JLR reviews

I was attracted to the brand and not the job, that was my big mistake. Your experience of JLR will heavily depend on what department you work in. I found as with all global companies of this size is that there is a lot of internal politics, processes and bureaucracy that will affect the way you do your Job properly. Its quite a corporate company that values hierarchy quite highly, which means the way your are treated depends on the level you're at. Staff can be rude and obnoxious, this is due to the above and being at JLR for too long. The salaries are not as good as people think, JLR expect prospective employees to take a cut because you'll be working for a top branded car manufacturer. My advice is to negotiate the best salary you can before joining, as incremental increases/promotions are hard to get once settled in. If you're an Engineer the likelihood there will be more flexible on salary due to shortage of skills. Internal Infrastructure is still poor as JLR has outgrown itself exponentially over the last few years and therefore the infrastructure still can't keep up. This is still evident today and will impact your day to day life at JLR.

Every manager is scared of the one above them, all fear change and criticism. The job is mundane, boring because the boss wants maintenance engineers to be operators. Shifts are horrific, 39 hour week, with no chance of finishing early,, nights being the worst, 2200 - 0600, but on a Friday we start at 2000 and finish 0300 Saturday morning, most of the time trying to look busy, because we're not allowed to sit down for 8 hours, even talking together is frowned upon, sorry i mean 7 hours and 40 minutes as we get two 10 minute breaks! The company is always looking at ways to save money, yet they still bring in the Friday night shift when we are not producing, we have even suggested unpaid time off, but got completely ignored. They pride themselves on work life balance, but there is only one descent weekend as on afternoons we don't finish until 2000 on the Friday.. Everything is a secret, we get our news from Midlands Today or shop floor rumours. No promotion, unless you're in bed with the management, there isn't even anything in place to let you know how you're performing, 1 to 1;s don't happen and when they do, nothing comes from them. No training at all on any of the machines, yet expected to know instantly what is wrong with them when they break down. Did get a useless 2 week course on Keisens and 5S though, so know how to cut corners off marking tape! Do not come here as an engineer as you will be degraded and humiliated, for a couple of quid less you may as well be an operator with no stress and promotion opportunities.