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Chief Production Operator/Lead Operator (Former Employee), Township of South Brunswick, NJ – August 19, 2012
Pros: good pay and benefits, nice management and co-workers.
Cons: shift work
Sfift work dominated your life due to the 24 hour operation. Learned alot of manufacturing in the chemical field from a great management who really cared about people being safe and doing the job right. The hardest part was the shift work, otherwise not hard at all, the co-workers always there to back each other up.
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Learning how to drive an forklift
Car Loader (Former Employee), McIntyre, GA – August 1, 2012
One of the best jobs I had in my life if I could turn back the hands of and work I would great benefits great empolyees and mangers to get along with.
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Work here at your own risk
former employee (Former Employee), Wyandotte – July 28, 2012
Pros: very few
Cons: forced to work free overtime
Good luck getting hired if you are over 40. If you work there now and you are over 40, better start looking for a new job. You have a target on your back. Managers are typically incompetent. You will be told to do stupid things and then get blamed when it ultimately goes bad.
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Excellent work atmosphere. Team oriented. Relaxed atmosphere.
Site Administration Coordinator (Former Employee), Mauldin, SC – July 27, 2012
Pros: free coffee, uniforms for production employees, company potlucks, giftcards to all during thanksgiving n xmas seasons
Cons: 24/7 facility
Wonderful place to work. No micro mgmnt. Independent work, with very little supervision, but quality results expected and rendered. Employees worked as team to get job done. Professional personnel and family oriented environment.
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Great wrk.place
Operator (Former Employee), Port Allen, LA – July 27, 2012
Worked 12 hr. shifts.Great wrk. atmosphere.Overall great experience.
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RD coatings
CHEMIST EXERIENCE (Former Employee), Southfield, MI – July 27, 2012
Awesome foundation on how to develop and formulate coatings. How to provide techincal support to the customer and how to sale a concept. Great starting job.
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Good Company, Bad Management
Greenhouse Technician (Current Employee), Research Triangle Park, NC – July 17, 2012
I enjoyed working for the company but my manager was horrible. She had zero knowledge on how to run a research greenhouse. She also was inadequate when it came to managerial skills. She was a dictator and not a leader. She was the first in line when something went right and the last person to own up to something when it went wrong.
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Lousy Pay without much job security at "Railserve" inside BASF's facility.
Crew Leader (Former Employee), Geismar, LA – July 7, 2012
Pros: gaining experiance within an industrial facility for my future career path.
Cons: everything aside from gaining industrial experiance..
The people at Railserve were all great. The work load, pay scaling, zero tolerance policy's for "Their Equipment Failures" further more was rediculous. Due to the fact that no employee felt any sense of job security ever, because company owned equipment was constantly malfunctioning, causing people to steadily loose there jobs here...
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Ever changing work priorities with minimal system support
Production Supervisor (Former Employee), Shreveport, LA – June 28, 2012
Pros: clean environment
Cons: training is minimal and unstructured
New challenges daily, multi-tasking required. Interaction with peers, other departments and subordinates. Change and rapid growth have led to about a 30% increase in the work force. It has also spurred some job turn over. Hardest part of the job is helping people understand why they must follow procedure to the letter and not take short cuts. The most – more... enjoyable part of the job is when you have opportunity to go back to someone you've counseled about a failure to follow detail and recognize them for their efforts and improvement. – less
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great and pleasant work environment
Manufacturing Supervisor (Former Employee), Bedfrord, MA – June 26, 2012
BASF was a great company to work for, one of the best companies in Massachusetts that offer great benefits and excellent work environment to all employees. It was unfortunately that it had to close the Bedfrod, MA facility.
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JayD – July 13, 2012

BASF location in Washington, New jersey is closing like the one in Bedford Massachusetts. More lost jobs in the US

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Fast pace and productive workplace
Operator (Former Employee), Port Allen, LA – June 9, 2012
Unloads/loads bulk and non-bulk packaging; loads totes and drums intermediate, finished products, and waste, ensuring that all work is in conformance with quality, safety, and regulatory standards. Duties include but are not limited to ensuring that all SOPs are followed; all samples that are taken are representative of current activity; labels are – more... applied properly; non-bulk containers are safety transported via fork truck; properly operating all equipment; activities necessary for preparing equipment for maintenance; performing preventive maintenance checks; and proper housekeeping. – less
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Good people, good environment
QA/QC (Former Employee), Port Arthur, TX – June 6, 2012
Typical day was to review packages from contractors to assure all NDE and Hydro testing was complete
I learned that team work is the way to go.
Manager was great
Co-workers were very helpful
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outdated
Fill, Pack Label Production Specialist (Former Employee), Belvidere, NJ – May 29, 2012
They closed the place to go to canada and they still cant do what we produced...
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Exceptional company
Laboratory Technician (Current Employee), Savannah, GA – May 24, 2012
Pros: great benefits
Cons: long hours
A provider of high quality products, places safety first. Long hours, with various multi tasking involved.
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Look eleswhere, these people have no ethics whatsoever.
Senior Industry Manager (Former Employee), NJ – May 21, 2012
Pros: absolutely none
Cons: management in particular
Worked there unfortunately, left after they insisted that we sell contaminated product. Management has very ittle talent and values only German nationals. Americans are seen as nothing more than fodder for the machine as they move money back to Europe. FMC, ISP, Dow etc. are all better options.
If BASF calls, run!
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Doby – September 6, 2012

Worked in Florhan Park 1 year. Fired a very talented Supply Chain professional who was in the adjacent cubile. I left the company shortly after. The Management is too political. Many people have little responsibility while others like my self too much responsibility. Very German approach to management. Dictated by BASF Ludwigstafen what you are to do, even when your ideas are better. Good for a short-term experience only unless you are politically connected.

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Excellent people , working to achieve goals that were always changing
Material Handling Site Supervisor (Former Employee), Suffolk, VA – May 17, 2012
Pros: being part of the worlds number 1 chemical company
Cons: being a very small fish in the company
Always something new, dealing with issues, worked very hard while becoming pro active as opposed to reactive.
I had an open door and listened to both sides of any problems before deciding what to do to fix any issues, be them technical or personal.
Forged many good friendships over the years
I kept the company rules and decisions first in my thinking – more... while striving to be profitable and budget concious. – less
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After one year...
Machine Operator and Material Handler (Current Employee), Huntsville, AL – May 14, 2012
Cons: no advancement
After a full year of working at BASF, I have been overlooked, overworked and underpaid. I was hired, as they do everyone, through a temp agency a year ago. I have yet to be hired full time, and still not offered any advancement in position, but am required to help in all the advanced positions...The management is deaf to my pleas in advancement, and – more... do not refer to me as an employee. I am considered "just a temp" to the supervisors. Any company functions/lunches/parties, I am not invited to. Needless to say, I am disappointed, and looking for another company. – less
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Excellent place of employment
Chemical Operator (Current Employee), Huntsville, AL – May 13, 2012
A typical day is a tie-in meeting to see where you are, as in production for the night or day. Meeting with supervisors to get prodution goals for the shift. Report to the station. Work throughout the shift, having two fifteen min. breaks, a thirty min. lunch. Finish the shift with a tie-in meeting with the returning shift.
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This was only a temp job
Machine Operator (Former Employee), Brighton, CO – May 9, 2012
This job was ok. Worked with some good people. It didn't last that long though because it was only temporary.
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Field Service Technician II (11.2011 – 1.2012)
Field Service Technician II (Former Employee), Geismar, LA – May 3, 2012
• Set up, installation, and replacement of computer equipment
• Responsible for ensuring integrity of hardware, software and systems on equipment serviced
• Troubleshooting and training as necessary for users with varied skill levels
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About BASF

BASF SE, formerly BASF AG, is a Germany-based chemical company. The Company has six business segments: Chemicals, Plastics, Performance – Read more