Pickens is a joke. They can't even produce the simplest of products without difficulty. They are plagued by the inability to hire qualified local talent and couple that with
a completely inept manufacturing force and you have a recipe for disaster. It should be shut down immediately and writtren off as a loss.
If Liberty is such a great site, why are they constantly shuttling upper management, engineers, technicians, and production operators back and forth from Scottsdale to Liberty? Doesn't sound like it's that great to me. There are too many incompetent employees at this location, just like their former Director of Quality, Bob Shue. He was terminated because he couldn't do the job and it shows because the site is in complete disarray. The only reason they are trying to keep that location open is because they pay their production employees in Liberty two third's to one half less than they pay their other U.S. based manufacturing employees. Like the old saying goes, you get what you pay for.
The city of Liberty SC is located in Pickens county.
We are fine. Lost 3 great folks that had solid back-up plans. They will be fine.
Good luck to all others affected.
We make HV Caps and Hybrids for ICD and pacers. I love working here and for SJM. We are extremely dedicated to quality and the customers. We have employees and vendors and friends/family that are SJM patients.
Come and visit us. It's a great site.
This comment is a joke right? Considering SJM hasn't had a Pickens site in 9 years?