons

Shoddy machine maintenance

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No activities

Egar tool and die (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 7 February 2022

Didn't like the people. Wish I avoided this place. Its fast past. No one is helpful at this place. I see people come in and leave before break because they get disrespectful. It's a very fast past place and if you dont keep up they send you home anyways. Managment is the worst at this place avoid this place ty

Pros

Nothing there for workers

Cons

More the 12 hours a day

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Good experience

CNC Machine Operator (Current Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 31 January 2022

I think the job itself gives you purpose to wake up everyday from bed. The staff and supervisor was very supportive and the HR of the company was very supportive and understanding.

Pros

Find yourself by joining

Cons

No cons

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Good experience

Tool and Die Maker (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 14 September 2021

The somewhat younger core of this company has a lot of knowledge and good direction surrounding die making and die repair with all the capabilities that set them above other shops /stamping plants, far more then much bigger automakers that are their competitors.

Pros

Knowledgeable

Cons

Pay/

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No professionalism. Cheapest benefits even seen in my carrier.

Tool and Die Maker (Current Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 3 December 2020

No professionalism. Cheapest benefits even seen in my carrier. Never keep their promises. Raise will be given only to supervisor's buddies. Mainly lacking professionalism.

Pros

Good coworkers

Cons

No professionalism, under pay etc

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Nope

Weld cell operator (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 19 September 2020

As you start at this job you love it, as time goes on and like 4 months later maybe sooner you see the truest colors of management, there judgemental, rude, classless, and they dont care about you just your numbers. They will constantly and consistently compare you to your coworkers. There positivity, sensitivity and Tact are suverely lacking.

Pros

Wages were good

Cons

Wages increased if your liked as a person, No one cares if your being treated properly, there key goal is to be little you as much as possible in an attempt to motivaye you!, They will compare and belittle other employees right to you

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Company needs serious improvement

Operator/Labourer (Former Employee) - Cambridge, ON - 5 August 2020

To begin, poor training. You get told to read a whole bunch and then supervisor shows you how to do it once and walks away, good luck finding him again. Next, they value production over health and safety. Had reported to Operations Manager that multiple fire exits and extinguishers were blocked but had state he had other things to worry about. They cannot seem to keep people working there because there is next to no incentives. The benefits are awful. The only thing really going for them is weekly pay, even though you are also underpaid and not paid for what you are worth. This company needs to be seriously re-evaluated under all metrics and areas.