Has any one heard word of when Greenville could see the potential layoffs? How many ? Engineering /manufacturing??
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GE is really good at keeping people busy doing non-value added work. It's amazing how much time is consumed doing these endless tasks. If you work with me in Greenville then you know exactly what I'm talking about. If 1/3 of this wasted time was eliminated you could reduce the work force by large numbers of people and still accomplish the nessesary critical tasks. But don't worry leadership has consumed enough GE CoolAid to keep the waste of time initiatives in the pipeline. Job-Security. LOL!!!
I think most manufacturing jobs in Greenville are safe for the rest of this year. Beware of next year. Sales forecast is not looking good. Also, be wary of turbine manufacturing volume as many units will be assembled in Saudi Arabia instead of Greenville.
Manufacturing, in our case
@NYs6Fbq-1ojv What type of work are you talking about? Manufacturing, Engineering, or Project type work?
In regards to the previous post about majority of work is yet to come is correct. We have almost double the work for the rest of the year. How can they lay people off when departments are already way short with plenty of work
Well this s---s. The Americas do not have enough turbine volume to sustain Greenville. Throw the competitors into the game and the game is over. Go ahead and close the plant. The Greenville plant is an old unsafe dump of a plant anyways.
I don't work for GE but are plant does alot of work for them or use too anyway we been slow all year some of the work were doing now not due intill end of year it's not looking good for the turbine market in USA an alot of the countries that use to purchase turbines are not
Greenville used to make gas turbines for all regions. Now that we have three plants to operate, doesn't that increase GE's overhead times 3? How many turbines do each plant need to produce to survive and pay for its overhead? Looks like we are just stacking up cost when being competitive is important.
Greenville= North/South America/ Asia. Belfort= Europe/Asia. Saudi Arabia= Middle East
Are you saying plants are competing against each other for production capacity? But the overhead is massive to have all these plants! Makes no sense. This is like leadership admitting they can't lead and the only way they can get competitive is to make their own plants compete. I'm I the only one that sees the stupidity?
The plants are bidding for their own business.
Is that the total for Greenville or all of GE Power? I'm also curious how many GE Power has to schedule through each plant to pay for each plants overhead. Now that we have manufacturing in Saudi Arabia, France, and Greenville the total number scheduled may not be enough to pay for overhead in all of the plants like it did in the past. This concerns me a lot.
4 sold as of 2nd quarter. 30 something scheduled
Does anybody know of how many turbines are sold vs scheduled for next year?
I must start off by saying I do not know what is true. But my coworkers in Greenville are expecting more layoffs in Greenville this summer in both manufacturing and engineering. I've also heard of another round of layoffs in September if sales continue to tank.